Adventure Rider

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Karen’s back on a bike. Dave, Greg, Lianni, Nigel and Kylie at Pyes Creek, Bolivia, between Glen Innes and Tenterfield. This will probably come as a surprise, but we’ve barely been on the bikes since we went to Tassie early in 2021. It happened gradually and without a definitive end point. It’s not just us,

Andy gets fancy with his dress. Invoking the spirit of Captain Goodvibes. Since the dinosaurs turned up their toes, us human beans have been pretty taken by ritual and special clobber. From cavepersons rubbing charcoal on their boat race to Roman legions marching in elaborate plumed helmets, we seem to need some sort of ceremonial

Miles shares some gripping thoughts on finding traction. The big game changer is when you combine your throttle control with your body position and the terrain. Finding grip on low traction surfaces is what separates the riders who focus on magical tyres and low tyre pressures from those who can create grip with technique. That

Three riders, three Beemers and three weeks exploring the Kimberley. What a hoot! Ben Wittber and a couple of mates tackled a big one. After many months of yanging about setups,routes, stops, what to carry, how much to take and so forth, the day had arrived. The road lay ahead and our start point to

KTM’s 890 Adventure R has set the adventure-riding world talking. As a high-performance off-roader it’s right near the top of the heap. One of the few bikes which look down on the 890 Adventure R is the 890 Adventure R Rally, a limited edition up-specced version from KTM itself. And what could possibly climb even

Damian McGrath joined the Madcat crew for another fast and furious Victorian outing. When Rob posted his Cup Day Keppel and Whiskey Creek Hut ride, I knew I had the day off, and I knew I wanted to do some harder rides. Surely I squeezed into the requirement of ‘intermediate to advanced’? I knew my

History repeats…sort of. A few years back Adventure Rider Magazine bought a bike. It’s true! Back in issue #05, when the publisher was still a fresh-faced boy and would believe anything the editor told him, the pair cooked up a scheme and got the accountant to okay the purchase of a ‘magazine bike’. The accountant

From 1980s Grand Prix motocross to adventure riding in the 2020s has been a natural progression for Yamaha stalwart, Lyndon ‘Heffo’ Heffernan. Engadine’s Police Citizen’s Youth Club minibike club was the Heffernan brothers’ introduction to dirt-bike competition. With mother and father both keen and successful rally-car competitors, motorsport was in the boys’ blood. After ‘fanging

Hopper breaks free for a weekend blast through the NSW hills. After three months of lockdown the invisible prison doors confining us to our LGA were lifted. “Great,” she said. “We’ll be able to visit relatives and I need stuff from Spotlight.”An emergency plea-bargaining call to her manager and a slab of Bundy-and-Coke saw her