Adventure Rider

A KTM 1290 adventure. KTM’s legend rider and marketing manager Rosie Lalonde was keen for us to go for a burl on the new 1290 Super Adventure R, and after Craig Hartley’s story last issue, we were equally keen to see for ourselves what he’d been raving about. But then we mentioned we’d been busting […]

Walcha, in the northern tablelands of NSW, hosted a bike rally in November of 2021. That’s not big news. The big news was the Armidale Adventure Riders Facebook group offering a few rides for the dualsport brigade. Adventure Rider Magazine lobbed up to see how things went. Sometimes it can be a little uncomfortable to

Travis Beard’s Afghanistan adventures continue. Numerous stops to snap ‘hero-shots’ – ‘selfies’ in today’s parlance. Kabul-to-Jalalabad highway overlooking Tang-e Gharu gorge or ‘Devil’s Gully’. Tora Bora was only a short trip, but it was worth doing for two reasons: first, the sheer audacity of our intended destination – the former stomping ground of Osama bin

There’s a plethora of unsealed and sealed roads that duck, twist and weave between the crystal-clear streams, fern-filled depressions, plantations and towering gums of western Victoria’s southern regions. Graeme Sedgwick went in search of some of the best. Author Graeme Sedgwick The postage-stamp sized village of Moriac became my start point before heading to Deans

Rod Taylor threw himself into a challenge with the Simpson dune. Big Red and I glared at each other across the sand. “I’ll have ya,” I muttered. “Yeah, right. You on that thing?” it replied. The large sand dune that marks the edge of the Simpson Desert is not easily intimidated.

A few things have changed for the adventure-riding world’s workhorse, but it’s still a comfortable, capable all-rounder at a sensational price. The KLR has been around in Australia since 1988. It had a major redesign for the 2008 model year, and now, after an incredibly successful 15 years or so, has once again been kissed

A lighter and more powerful 1200 adventurer? Sign us up. The new Rally Pro 1200 isn’t an updated model. It’s a completely new bike. Long the favourite of two-up distance tourers, Triumph’s Tiger 1200 has had a major revamp for 2022. The Explorer name is back in the line-up, and while we thought the 900

20 years – to the month – after leaving Marble Bar, the town where he grew up, Toby Richardson and his father arrived in Port Hedland to start a trip two decades in the making. Approaching sunset on the first day, looking for a spot to camp somewhere northeast of Port Hedland and south of

I’ve reached the age where I see bikes sold as ‘vintage’ and remember riding them when they were the new model. As an aside, it cracks me up when a bike’s advertised as ‘rare vintage’. Because I remember the new bike I know the reason they’re rare is that they weren’t much chop and no

SW-Motech Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 Special