Adventure Rider

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Quick! Get ready for Australia Day! Gear-X tie downs and anchor points Essential for all off-road adventures. • Super heavy-duty ratchet straps in working loads from 530kg to 2000kg in varying lengths and packs • Medium-duty ratchet straps in working loads from 350kg to 450kg in varying lengths • Light-duty […]

Hopefully, as you sit down to read this latest edition of Adventure Rider Magazine, you’re one of the people who decided if they came out the other side of all this abnormality of division and restrictions, you’d buy a bike and take up adventure riding. If that’s the case, then a decent ride and a

Andy hones his tech-nique. Road markings are only a guide for picking the best lines ve just read about bike manufacturers working on Active Emergency Braking, Radar Cruise Control and other whiz-bang techno stuff. Car manufacturers are playing with Autonomous Driving, and they’ve got Lane Departure Assist (LDA) and Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC). European governments

Miles shares some thoughts on a big danger for adventure riders Funny, but a warning to be heeded. It’s an unfortunate story that’s not uncommon:a rider hits an animal and ends up in hospital with a list of injuries. It can happen on the road, in the bush, with skippies, emus, cows and now, more

The imaginary hard wall separating regional Victoria from its metro cousins had burst. Graeme Sedgwick and a few mates rode regional Victoria before it was inundated with recently liberated city dwellers. Keen to have been and gone before the flood. Our urgency to get among Victoria’s best north-eastern sealed and unsealed roads before the Melbourne

Hopper makes the most of another fast weekend. It was a Friday morning in late July when a text message from Cobar sand-riding legend Gary ‘Eyebrows’ Grey lit up my phone. ‘Just moved to Newcastle,’ it said, with no amusing spelling or little symbols at all. ‘Keen for a ride’. With ‘The Boss’ working I’d

Everyone’s heard of the Finke Desert Race. Whether you fancy yourself as a future King Of The Desert or more a weekend warrior, the team at Outback Motorcycle Adventures has you covered with a choose-your-own Finke adventure along the famous track. If you can ride a dirt bike, you’re in. From the moment you arrive

To celebrate the completion of a nine-month stint building new premises for Queensland’s Dalby Moto, dealer principal Craig Hartley jumped on board with some mates and tackled a 13-day ride to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Author Craig Hartley took the new KTM 1290 for a run through some tough territory. I arrived home at 9.30pm

At 1800km the Canning is the longest stock route in the world and winds through the Gibson, Little Sandy and Great Sandy Deserts. Ewen MacGregor was keen to tick it off his bucket list, and 2021’s Desert Raid gave the opportunity he was looking for. Steve ended up dropping it nine times on the track.

Some dream of leaning against tree, far from anyone or any-where, sipping an exotic tea or coffee, nibbling on a muffin and watching the crystal-clear water of a mountain stream tumble by. For Ural owners, that’s just another morning-tea stop on another adventure ride. It’s probably not even the highlight of the day. Very little