Adventure Rider

Miles continues his tips on the finer points of lofting the front wheel. Hopefully some of you got some good tips from last issue’s Wheelies: part one, and got a solid foundation of wheelie basics, what to do and what not to do. So much of the wheelie process is timing, so learning throttle/clutch coordination […]

Bordering on the ridiculous A happy bike group in Latvia We were running our second Beautiful Baltics tour in August 2019. Because of some misgivings about the Russian bike supplier we’d used previously for this tour, we were using bikes from our Slovenian supplier with whom we’d partnered for 10 years to run our Dalmatian

Just how long can I keep this up? No, this isn’t a set up for a bishop-and-actress joke. It’s an existential dilemma that will face us all. After tripping over the 60 line and smacking my scone on a simple but temporarily disabling ankle injury, I had time to pause. The situation was made worse

Graeme Sedgwick covered big time in a short distance via a ride and overnight hide-away near Piggoreet in Victoria’s central west. Making a splash at Piggoreet. The objective on this ride was a fruit-salad excursion through some spectacular state forest called Plantation Hill, Cherry Tree Hill and stretches of other nameless bush landscape jammed south

17 mad-keen sidecar owners on boggy dirt roads in the pouring rain…what could go wrong? The forestry sections looked awesome in the light drizzle and mist. There’s no group of riders any-where more determined to have a good time than Ural owners, and there’s no group of people who have more fun – no matter

‘There’d been coastal showers on and off all week, and that meant inland tracks would be dry, right? Because they’re not on the coast?’ Hopper was allocated just one day of freedom and headed for lunch at the famous Gingers Creek café on the Oxley Highway near Wauchope, NSW. A sensible rider at this point

As far as big-capacity flagships go, KTM’s 1290 Super Adventure R is the USS Enterprise of the adventure-bike world. It’s ready to attack, but needs a firm hand at the helm. The panniers stick out a long way but are likely to be well-suited to the needs of the type of rider who’ll buy this

The weather was perfect and the terrain sensational. Batemans Bay and the south coast of NSW turned it on for a happy bunch of Ténéré owners. Sunshine flooded the forecourt of the Batemans Bay rendezvous as the riders threw their clobber into the support-vehicle trailer. With Detour’s Lyndon Heffernan and his son Jack leading the

After a huge crossing from Steep Point to Byron Bay in issue #39, Bones Dunn and his tight-knit crew lined up for another shared adventure. “You’re a jerk, Bones!” There are two things guaranteed when we get together: regardless of who you are you’ll have the piss taken out of you at what I can

Michael Burton and Mid Life Adventures had twice ridden the southern side of the Himalayas from the madness of Delhi to the highest motorable road in the world and across to the majestic houseboats of Srinagar. It was time to explore the northern, Nepalese side. Not a gentle jaunt on big adventure bikes. With the