BMW Safari: Simpson delight

Adventure Rider Issue #25

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Just say yes with Karen Ramsay
• Ducati Multistrada Enduro 1200
• Flinders-Cameron Corner
• Goulburn
• Tech: Forks’ sake
• The Riding Reporters
• PLB rescue
• KLRRR
• Wirrealpa
• Rajasthan
• Australia Day
• SWM Superdual
• Tech: GPS versus smartphone navigation
• BMW Safari: Simpson delight
• Like it or leave it
• It’s What We Do

Miles Davis wondered if it’d be possible to take a group of BMW riders across the Simpson. After competing in the Finke Desert Race he decided to give it a try.

My first trip across the Simpson a couple of years ago was a real tick off the bucket list. At the time I wondered if it would be practical to take a group of BMW GS Safari customers on a similar trip one day. Being sandy, it’s definitely not for everyone, and its mainly smaller enduro bikes that take on the 1100-odd dunes. But with a compact group of the right riders taking a suitable route, I thought it had wings.