Bucket Haul

Adventure Rider Issue #52

• Checkout
• Fit Out
• Held Mojave Jacket
• Led Me Astray with Andy Strapz
• Shop Around with Karen Ramsay
• Really? with Greg Yager
• Shop Bike 02
• Alice Springs And Back
• Rocky Mountain High Ride
• Age Shall Not Weary Them
• Death Or Glory
• Maidenwell
• Nowra Three-day
• Geoff Ballard’s BMW R1200GSA
• Journey To The Top
• Husqvarna 901 Norden
• Bucket Haul
• It’s what we do

Sometimes you have to keep looking ahead and gathering ideas so when the right moment presents you can grab your bike and go. It worked for Graeme Sedgwick.

Beneath the colourful pastels of an endless, papier-mache sky. Author Graeme captured a spectacular selfie on his bucket-haul tour

I was inspired after listening to ‘must-ride’ suggestions from others and squirrelled together some useful maps: Hema’s New England High Country Motorcycle Touring and Outback NSW maps, plus a Coffs Harbour Forestry map. With a plan to ride South Africa to Namibia stifled by circumstance my idea was to cover some gripping tarmac, stunning forestry and remote landscape, all linked by an assortment of secondary sealed and unsealed ways.