Riding across Australia is pretty much every-one’s dream. It’s a tough proposition. There’s adventure-riding with the challenge of having to share a room at a country pub and maybe repair a puncture, and there’s the adventure-riding with several weeks of toughing it out in tents and swags, bodging up repairs to make it to the […]
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40 years of extreme adventure riding If there’s an historian of cross-country rally riding in Australia, it’s Peter Whitaker. He’s written extensively about desert rally racing in The Land Downunder. This issue he has a look at the evolution of Australia’s newest rally, The Sunraysia Safari. The original ‘rally raid’ was an adventure like no
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I have probably ridden a conservative 10,000km per year for the last 19 years, so next year I should hit the big 200K. I’ve had some amazing rides, seen some incredible places and met some great people, and I feel pretty blessed for all of this. Most of the kilometres have been on GS boxer
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The Great Otway National Park and Otway Ranges – ‘The Otways’ – are a Victorian forestry wonderland offering any amount of riding adventures mixed with remnants of bygone sawmilling days. Graeme Sedgwick took his TTR250 for a look-see in Blue Banger Run. I shifted down to a more prudent gear as the track began to
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In more than 25 years leading rides all over the globe with World On Wheels, Mike Ferris has met some interesting people. Roselyn Jones was one very funny lady with a great attitude to life. Roselyn Jones had a great attitude to life. Roz travelled with us for the first time with her husband Dick
Adventure Rider Magazine first spoke to Scott Britnell waaaaay back in issue #06. Since then he’s kicked a goal or two, including entering and finishing his first Dakar in 2018. First contact with Scott, 45, from the Southern Highlands of NSW, was a phone call out of the blue when he introduced himself, said he
Ever dream of being a motorcycle tour guide? To be paid to ride some of the world’s most exotic locations? To help others achieve their dreams? It can happen. Right here. Right now. You can be a professional sweep for Australia’s longest-run-ning tour operator, riding and guiding one of the world’s great adventure locations. Cape
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Adventure Ride Looking for new riding challenge? Jump in a Ural sidecar. We dare you. Sidecars aren’t for everybody. They’re certainly not for wooses or people with big ideas on themselves. In first place, the three-wheeled riding experience can be as scary as hell. It doesn’t have to be, but it can be. In the
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Sharper than the Multistrada Enduro 1200? We have to say the Multistrada Enduro 1260 is not only sharper, it’s even more fun to ride. Adventure Rider Magazine loved Ducati’s Multistrada Enduro 1200. We raved about it, and with good reason. Aside from it being heavy to heave upright in a sand dune, it was a
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Trevor Gerdsen set out on his first ever off-road adventure. What had I got myself into? It was mid-morning in Colombo and I’d just swung my leg over a dirt bike for the first time in my life. I was set for 14 days riding around Sri Lanka. I blamed my riding partner, Albert. Last
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