ADV Routes & Destinations

Guides and articles featuring popular adventure motorcycle routes, destinations, and trip planning tips.

It’s what we do – adventure motorbike riding tours magazine news events

What’s the most annoying thing anyone can do on a ride?There must be lots of things, but riding along with a blinker on has to be at the top of the list. I can be struggling to get through a tank-deep wallow of bulldust on the edge of a cliff and pursued by slathering death […]

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A Precautionary Tale from Karen Ramsay

Karen Ramsay tells of a close call. It’s hard to believe I know, but there are times when I let husband Dave go riding on his own. Sometimes I feel compelled to stay home and catch up on domestic duties. It seems to be more often these days now the kids have more or less

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BMW GS Safari Enduro = adventure motorbikes, news, reviews, publication

Is there anything to compare to the feeling of being on a sensational bike in one of the world’s most devastatingly gorgeous adventure destinations and knowing every aspect of the ride has been taken care of? The riding, the catering, bike servicing, accommodation…everything? That’s the BMW GS Safari. Or in this case, the BMW GS

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It’s what we do – adventure motorbike magazine

It’s always thrilling to listen to pro riders tell of their racing careers. Stories of overcoming challenges, fierce battles with career-long rivals and taking the tiny, long-odds risks that win races have me spellbound. I’m transported to my world of fantasies where I dream I might be able to do such things. I sit, like

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Congregation!

Two down.One to go. Adventure Rider Magazine’s Congregations are in their third year, and even though there’s still one to go, this has already been our best year ever. The loops were excel-lent at both venues. Green Valley Farm in Tingha, NSW, not far from Inverell, was the venue for the 2017 northern Congregation. After

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Congregations – West Aussie is in!

What could possibly be better than the 2016 Congregations in Victoria and NSW? The 2017 Congregations, of course. They’ll be better because there’s three of them: NSW, Victoria and Western Australia! If there’s one occasion no-one wants to miss, it’s the annual gathering of adventure riders called The Congregation. On that one weekend riders, industry

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Reader’s Ride:The Congregation

Ian Goldsworthy dusted off his trusty Dominator, grabbed a couple of mates and mapped out a course to attend the Adventure Rider Magazine Congregation near Inverell in NSW. We had three strong and willing participants: Ryan Barnett, Craig Finn and little ol’ me.I sat down and set the course from Newcastle, including as many dirt

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The Congregation

Over 250 riders made their way to Moredun Ponds, near Armidale in NSW, for the first annual Adventure Rider Magazine Congregation. It was the start of something big. The publisher had this idea: “Let’s have a big meeting where all adventure riders, on any sort of bike, can get together.” That was it, really. That

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Congregation

Adventure riders’ Congregation “I reckon we should give back to the adventure-riding industry and the readers,” held forth the publisher from behind the huge piles of assorted crap stacked up to the ceiling in his office. “We should hold a big annual meeting where we all get together, riders and industry, and just celebrate that

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