It’s the end of the year.If you missed my thoughts on the impossible task of credibly naming an adventure bike of the year, please have a look at issue #19. Still, I do get to sample some exceptional bikes, and I’ve always enjoyed a challenge, so I’ll stick out my jaw and name one new […]
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Dale Margetts followed the Dakar in 2015 and saw the start in 2018. This trip was bigger than both.
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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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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
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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Rain on the plain needn’t be a pain. The causeway on Moredun Dams Road was running fast. Keith Dostal made his way through on Saturday when the level had dropped considerably.
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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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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
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
Ian Bowden’s a proud Kiwi who loves his homeland. He especially loves it when he gets to show it off to others. Top trail on the way over Thompsons track We needed to cross from the North Island to the South, so the meeting point was to be the Wellington Cook Strait ferry terminal. After
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