From A2B Covering 35,000km through 27 countries couldn’t be that hard, Nic Cuthbert figured. But for someone who’d only been riding six months and barely set foot overseas, maybe it could be. Words and images: Nic Cuthbert I was hugging the mountain on a narrow rocky road, crawling around a blind turn on a sheer, […]
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Considered by most to be the ultimate bike challenge, the Dakar Rally remains the stuff of daydreams for most. But for a very tiny group, it’s an experience that takes over their lives. Craig Tarlington gives some insight into what it’s like to do Dakar, and do it the hard way: as a privateer. Words:
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Alaska’s legendary Iditarod only runs around nine days, and finishers are considered world-class heroes. What does 14 days of bone-jarring, mudslinging, rock-hopping, river-crossing, mountain-climbing, ice-skating and sand-ploughing determination entitle APC Rally finishers to be called? Probably legends in their own lunchbox. A 14-day, 7000km, non-competitive, super-endurance event for adventure riders? You bet!
Welcome to the first issue of Australia’s only adventure-riding magazine. Other mags have bits and pieces of different content, but in this mag adventure is all you’ll find. The people writing for it are adventure riders too, so when they offer advice, they’re offering the benefit of experience won from the deserts, mountains and dirt
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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The folks at DSMRA had a few thoughts about Alex Kelly’s Locked Gates article in issue #29. Alex Kelly’s article in issue #29 of Adventure Rider Magazine raised a hot topic we’re sure we can all relate to: locked gates.As our sports’ adopted title suggests, our interests extend beyond just riding for the pure enjoyment
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At last! After all the COVID dramas and two years of cancellations, Adventure Rider Magazine’s annual Congregation finally fired up and roosted back into life – in the biggest possible way. Plenty of space between campsites. No COVID here! September was a tad wet, and as the big weekend for the Congie approached, everyone was
Hoo-fricken-ray. Australia’s biggest and best adventure-riding gathering is up and running again. And it’s about bloody time! Geez. This whole Congregation thing is a bit of work, eh? We’d kind of forgotten.But it’s back. We’re back! On track and on the attack!The Vickery family – there’ll probably be even more of them now – are
There’s something about conquering a hill that’s very rewarding. The bigger the hill, the bigger the bike and the trickier the conditions, the more the challenge and the greater the satisfaction. But knowing how much to bite off isn’t always obvious. Some riders will avoid anything they’re not very sure of, while others will give
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Australia’s biggest, most starry-eyed Ural enthusiast, Rocky Creek Designs’ Greg Jansen, loaded up his winch and hit the trails with the sidecar adventure crew. What a ride it was. This year the ‘Master Of Routes’, Comrade Jon Taylor, laid out a perfect trip that included a little bitumen and then a bucket load of off-roading.
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