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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 […]

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

NSW – Green Valley Farm, Tingha. WA – Round Tu-it, Northcliffe. The Gymkhana final: From left, Greg Yager, Vince Strang and Garan Hale. As big years go, 2019 was an absolute whopper for the Adventure Rider Magazine Congregations. The first, at Green Valley Farm, Tingha, in the New England region of NSW, was a holeshot-and-brake-slide-into-the-first-turn

For Adventure Rider Magazine’s publisher, riding across the Wide Brown Land has been a long-held dream. In 2017 the dreaming is over. It’s time to take care of business which is a DRZ to ride from coast to coast. Ready for a coast-to-coast ride…once the Safari Tanks fuel cell is fitted. Riding east-west from one

Yamaha’s newest Ténéré has finally landed in Australia. Adventure Rider Magazine was lucky enough to enjoy a quick ride to answer some of the questions the entire adventure-riding community has been asking. Yamaha’s latest configuration of its Ténéré range is built around a proven 689cc, liquid-cooled, parallel-twin CP2 motor. The powerplant’s claimed to offer ‘strong

According to Colin Bayman, the Perth Adventure Riders had a great time acting their age on a recent ride through the Aussie holiday Mecca of Bali. The volcano lava field at Kintamani. Most Bali dirt rides involve extreme, hard-core enduro, riding 450s on the rev limiter through local villages, wheelying past farmers quietly working on

Adventure Rider Magazine’s editor stole away for couple of days on Ducati Multistrada 1200 Enduro. A valuable lesson was learned on how different riding modes can turn a great ride into a sensational one. Ducati’s Multistrada 1200 Enduro is a pleasure to ride in just about any situation, especially if a rider takes the time

Looks like a show pony.Goes like a thoroughbred. Power delivery is predictable and controlled, but still offers plenty of excitement for those who want to cut loose. There’s nothing new in retro-looking bikes. There’s a whole lot of Japanese Harley lookalikes running around Australia’s roads, all with ‘the look’ of bikes from the golden era

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

Dale Margetts followed the Dakar in 2015 and saw the start in 2018. This trip was bigger than both.