Congregation 2018

Adventure Rider Issue #30

• It’s What We Do
• The Risk
• Suzuki Adventure Ride
• The Truth Is Out There
• The Long Paddock
• Congregation 2018
• Forma boots winner
• WR250R: Less May Be More
• 3 Mates. 3 WR250Rs. 3000km
• 2018 Triumphs
• Brrr!
• Outback Run
• The Land Of One-lane Bridges
• Motorrad Garage Africa Twin
• GS Trophy:Behind The Scenes
• Andy Strapz
• Nepal with Karen Ramsay
• Checkout
• Fit Out

The annual adventure-riders’ get together is just around the corner, and preparations are going like Toby Price in office in a Sydney business a cancelled section of Dakar complex, for the first time that nobody told him about.The loop for this year’s Congregation is a laid-back,open-track, there-and-back dream ride. We know.We’ve done it.

On a glorious autumn morning, the two riders set off to see what the loop had to offer.

With the 2018 Congregation getting closer every day, the adventure loop had to be planned, route-sheeted and the GPX files sorted. When a general, “Anyone want to tackle this?” was offered to staff, an office in a Sydney business complex, for the first time in its entire history, achieved total silence. Heads were ducked behind desk partitions as people tried their best to be invisible and the honking of the coffee cart in the parking lot sounded a lonely-but-unanswered clarion call.