Domestic bliss – At home with the Ducati Multistrada Enduro

Adventure Rider Issue #18

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Dunns swamp – Another great secret location
• Trials and tribulations with Karen Ramsay
• Reader’s Ride – The Flinders
• Domestic bliss – At home with the Ducati Multistrada Enduro
• KTM Rallye 2016 – KTMs all over the place
• Across Australia – From the Indian to the Pacific
• Off-road Test – Husqvarna 701 Enduro
• Ladies only – BMW Off Road Training
• Crazy Kunzum La – A tough run in the Himalayas
• White sand to red dust – A PLB story
• Industry Player – Geeze Goldhawk
• BMW F800GS – Off to the Safari Enduro
• Riding the Cordillera Blanca – South America at its best
• It’s What We Do
• Tour Of Duty: A Victorian three-day

Last issue we’d ridden the Ducati Multistrada Enduro in Europe and loved it. We said we needed to ride the bike in Australia before we could be confident of our assessment. Now we’ve ridden it here and it’s every bit as good as we thought. Maybe even better.

Australia is a unique continent in lots of ways. We have beaut animals and insects that can be lethal to foreigners if they just look at them, and to most of the rest of the world, the distance some of us travel on a weekend ride would have them needing passports and an interpreter.Another unique thing about Australia is the harsh environment. For adventure riders that’s mostly heat and dust, and the problem with other countries not understanding conditions here is that they make bikes that don’t last a day when, by Australian standards, it’s ‘a bit dusty’ or ‘frigging hot’.