Getting Started with Karen Ramsay

Adventure Rider Issue #2

• Checkout. Christmas!
• Reader’s Ride: Cobbold Gorge, Queensland
• 20 Things You Should Know About: The KLR650
• 10 Minutes With: Cyril Despres
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• KTM700RR with Craig Hartley
• Wish you were here
• Group Therapy with John Hudson
• Simon Pavey
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Suspension with Terry Hay
• Getting Started with Karen Ramsay
• YMA’s XTZ660 Ténéré
• Kawasaki Versys 1000
• Ol’ Mate
• TK Remembered
• Head Of The Hunter
• Industry Player: Peter Payne
• Loud Bikes And Locked Gates
• From A2B: Singapore To London – Solo. Part Two
• BMW GS Safari Enduro
• It’s what we do

Getting started – Words: Karen Ramsay

Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a risk-taker. I’ll always choose to watch people on the roller coaster over actually getting on the ride. So I guess it must’ve come as a big shock to friends and family when I decided to get my bike licence.

In the beginning I mainly rode with a group of girls on sports bikes and cruisers. Apart from the obvious difference with me on my BMW, most of these girls rode hard and had usually finished their coffee by the time I’d pull up. As a general rule, it’s never worried me to be a bit different, but riding with these girls just didn’t feel as comfortable as I would’ve liked.