Good Points with Karen Ramsay

Adventure Rider Issue #6

• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike: Rowan Carroll’s XTZ660 Ténéré
• Ten Minutes With: Toby Price
• KTM 640 Adventure with Craig Hartley
• Wish You Were Here
• Reader’s Ride: Southern Tassie
• Good Points with Karen Ramsay
• DualSport Australia
• Scott Britnell’s KTM 690RFR
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• ADVX with John Hudson
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• BMW G 650 GS Sertão
• Kawasaki KLR650 New Edition
• Triumph 800XC Tiger
• Radiator Guards
• Trek Tasmania
• Reader’s Pic
• Ol’ Mate
• Special Group
• Pretoria To Cape Town
• Industry Players: Janice and Greg Jansen
• APC Rally 2014
• Contributors
• It’s What We Do

My husband is one lucky man.

I hasten to add that it’s not because he’s married to me (although that’s surely got to be up there). As an adventure-riding husband with an adventure-riding wife, he’s at a distinct advantage over all those riders out there whose partners don’t, or can’t, ride.

I’ve come to this realisation after chatting with quite a few married or otherwise partnered blokes. For those riders, having time to ride doesn’t only depend on work/family/money. It also requires the accumulation of ‘brownie points’. These men are busily mowing lawns, repairing doors, cleaning gutters, fixing fences and a myriad of other jobs, all so they can be ‘allowed’ to go for a ride. I’ve never actually asked if certain jobs have designated point values. Or if the longer the ride, the more points need to be stockpiled. Or if the points are transferrable to a friend. The only certainty is that for these adventure-riding enthusiasts, jobs around the house equal riding time.