Good Thinking with Karen Ramsay

Adventure Rider Issue #35

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Good Thinking with Karen Ramsay
• Run What Yer Brung with Andy Strapz
• Late Braking with Miles Davis
• Rainbows And Unicorns
• BMW GS Safari
• KTM Adventure Rallye: Tasmania
• Destination Laos
• Deadhorse
• Multi Maniacs And Sled Heads
• Temujin Mongolian Crossing
• Best Job In The World
• Jordi Viladoms
• BMW F850GSA
• Ténéré Tragics
• Following Dakar
• It’s what we do
• Congregation 2019

Karen Ramsay innovates, adapts and overcomes.

Karen’s luggage rig made up of Aldi bags and plastic drums.

For all the people spending on farkles, repairs and accessories there’s just as many going with DIY options. Some may call it penny pinching, others might call it problem solving, but whatever name you give to it, ‘hacks’ can be pretty ingenious.

Basically hacks are solutions or work-arounds and can be divided into four main categories:
necessity, innovation, multi-purposing, and tightarse. From simple ones like rolling your clothes instead of folding them or carrying a moisturiser that also doubles as sunscreen and can be used to lube the tyre when you get a flat, there’s so many amazing ideas out there we should be sharing them.