Hell’s Gate On The 2021 KTM1290R

Adventure Rider Issue #50

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Gimme Shelter with Karen Ramsay
• Where To From Here with Andy Strapz
• Wildlife with Miles Davis
• Beat The Rush
• Winter Ride To Nundle
• The Finke Desert Race Experience
• Hell’s Gate On The 2021 KTM1290R
• Desert Raid 2021
• Ural Adventure Ride
• Greg Yager’s Ténéré 700
• ADAMA 2-Wheel Trial Tour
• Motorcycle Cruise Controls
• 10 Things
• A Peach Of A Ride
• Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 Special
• Ramble In The Gawler Ranges
• It’s what we do

To celebrate the completion of a nine-month stint building new premises for Queensland’s Dalby Moto, dealer principal Craig Hartley jumped on board with some mates and tackled a 13-day ride to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Author Craig Hartley took the new KTM 1290 for a run through some tough territory.

I arrived home at 9.30pm Saturday from a final 15-hour day, went to the shed to do the bike, and the red-dust haze settled over the eyes as I snapped the lid off a beer.

At 1.30am, after just sitting and thinking of what we’d achieved, and looking at and half planning what prep I had to do, I finally went to bed.