Highlights

Adventure Rider Issue #13

• Checkout
• As Good As It Gets With Karen Ramsay
• The Numbers Game
• How To Ride With Miles Davis
• 60 Hours, Two Bikes And One Buffoon
• The Madigan Line
• Triumph Tiger 800 XRx
• Aprilia Caponord
• Highlights
• Laos: The Hidden Gem
• A Couple Of Mates In South Africa
• Triumph Tiger XCx Long-Termer
• Miles And A Shaw Thing
• I Finke I Can
• Wish You Were Here
• Fit Out: Touratech KLR650
• Ol’ Mate
• Reader’s Ride: Sofala, NSW
• Cuba And The Blue Wave Rally
• Maschine
• It’s What We Do

The third disc in the DualSport Australia series has just hit our desks, and it’s another screamer. As we were making plans to carve off a day or two of ‘product research’ we started wondering if DualSport Australia’s Marty Blake had any favourite roads or landmarks in the thousands and thousands of kilometres he’d ridden finding these incredible places. So we asked him. He reckoned it was more about special memories than specific places or trails.Here’s what he told us.

I always think riding is great, no matter where or when. Often it’s special events or happenings that make individual rides or locations stick in my mind. Sometimes they’re good things. Sometimes not. Here’s a few that spring to mind as I write this.