Industry Players: Robin Box

Adventure Rider Issue #4

• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike: Robert Holness’ KLR650 and Ural Tourist
• Ol’ Mate
• 10 Minutes With: Allan Roberts
• 20 Things You Should Know About: BMW’s 650 Singles
• No Comment
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Navigation Techniques with John Hudson
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• Afraid Not with Karen Ramsay
• Wish You Were Here
• Reader’s Ride: Borneo
• BMW Airheads
• Yamaha 2014 Super Ténéré
• Triumph XC800 Tiger Across Australia
• The Adventure Challenge
• Set Up to Stand Up with Craig Hartley
• Reader’s Pic
• Adventure Travel Film Festival
• The Cold War
• Horizons Unlimited
• Safari ADVT
• Industry Players: Robin Box
• Ténéré Tragics
• Contributors
• It’s What We Do

If you ride adventure, chances are at some stage you’ve looked at, and possibly fitted, a Safari Tank. Safari Tanks owner Robin Box has a long history in off-road riding, and, something a lot of readers probably wouldn’t know, farming, canoeing and kayaking. Robin’s been offering high-quality product under the name of Aqualine Industries for quite a while, and like everything Robin does, it’s done with the throttle pegged wide open.

AdvR: What was your first bike?
RB: In 1979 I was a 19-year-old farm worker and jack-of-all-trades. I paid $400 for a second-hand TY250A. I had it road-registered, and I used to do quite long road trips on it. That was my bike for everything. Trials bikes in those days were a little more comfortable. I put a higher seat on it with a lot more padding, and it’d do nearly 100kph. That was also the bike I raced, and I had reasonable success.