It’s Time with Karen Ramsay

Adventure Rider Issue #51

• Fit out
• Checkout
• It’s Time with Karen Ramsay
• Secret Adventure Business with Andy Strapz
• The Finer Points Of Traction with Miles Davis
• Kimberley Kapers
• MAP KTM 890 Adventure R Rally
• Cup Day, Keppel And Whisky Creek Hut
• Shop Bike 02
• Heffo
• Weekend Escape To Ebor
• Twins
• Walcha Motorcycle Rally
• Destination Tora Bora
• Southern Circuits
• Big Red
• Kawasaki KLR650 Adventure
• Triumph’s New 1200s
• Spinifex Express
• It’s what we do

Karen’s back on a bike.

Dave, Greg, Lianni, Nigel and Kylie at Pyes Creek, Bolivia, between Glen Innes and Tenterfield.

This will probably come as a surprise, but we’ve barely been on the bikes since we went to Tassie early in 2021.

It happened gradually and without a definitive end point. It’s not just us, either. Quite a few friends we normally ride with have found the same thing. A combination of lockdowns, family commitments (for us a new grandson), work, new hobbies (mountainbiking seems to be increasingly popular with our adventure-riding friends), and realising how many things around the home need maintenance because we’ve neglected them when we’ve been constantly riding has kept lots of us off the bikes. In that time the bikes have sat faithfully in the shed, pining for the day we’d get our mojo back.