It’s we what do

Adventure Rider Issue #42

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Karen’s Lockdown Highs And Lows with Karen Ramsay
• Lockdown Lowdown with Andy Strapz
• Mechanical Sympathy with Miles Davis
• The Bag Lady with Mike Ferris
• Andy Strapz Thermalz
• Paper Chase
• Carrying Extra Fuel
• For Some Reason (FSR)
• A Touch Of Paradise
• Lyndon Poskitt
• Suzuki V-Strom 1050
• GS Safari Is Go!
• Adventurous Encounter
• Two Heads Are Better Than One
• Husqvarna 701 Enduro LR
• Triumph 900 GT Pro
• Cairns To Darwin
• It’s we what do
• Solo Mission: Weekend Blast To Bundarra

I bought some crazy stuff while we weren’t riding.

I don’t even know how it happened. I’d be sitting at my desk, working away like always, and at the end of the day I’d realise I’d bought all kinds of things.

Some of it made sense. I’ve been searching for a particular tool I used as a kid when I worked in the lube bay of a service station. I used to work the midnight-to-dawn shift, and when the driveway was quiet – which was most of the time – I did tyre repairs. Back then it meant hunkering down with a couple of tyre levers and a rubber mallet and getting the work done. I was nearly always patching tubes, and the lube bay had a steel wheel with a timber handle which was used to set the patch on the glue.