It’s What We Do

Adventure Rider Issue #14

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Adventure Travel Film Festival
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Picture This
• Bright to The Gulf
• Cannonball Lima Cali
• Chris Birch
• Trophy Hunter
• Cambodia:Temple Central
• Hard-pannier Hard men
• Armour
• Industry Players:Matt Phillpott
• The Congregation
• Bianca Pollard
• It’s What We Do
• Great Rides Volume 3:North-west NSW
• Shop Bike
• Miles of Smiles with Karen Ramsay

I know stuff, and that’s a problem.

When I was a kid, I didn’t know anything, and I thought that was a problem. Now I wonder if I wasn’t better off.

My first real bike was a secondhand 1978 Kawasaki KL250. In many respects it was a boat anchor. It had very little horsepower, drum brakes that only worked sometimes and cock-all suspension. I don’t recall ever servicing anything on it. I just rode it and rode it and rode it. If I couldn’t see oil in the sight glass, I poured some in. Oil.