It’s what we do

Adventure Rider Issue #33

• Fit out
• Checkout
• A Couple Of Firsts with Karen Ramsay
• Wet Road with Andy Strapz
• Following Dakar
• X-com
• West Of The Ridge
• The Arafura Track
• Zac Speed: Shaun MacKenzie
• BMW F750GS/ F850GS
• Trans-Labrador Highway
• Braidwood On Royal Enfields
• Picnic Run
• Generation Next
• Charley Boorman
• KTM Rallye NZ
• It’s what we do
• All Class
• TomTom Rider 550

There’s a real temptation to label some incidents as brought about by ‘rookie mistakes’, or to call them ‘traps for young players’.

I’ve been riding a long time now, and I couldn’t be called young. Yet I’ve made a couple of howler errors lately that would make even newbies shake their heads and wonder if I know anything about riding.

First I was riding back from Queensland and it was stormy. The rain was belting down. Lightning was going crazy and I couldn’t hear the bike over the continual rolling thunder. I rode along chuckling to myself and thinking “Heading home down my local mountain road, again in the rain, I decked the bike on a slippery turn. Believe it or not, the car right behind me was a police paddy wagon.”