It’s What We Do

Adventure Rider Issue #6

• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike: Rowan Carroll’s XTZ660 Ténéré
• Ten Minutes With: Toby Price
• KTM 640 Adventure with Craig Hartley
• Wish You Were Here
• Reader’s Ride: Southern Tassie
• Good Points with Karen Ramsay
• DualSport Australia
• Scott Britnell’s KTM 690RFR
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• ADVX with John Hudson
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• BMW G 650 GS Sertão
• Kawasaki KLR650 New Edition
• Triumph 800XC Tiger
• Radiator Guards
• Trek Tasmania
• Reader’s Pic
• Ol’ Mate
• Special Group
• Pretoria To Cape Town
• Industry Players: Janice and Greg Jansen
• APC Rally 2014
• Contributors
• It’s What We Do

I’m riding a lot slower these days.People who know me well will be rolling around on the floor laughing when they read that. All my life I’ve always been the slowest rider in any group I’ve been part of, and to say I’m going slower now will hardly seem possible. You think I’m joking?

I remember

• My first Finke Desert Race. When I rolled into the fuel stop the crew had packed up and were having a quiet beer. I’d taken so long to get there they’d assumed I’d crashed out;

• A Thumper Nats where the mechanic went missing during the race. He later said I was riding so slow he wanted to throw rocks at me, got bored and wandered back to the pit; and “He later said I was riding so slow he wanted to throw rocks at me.”