It’s what we do – adventure motorbike magazine

Adventure Rider Issue #32

• It’s what we do – adventure motorbike magazine
• BMW GS Safari Enduro = adventure motorbikes, news, reviews, publication
• BMW F850GS Rallye X
• Strap Yourself In
• The Dempster
• TomTom Rider 450
• Read Between The Lines
• Locked Gates – motorbike magazine, australian motorcycle publication
• Ural Adventure Ride 2018
• Sri Lanka – adventure motorbike tour, motorcycle magazine
• The Best Job In The World = australian motorbike magazine
• Wet Arses
• Yamaha Tracer 900
• Congregation 2018
• We Didn’t Have PLBs In Those Days
• Sahara To Sunraysia = australian motorbike riding tours news event magazine
• Managing Risk with Miles Davis
• Thinking Big? Start Small with Andy Strapz
• A Precautionary Tale from Karen Ramsay
• Checkout
• Fit out – australian adventure motorbike riding

It’s always thrilling to listen to pro riders tell of their racing careers. Stories of overcoming challenges, fierce battles with career-long rivals and taking the tiny, long-odds risks that win races have me spellbound. I’m transported to my world of fantasies where I dream I might be able to do such things. I sit, like all of us, enthralled as the stories unfold. When I think what it must be like to pull a fast lap of the Isle Of Man course, or to ride Dakar and seriously be a contender for a podium position, my eyes glaze over and I begin to try and envisage what that must mean.

Being fast enough and tough enough to ride at those speeds in those environments is beyond me to under-stand. Like all of us, I’m all but overcome by the excitement of a close MotoGP, a seriously tough TrialGP or a grinding,“I think what it must be like to pull a fast lap of the Isle Of Man course, or to ride Dakar and seriously be a contender for a podium position” hard-fought Dakar. The riders who compete in those arenas are like mythical gods to me, probably not unlike the adulation young kids feel for their favourite music personalities.

But after investing so much of myself in watching an amazing event, I drop back to earth. I slump down at my desk, exhausted, and pick up the next story to work on.