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Adventure Rider Issue #25

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Just say yes with Karen Ramsay
• Ducati Multistrada Enduro 1200
• Flinders-Cameron Corner
• Goulburn
• Tech: Forks’ sake
• The Riding Reporters
• PLB rescue
• KLRRR
• Wirrealpa
• Rajasthan
• Australia Day
• SWM Superdual
• Tech: GPS versus smartphone navigation
• BMW Safari: Simpson delight
• Like it or leave it
• It’s What We Do

Any adventure rider’s list of must-do rides is sure to include The Simpson, but not everyone has the same expectations or enjoys the same experience. Adventure Rider Magazine’s editor decided it was time to face the challenge of the world’s largest sand desert and set out to face his fears. Columnist Miles Davis couldn’t wait to get there and had a ball. The two stories show just how different things can be.

There’s probably not too many riders who hate riding sand as much as I do. It’s my least favourite terrain and the surface that has, time and again, defeated me.

I hate how tough it is to ride and I hate the toll it takes on a bike.