Lockdown Lowdown with Andy Strapz

Adventure Rider Issue #42

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Karen’s Lockdown Highs And Lows with Karen Ramsay
• Lockdown Lowdown with Andy Strapz
• Mechanical Sympathy with Miles Davis
• The Bag Lady with Mike Ferris
• Andy Strapz Thermalz
• Paper Chase
• Carrying Extra Fuel
• For Some Reason (FSR)
• A Touch Of Paradise
• Lyndon Poskitt
• Suzuki V-Strom 1050
• GS Safari Is Go!
• Adventurous Encounter
• Two Heads Are Better Than One
• Husqvarna 701 Enduro LR
• Triumph 900 GT Pro
• Cairns To Darwin
• It’s we what do
• Solo Mission: Weekend Blast To Bundarra

This year certainly has been one of change and challenge. No sooner had we set a plan to spread the love in the bushfire-ravaged areas than we got locked in the shed.

There are only so many times I can check the tyre pressures and chain tension. And… a tidy shed is like a tidy desk; a sign of a sick mind. I’m not going that far.

There is only so much non-riding time this little black drake can cope with. With a bung ankle, bush-fire road closures and now the Mexican Beer Virus, I haven’t ridden for nearly six months and there’s not much more than a lit fart at the end of that tunnel.

Rate hike

I remembered a mate telling me he wore out his first bike, a BSA Bantam, doing laps of the backyard.