Locked Gates

Adventure Rider Issue #29

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Head In The Clouds with Karen Ramsay
• Andy Strapz
• Oils: What The Numbers Mean
• Road Of Bones
• Tech-Air
• Off The Grid
• Riding Reporters
• Touratech Challenge
• Tragics 2018
• Teknik’s Honda CRF1000L mods
• Ural Adventure
• Same Time. Different Place
• SWM Superdual X
• Locked Gates
• BMW GS Safari
• It’s What We Do

Riders being denied access to gazetted public roads has been a hot topic for generations. Alex Kelly had a few thoughts on the subject during a recent ride.

Something inevitable for adventure riders is the dreaded locked gate.

An individual’s style of adventure riding will depend on the likelihood of confronting this challenge, and for different trips and people it can mean different things.

This became all too clear in my last solo adventure ride from Brisbane to Bathurst.

The threat of Big Brother.

Home ground

It was early morning and I was setting off on a planned solo four-day ride down to Bathurst. The route was to include some known tracks and roads as well as some unknown trails and National Parks.