Rod Taylor shares his journey and introduction to adventure riding…a story a lot of riders will relate to.
I’m not sure if it was the testoster-one-red colour or the racy lines, but it was my first and I was terrified.
I didn’t mind though, because at the age of 14 we loved being terrified, and I spent the next five minutes wobbling around my cousin’s backyard on a Postie bike. I think I even jabbed at the gear-change rocker and got the sucker up into second. I was bookin’!
“Get an adventure bike, ya pussy.”
Stepping up
My next moment of terror would have to wait a few months until my mate Craig bought a Suzuki TS185. A rabid, ball-tearing thing it was, too. Well, so it seemed to me. We headed up the back paddock to give it a go.