In this issue we delve into protection – for both you and your bike.
Naturally your bike will come with standard features to help protect it during use, but as adventure riding sees the bike put in a wide range of conditions, it’s often worth up-speccing. As we’ve said before, location and speed has a big impact on how much you need to improve the protective features of the bike. Generally speaking, you’ll either be on established roads or on tracks and trails.
By ‘established roads’ we mean where your bike’s ground clearance isn’t a consideration, and where impact from debris on the road surface into the bike’s sump isn’t an issue.
By ‘tracks and trails’ we mean extreme conditions, and where the chances of falling and the bike hitting the ground are a possibility. Rough, rocky surfaces where you need extra ground clearance for dry gullies, river crossings, eroded or washed-out tracks are what we mean.