Reader’s Bike

Adventure Rider Issue #12

• Fit Out: KTM 1190
• Contributors
• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike
• Google Maps
• All Riding Is Good with Karen Ramsay
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Preparing For Adventure with Peter Whitten
• Triumph 800XCA
• Bustling Vietnam
• Reader’s Ride: Melbourne – Bright – Beechworth – Melbourne
• ADVX
• The Patagonian Whisper
• Gloves
• Ol’ Mate
• Desert X
• BMW Quickshift Pro
• D’Urville Island
• TK Memorial Ride
• An Amazing Journey
• BMW Safari Enduro
• It’s What We Do

Pottsy’s DIY DR650

It’s a 2011 DR650, but look closely. There’s a lot going on here. There’s a lot going on you can’t see as well.

DIY’ isn’t a model designation. It’s our tip of the hat for the amount of work the owner’s done to this bike.

Matthew ‘Pottsy’ Potts, 45, of Coffs Harbour, is actually well-known to readers of Adventure Rider Magazine.

In issue #04 he made his mark with a unique addition to his bike, and then more recently he cut the footpegs off the mag’s KLR and welded them back on a little further rearward – causing the editor to chuck a thrombo in the process, but resulting in a truly incredible improvement in the bike.