Reader’s Ride: Borneo

Adventure Rider Issue #4

• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike: Robert Holness’ KLR650 and Ural Tourist
• Ol’ Mate
• 10 Minutes With: Allan Roberts
• 20 Things You Should Know About: BMW’s 650 Singles
• No Comment
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Navigation Techniques with John Hudson
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• Afraid Not with Karen Ramsay
• Wish You Were Here
• Reader’s Ride: Borneo
• BMW Airheads
• Yamaha 2014 Super Ténéré
• Triumph XC800 Tiger Across Australia
• The Adventure Challenge
• Set Up to Stand Up with Craig Hartley
• Reader’s Pic
• Adventure Travel Film Festival
• The Cold War
• Horizons Unlimited
• Safari ADVT
• Industry Players: Robin Box
• Ténéré Tragics
• Contributors
• It’s What We Do

Borneo

When Suzie and Colin Dawson, a middle-aged couple from Sydney, decided to see Borneo, they grabbed a Triumph 800XC Tiger and set off on 6000km of serious riding.

“You’ve got the bike key, right?” After a year and a half of planning, I surely didn’t expect to be asking that on a flight halfway to Denpasar.

Suzie’s blank look wasn’t reassuring.