Should We Ride Alone?

Adventure Rider Issue #56

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• ADVWORX
• Suzuki V-Strom 800DE
• Accidents And Injuries with Miles Davis
• Letter To You with Karen Ramsay
• Where Does Fear Come From? with Andy Strapz
• Walcha Motorcycle Rally
• End Of An Era
• A Generation In The Making
• Thinking
• GASGAS ES700
• Ural Adventure Ride
• Should We Ride Alone?
• Ducati DesertX
• Cariboo Chilcotin Coast BC
• It’s what we do

Hopper asks the question.

An adventure rider from another department at work phoned chasing suggestions for an easy introductory ride. He wanted to introduce a neighbour who’d just bought his first dual-purpose bike to off-road riding. “No worries,” I grumbled. “I’ll sort it out. Let’s meet Saturday morning.”

I rang on Friday arvo to confirm details, only to find both had decided not to go. I figured it was too late to ring my mad mate ‘Eyebrows’, so I decided to ride solo.

The warning was there: ‘Very steep – select low range’.

Heavy TOLL

I hit my first detour just out of Raymond Terrace when I found Newline Road closed, sending me on a backroads run to Dungog. Monkerai Road offered up a 30km stretch of awesome dirt riding through to Bucketts Way, although several signs threatened a road closure ahead.