Ténéré ADV Weekend

Adventure Rider Issue #44

• Checkout
• Fit Out
• Not To Plan: Part Two with Karen Ramsay
• Wheelies: Part Two with Miles Davis
• To Russia With Love with Mike Ferris
• Coming Of Age with Andy Strapz
• Bush Ranging
• Ural Adventure Ride
• Gingers Creek For Lunch
• KTM 1290 Super Adventure R
• Ténéré ADV Weekend
• Great Mates. Great Riding. Cold Beers
• The Forgotten Kingdom Of Upper Mustang
• Midwest Or Bust
• No Fear, No Brains And A Twitchy Throttle Hand
• Triumph Tiger 900 Rally Pro
• BMW GS Safari 2020
• It’s what we do

The weather was perfect and the terrain sensational. Batemans Bay and the south coast of NSW turned it on for a happy bunch of Ténéré owners.

Sunshine flooded the forecourt of the Batemans Bay rendezvous as the riders threw their clobber into the support-vehicle trailer. With Detour’s Lyndon Heffernan and his son Jack leading the group on a Ténéré-specific ride through their own home territory, expectations were high.

No one was disappointed.

Creek crossings and causeways were plentiful, each one more gorgeous than the one before.

Deal

The weekend was billed as a Ténéré event and it was no surprise the field was made up of predominantly 700s. Destination Yamaha Motor’s kingpin Martien Van Der Horst had blown everyone away with his immaculately presented 700, but the two ring ins – Dave Morey on a Super Ténéré and a Safari-tanked WR250R – were just as enthusiastically included.