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Adventure Rider Issue #32

• It’s what we do – adventure motorbike magazine
• BMW GS Safari Enduro = adventure motorbikes, news, reviews, publication
• BMW F850GS Rallye X
• Strap Yourself In
• The Dempster
• TomTom Rider 450
• Read Between The Lines
• Locked Gates – motorbike magazine, australian motorcycle publication
• Ural Adventure Ride 2018
• Sri Lanka – adventure motorbike tour, motorcycle magazine
• The Best Job In The World = australian motorbike magazine
• Wet Arses
• Yamaha Tracer 900
• Congregation 2018
• We Didn’t Have PLBs In Those Days
• Sahara To Sunraysia = australian motorbike riding tours news event magazine
• Managing Risk with Miles Davis
• Thinking Big? Start Small with Andy Strapz
• A Precautionary Tale from Karen Ramsay
• Checkout
• Fit out – australian adventure motorbike riding

Ever dream of being a motorcycle tour guide? To be paid to ride some of the world’s most exotic locations? To help others achieve their dreams? It can happen. Right here. Right now. You can be a professional sweep for Australia’s longest-run-ning tour operator, riding and guiding one of the world’s great adventure locations.

Cape York Motorcycle Adventures (CYMA) is looking for a new sweep rider.Yes. Some lucky bloke or girl is going to wake up each day of the coming tour season and have to check their calendar to find out where they’re heading that day. Maybe Cape York? Leading a group chasing barra through FNQ? Maybe a quick run to the Daintree for a group of visiting internationals? Or maybe the sweep will climb out of the swag and remember it’s between tours and on this particular day the stunning and incredible tropical paradise is theirs to enjoy.

Riding with Cape York Motorcycle Adventures is the real thing. The crocs are real, the journey to the northern-most edge of the Australian mainland is a most life-affirming adventure, and while the riders are lost in the incredible beauty of Queensland’s tropical wilderness, a sweep needs to ensure everything is going smoothly. He needs to keep his mind on the job no matter how amazing the world around him.

Ah.

The job.

That’s what this is all about.

Apply yourself

It’s simple.

There’s a job going with Cape York Motorcycle Adventures as a sweep rider, and Adventure Rider Magazine is going to help find the right person.

Actually, the editor thinks he’s the right person, but after having ridden with CYMA many times, main man Roy had far too realistic a notion of the editor’s shortcomings.

So, here we are. An Adventure Rider Magazine reader will get this job. All you have to do to be in the running is phone Renae on (07) 4055 0050, or email: adventures@capeyorkmotorcycles.com.au,and ask for an application form. Fill that puppy out, send it back to Renae, then sit tight while CYMA works through the selection process.That’s all there is to it.

The crocs are real. The riding is some of the world’s best.

The fine print

It’s not really fine print, because we’re running it the same size as all the other print, but it’s important you know what will be expected of the person who wins the position.So here goes. The successful applicant will
• Move to Cairns to begin work no later than the first week of May, 2019, and will remain employed until mid-November 2019. The exact dates will be confirmed later
• Receive a Zac Speed CONFIGR8 rig to suit the task
• Receive a new set of Klim riding gear
• Write a column for Adventure Rider Magazine for each issue during the employment term (possibly the best bit) AND
• Generally be the envy of everyone in the developed world. Once entered in the selection process you’ll be supplied with more exact details, and you can contact CYMA for any specific enquiries, but that’s the essence of it.Naturally you’ll need to be healthy and a competent rider. CYMA will provide all the instruction needed on the job, but if you’re comfortable doing basic mechanical tasks on bikes, that’ll be a big plus. If you can write a bit that’ll count in your favour (but won’t be a high priority), and if you normally carry around a packet of spare seals for the clutch-actuating arm of a DRZ, you’ll be batting a thousand.

CYMA will provide all the instruction needed on the job.

See you soon

So get on to Renae at CYMA and submit your application.

Roy and Renae will whittle the list down to a group who’ll be invited to ride from CYMA headquarters near Cairns for a few days and strut their stuff. Adventure Rider Magazine will be on the ride as well, watching what goes on and seeing who ends up in the country’s most desirable hotseat.

How frigging awesome is this!

Zac Speed

Zac Speed gear is as tough as a saltwater croc and far better looking. Adventure Rider Magazine’s editor has become a huge fan, and we’re rapt the folks at Zac Speed are going to rig out the competition winner with a set of appropriate gear.There’s probably no tougher test for a backpack, tool bag and similar gear than a season riding shotgun with CYMA, and we’ll be keen to see how the Zac Speed gear copes.

We’re betting it’ll be just right for the job.

Klim

Klim is a specialist adventure brand, and Klim gear is the real deal. The generous folks at Adventure Moto will kit out Cape York Motorcycle Adventures’ new sweep with a set of clobber that should see them comfortable in all the extremes of tropical far north Queensland, but still comfortable and ready to deal with all the challenges of a season of tough riding.

With this gig there’ll be plenty of challenges.