The Dark Side

Adventure Rider Issue #8

• It’s What We Do
• Contributors
• ADV de Wineries
• The Dark Side
• It’s All About You
• Industry Players:Steve ‘Wolfy’ Smith
• Trek Tasrainia
• Scott Britnell
• Ol’ Mate
• Shangri La
• AdventureMoto F800GS
• Reader’s Pic
• Wish You Were Here
• It’s All Good with Karen Ramsay
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Setting Up with John Hudson
• Preparing For Adventure with Robin Box
• Adventure Travel Film Festival
• Reader’s Ride: Three Corners And The Simpson
• Kawasaki KLR650 Shop Bike
• The Scrapheap Rally
• Reader’s Bike: Shaun Rudd’s 2014 KLR650 New Edition
• Checkout

A group of mates decided a three-day shakedown ride would be a good idea. The thought was to sort out luggage and bike set-up under real riding conditions. Ken Dark rediscovered a few basics all too easy to overlook.

We five stooges were all experienced adventure riders, and the overall group’s average age was 54 – and that’s with one young pup being a youthful 38. We shouldn’t have had the dramas we generated for ourselves because we all knew better, but Mr Murphy can still wield a bloody big stick, and the ride turned out to be a true adventure.