The Real Thing

Adventure Rider Issue #41

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Lesson Learned with Karen Ramsay
• Old-time Adventure with Andy Strapz
• Time Is On Your Side with Miles Davis
• Some People with Mike Ferris
• Adventure Survivors
• Macna Impact Pro Jacket And Fulcrum Pants
• The Real Thing
• BMW 1150GS/A
• Research, Reunion And Rebirth
• I Didn’t Mean To Be Mean
• Chains
• Solo Mission: Corona Musings To A Mouse
• Honda CRF1100 Africa Twin
• Beer With No Pub
• Rosie Lalonde
• Go Spend With Them
• The Simpson
• It’s what we do

A media release for a new bike is usually some gentle riding from one exotic location to the next with five-star accom and a-la-carte dining each night. You’d think someone with as much experience as Daryl Beattie would know that.

A lice Springs was at its fly-infested, 38-degree best as the cynical and hard-bitten journos piled off the airport bus to stare with disbelief at swags in the red dust. In the few seconds it took to absorb the scene several million flies had settled on each rider and had obviously sent insect signals to their mates declaring, ‘Fresh meat!’,because the little buggers began to swarm.