Touratech Challenge – Everyone’s a winner

Adventure Rider Issue #23

• Mongolia – Britton Adventures steppes up
• The Great Australian Ride – Coast to coast and the right to boast
• The Ducati Multistrada 1200 Enduro hits the desert dust
• Fit out
• Checkout
• All in the mind with Karen Ramsay
• Congregations – West Aussie is in!
• Tech – Pinlock
• Bright Sparks – Thrills and spills in the Victorian hills
• Major Mitchell Trail Part Two – The odyssey continues
• BMW Rallye X – The new star in the R1200GS range
• KTM 2017 Adventure – First impressions
• Ténéré Tragics: Tasmanian devils
• Touratech Challenge – Everyone’s a winner
• KTM Adventure Rallye
• It’s What We Do
• Triple treat – Three VSM Africa CRF1000Ls

How much fun can an organised riding event be? The Touratech Adventure Challenge pretty much sets the standard.

The 2016 Touratech Adventure Challenge had a curious effect on participants and onlookers. When asked, “How was it?” some would giggle and have trouble explaining the things they’d seen while others’ eyes would glaze over as they stared off into the distance, clearly enraptured with very intense and pleasant memories.

We ran the story in issue #15, but we hadn’t been there ourselves and there was clearly something about the experience that was having an impact on people who were. The second running of the Challenge was on the calendar and Adventure Rider Magazine decided it was high time we had a look.