Wirrealpa

Adventure Rider Issue #25

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Just say yes with Karen Ramsay
• Ducati Multistrada Enduro 1200
• Flinders-Cameron Corner
• Goulburn
• Tech: Forks’ sake
• The Riding Reporters
• PLB rescue
• KLRRR
• Wirrealpa
• Rajasthan
• Australia Day
• SWM Superdual
• Tech: GPS versus smartphone navigation
• BMW Safari: Simpson delight
• Like it or leave it
• It’s What We Do

Wirrealpa, a 1500-square-kilometre sheep and cattle station in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia, was the location for the Ulysses annual adventure riders’ special-interest group (SIG) gathering for 2017. Peter Maguire was there.

On a Friday in late April I rode my heavily laden KTM690 across to Woodend for a rendezvous with Peter Murphy and Dete Hasse, both riding Suzuki DR650s, and Finn Butler, who was riding his Triumph Tiger 800XCx. The plan was pretty simple really: ride as much as possible on dirt roads and tracks to arrive at Wirrealpa, South Australia, late on Sunday, camping along the way.