Australian Road Rider

STORY: BRIAN RIX Through the magic of the internet we’ve arranged to meet our good mates Ken and Carol Duval, but first we have to get back into Russia. Yet another border crossing where paperwork is filled in and documents stamped. It’s all very sim

STORY: GREG LEECH So, you’re the adventurous type huh? In the mad scramble for buyers to toss their workaday clothes into the laundry, only to don their expensive new adventure wardrobe and clamber aboard something that looks like it should be part

WORDS: BRIAN RIX Triumph’s Tiger badge has adorned many a model, giving it legendary status for the brand. Indeed, the Tiger range has a glorious history, starting with wins in the International Six Day trials way back in 1936. ISDTs are strictly tim

Dear ARR, Hi from Darwin. Help please! Where can I get hold of a sidecar to fit a Honda Shadow 750? It’s a 2004 model. Fact is, I’m getting a bit old to keep the solo vertical now. Great magazine and great reading. Blessings from a subscriber, Ronald

WORDS: GREG LEECH PICS: STOCK If there is one piece of rider equipment over which a rider should take special care, it’s his or her helmet. Walk into any major motorcycle retail outlet and you will be met with walls of helmets. It’s lid world, and w

WORDS AND PICS: IAN LLOYD NEUBAUER When Shahwar Hussein meets me at the airport in Guwahati, the gateway to India’s little-visited northeast region, it’s like being reunited with a long-lost friend. A one-time motoring journalist from New Delhi who g

Dear ARR, With apologies to The Castle, your ARR for May/June 2018 is going straight to the pool room. The nostalgia is overpowering, right from the very first page. I opened the mag and there inside the front cover is an advert for Shannon’s Insuran

WORDS AND PICS: ROBIN BOWRA With bikes rented and accommodation sorted, we four mates arrived in Christchurch from separate directions for a week of riding the South Island. The plan was to see a bit of New Zealand, sample the odd wine or two, and ge

It’s worth protecting your adventure bike’s vulnerable underpinnings with an alloy bashplate. This engine protector, from Givi, is available for a wide range of popular dual-sport bikes including the BMW F 800 GS, R 1200 GS and R 1200 GS Adventure, H

BYLINE: WORDS: NIGEL CROWLEY I first rode Aprilia’s ultra-techy streetfighter back in 2015 and came away thinking it was the best thing I’d ridden that year. Having just bid farewell to the 2018 version, I’m wondering if this might be the best thing

Hard on the gas coming onto the straight, the front gets light and a bit too twitchy as the cross-wind pushes me right to the edge of the track and the tyre comes back to earth still with some counter-steer on. I make a mental note to put a few turns

WORDS: GREG LEECH When the BMW R 1100 GS made its first appearance in Australia way back in 1994, it was met with a pretty universal frown based almost entirely on its weird looks. While we’ve become used to bikes with radical bodywork and futuristic

WORDS AND PICS: STEVE AND LIZ KEALY The three beefy blokes on big Oranges parked up under a tree on the road to Hell, looked at Liz’s puny DR650, her meshed soft luggage and said doubtfully, “You MIGHT get through…” The there-and-back dirt road led t