Australian Adventure Bike

Our goal in ULTIMATE ADVENTURE BIKE AUSTRALIA is to appreciate everyone that’s having a crack — big or small — and enjoying whatever it is that’s an adventure to you. Hopefully, along the way we can steer you in the right direction (pun kinda intended) and bring to the fore just how much fun and how liberating adventure riding is. The adventure bike scene is one of the most vibrant across the globe and nowhere is it more relevant than in this vast sunburnt country. We were built by adventurers and the need to explore is in our blood. There’s never been a better time to do it on a motorcycle with an amazing array of machines and gear available for all. And now they’re finding freedom once again on bikes that take them back in bush and well beyond, in a less aggressive environment. Now is the time to reach those riders. Readers will be treated to the highest quality photography and journalism with bike tests and bucketlist rides leading the features. Each issue will also have dedicated ride tutorials and handy on track how to’s and will be chockas full of gear and accessories that we know this audience loves.

Ultimate Adventure Bike

HOWDY NEIGHBOUR

PEDAL TO THE METAL

BLOCK & TACKLE

MACGYVER RIDES ON

AI. WHO NEEDS IT?

HART’S ADV TECH SKILLS • Honda Australia Rider Training might be best known for rider and driver road training and licensing, but they also stage regular ADV Tech Skills courses, and we went along to check it out.

THE ULTIMATE T7 WORLD RAID?

HESSLER’S V-STROM 800 TO THE MAX

HUSQVARNA NORDEN 901 EXPEDITION

TOURATECH TRAVEL EVENT

PARALLEL UNIVERSE • It’s a case of all guns blazing in the ADV world for Suzuki, with a fleet of new V-Stroms hitting the showroom floors this year. And get this: the all-new V-Strom 800 DE has a parallel twin cylinder engine! Are the ever-faithful V-twin-loving Stromtroopers going to choke on their cereal at the concept? Or are they going to grasp this bike with open arms?

THE WESTERN FRONT • Two mates, two shiny new KTM 890 Adventure Rs and a five-day plan to get as far west from Sydney as possible before wrapping things up with a romp in the Hattah Desert sand pit. Bring it on!

THE LIBERATOR • If the big bike brands won’t build us a lightweight, high-performance, single-cylinder ADV machine, then by crikey, take the bit between your teeth and build it yourself! Which is precisely what AAB editor-at-large Dave Darcy has done with his Husqvarna FE 501 Heritage Edition — and how good does it look!

THE FORGOTTEN SOLDIER • With new combatants on all fronts in the mid-size twin-cylinder ADV ranks, we climbed back aboard BMW’s F 850 GS for a three-day jaunt to see where the German warrior sits in what is fast becoming a very hard-fought market segment.

PRIDE & JOY • So you’re in the market for a second-hand adventure bike — but where do you start? Read on as we deliver a stack of wise advice on how you can head for ADV riding utopia on a budget … and survive!

VEGAS OR BUST • How many good times on two wheels can one bloke have? Just ask the Professor, who wrapped up his working vacation in the USA by finally getting a start in one of the most legendary American dual-sport rides of all: the famed LA-Barstow to Vegas ride.

PEDAL POWER • Yamaha gets the jump on the moto industry in Australia with the release of its own YDX-Moro 07 e-MTB. With so many ADV riders parking e-bikes in their garages, we just had to try this new ‘off-roader’ from the bLU cRU.

THE PRICE IS RIGHT • We just can’t get enough of the 450cc factory team race bikes that contest the Dakar Rally each year. Last issue we took a close-up look at Daniel Sanders’ GasGas racer; this issue it’s fellow Aussie Toby Price’s Red Bull Factory Racing KTM rocketship …...