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.

Australian Adventure Bike

ON LOCATION

JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE

JUMP & GRIND

DREAM MACHINE: KTM 450 RALLY REPLICA

HONDA’S CRF450RX RALLY DESERT WEAPON

CFMOTO AUSTRALIA UNVEILS 800MT-ES

START YOUR ADVENTURE SOONER WITH SUZUKI

ZXMOTO HEADS DOWN UNDER

HONDA ADVENTURE ROADS

DUCATI UNITED: WE RIDE AS ONE

NORTON ATLAS & ATLAS GT REVEALED

CERUTTI ON TOP IN SARDINIA

TARRES TACKLES ERZBERGRODEO AGAIN

ADVENTURE MOTO & MXSTORE JOIN FORCES

OUTBACK JACK • What better way to really test Kawasaki’s new KLE500 SE than by chasing a posse of MX legends through the Aussie outback on a 3,800km blaze to the 50th anniversary Tatts Finke Desert Race and back again. Oh yeah, let the good times roll!

GALLOPING WITH GALLY • It’s not every day of the week a ride invite turns up, that’s been sent to you by no greater a legend of Australian motocross than Stephen Gall. You don’t have to be Einstein to calculate we couldn’t RSVP fast enough in the affirmative to join Gally’s Gallop to Alice Springs for the 50th anniversary Tatts Finke Desert Race!

FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE • Sooner or later, if you don’t start saying ‘Yes’ to ride invites, they will just stop coming your way. So our old mate Clarkey reached out with both hands and grabbed an invite to ride in Vietnam, and has never regretted the decision for a moment!

TV WEEK • It’s not often dirt bikes make it onto TV and into the lounge-rooms of households right around Australia. But for the past 26 years, producer Brendan Bell has been doing just that, firstly with MX-TV, and more lately with his new Aussie Adventure Bike Show. We caught up with Belly and his co-presenter Aiden Gale for a weekend away on a posse of Ténéré 700s to find out the secrets to their television success.

THE LAST FRONTIER • Not all adventure rides go to plan. And when the wheels fall off the wagon, friendships can be stretched to breaking point, even amongst the closest of long-term mates. This is one of those stories.

DALMATIAN DELIGHTS • Six sensational Adriatic countries in 20 days, all packed with rural landscapes, evergreen countryside, fantastic food and wine, and olde worlde history and culture, along with awesome riding, makes it no surprise the Dalmatian Delights tour has been a perennial favourite from the World on Wheels catalogue for more than 20 years.

RED ROCK GOLD • There’s a legendary riding area in the wild west of the USA that every year plays host to one of Mosko Moto’s mighty Dusty Lizard events. It surrounds the town of Moab, Utah, and the wild red rock canyons look like something straight out of a Roadrunner cartoon, and...