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Travelling Man

Alexandra Ritchie — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 23:43:34 +0000

If you’d spent the best part of your life travelling the world, you’d also have some pretty amazing stories and a lot of experience to share. Sam Manicom has travelled for much of his life. His first solo trip [...]

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Riders are better workers

Alexandra Ritchie — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:38:11 +0000

We don’t need surveys to tell us we are happy, but a British survey has found people who ride to work arrive calmer, and therefore make better employees. A survey of 1000 commuters commissioned by motorcycle insurance firm [...]

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It was only a small hole but nothing would plug it

Alexandra Ritchie — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:11:35 +0000

Typical! It all falls apart at once. First, I set out on a ride to Sydney, get six kays up the road and the rear tyre goes flat. It’s not a simple puncture, either, but [...]

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BMW adventure rider training for 2015

Alexandra Ritchie — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:09:27 +0000

BMW provides some of the best training for aspiring and experienced adventure riders, hosting courses tailor made for owners of GS models. The $695 courses, some of which are open to riders on any brand, [...]

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HOG Rally rocks Tamworth as Harley sets a record

Alexandra Ritchie — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 02:41:24 +0000

The 2015 Harley Owners Group Rally at the end of February was the biggest ever held in Australia and featured the kind of country-themed action only its host town of Tamworth could have dished up. [...]

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Tiger triumphs in the jungle

Alexandra Ritchie — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:57:37 +0000

Post by Triumph Motorcycles Australia. Triumph’s new Tiger 800XCx is an adventure-touring weapon that takes all that was good about the first one and boosts it with WP suspension, a clever electronics package [...]

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Compass goes Beyond Siberia

Alexandra Ritchie — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:51:04 +0000

Australia’s Compass Expeditions led a 105-day, 30,000km ride from the UK to Siberia, culminating in one of the greatest challenges of all, the Road of Bones — and the documentary of the extraordinary journey [...]

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Summer Rain

Alexandra Ritchie — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:48:18 +0000

The sky was almost black behind me and I reckoned my timing was pretty good. I’d be under shelter before the storm hit. Thousands of others wouldn’t be. Over 2000 riders and pillions had left [...]

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Heading Home

Alexandra Ritchie — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:44:00 +0000

It’s always good to go away, but it’s just as good to come home. I’m always reminded of this truism. The reminder rarely comes the moment I turn the handlebars for home again. It always [...]

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