Seasons greetings everyone! As we slide gently towards the Christmas break and the ensuing festivities and ritual over-eating, here’s the latest update from the team at Ride Expeditions Ride Expeditions have had a cracking year, with a long list of successful tours, happy customers and best of all, time spent riding motorcycles. And the continued […]
Two-stroke vs Four-stroke : The Truth… It’s the question that goes round and round in circles. In clubs and paddocks across the world, proponents from both camps argue their corners passionately; each convinced that they are right. But what’s the real truth? Can you definitely say which makes the better dirt bike – two-stroke or […]
KTM have released some fantastic shots of Toby Price’s bike for the 2017 Dakar Rally. Price dominated the 2016 event, winning five stages outright and took the overall victory by some 40 minutes. His achievement made him the first Australian to win any class at the Dakar and means he goes into the 2017 race […]
Last time we ran through a list of Guilty Pleasures, things we all enjoy but don’t like to admit it. Following on from this, this month we’re moving sideways into the geek zone. Because there are certain things about riding dirt bikes, certain little foibles we all have, silly mini-victories and secret pleasures that occur each […]
Ok, so you all know how things should be. There are enough magazine articles telling us what to eat, what to drink and how to train. We’ve been preached at about the threat to our sport from excessive noise, and warned about the dangers of poisonous substances. You all obviously know that it’s important to […]
The Adventure sector of the motorcycle industry is dominated by monsters. Both in terms of the bikes and the manufacturers, it’s the big beasts that have a stranglehold on the burgeoning market. Yet within this landscape, the tiny British firm CCM is the only company to produce a midrange adventure bike that is genuinely capable […]
Husqvarna have issued a recall on a large number of their off-road bikes due to a problem with the front brake. The issue does not affect all 2017 bikes, so owners will need to check their frame numbers before calling up the dealers, but the manufacturer has confirmed that the problem affects bikes in the […]
To say Honda’s relaunch of their iconic Africa Twin has been a success would be a massive understatement. And we mean massive as in smashing the bike sales charts from the moment it was released despite a particularly inconvenient earthquake delaying production at the Japanese factory. This bike has captured the zeitgeist that is Adventure motorcycling […]
Go back thirty or so years and this headline would make no sense whatsoever. You put inner tubes in your tyres and you ate mousse when you went somewhere posh for dinner. TUBES USED TO BE THE ONLY OPTION. Image Yamaha But fast-forward to the club meetings and racetracks across the world today, and the […]
Just a few weeks after the release of the unsurprisingly similar KTM machines, the white arm of the orange giant released the all-new range of Husqvarna enduro machines. The new bikes were revealed in the spiritual home of the brand – Sweden – despite the clear fact that none of the production now takes place […]