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Travel Stories

‘Adventure’ touring

Last year in Jerusalem One missed corner = one adventure Words and photos: Beaker What started off as a nice leisurely Sunday morning ride for breakfast turned into a mini adventure, complete with dirt tracks, […]

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Blog

Road Rider Blog

The Bear – Monday, November 30, 2009 Try selling to them… A few years ago, inspired by the large number of empty shops in Sydney’s CBD, I went to one of the more innovative bike […]

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Gear

Marked man?

At first we thought this was a pre-production shot of a test helmet, but it isn’t. The Rjays Uni-composite SP2 R&D is meant to look like this. With its metallic gunmetal finish and, well, interesting […]

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Cruiser Bikes

Harley’s Top Gun School

We sit in at a Harley-Davidson Technician Training Course to meet the latest class of Top Guns — or should that be Top Spanners? Charlie Palmer is a Harley-Davidson Global Trainer with “The Knowledge” oozing […]

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Special Features

The Snowy Ride

The Snowy Ride is a motorcycle event run annually in the Alpine Region of NSW with the aim of involving motorcycle riders from all over Australia to raise money for Childhood Cancer Research. It is […]

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Special Features

Pack for the long run

By repeated request: The secret (and not so secret) art of packing for the big trip.  I’ve travelled with some packing experts in my time, believe me. One of them had his panniers chock-a-block with […]

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Blog

Road Rider Blog

The Bear – Friday, November 06, 2009 Found a fascinating article from The Wall Street Journal that explains the way the bureaucracy keeps us in line. The Victorian crowd seems to be particularly expert at […]

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Travel

Vineyards run

Tasmania the easy way Let someone else do the planning Early in the New Year, Mrs Bear and I packed our bike gear and headed south to Tasmania. A perfect Busman’s Holiday awaited us — […]

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Bike

BMW G 650 XCountry

Bone China Pared back and slim – and part Chinese This may sound silly, but the bike I’ve ridden that felt closest to the XCountry was the original DT-1 Yamaha. Yes, I know it wasn’t […]

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Cruiser Bikes

Glamour for gals

Glam up the ride, ladies H-D’s Isabel Perez says it’s the little things that make you feel sexy on your bike Getting ready for a ride is just like going on a hot date: it’s […]