Gear
Knowledge of power
Knowledge of power One problem we probably experience more than most of you is that of the bike left sitting in the garage while we gallivant about on test bikes. The unfortunate machine (usually our […]
Year: 2008
Bike
Kawasaki Ninja 250R
Baby Ninja Small but very smart There are still states where you need to learn on a 250cc bike. The outcome is a lively market for 250s, at least in the states where they are […]
Blog
Road Rider Blog
The Bear – Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Maybe it’s a side effect of advancing age, but I enjoy the ramblings of the Republican American writer P.J. O’Rourke. Unlike most conservatives he comes up with quite […]
Special Features
BMW R 1200 GS Triple Black Limited Edition
Adventure on the dark side We give the BMW R 1200 GS Triple Black a work-out on the Cave-to-Cave run BMW’s R 1200 GS has led the big-bore adventure machine category for a long time […]
Blog
Road Rider Blog
The Bear – Thursday, July 23, 2009 You may have noticed over the past few days some new buttons have popped up on the blog and new item pages. The buttons under ‘Share this’ help […]
Cruiser Trikes
TREVOR THE TRIKE
Astrid Campbell’s Harley Dyna Lowrider Will Be… The last trike out of here I’m a 48-year-old Ulyssian and love to ride. I started out in 2002 (late bloomer) on a Kwaka ZZR250 and after 35,000km […]
Travel Stories
Galston Gorge
Macca’s trusses or feral chickens and McDonald bridges The timber truss bridge can be a little treacherous in the wet, but its mostly reasonably grippy. Before the turn of the millennium, feral chickens lived in […]
Travel Stories
Flinders Ranges National Park
No Great Gulph Sorry, Matty, it’s mountains instead Back in March of 1802, HMS Investigator was carefully working her way along the coastline of Spencer Gulf. As far as we know, and certainly as far […]
Blog
Road Rider Blog
The Bear – Friday, September 16, 2011 The Census, it seems, doesn’t want to know about us Were you annoyed by the exclusion of motorcycles from the Census? You weren’t alone. Here’s a typical […]
Bike
Moto Guzzi V7 Café Classic
Heartbreaker The bike is beautiful. Can it save the factory? Let’s start by bemoaning the fact that Moto Guzzi, the oldest European factory with continuous motorcycle production, the most venerable, I suppose, Italian motorcycle brand […]