Travel Stories

Fin del Mundo… …the end of the world with Compass Expeditions Some rides you never forget. Our recent tour to Chile and Argentina, visiting almost mythical Patagonia, gave us several rides to remember. The seven […]

Reader Ride Dirty Dance Brian Dance takes us Outback in NSW and Queensland – the ‘back’ way If we needed an excuse to go for a long ride, we had one. Friends had bought a […]

Flat out The River Road is one of our favourites, but you know about that… Here is an alternative, a shortcut from Tintaldra up along the course of Cudgewa Creek to the eponymous town and […]

Dalgety or drown If you thought a motorcycle scribe’s life was all beer and skittles … think again, says Lester Morris A strange assortment of motorcycles left the hallowed precincts of Universal Magazines to escape […]

Bridge building John Arens tackles the bike that looks like starting an entirely new chapter in Erik Buell’s dream I’ve nearly always had an interest in V-twins. It started many years ago. When asked if […]

Murrumbidgee meander A little detour from Sydney to Melbourne Gundagai is a nice place. Once, many years ago, I narrowly escaped a head-on collision just south of the big bridge over the Murrumbidgee, by running […]

Darrell Lawrence does a superb job of matching our style So, the Bear wants readers to write a travel story. How hard could it be? A bike (Aprilia Caponord – check), camera (Minolta – check) […]

A day away You have a free day in any of a dozen cities in Australia or New Zealand. What do you do? Go for a ride, of course “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, […]

The Bay and the Rest Is it always better to travel than to arrive? Even the greatest of Australian writers – Keneally, Grenville, Callender – need to sharpen up their skills from time to time, […]