‘The Long Ride Home’ is probably the best adventure travel book you’ll read this year. Funny, perceptive, honest and entertaining, you won’t be disappointed.
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ARMR-moto windguard base layer
When you’re travelling, a baselayer like this one is ideal; one multi-function item of clothing that doesn’t take up a lot of space, that can keep you warm, block wind and keep you cool in the heat.
DVD Review: Mondo Enduro by Austin Vince
Meeting the characters early on, we get a feel for just how the expedition will play; fun is the main ingredient interwoven into all the proceeding 43,000 miles.
Weise Onyx textile jacket
The jacket features a soft touch outer shell, and an offset zip with a flap behind to keep out water, but the main waterproofing feature is a ‘drop-liner’ beneath the surface.
DVD review: Parallel World series by Nick Sanders
Nick Sanders has achieved seven global navigations and countless other motorcycle trips and records. He’s ridden through almost every country [...]
Arai Tour X3 – helmet review
My Arai Tour X-3 has been with me for about 3 years now and has had everything from 45 degree sun shining on it to a 2 inch icicle hanging from its peak.
Book Review: ‘These Are The Days That Must Happen To You’ by Dan Walsh
The social and political observation, wit, wisdom and jaundiced bitterness, delivered through an alcoholic haze, is bizarrely informative and refreshing.
Book review: ‘The Rugged Road’ by Theresa Wallach (2nd edition)
This is an original and remarkable story from an age when women had won the vote, but had yet to find acceptance as mechanics, engineers, motorcyclists… no matter how well they acquitted themselves.
DVD Review: ‘Eye of the Rider’ by Duncan Menge
Adventure in Australia?
Of course there’s the great Aussie outback where you can do battle with bulldust beneath an unrelenting sun, but what about discovering the glory of the mountains and struggling through snow to do it?
Book review: ‘Old Men Can’t Wait’ – by Simon Gandolfi
Simon is afraid. Afraid that born in 1933 he’s too old, too fragile now, that what he’s about to do [...]
Shoei Neotec – helmet review
Everyone’s head is different and although I’ve got one that fits snugly inside Shoei helmets, I have been astounded by [...]
Bike review: Yamaha XTZ 1200 Super Ténére
At Overland we believe that a bike review should be a realistic test. Riding around for a couple of hours or a long weekend is not the same as living with a machine everyday and experiencing it on various terrain, in a loaded state. So we headed to North America where Yamaha Canada kindly leant us a 2012 model XTZ 1200 Super Ténéré for a 4,000-mile fortnight on mixed surfaces, circumnavigating the Great Lakes.
Continental TKC80 – Tyre review
Overland tyres are necessarily a compromise. ‘Knobblies’ on the road aren’t ideal by their very nature, as the blocks of rubber that bite so easily into the earth, offer reduced grip on smooth hard tarmac
Hepco & Becker Gobi panniers
Hepco & Becker Gobi panniers have been standard equipment on KTMs for years, even though the German firm initially marketed [...]
Continental Escape – tyre review
Over 33,000 miles with my XT660Z I’ve tried a few different sets of tyres, by far the best so far [...]
Acerbis Dual Road handguards
Although the sticker on the inside of these tough plastic handguards helpfully explains that they are not a safety feature [...]
Book review: ‘Adventure Motorcycle Handbook (ed 6)’- by Chris Scott
TrailBlazer publishes this, the 6th edition of AMH, and Chris Scott has managed to pull it off yet again, producing something which could have been as dull as dishwater, but which is in fact a real page-turner.
Book Review: ‘Touching the World’ by Cathy Birchall and Bernard Smith
They set out to make the journey Bernard had always dreamt of undertaking, while simultaneously challenging societal prejudice. By demonstrating teamwork and their joint abilities through everyday interactions with people, they subtly ‘open the eyes’ of those they meet.
