How the desert prepared me for Corona
Benji Brundin – Fastest man to cross all ten Australian deserts. He learned some lessons… My name is Benji and I am a tradie from…
‘Hellbent for Paradise’ by Zoe Cano
It’s not easy to write a book about a trip that’s only a couple of months and 3,000 miles long, so Zoe Cano has adapted…
Women Riders World Relay 2019 begins!
Ladies get set… three, two, one GO! They’re finally off! Seven months of planning, organising, rounding up and nearly 15,000 women later, the first female…
‘No Room for Watermelons’ by Ron and Lynne Fellowes
“Have you read that book about the old bloke riding a vintage bike half-way around the world?” – I’d been asked several variations of the…
‘Slow Rider’ by Jill Maden
This book is subtitled ‘Australia on a Postie Bike and a 125cc Motorbike’ and is exactly that. The author spends time in Oz in 2014,…
Illuminating New Zealand
Sheep. There, I mentioned it, and now it’s out of the way. It’s true to say that they aren’t as big a factor in New…
‘Full Circle’ by Richard and Mopsa English
Good accounts of adventurous travel should be timeless. Well written, they create their own contemporary context within which they never age. They remain valid and…
‘Road to Mali’ by Craig Carey-Clinch
This is an unusual book, part memoir charting the development of the author’s life in motorcycling and part homage to one of his contemporaries –…
Motorcycle Messengers – new story collection
MOTORCYCLE MESSENGERS is a collection of travel stories from some of the leading writers in the genre … plus a few people you’ve never heard…
2moroRider rocks past 15,000 miles in Australia
Rhys Lawrey reaches Australia, heading to become the youngest rider to circumnavigate the globe
‘Bearback. The world overland’ by Dr Pat Garrod
2 doctors, 1 motorcycle and a remarkable 4 year journey around the world.
‘Is that bike diesel, mate?’ by Paul Carter
It contains all the ingredients; a motorcycle, a continent and the circumnavigation of one by the other
‘Arrows of Fire’ a film by Duncan Menge and Josh Evans
…for this Australian journey and film there is a central catalytic moment around which everything hinges…
‘Triumph Around the World’ by Robbie Marshall
‘Triumph around the World’ could dispassionately (and errantly) be dismissed as the manifestation of a middle class, mid-life crisis.
‘Kiwis might fly’ by Polly Evans
This isn’t a new book (2004) … but if you just like travel books and especially ones which use a motorcycle as an anchor, then this should be a fair contender for your time.
Ride the world with Globebusters
If you want to ‘go global’ but can’t face it on your own…
‘Wollongong to Woolwich’ by Will Wilkins
Will and Kate plan to move back to the UK after living for some time near Sydney, Australia : a friend flippantly suggests they ride their bikes back…
Book of the year!: ‘The Long Ride Home’ by Nathan Millward
‘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.
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?
Australia – Sheila McQueen (issue 4)
“Emu!” shouts Muffy, pointing somewhere behind me. The emu crashes through the undergrowth and, wisely, legs it for the horizon. …It is my fourth day…