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BEAR ARMY IN TRAININGTHE FIRST MANOEUVRES PHOTO/WORDS THE BEAR It was only at breakfast that we remembered to take a photo of the troops. From left, they are: Kate Colwell, camp follower; Peter Colwell, Trooper #20; Lionel Camm, Trooper #5; Wayne Thompson, Trooper #32, and Yours...

HONDA VALKYRIESWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT WORDS STUART WOODBURY & THE BEAR PHOTOS THE BEAR I’ve ridden my share of unusually big bikes, all the way from a mate’s R 60 BMW frame powered by an alloy V8 out of a Daimler SP250, by way of a Honda Rune to a Boss Hoss, and I have never...

RELEASE THE HOUNDS!YAMAHA MT-07 Akrapovic full exhaust systemPrice – $1262.02 Standard, the MT-07 is super quiet, but I wanted to hear the tunes that only a 270 degree crank can play on a parallel twin, so the genuine Yamaha accessory Akrapovic full exhaust system was the...

PLENTY OF BREWS, STORIES AND HOSPITALITY AT…THE PUB WITH NO BEER, TAYLORS ARM, NSWWORDS/PHOTOS COLIN WHELAN Okay, so just imagine that I happened to lose my virginity in the back of a beloved old character-filled VW Kombi wagon, which I subsequently smashed in an accident (which...

SPACE OPERA HAGAR PACKS IT IN WORDS/PHOTOS DAVE ‘HAGAR’ GABLE Everything laid out. The cat is an optional extra. I’ve been re-re-re-reading your Australia Motorcycle Atlas (the one with the 50 top rides*), Bear, and I was interested to read what you and other riders do when they...

SUMMERTIME AND THE LIVIN’ IS EASY IN OUTBACK NSWWORDS/PHOTOS TIM STANDEN Ah, summer: serenity of the open road and touching the edge of the NSW outback, without getting in too deep or too hot. TIGGR’s fi rst trip hits the spot! Pub or no pub, there’s always life in the desert. We...

back to Barham but decided in the end to just run up the Murray Valley Hwy to Robinvale. Lake Boga and Boundary Bend offer nice places to stop and we also managed a quick stop for a picture of the Big Cod at Swan Hill. We made Robinvale for a late lunch and then pushed through to...

TYRE TEST PIRELLI ANGEL GT This is the sweetest angel of them all. Pirelli really does it right. We’ve ridden on many tyres from the Pirelli range from the dirt to the race track and everything in between, and loved the consistent feedback and excellent performance every time....

YAMAHA BOLT C-SPEC ROLL ON DOWN TO THE CAFÉ IN STYLE WORDS STUART WOODBURY PHOTOS NICK WOOD Yamaha has expanded the range of the popular Bolt cruiser family. It now includes the C-Spec, which is basically a café racer inspired bike. It looks truly cool and attracts attention...

DARLING DOWNS PART 2 QUILPIE TO TOOWOOMBA WORDS/PHOTOS COLIN WHELAN Plenty of towns to be passed through in Part 2 of this month’s pullout map. Some are good and certainly worth a stop, and some not so good, worth zipping on by. QUILPIE Nice streetscape and although the old pubs...