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RALLY GOOD APRILIA CAPONORD RALLY WORDS STUART WOODBURY PHOTOS STUART WOODBURY & NIGEL PATERSON I climbed aboard this new Aprilia on the dirt out near Hill End, and was almost instantly a Rally convert. Aprilia truly is serious about entering the adventure touring market with...

AUSTRALIA HAS GONE RED!Ducati Diavel Red Due to popular demand, the Diavel is set to return to the Australian market in iconic Ducati Gloss Red alongside the signature Dark Stealth colouroption. The first of the red wave will hit Aussie shores early May with an RRP of $24,990...

BEAR FACED HIT IT, BRO! Some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear eats you. So they say on Wall Street. Over this way it’s more likely that some days the Bear eats the road, and some days the road eats the Bear. Yes, I know there are people who have never crashed. I am...

COLD It came to me at about 2am just the other week. My friends and I were on our way to the Dawn Service in Canberra and had left Sydney sometime around midnight. We had pulled over beside Lake George to take our ease and stare at the impossibly beautiful night sky for a few...

New motorcycle prices go up, they go down. It can be hard to keep track of all the changes. Australian Motorcyclist Magazine supplies you with all the latest up to date prices from all the manufacturers currently in the country. Things like special deals, cashbacks, factory...

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HONDA COMES TO AUSTRALIA, PART 2 WAS LESTER THE FIRST TO SELL A HONDA OUTSIDE JAPAN? WORDS LESTER MORRIS Honda arrived in Australia very quietly in very, very small numbers, to be followed almost at once by that bunch of quiet but determined Japanese who – I was later to learn –...

CRISS-CROSS THE (EAST) COAST TASMANIA We revisit Tassie this month, after riding the wild west coast back in AMM issue #20. Tassie has many excellent adventure touring roads,and this is just another sample of what is on offer. For this ride we based ourselves in Hobart, making...

THE WORLD’S FINEST ADVENTURE HELMET – ACCORDING TO SHOEIShoei Hornet ADV helmet. Price – From $879.90 – $999.90 The new Hornet Adventure helmet has been designed to maintain peak performance in every environment,without compromising the core values of a long distance...