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Remember a time when neighbours and people who were friends of friends would help you at the drop of a hat whenever you were in need? Well it seems that this type of help is slowly sliding down the slippery slope to extinction. However, at the recent Barry Sheene Festival of...

Now that I don’t have to write the editorial any more, I can spend my time on something funny instead. Well, I can try for funny, anyway… WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? One thing that has worked well for me over the years is simply asking you, the readers, what you think about stuff. I...

BEYOND SIBERIARiding the Road of Bones In May 2014 sixteen riders left London to embark on a Compass Expeditions – 105 day adventure to Magadan. Documentary filmmaker, Robin Newell joined Compass with the end result being a video called “Beyond Siberia – Riding the Road of...

BMW F 800 R AND R 1200R HAVE THE LEOPARDS CHANGED THEIR SHORTS? LET’S HAVE A LOOK… WORDS STUART WOODBURY PHOTOS JEFF CROW BMW’s F 800 R and R 1200 R have been around for ever, really. But this year sees them changing from the “traditional” look to a more modern and muscular...

SUZUKI V-STROM 650XT ON (AND OFF) THE ROAD WITH SUZY WORDS THE BEAR/ STUART WOODBURY PHOTOS THE BEAR/ NICK WOOD “Independence is happiness.”Susan B. Anthony 1. Puckapunyal Royal Australian Armoured Corps Memorial & Army Tank Museum Hopkins Barracks, Puckapunyal...

SO, MOTHER NATURE. IS THAT ALL YOU’VE GOT? SUMMER? WHO SAID? WORDS/PHOTOS STUART WOODBURY You thought we’d seen some sights already? Well, our wet start to day 4 – Te Anau to Milford Sound for our boat cruise – was to test many of us, as Mother Nature unleashed her fury,...

POSTIE NOTES PART 5 – A BIT OUT OF SEQUENCE BUT NO LESS FUN WORDS/PHOTOS JACQUI KENNEDY The Red Centre has so much more to offer than just a visit to the Big Rock. There are stunning gorges, magnificent chasms and canyons, wonderful red dirt tracks reeking with colonial history...

GETTING HIGH ANOTHER RIDE AROUND THE WONDERFUL VICTORIAN HIGH COUNTRY WORDS/PHOTOS COLIN WHELAN ANGLERS REST Nothing but the pub here, but it’s a good one. Now run by Lana and Michael, it no longer has a general store so if you want provisions, your best bet is Omeo. There’s...

WINTER GEAR GUIDE PEOPLE DON’T NOTICE THE SEASON WHEN THEY’RE HAPPY! COMPILED BY STUART WOODBURY ” Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this nice warm jacket…” Thanks to W. Shakespeare Getting geared up for the cooler months of winter is...

WORDS/PHOTOS KINGA TANAJEWSKA PART 2 – STARTING OUT ON THE LONG WAY BACK AROUND AUSTRALIA My planned stopover for SIX months in ‘iron ore country’ stretched into 10 months … and I enjoyed every minute of it. I was working on a Fly-In Fly-Out roster, which gave me a chance to go...