AusMotorcyclist Issue#28
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 not one of them. Here’s one I remember only by proxy.
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 minutes. We were ahead of schedule because we had been speeding – which is how the devil makes work for idle throttle hands on deserted roads – and it was probably time for another belt of rum.
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 discounts and bonuses are what you’ll find. Bear in mind all prices (unless indicated) exclude dealer and on road costs and some prices may have changed at the last minute as we went to the printer.
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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 – visited every suburban motorcycle shop in Sydney to deliver their pile of colour brochures and thus create interest before we were finally advised of the marque’s quiet arrival in Sydney.
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 our way up to Launceston.
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 touring helmet. Striking the optimal balance between on-and off-road form and function is no easy task, and the Hornet ADV is designed to redefine the meaning of a true all-road, all-element helmet.
KEEP WARM, COOL, COMFY & SAFE This month I have taken delivery of a new adventure touring suit, which was long overdue, having worn my Klim suit for over three years now, despite it still being in excellent condition. Held Biker Fashion is a brand I’ve really fallen for. The gear is top class and very reasonably priced, so when it came to looking for a new adventure touring suit, I chose the Carese II jacket, which matches to the Torno II pants and I also got the accessory Sas-Tec back protector.
WE CAN DO IT, PABLO… COMPILED BY THE BEAR ‘I’D LIKE TO LIVE AS A POOR MAN WITH LOTS OF MONEY.” PABLO PICASSO Yes, sahib, this fine motorcycle has come into my possession… (Experience Asia) IS TIME MONEY? A chat with one of our Bear Army troopers the other day reminded me of a question a reader asked a year or so ago; not because they were similar but because they were just about diametrically opposite.
