Australian Adventure Bike

Our goal in ULTIMATE ADVENTURE BIKE AUSTRALIA is to appreciate everyone that’s having a crack — big or small — and enjoying whatever it is that’s an adventure to you. Hopefully, along the way we can steer you in the right direction (pun kinda intended) and bring to the fore just how much fun and how liberating adventure riding is. The adventure bike scene is one of the most vibrant across the globe and nowhere is it more relevant than in this vast sunburnt country. We were built by adventurers and the need to explore is in our blood. There’s never been a better time to do it on a motorcycle with an amazing array of machines and gear available for all. And now they’re finding freedom once again on bikes that take them back in bush and well beyond, in a less aggressive environment. Now is the time to reach those riders. Readers will be treated to the highest quality photography and journalism with bike tests and bucketlist rides leading the features. Each issue will also have dedicated ride tutorials and handy on track how to’s and will be chockas full of gear and accessories that we know this audience loves.

Australian Adventure Bike

ON LOCATION

MATES RATES

A MIXED BAG OF MADNESS

KAWASAKI’S KLE500 IS BACK

WORLD RAID GETS UPGRADED

NEW HUSQVARNA 701 ENDURO REVEALED

SANDERS ON TOP IN WORLD RALLY TITLE

RIDE THE WORLD ON WHEELS!

KAT’S ADVENTURE RIDE

KAWASAKI’S NEW KLX300 DUAL-SPORT

EDELWEISS SCORES TRIPADVISOR AWARD

AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE!

WP PRO BOOST FOR KTM 390s

DUCATI UNVEILS 2026 MULTISTRADA V4 RALLY

BACK TO THE FUTURE • There’s a way of life right now that dictates ‘everything old is new again’. While retro-inspired motorcycles have been a dime a dozen for ages, every now and then one comes along that just does retro right. Like BMW’s R 12 G/S, which is quite simply the ultimate modern take on the classic R 80 G/S from 1980.

THE DEVIL’S WORK • They don’t call Tasmania the adventure island for nothing. It’s loaded with so much ADV riding goodness, and the crew at Tassie Devil Adventure Bikes are ready and waiting to help you enjoy the best it has to offer.

BIG RED TO THE BEACH • From moonscape outback sections filled with dusty desert highways to double-track trails that wound around lush lagoons — and everything in between — the 2025 BMW Safari GS Enduro from Emerald to Airlie Beach in Queensland certainly had something for everyone.

GETTING DIRTY • Feeling the spirit at Green Valley Farm at Adventure Moto’s annual Dirty Weekend extravaganza … and a good time was had by all!

TEAM SPIRIT • Riding blindfolded or one-handed, or hurling bikes over logs or riding across seesaws might sound like the drunken shenanigans of a wild buck’s party weekend away. But at the CFMOTO MT Challenge Global, such goings-on were very serious business … may the best nation win!

THE DUSTY LIZARD • Leading American adventure riding luggage and apparel brand Mosko Moto is a huge believer in putting back into the sport. And one of the ways they do that is by hosting The Dusty Lizard series of ADV gatherings in some of the most premium riding destinations around the world.

GLOBAL ROAMER • When female Turkish round-the-world adventure rider Gulsah Merve Yuksel was passing through Sydney recently, we just had to catch up for an update on her 822-day and 52-country adventure so far. Amazingly, she still has so much more travelling to do before she heads back home on her trusty Aprilia Tuareg.

BEAR TRAPPED • When Royal Enfield says its new Bear 650 is a ‘stylish new scrambler with 1960s soul’, they absolutely mean it. Sure, it’s not a pure adventure bike, but when it comes to reliving the timeless and adventurous days of scrambles riding, this Bear packs a growl.

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