A recent incident at Mount Panorama has served as a timely reminder that while the iconic circuit is open to the public outside race events, it remains a public road — with all the rules that go with it. Over the Christmas–New Year period, NSW Police detected a 25-year-old rider travelling at 159 km/h in a 60 km/h zone on Conrod Straight. The rider was issued with a Field Court Attendance Notice and will appear before Bathurst Local Court in February. Mount Panorama is one of the waypoints...

Have you ever looked at adventure motorcycle tours and wondered how two rides in the same region can have wildly different prices, or why there is even a cost at all when you can ride the same road for free? One tour might cost a few hundred dollars. Another might cost several thousand. Same country. Similar roads. Same type of riding. It all comes down to a misconception of what you’re buying, and in simplest terms, you’re not buying a ride.  So what are you buying? Inclusions set the price...

A simpler way to make sense of where we ride One of the best things about riding in Australia is how quickly the landscape changes. In a single day, you can go from alpine twisties to red dirt, from coastal cliffs to open plains. But when it comes to talking about where we ride, the language has always been a bit messy. Some people use council names, others use tourism zones, and many rides are described as “somewhere out near the ranges.” That works fine in conversation, but when you’re...