Everything to do with the motorcycles. Preparation, information, hard parts, bling bits and advice.
Motorcycle Camping Gear: Why Ordinary Camping Gear Isn’t Enough – Podcast: We chat with Jim Martin on Adventure Rider Radio. Most riders start shopping long before they start thinking. Scroll through YouTube, Facebook or any adventure motorbike riding forum, and you’ll quickly find endless debates about the best motorcycle travel […]
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Most motorcycle safety gear protects you from something that might happen. Wind noise is different. It’s damaging your hearing because you’re riding. Riders spend thousands preparing for a crash and then raw-dog 117 dB of wind noise for three hours. I measured exactly that on my bike a few days […]
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No Insta360, No Drone, No Post… So, Did You Even Go On a Trip? How social media pressure turns motorcycle adventure enduro travel into a job you didn’t plan for. We’ve been motorbike travelling long before social media became part of the ride. Back then, if you were adventure riding […]
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CFMoto 450MT 10,000 km Review – Is This the Lightweight Adventure Bike We Asked For? After 10,000 km on the CFMoto 450MT Ibex adventure motorcycle, with roughly 8,000 km of that on rough Namibian dirt roads, corrugations, sand and properly destructive terrain, we finally feel comfortable calling this piece a […]
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Motorcycle Suspension Setup Tips for Adventure Riders Why Motorcycle Suspension Fails on Dirt If you ride proper dirt most of the time, you already know this. Shocks work incredibly hard. Washboard, corrugations, rocky tracks, endless gravel roads. Every ripple is a hit. Thousands of hits per hour.Your rear shock and […]
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Here are some tips and information that will hopefully save you battery life and money. One of our biggest grudge-buying expenses when travelling on motorcycles and keeping our other motorcycles in running condition back home is replacing batteries and initially using the battery with a trickle charger that eventually overcharging […]
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Motorcycle travel adventure enduro riding tools can easily add up an incredible amount of weight when packing for long-distance overland travel. We offer some tips and advice on the tools and tricks we have learned riding the world over the last decade. Although we take this into account, this is […]
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Choosing what motorbike tools to pack and take and still keeping the toolkit light and compact. The one thing men can get carried away with quite easily. Tools are heavy and can easily notch up the Kg’s if not careful.
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How do you decide on proper motorcycle LED lights without wasting money? Cyclops Adventure Sports owner Darryl offers some insight. Proper motorcycle LED lights are important; we had to improve the DR’s lights as they are more in the class of candlelight than modern daylights. Buying lights for motorcycles can […]
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Kuhl turned out to be a brand of clothing that tick all the boxes when it comes to the best travel clothing for women
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The good old cargo tarpaulin has been with us for the last decade as part of our gear on our motorcycle adventures. It has become an essential part of the gear with multiple uses. Yes, those cheap 3x3m, 5x5m or whatever size you prefer, cargo tarpaulins you buy at DIY […]
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With a bit of planning, traveling fairly cheaply is possible anywhere in the world. One of the biggest myths in travel is that taking that adventure of a lifetime will be expensive. We offer some tips and advice on how to go about affording overlanding, travelling, backpacking or whatever you want to call it.
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Are Sidi Motorcycle Adventure Enduro boots of the same quality anymore? Both soles of this pair of Sidi Offroad Gore-tex Adventure motorcycle boots came off at close to the same time. (Updated: Oct 2025): Our spare pair of Sidi Adventure boots suffered the same fate as this one which the […]
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GPS navigation – How to choose the most suitable unit and associated products for your dual-sport adventures. Selecting the best motorcycle GPS can be somewhat of a challenge due to the limitations of placement, touch screen, and size, with more abuse and waterproof and dustproof properties as opposed to conventional […]
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Questions & answers with GEOS, SPOT, and Garmin. Comparing the devices, the options and pitfalls, choosing one ain’t as obvious as it seems. Hope it is of value.
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We added our option to the list of ways to cross the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia. AdventureRiderRadio wrote this great article on different ways to cross the gap for overlanders.
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Also a review of the Guglatech fuel filters No not the filter, the dirt and rubbish the fuel filters must keep out of your bike, you do not need that kind of negativity in your life. You would think in this day and age with millions of vehicles and trillion […]
Read MoreWhich dualsport adventure motorcycle, hard parts, equipment, gear, and tips. How do you go about selecting the best motorcycle for long-term travel or an extended round-the-world trip?
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