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

TRAIL SNACKS

SNATCH & RUN

JEMMA WILSON’S 10,000KM JOURNEY ACROSS AUSTRALIA

CFMOTO UNVEILS MY26 450MT

DUCATI’S SECOND-GENERATION DESERTX

NZ HUSKY TREK: AN ALPINE ODYSSEY

2026 TÉNÉRÉ RALLY AIMS FOR NSW SOUTH COAST

BMW’S SALES BOOST IN 2025

APRILIA TUAREG RACING RETURNS

YAMAHA & HONDA BATTLE FOR TOP SALES STATS

HUSKY TREK HEADS FOR THE FLINDERS

HERITAGE LISTED • For 25 years Suzuki’s DR-Z400E provided sterling service to tens of thousands of Australian trail, dual-sport and even adventure riders. After all that time, a brand-new DR-Z4S has finally arrived and it features a whopping list of technical upgrades to make it a global Euro 5+ compliant machine. But is it the new model Aussie DR-Z loyalists actually wanted?

GRAN TURISMO • When Ducati Australia handed us the keyless fob to a shiny new Multistrada V4 S test bike, we crossed our fingers that we were in for a ride that would be something special. And we’re stoked to report we surely weren’t disappointed. This is one hell of an ADV superbike, and for 40 grand, it would want to be!

HIGH COUNTRY TREKKING • As enduro racers go, our good mate Mark Carruthers is as old school as they come. Four Days, Six Days, he’s ridden and raced them all. Now in his senior years, he’s discovered adventure bikes, and as a devout Husky rider through and through, the annual Husky Trek is the beast that feeds his ADV addiction.

KIWI KOMRADES • Riding big twins on the 2026 Yamaha New Zealand Rally is easier when you share the experience with mates.

SKY BLU BLITZ • Yamaha’s commitment to rally raid racing stretches back to the late 1970s, when they won the first two Paris-Dakar Rallies. These days the latest Ténéré 700 forms the basis of the bLU cRU’s desert racing efforts.

ARABIAN KNIGHTS • Every year we say the same thing: we just can’t get enough of the Dakar Rally. From the original route across Europe and Africa, to its more recent homes in South America and now Saudi Arabia, the Dakar is quite rightly revered as the world’s toughest off-road race. And believe it or not, the Saudi landscapes deliver some of the most spectacular locations for off-road racing anywhere in the world. And to think we just thought the place was nothing but a sand farm … far from it!

THAT’S MADNESS • It had been way too long since the MAD-TV team had headed bush for a little adventure rider bonding. And what better way to bond than pitching tents and living hard off the land with a session of moto camping madness!

MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS • If you’ve already ridden most of Australia,...