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Cindy & Duncan Bennett Editors’ Report
We’ve done some nasty “into the rough” riding. Surprise is the essence of adventure riding while taking the shortest route between points A and B. You’re just cruising along some Farm Roads approved under ISO-666, the Paul Hughes International Standard for Dirt Motorcycling Without Pant Soilage, and 2mm of rain the night before turns it into the 7th circle of hell. Craig’s bike on the front cover is in the 9th circle, solely reserved for those who attempt to ride mud on road tyres. This month has had the greatest number of entries for the photo competition so far, proving a lot of members like a little “rough stuff”!! We’ve always suspected our Journal is reasonably widely read, ever since a random bloke on a mine site in PNG in 2019 said “those Queensland BMW club people do some amazing rides” while we were randomly talking motorcycles. We did some checking of ISSUU reading stats this month with Ellwood Motorcycle Adventures posting a link to the October Journal on our Cairns to Cape York story. The stats are shown in Cindy’s Last Word, which should inspire everyone to get stories in - you truly do inspire people to get out there into the great beyond.
A couple of “into the rough” pics; the first from our jaunt up Mt Buller (last weekend of ski season...”into the cold” more appropriate) on hired BM’s (750 and 1250) in 2019, and the second turning Cindy’s Blue Betty around at a spot that was far from ideal on the Bridle Track in 2016.....
