OUT RACK ADVENTURE
"OUR PLAN WAS TO STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM THE BITUMEN AS POSSIBLE
It was pretty much a last-minute opportunity but one I was very interested in. Miles Davis was heading to Alice Springs; the plan was to ride his BMW R 1200 Rallye X from Melbourne, compete in the Finke Desert race and ride back home again. All on the same bike.
A second R 1200 GS Rallye X was being freighted to Alice. It came up by chance in conversation that maybe it could be ridden up. It was offered to a couple of others and then I put my hand up and said, “Let’s do it.”
So I was in. MD and I were off on an outback adventure to Alice. Once there, I would fly back home to Sydney and Miles would continue his mission to compete in the Finke Desert race and then ride back to Melbourne via the Simpson Desert.
THE BIKES
BMW’s new R 1200 GS Rallye X is a weapon of an adventure bike and that was the motivation behind Miles’ idea to
