Bigger RED

In March, Honda dragged a bunch of precious moto journos to Big Red to launch its latest big red. Uluru was an appropriate place to unveil the all-new Africa Twin seeing as how the mighty rock is Australia’s beating heart and the Africa Twin is one of Honda’s.

It was hot (averaging 40degrees every day), dense with flies thanks to 40mm of rain in the week before (even the locals were wearing fly nets) but the precipitation had transformed the landscape and what is typically a dust bowl was brimming with flora.

That didn’t stop us whinging about the heat, flies and poxy phone reception, but that was before we knew what it was like living in isolation thanks to Covid-19. Honda had handed the launch reigns to Darryl Beattie Tours, which mapped out a three-day ride to put the three variants of the Africa Twin through their paces. In an effort to give