Street Smart

Is there a better feeling in the world than trying to work out how to strap camping gear onto the back of a motorcycle? I love gathering together everything I’ll need to head bush for a couple of days and then having to work out how to secure it to something not much bigger than a dinner plate.

These days, most people do it on something slightly more appropriate. An adventure-style bike with a luggage rack, a long, wide seat and a bevy of tie down points. But it wasn’t all that long ago that that luxury didn’t really exist. Adventure bikes for many were the bikes we owned – sportsbikes, tourers, cruisers and nakedbikes – we’d pile them up and head off down a muddy dirt road with mates and the memories and adventures were priceless.

If a good proportion of your riding involves getting to faraway places via roads less travelled, then an adventure-style bike is definitely for you. But you absolutely don’t need an adventure bike to have memorable adventures and the Tuono 660 – and