Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine

THE RIDDLER

PETE'S PICKS PT1

1992 Kawasaki kx125 insta: 444restore

COVID is a strange thing able to transcend time, and logic. The disease that changed the world forever altered the way in which we refer to a specific time period. Before COVID we would say 1992 or 2003 for those years but for the years 2020 and 2021 we refer to that time period as COVID. Weird.

People would say, “Remember, during COVID…”, like it was an official period of time but that’s not the only weird thing about COVID. The cost of suburban housing went through the roof as people fled COVID-riddled cities and people bought cars, bikes and caravans in bulk causing a back log of product we still haven’t overcome today! Then there were those who were too busy with life that all of a sudden had time to explore new hobbies thanks to COVID.

That was the case for Pete Johnson and his son Kane from Victoria who in 2020

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