Australian Road Rider

RIDING SEASON

By now we’re right into the southern hemisphere’s riding season. Most of us here in Oz are lucky that our riding season is virtually all year round, but the better weather brings out more riders.

In October, the annual pilgrimage to the MotoGP is the unofficial start of our riding season. A trip to Phillip Island to see the best riders in the world holds adventure, challenges and good times no matter if you’ve ridden from Perth or just around the corner. We all marvel at the racers’ skills while we ride to survive on our goat tracks called roads, constantly being challenged to keep the wheels sort-of on the ground. Traffic around our cities seems to be more aggressive, with bad driver behaviour more

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