DUAL SPORT, ENDURO & ADVENTURE RIDING
With most dirt bikes being electric start nowadays, keeping your battery fully charged is essential. Here is a useful guide with 7 simple steps to take to replace your dirt bike battery, and some tips for keeping your battery in good working order. Some dirt bikes don’t even have a kick start anymore, making reliance … Read more
It’s never fun to put your dirt bike into storage, but if you live in an area where freezing winter temperatures make riding unpractical, you have no choice. Follow these 10 simple steps on how to winterize your Dirt Bike so that it’s ready to go when the time comes. Here in Queensland, Australia, it’s … Read more
Riding with the correct dirt bike tire pressure is the most important factor in tire maintenance and prolonging tire life. How often do you check your tire pressures? Daily, weekly, or every time you ride? With dirt bikes, it is common practice to check them every time you ride. With only two patches of rubber … Read more
A cool pair of goggles has almost become a fashion accessory to motocross and dirt bike riders, although the main purpose of your goggles is obviously to protect your eyes from dust, dirt, mud, and flying rocks. This Dirt Bike goggles buying guide will help you in selecting a pair of goggles that suits your … Read more
If you wear prescription glasses and can’t or choose not to use contact lenses, then participating in action sports like riding a dirt bike that requires you to wear goggles can be a real problem. Thankfully there is now an option available to us, called OTG motorcycle goggles (Over The Glasses). This is a problem … Read more
Toby Price has finished third overall in the 2020 Dakar Rally, his fifth podium finish in six outings, but his bid to retain the Dakar Number one plate wasn’t without its setbacks. Despite road books failing, stopping to help a fallen Paulo Gonçalves, rear tire coming off, shortened and canceled stages allowing fewer chances to … Read more
The Dakar Rally is considered to be the toughest motorsport event on the planet. The Dakar Rally (formerly known as the Paris-Dakar Rally) started in 1979 and derives its name from the original finishing location. In the early days, they had rainy and muddy conditions in Europe before heading into north-west Africa, through dunes and … Read more
When you are looking at the best dirt bike helmets that money can buy, no compromises, these 5 helmets all fit the bill. All of them are at the leading edge of technological advances in recent years. Many of them share the same safety features, each with their own way of dealing with impact forces … Read more
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s long-awaited third motorcycle travel documentary, ‘Long Way Up’ is underway – on electric bikes! ‘Long Way Round’ and ‘Long Way Down’ would be regarded as the most popular adventure motorcycle travel documentaries ever made, and their star power helped create a wave of interest in motorcycle travel. The TV series … Read more
We all know Steve McQueen the legendary movie star, the ‘King Of Cool’ from such movies as Bullit, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, The Getaway, and Le Mans to name a few, but Steve McQueen is also a legendary name in the Dirt Bike world. In this Steve McQueen biography, we look at Steve … Read more