under your own steam or that of a tractor / trailer- more on that later). Heading up from the West Coast, Aaron, my XR650R-mounted buddy, and I decided we’ d skip the Nelson start and meet the ride at its first stop in St Arnaud instead, get a coffee to warm up and maybe a breakfast pie to start the day right. It wasn’ t long before a big variety of bikes started rolling in; from the big adventure bikes like KTM’ s 1190 Adventure R through road-legal two-stroke dirt bikes all the way to Postie bikes, there was something for everyone, spanning all adventure categories. Between Aaron on his Big Red Pig and me on the Big Red
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