Suzuki Adventure Ride Round 3: Lithgow-Bathurst-Capertee, NSW
Adventure Rider Magazine|August/September 2018

Suzuki’s adventure rides are growing fast.

Suzuki Adventure Ride Round 3: Lithgow-Bathurst-Capertee, NSW

Around 60 riders showed up on a frosty Lithgow morning to take part in the third adventure-riding week-end hosted by Suzuki Motorcycles Australia.

This was the third ‘round’ of the series. We use inverted commas there because we’re not sure the original ride – featured in issue #26 – was intended to be the first of many, but it seems that may be the way things are headed. A second ride in South Aussie was well attended, this particular weekend attracted another large and happy crew, and by the time you read this another ride will have run in Queensland in July. Then there’s a repeat of the first ride planned for Victoria in September.

If all goes well, Suzuki is hoping to make these rides annual events.

All comers

Although sponsored and run by Suzuki, all brands are welcome, so on this chilly Saturday morning the carpark of the Lithgow McDonald’s was chocka. There were not only V-Stroms, the bike for which the rides were originally intended, but surprisingly large numbers of DRs, DRZs, a KLR or two, some KTMs, a few Triumphs, a Honda and a Ducati. The Suzuki owners themselves fronted on everything from the serious adventure weapons of people like Vince Strang, a handful of 2018 V-Stroms supplied to media riders and a lone GSX750F.

The best part of the whole atmosphere was nobody seemed to care too much what anyone was riding.

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This story is from the August/September 2018 edition of Adventure Rider Magazine.

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