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Bear tracks | Australian Alps on Two Wheels

Peter Thoeming — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:30:42 +0000

The Australian Alps are the highest mountain range on mainland Australia, although “mountain range” is something of an exaggeration. With the only peaks exceeding 2,000m in elevation on

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Bear Tracks | Half-litre winner to Wombeyan Caves

Peter Thoeming — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:56:46 +0000

Peter ‘The Bear’ Thoeming takes Kawasaki’s new KLE500 along the damaged, dramatic and officially complicated Wombeyan Caves Road, where gravel, cliffs, potholes, wildlife and legal grey areas make

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Bear Tracks | Forster-Tuncurry, NSW

Peter Thoeming — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:30:56 +0000

A chance overnight stop in Forster sparks memories of another off-season coastal town half a world away. From sangria-fuelled nights on a deserted Spanish beach to faded Australian motels, The

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Bear Tracks | Where are those eight Krauser Domani outfits?

Peter Thoeming — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:30:46 +0000

In Australia, Michael Krauser was the man who added value to those beige ratchet straps that once held BMW motorcycles in their crates (see box, below). In Germany,

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Bear Tracks | A tale of sunbathing and skinny dipping by Myall Lakes

Peter Thoeming — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:30:41 +0000

Half a century ago, I was editor of a motorcycle magazine called Two Wheels. I also took photos and occasionally wrote stories, which allowed me to grab a

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Bear Tracks | First Motorcycle Tour of China, 1985

Peter Thoeming — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:32:50 +0000

It was 40 years ago today… more or less, as I sat having introductory drinks with a dozen or so German riders in the lobby bar of the

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Bear Tracks | Compass Expeditions Motorcycle Tours

Peter Thoeming — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:30:25 +0000

Australia’s Compass Expeditions trips are more than ordinary tours, they’re life-changing journeys crafted for the select few adventurous enough to take them on. To uncover what makes these

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Bear Tracks | Going MAD in Milan

Peter Thoeming — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:00:31 +0000

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know or actually “whom you know”. I just happen to know Roberto Crepaldi, the affable boss of CR&S Motorcycles. Unlike

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Bear Tracks | Get Fresh With Fuel, Old beer just may be fine, old fuel not so much

Peter Thoeming — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 02:54:20 +0000

An assurance that you will get from every zythophile is that the best beer is the beer you drink at the brewery. As soon as it is decanted

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Bear Tracks | Riding In Paris, The Way To Go

Peter Thoeming — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 20:30:49 +0000

Bear Tracks Riding In Paris | There is an Asterix comic in which our hero and his steadfast if rather thick companion Obelix visit Paris. It must be

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