Since 2002, motorcycle adventurers have taken on the annual challenge of riding a small capacity motorcycle vast distances across the Australian landscape.

World heritage rainforests, deserts, open plains, snowy mountains, river crossing, bitumen roads, and occasional dirt roads provides the backdrop to the Postie Bike Challenge event.

We have had riders from Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Singapore, France and the United States. The one thing they all have in common is a great sense of adventure.

The Postie Bike Challenge is an endurance event on a small motorcycle. Are you up for the challenge?

The Brisbane to Alice Springs route is special because it takes us away from the familiar and into some of the more remote and unusual landscapes in Australia. This is the first time we have taken the southern route and this gives us a chance to stay in some pretty interesting places.

Starting from Brisbane, we head west and quickly leave the city behind. The lush Queensland vegetation gradually gives way to drier country as we travel further inland. Over the coming days the landscape changes dramatically — from open farmland and woodland to vast, dry plains and the unmistakable red dirt of outback Australia.

Our route will take us through a collection of small towns, remote outposts and some wonderfully unusual places along the way. Glengarry Hilton, White Cliffs, Silverton, Woomera and Coober Pedy are all part of the adventure, each offering something completely different from the last.

White Cliffs is an isolated opal-mining town where the landscape itself seems to belong on another planet. Further west, Silverton gives us a taste of the real outback, with its dusty streets, old buildings and long history as a mining town.

As we continue towards South Australia, the landscape becomes increasingly stark and expansive as we make our way towards Coober Pedy — a town famous for opals, underground homes and surviving in one of Australia’s harshest environments.

Adventure is in the journey rather than the destination and this is one not to be missed. At times you will ride with a group; sometimes alone; you will feel remote; a million miles away from civilization; there will be long days on the bitumen;  your dirt riding skills might be tested; some days you will travel at full speed (75km/hr!!!) and others will be spent negotiating narrow roads at 30-40km/hr; YOUR MISSION: keep your small motorcycle going for the near 3700 kilometres!

(Route still in planning so image is a guide only)