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, dirt roads, corrugations and bulldust 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.

Are you up for the challenge?

Hells Gate is a remote roadhouse near the Queensland and Northern Territory borders – remote, rugged and civilisation is several hundred kilometres away.  Travelling north from here we cover 300+km of wide red dirt road and several river crossings before we overnight in a small Aboriginal community.

The trip from Brisbane to Darwin replicates the first event from 2002. It is the longest in terms of distance and travels through some of the most remote places of any of our previous trips – Hells Gate and Borroloola. Travelling through local forests out of Brisbane you will find the landscape change daily, becoming sparse then scorched as the roads change to single lane and then red dirt. The humidity builds as we head north and west across some amazing landscapes. Remote towns, long ribbons of bitumen road, dirt, sand and bulldust is guaranteed. Several hot days will be rewarded with clear artesian water holes or rivers to swim in.

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; somtimes alone; you will feel remote; a million miles away from civilisation; there will be long days on the bitumen;  your sand and dirt riding skills will be tested; some days you will travel at full speed (75km/hr!!!) and others will be spent negotiating narrow dirt roads at 30-40km/hr; YOUR MISSION: keep your small motorcycle going for the 3500+ kilometres!

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