Having been introduced to dirt bikes only a few years earlier, and now possessing enough basic skills to muscle my big WR450 through most types of terrain without killing myself, I was keen to try on a bigger adventure than the usual day rides to local forests. Tasmania got a regular mention and there was a trip organised through DirtriderZ.com that piqued my interest. A buddy of mine from South Australia was also keen, so we dropped our deposits down for a 3 day Dirt Trax Tas tour and booked the ferry across to Devonport.
Departure day came, I met up with the twenty-odd other keen riders on the tour… A few too many beers (and laughs) on the boat and we were ready to see what the hype was about.
It’s very difficult to overstate what an incredibly polished tour the guys at Dirt Trax Tas have managed to create. Outgoing operators Stu and Cory skillfully nail every aspect of what makes a tour great : incredible riding on pristine maintained trails, great accommodation, fantastic food and endless laughter. I also suspect I ate better on this tour than I do at home.
So about those trails? 500kms of awesome single trail, beaches you can hold the throttle wide open, epic sand dunes, rocky river crossings and stunning fern lined gullys. All of this with hardly a flogged out rut in sight. Living in Victoria, this is hard to believe… but true! The trails were the easily the best I’ve ridden and difficult to compare to any other area. Just before you start getting sick of the smooth sandy whoops, the terrain changes and you’re smashing something new.
If you follow Dirt Trax on social media you’ll see they’re regularly out in the forests, marking and cutting new trails, as well as maintaining existing ones. I believe this is the secret to their success : these guys seem to relish sharing their amazing trails with their tour guests as much as they enjoy trail riding themselves. Their passion is evident and they deliver in spades on every front.
Dirt Trax Tas tour really is world class and I can only recommend every trail rider put it on their must-do list. Hats off to Cory and Stu for achieving the impossible.
