The 'Special Classic' tour
Perth - Ayers Rock - Simpson Desert - Cape York - and back to Cairns

Every two years a five-week expedition is planned through the most beautiful and least accessible areas of Australia.

This tour is for bikers who are looking for the ultimate biking experience. You'll need to enjoy some physical exertion and want to get to know Australia from it’s hardest and yet most beautiful side. The total length of the tour is 8000 km, of which 6000 km are on unsurfaced roads or tracks. This kind of journey gives you lasting impressions of things which are known to very few travellers to Australia.

Unfortunately, we are not able to cater for pillion passengers on this trip, although there is room for one person in the support vehicle.

The route takes you in a diagonal direction across the entire Australian continent, from Perth and the India Ocean in the South-West up to the jungle of Cape York, the peninsula in the North-East of the continent. We will be entirely on our own for days on end with no chance of picking up supplies. The tour ends in Cairns where you can get return flights to home.

We set off from Perth towards the goldfields of Kalgoorlie situated on the western side of the Gibson desert. It's past Laverton, that we join the legendary Gunbarrel Highway, which was the first East-West route across Central Australia. The road is, however, in poor condition and can nowadays only be mastered by motorbikes suitable for cross-country travel and 4-wheel drive vehicles. Driving along the dry salt lakes, we come to the Aboriginal missions at Warburton and Docker River and the Giles weather station, where we go on a guided tour to hear about the meteorological instruments and the work involved.

After about 1000 km we finally reach civilisation again at Ayers Rock (Uluru). Here, you can climb the world’s largest monolith, visit the even larger Mt. Olga and enjoy the comforts of the Uluru National Park.

The next stop-off is at Kings Canyon, where we go for a swim in a natural lake, surrounded by the red rock walls of the canyon. In Alice Springs, we have a two day break for servicing and can also take a trip to the nearby McDonnell Ranges, visit a museum or just simply relax.

After Alice, the trip gets serious. We cross the Simpson Desert, a 600 km long sand dune track. We reach Birdsville, with the most isolated pub in the world. 600km to the north is Burketown and we are already in the tropics.

From now on the climate is hot and humid. Travelling via Normanton we come to Lake Land, where the hardest and yet most beautiful part of the tour begins. The Cape York track was originally only for serving the telegraph line and its main features are countless rivers, which we have to drive through and massive soil erosion. On both sides of the track the jungle seems impenetrable. Crystal clear lakes, rivers and waterfalls offer swimming opportunities. It is an overwhelming feeling to reach the white beaches of the most north-eastern point of Australia after travelling some 7000 km and to hear the champagne corks pop! Here we take a two day break between palm trees and the blue sea.

On the return journey to Cairns we have two further attractions for you. We travel through the Lakefield National Park, a unique jungle area, and then there’s the coastal road from Cooktown down to Cairns via Cape Tribulation. This road is a super finale. Mountains, jungle, sea, river crossings and all this squeezed in on a 200 km stretch of road. The tour is strenuous but it’s certainly a trip of a lifetime!