Time to Ride - 50cc Motorcycles in the Australian Outback
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Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
What happens when two seasoned overland riders trade full-size adventure bikes for 50cc, 50-year-old two-strokes? German engineers Bea Höbenreich and Helmut Koch set out to prove that real motorcycle adventure isn’t about horsepower or gear—it’s about mindset. From Australia’s punishing outback to Cape York’s legendary Old Telegraph Track, they battled bike drownings, deep sand, brutal creek crossings, and relentless headwinds on the smallest machines in the landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | two German engineers, two very small motorcycles, 50cc, two-stroke machines, and the Australian Outback. |
| 0:08.4 | Now, at first glance, you'd expect this story to be about limitation, about underpowered bikes, about adapting your route, your pace, your expectations to suit these little machines that simply aren't up to the task. |
| 0:20.1 | You'd expect this story to be about overcoming what these tiny motorcycles can't do. |
| 0:26.7 | But here's the twist. |
| 0:28.2 | These tiny 50cc motorcycles didn't take away from this trip, from this couple that you're about to hear. |
| 0:33.5 | In fact, they added to it. |
| 0:34.9 | They opened doors, started conversations. |
| 0:37.1 | They changed the way people reacted to them in road houses on remote tracks. In fact, they added to it. They opened doors, started conversations. |
| 0:42.7 | They changed the way people reacted to them in road houses, on remote tracks, in the middle of nowhere. |
| 0:50.0 | In fact, they say that some of the most memorable moments they experienced happened because they were riding 50-c-c motorcycles. |
| 0:56.6 | Cape York, the old telegraph track in Australia, deep sand vertical drops into river crossings, |
| 1:02.8 | road trains, crocodiles, and two machines most people would never choose for a ride like this. |
| 1:08.6 | Via and Helmut from Time to Ride on Why Going Small Changed Everything. |
| 1:13.4 | I'm Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. |
| 1:18.5 | Hi, I'm Simonikov. That's Simon, Simon, Hayley, Jocelyn Snow, Tomi, Simon Thomas, Lisa Thomas, Grant Johnson, |
| 1:24.2 | Lewis, William Jarvis, bitch Nick Fander Justin Vinn |
| 1:27.8 | Tiffany Coates |
| 1:28.6 | Coats |
| 1:29.3 | Brett Tach |
| 1:30.0 | Whitten Smell |
| 1:30.6 | Molylea |
| 1:31.5 | and you're listening |
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