Heading off on the first leg of my 2013 outback trip, I faced a two to three day drive and the prospect of rain which could make the station roads and tracks impassable to my 2wd ute pulling the trailer with the quadbike.

Well, my good old Kawasaki Bayou has come to the end of it's run. No longer sufficiently reliable for my lone, outback trips into remote areas of the South Australian arid region, I've parked it and bought a new, second hand Yamaha Big Bear 400 4x4 ATV (quadbike).