Alastair has recently successfully completed a motorbike trip on his newly acquired Suzuki DR 650. The Antipodeans trial was called the Southern Big Sky Adventure.

Alastair rode the bike from Auckland down to Omaru in the South Island on the open road and then journeyed three days across a mixture of gravel roads, tracks and trails, across mountains and valleys to Queenstown, the adventure capital of New Zealand.

The destinations were connected by gravel roads and hard-based farm tracks, which resulted in long days, big views and even bigger country as the bike cut through the little known Strath Taieri region of inland Otago.

The Suzuki took Alastair over high mountain tracks, overlooking huge gold mining operations and venture well off the beaten track to little known hamlets. He cut through southern forests, historic hydro villages and followed the Dunstan Trail to Central Otago on old wagon trails. The final day witnessed the fruit bowl of Earnscleugh and ventured up into the High Country on tracks used only by shepherds and their merinos towards the tourist Mecca of Queenstown and a chance to unwind on beautiful Lake Wakatipu.

Alastair had a great time and recommends these kinds of trip to any bike fans. He is back in UK at the beginning of April before heading off to the States on a motorbike trip on 13 May for a week’s adventure in the Wild West with eaglerider.com with a couple of days tacked on experience Death Valley.

• 1943 Alastair's early years
• 1955 Licence to drive
• 1957 Alastair's High School years
• 1959 Evading the police
• 1960 Becoming a mechanic
• 1966 The Tasman series
• 1966 Leaving New Zealand
• 1967 Joining McLaren
• 1967 CanAm Door Catches
• 1967 Monza
• 1968 South Africa
• 1968 CanAm
• 1969 Driving the Formula 1 Cars
• 1973 Fittipaldi joins McLaren
• 1973 McLaren Team manager
• 1974 Montezemolo
• 1975 Hunt replaces Fittipaldi
• 1975 Hunt gets paid little
• 1976 Inventing the Air-Starter
• 1976 Six-speed Gear Boxes
• 1976 Misbehaving in Canada
• 1976 Japan
• 1977 Adidas Uniforms
• 1977 Changing Tyres
• 1977 Leaving McLaren
• 1979 Nelson Piquet
• 1980 Skirts on Formula 1 Cars
• 1981 Leaving Formula 1
• 1982 Making Lists
• 1982 Signing on
• 1982 Creating Space Station
• 1991 Highland Fling
• 1991 Classic Marathon
• 1992 Getting the Austin A35
• 1992 El Salvador
• 1993 Carerra Panamerica
• 1993 Centre of attention
• 1993 Nicest car in rally
• 1993 LeJog
• 2000 London to Sydney
• 2000 Porsche Racing
• 2000 Porsche Crashing
• 2001 Ferrari
• 2001 Inca Trail
• 2004 Berlin - Moscow - Berlin
• 2005 World Cup Rally
• 2007 Norway
• 2008 Liège-Brescia-Liège
• 2008 An Icelandic Odyssey
• 2008 North & West Africa
• 2009 West Coast America
• 2009 London to Casablanca
• 2010 New Zealand Festival of motor racing
• 2010 New Zealand Big Sky Adventure