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REAR GUARD
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SEPTEMBER 2009 ///ISSUE# 360 // 188 PAGES // $7.95
TALKING
POINT
WHAT HAPPENED
BACK THEN...James Stewart announced
he would be coming to
Australia to race Chad Reed
at the Brisbane round of
the Australian Supercross
Championships.KTM swept all four classes at
the Hattah Desert Race, with
Ben Grabham taking Outright
honours and also winning the
450 class.Bill Simpson, from Cromer
in NSW, won the Husaberg
FE450 reader competition
with the line “Whether I’m
cooking a roast or rocking
out a roost, I have the need,
the need for Swede.”A helmet worn by Reed
and painted by Aboriginal
artist Raymond Walters was
auctioned for $2000, with
the money going to help
disadvantaged youth in remote
communities.Robbie Maddison
successfully backfl ipped
over an open Tower Bridge
in London. Cameron Sinclair
under-rotated a backfl ip
in Spain at the Red Bull
X-Fighters series, knocking
himself unconscious and
suffering a broken shoulder,
cheekbone and ruptured
liver.HOW TO RIDE / ADB GARAGE / WE RECOMMEND / TECH / KIDZ KORNER / USED RIDE /
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS IN north-western Queensland caused
fl ooding in Cloncurry and Mount Isa, Trooper Mark Donaldson
was awarded the Victoria Cross for actions in Afghanistan and,
in Victoria, 173 people were killed in the nation’s worst
bushfi res on 7 February, Black Saturday. Serena Williams
won the women’s singles title at the Australian Open and
Rafael Nadal won the men’s, Mark Webber won his fi rst
Formula One Grand Prix in Germany, Shocking won the
Melbourne Cup, actor Bud Tingwell, Mike Leyland, Don Lane,
Patrick Swayze and Michael Jackson died and Barack Obama
was sworn in as the 44th president of the US.ON THE
COVER:
ADB Editor Sam
Maclachlan posing on
the Husaberg FE390 in
the Spanish
countryside. This bike
was good!