“Long Way” star Charley Boorman is this week launching a ‘mindful’ motorcycle podcast called “The Nod” during the UK’s Mental...
Over the past 10 years, the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride (DGR) raising awareness and funds for men’s health issues has literally...
Black Dog Ride Australia (BDRA) annual 1 Dayer charity rides for mental health issues are back in 2022, as well as last year’s popular “virtual” 1 Dayers. The 1 Dayer 2022 will be held at various locations around Australian on Sunday 20 March to kickstart a national conversation about depression...
Black Dog Ride Australia (BDRA) is seeking the views of riders to determine its future direction after a couple of...
The annual Black Dog Ride to the Red Centre to raise awareness of mental health issues has been cancelled for...
Current Covid lockdowns have thrown the annual Black Dog Ride into jeopardy. (UPDATE: The event has now been cancelled, but state rides will take its place. Click here for details.) Black Dog Ride Australia (BDRA) recently met with all state ride coordinators to discuss the situation, but agreed it was too...
Three veterans and one of their sons are this weekend competing in the gruelling Finke Desert Race in Australia’s Northern...
The announcement this week of an Australia Royal Commission into veteran and serving defence member suicides has prompted organisers of...
The Black Dog Ride Australia (BDRA) organisation which raises awareness and funds for mental health issues this year installed a new leader and now needs three new board members. West Australian automotive marketer Lawson Dixon took over in February as general manager of the Perth-based organisation which hosts annual rides to raise...
Below is a press release from Psychs on Bikes, a group of mental health professionals who raise awareness in rural...
The Black Dog Ride Australia (BDRA) which raises awareness and funds for mental health issues has yet another new leader....
After the 2020 Black Dog Ride was cancelled due to the pandemic for the first time in its 11-year history, the event will return to the Red Centre in 2021. The BDR, which raises awareness and funds for mental health, was started by Steve Andrews after his solo ride around...
Riding a motorcycle not makes you so happy some women can even orgasm while riding. With the Black Dog 1 Dayer...
Riding motorcycles has several proven mental and physical health benefits for riders and now we find the vibration of your...
Riders will return to the Red Centre in 2020 to celebrate 10 years since the establishment of the first Black Dog Ride in 2010. This year’s Around Australia Ride celebrated founder Steve Andrew’s solo ride around Australia in 2009 to raise awareness for mental health issues. His epic ride was followed in...
Tickets are now available for the third annual Black Dog Ride to the World Superbikes at Phillip Island in 2020...
All riders on all types of bike are invited to take part in the third annual Ride Sunday on 10...
Famous charity rider Tex O’Grady is set to retire his second dog pillion, Bundy, and is currently training her replacement, Rebel. Tex and Bundy racked up a million kilometres in December 2017 raising more than $6m for charities. He says it is a world record for a motorcycle dog that...
The future of Black Dog Ride Australia (BDRA) events to raise awareness and funds for mental health issues is assured,...
We probably didn’t need a scientific study to tell us motorcycle riding reduces stress and distraction, while increasing our focus...
The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride has had a record year, raising $US5.8m (about $8.2m) for men’s cancer research and mental health issues. This is just short of the target of $US6m ($8.4m), but still a record year and almost half of the $US13m ($18.2m) raised since the DGR started in 2012....
We know motorcycles are music to our ears and now Dutch musician Dominic Seldis has proven it by producing a special...
The seventh annual Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride on 30 September 2018 will double their allocation of funding toward mental health. Founder Mark...
Henry Crew, 23, is heading to Australia on his bid to become the youngest person to ride around the world – all in the name of mental health. The Brit is undertaking the epic ride to challenge himself, while speaking out about his own experiences with depression and anxiety and...
Riders have been invited to attend the funeral cortege and celebration of the life and works of well-respected and loved...
Even though the seventh annual Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride on 30 September 2018 shines an “extra strong” spotlight on men’s health issues,...
Bookings are now open for the annual Black Dog Ride, this time heading to Darwin for the first time. The Top End ride leaves each state at varied times around August 9, arrives on Friday, August 17 and finishes on the Saturday. Riders will be able to take part in...
A World Superbikes tour, a visit to the Top End and heaps more One Dayer events are scheduled for the...
With one week to go, the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride is striving to make this a record year. Spokesman Stephen Bronholm...
A video that focusses on the mental health issue of a rider and his family is being promoted to highlight the 2017 Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride (DGR). DGR has this year doubles its funds in support of men’s mental health on behalf of the Movember Foundation. The above video, called Survivor,...
Men suffering from mental health issues are invited to meet two riders for dinner talks about suicide prevention was they...
Gold Coast rider Greg Kelly, 61, was diagnosed with dementia in February but is now fighting back with Kell’s Ride...
Albania, Kuwait, Monaco, Nicaragua, and Ukraine join the line-up of distinguished countries involved in the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride which this year. The 2017 DGR on September 24 is expected to involve more than 600 cities, about 70,000 riders and 95 countries and raise an expected $US 5 million for cancer...
The new boss of the Black Dog Ride plans to improve communication technology to link workers and riders into a...
Psychologists and psychiatrists are mounting up on their motorcycles for their annual Big Ride to bring mental health issues and...
Cyclone Debbie forced a scheduled Show and Shine in aid of depressions sufferers at Mt Mee’s Pitstop Cafe to be postponed to this Saturday, May 6, 2017. The event is part of Sandra Moran’s quest to raise funds and awareness for depression after her son, Jaie, took his life in 2014. She...
The annual Black Dog Ride 1 Dayer rides for mental health awareness are coming up on March 19, 2017, with one...
Black Dog Ride founder Steve Andrews has resigned from the mental health charity after facing up to his own issues...
Sandra Moran set off to ride around Australia in 2015 to raise awareness for depression after her son, Jaie, took his life in 2014. An accident in Western Australia halted her ride, called Jaie’s Journey, but Sandra continues to raise funds and awareness for depression and mental health. Her latest plan...
One lucky rider in the annual Black Dog Ride 1 Dayers on March 19, 2017, will win a Scout donated...
Brisbane rider Terri Barclay is riding more than 5500km around Queensland with the Black Dog Ride in memory of her...
If you can’t afford the time to do one of the state-based Black Dog Rides this year, you can become a Night Rider and join the riders for a couple of nights along the way. This year the eighth annual ride to raise awareness of mental health issues will hold separate rides in each...
We’ve all seen the mental health poster that says “You never see a motorcycle outside a pyschiatrist’s office”. However, you...
You can now register for the eighth annual Black Dog Ride to raise awareness of mental health issues with separate rides...
The eighth annual Black Dog Ride to raise awareness of mental health issues takes a different twist this year with separate rides in each state and the Northern Territory. It all started in 2009 when founder Steve Andrews rode around the country to raise awareness of suicide prevention after a...
It seems strange that anyone who buys a motorbike could possibly regret it, but many do feel “buyer’s remorse” that...
A record 7000 riders in 34 locations around Australia raised $236,000 in the annual Black Dog Ride 1 Dayer on March 20, 2016,...
More than 7000 riders in 34 locations around the country will tomorrow (March 20, 2016) take part in the annual Black Dog Ride 1 Dayer to raise awareness and funds for mental health issues. And it’s not too late for you to take part. Although some online registrations have closed,...
If you love the thrills of motorcycling and the adventure of riding far and wide, it’s probably because you were...
Motorbike Writer and Suomy have joined to offer a new Suomy road or adventure helmet to one lucky rider who registers...
If you’d like to support the annual Black Dog Ride but can’t afford a week off work for the epic ride, then try the one-day ride in March. Last year nearly 7000 Black Dog Riders nationwide hit the highways on one single day to raise awareness of depression and suicide...
One of the first things many people do after a divorce is to buy something expensive, adventurous and impulsive, like...
Sad news about the Black Dog Ride of 65 Aussies across America with a tragic accident on Friday (September 25, 2015) near...
The Black Dog Ride of 65 Aussies across America is at the half-way point of their 21-day ride, raising funds and awareness for mental health and attracting local news coverage. They are riding 45 Harley-Davidsons 7000km from New York to LA, visiting 18 cities to kick start conversations about suicide prevention,...
Sixty-five Australians have started the first international Black Dog Ride in the USA. They are riding 7000km from New York to...
Sixty-five Aussies are off to the US next week for the first international Black Dog Ride, raising money and awareness...
You don’t have to ride to the Red Centre to support mental health – a one-day Black Dog Ride has been organised for Sunday, March 23. The annual Black Dog Ride consists of an epic ride by hundreds of riders from each capital city to Alice Springs to raise awareness...
Motorcycle riders have raised more than $352,000 for Lifeline and Mental Health First Aid in this year’s Black Dog Ride...
Two black dogs were the stars of the annual Black Dog Ride that left from Brisbane this morning. Mandy and...
The annual Black Dog Ride has passed the $1 million mark in funds raised for mental health support services in the past four years. It began as a solo motorbike ride around Australia by Steve Andrews and has now become a national event with riders coming from around the country...