Written By Rod:

Born at a very young age in Melbourne in 1969, Rod Brown grew up primarily in and around farming communities where he first discovered the pleasure associated with being outdoors. It was this enjoyment which led him to gaining an affinity with bushcraft and the Native American Culture. It was through his interest in the Native Americans that he discovered his own ‘Spirit Guides’ – the Eagle, symbolizing freedom and the Wolf, symbolizing survival.
Rod has spent many weekends camping, first with the family as a child and in his four years as a Scout in his then home town of Warragul in Victoria’s Gippsland region. It was here that he first experienced practical bushcraft and his natural abilities saw him rising quickly through the ranks to become a patrol leader, skipping over others who had been in longer and who had been in Cubs beforehand.
In his early teens he was ‘lucky’ that his mother got remarried to a then Army Sargent from Victoria’s Wimmera District who expanded Rod’s horizon’s to include small game hunting and told him stories of his involvement with an Australian Army assisted exploration in the hunt for the fabled Lassister’s lost gold reef in Central Australia.
This planted a seed which slowly germinated over the years
Not long after this Rod discovered trailbikes and trailbike adventure touring and the enjoyment associated with actually being a part of the environment and not just watching it go by through a car’s windscreen. It was through this freedom that he started exploring and discovering more of Australia, but being new to the game and not knowing other adventure riders to ask questions of he made plenty of mistakes. This led him into chasing down as much information as possible regarding the best ways to set up his bike safely.
In 1993, not long after moving to Queensland he was lucky enough to land what would have the perfect job in a camping store. Ironically he was too busy working in the camping industry to actually go out camping as much as he would have liked. The plus side of this was that it empowered him with a wealth of updated knowledge in regards to camping and hiking products and also gave him access to suppliers and distributors.
This in turn worked in his favor when in 2003 Rod landed a reviewing and writing gig for the Federation of Off Highway Vehicles (F.O.H.V.A.) a newly established organization who’s main aim was to facilitate and help keep open current riding areas which are slowly being closed down due to bureaucracy. Unfortunately the organization was taken over by Motorcycling Australia and then promptly buried soon after.
But this had given him self confidence in his own abilities as a writer
After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, Rod bit the bullet and mass emailed every Australian trailbike magazine he could find.
And received nothing in return!
He waited a month or so and tried again, but also to no avail.
When he noticed a change of editor at TrailBike Adventure Magazine (TBAM) he once again hit the send button but didn’t expect much to come of it. Fortunately the new editor saw a spark of promise in Rod and even though spare pages where at a premium, he offered Rod a shot at writing camping and hiking product reviews. Seeing his big chance, Rod promptly proved himself and is still writing for TBAM.

Rod is currently working on two new books – the first being a work of pure Action/Erotic fiction called ‘The Southern Bank’ and the second being about his search for the legendary ‘Brisbane Line’ – a Second World War defence proposal in which many believe that if it was to go ahead, the plan was to ‘give up’ the northern areas of Australia to possible Japanese invasion until it was viable for the allied armies to take it back. If all goes to plan he and a small group of friends plan on riding from site to site in South East Queensland and then up to FNQ.
He has also taken with incorporating the ‘Wulfe Ryder’ tag in his name to celebrate his ancestry – Finnish, Native American (still checkin’ on that one), French, Irish, Scottish, English, Kiwi and Aussie, his affinity with the Wolf and the fact that he ‘rides a bloody bike’.
It is also through this ‘mongrel’ heritage that he believes that “through me runs the blood of warriors and poets!”