Sitting alone at the service station at 6:15am made me wonder whether I had misunderstood our plan. Apparently we had agreed to meet at 7. Opps. So I gave the bike a quick once over and noticed that the rear tyre was down on pressure. Not 1 or 2psi but 10. That’s strange as I…
Deb has heard me complaining about my old self inflating mattress I take on the bike with me and given that I have had a few misadventures on the bike I need something comfortable to sleep on when I away on the bike. So she went way over the top and suprised me with a Helinox camp…
So with sudden demise of my trusty zed I went in search of a suitable replacement. And after looking around there really wasn’t anything that grabs me like my zed. Except for the newer version of the ZX14R from 2013 which included a number of improvements and some nice restyling. Enter one 2014 ZX14R, with only…
It all started innocently enough… A friend asked me take his new GTR out for a ride to get the oil moving as he is out of action for a while. It was only going to be a short ride of around 70km just to clear out the cobwebs. So I invited my son-in-law to…
For those who have followed my blog may have picked up the theme that I like riding my bike and I like riding a long way. Well that is very true. However, I also really love sharing my rides with Deb. These rides aren’t measured in 1,000’s of kilometers but in the number of coffee shops,…
Each year long distance riders from around Australia congregate at Wilmington in South Australia to remember riders (friends) who we have lost. This year was especially poignant for me, with the loss of Pat, the life of the party, the clown, our friend. The Plan I have always wanted to do the run between Ivanhoe…
Today the motorcycle market is all about niche markets – sports, hyper sports, sports tourers, tourers, cruisers, trials, trail, motocross, enduro, mortard, adventure, and the list goes on. Sometimes you just have to do inappropriate things with inappropriate equipuipment – be adventurous. Today we went for a ride into the forest. One of us was…
This weekend marked a big milestone in the Australian long distance riding community with the inaugural meeting of IBA Australia in Parkes NSW. And as is only right and proper (and a requirement for attending) taking the short way to the meeting just wasn’t an option. So as Parkes is less than 300km from home…
From Port Lincoln I continued up and around the coast popping into the various settlements along the way. It amazed me the number of these little towns on my trip that had quite prominent murals painted on walls. In endurance riding circles Horrocks pass is the welcome to the east, the first set of true…
There’s something very beautiful about the Nullabor. Many just see the long drag that you have to take when going across the country. However, it isn’t like that. The landscape and vegetation changes many times as you move through the countryside, often with little or no transition. Trees, no trees, scrub, plains, rolling hills. And…
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