It’s Saturday morning early, and I won’t be able to get to a computer for the next few days, so rather than leave you all guessing I’ll just say, “Hi!” and catch up next week. Karen and Dave Ramsay, along with Meg Lees, look to be having a ball in Nepal. Despite the difficulty of internet access in the Himalayas, and the hopeless unreliability of that internet when they found it, Karen still managed to…
It’s been a great week. I’ve been down to Kosciusko and had a great time with a few great blokes. But first, news from around the place, and first up is Secret Squirrel reducing his bike stable. Here’s the e-mail with the news… “Squirrel is sad, there wasn’t enough room in the toy shed and one of the fleet had to go. “Unfortunately the DR drew the shortest straw, so there is now a happy…
Evenin’ all. It’s late Sunday arvo and although I haven’t done much myself this week, it seems I’m the only one. I took BMW’s Rallye X GSA down to Rock Motorcycles for a service and new rear tyre, so I rode my cherished Dominator to Craig Murcott’s and rode back on the Beemer. Now THAT’s what I call a contrast. The difference between $30,000 worth of current BMW and a few thou’s worth of 1995…
Yaaaaaawn. Today is the last day of 10 holidays for me. Genuine holidays. Not a trip away where I covered a bike event and had a day or two to spare, but 10 days with no camera, no bikes, and, for a lot of it, no computer. It was great, too. I don’t know that I’ve ever had 10 full days like that in my working life. I’ve always seemed to at least spend time…
I’m jumping in early this week because I have a bit going on and I doubt I’ll be anywhere near a computer for the next few days. Craig Murcott and a group of XRs just went past on their way to a three-day ride. Normally I’d be jealous about that…no wait…I am jealous about that. I’m not as jealous as usual though, because I’ve been in Victoria riding the new SWM Superdual X. Or Superdual…
It’s Sunday arvo and it’s a warm one. I’m waiting for things to cool down before I go out to do some mowing. I took my kayak for a paddle a couple of hours ago, and as I sat at the intersection waiting to turn on to the Pacific Highway at Urunga, Ramdog Dave Ramsay cruised past in his ute with a couple of bikes on the back! How about that. I knew Nige Locke…
It’s been a hectic week. Probably not as hectic as last week, but busy enough. I got to ride the 2018 Triumph Tiger 1200XRT this week, and it sure is a bike-and-a-half. Keeping in mind my unashamed love of Triumph triples, this one was exceptional. Even allowing that Wilko’s photography would make pretty much any bike look good, this one is a standout. The photo session was an especially good one. It was pouring rain…
Clarence Wilderness Weekend Group Ride This ride was a cracker. Eight or nine chickened out. Made of sugar. But the rest of us had a ripper. A tough crew were well rewarded. we had an absolute ball. We got off to a fairly formidable start in steady rain at Coraki, but once west a few kilometres the weather improved, tracks were soft damp and perfectly tractable…mostly. NO DUST. Koos did it the toughest with a…
Hey-up everyone. In the middle of the crisis that’s my work at the moment, I shot down to Sydney for a quick blast on an SWM RS500R. The bike is an ex-media test bike that had been shopped around several magazines. SWM dealer MRD Motorcycles at North Richmond bought the bike and owner Mark – who’s very handy getting a bike to perform – set about turning the 500cc four-stroke enduro bike into a user-friendly…
A very quick entry today – and it’s a late entry, too. Done nuthin’. Been nowhere. Others have, though. Darren AC did Ramdog Dave’s ride and sent me through a couple of pics. It looks like it was a good one. I’m riding an SWM RS500 this week. I’ll tell you about next week. TF
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