My last visit to NZ was a bit wet so I set off to revisit one of the best places to ride a motorcycle. I had a trip to visit family in Australia coming up which placed me just a few hours away and rather last minute I phoned New […]
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Australia and New Zealand Motorcycle tours
Motorcycle rides Downunder and New Zealand. Further Australian motorcycle touring content can be viewed in The Museum section of the blog.
Farewell Australia
The open road beckons me for one more ride. Relaxing by the wide Clarence river Countryside in the tablelands looks very different to the tropics where I live, almost like North West of the USA. I tried but cannot correct the exposure much more with the bright mid afternoon sun. […]
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Motorcycling New Zealand North Island
New Zealand truly is a paradise for motorcycle riders. I recently rode the north island and it was superb. I rented a motorcycle for this trip from Auckland Motorbike Hire who are based in a small seaside village of Maraetai out of Auckland. The owner Randall can arrange transfer from […]
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New Zealand South Island Motorcycle tour
New Zealand is a wonderful place to ride a motorcycle. I just had a week and a half riding the south island and apart from some mixed weather it was some of the best riding I have ever experienced. I flew to Christchurch to meet a mate who was joining […]
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Thunderbolts and Oxley
This post edited and photos updated 2019. Easter was a 5 day weekend due to ANZAC day falling at the same time. I literally made my mind to go riding the day before and packed up the bike on Thursday evening and booked a room at the Top Pub Uralla […]
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Easter New England Tablelands Ride
4 days off work with more of less half decent weather seemed too good to just sit around home. Thursday evening I hatched a half baked plan to do a ride to the Tablelands way and getting all my gear ready and working out a route took late into the […]
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Meltdown tour
This post was edited and photos processed 2019 After previously having to cancel this ride I was determined to go this time no matter what so I set out only to ride into one of the hottest days on record. Yes that is 44 degrees or 111F in the old […]
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Buell Muster tour
Best laid plans … Alas this ride ended up being far shorter than anticipated. Combination of wrong gear and an old health nemesis made me turn back. To say I am disappointed is an understatement. I did enjoy riding some excellent roads for a couple of days. Riding south via […]
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Australia Moto-GP Motorcycle Tour
This was my first big motorcycle tour. I have updated the photos to higher resolution than originally posted but remember 2006 digital cameras were low resolution. I added and deleted some images also to try freshen this post but left my original words as written at the time. Day One […]
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Mt Kosciuszko motorcycle tour
2020 notes: This was my first ride somewhere longer than overnight. It took place in 2004 and predates the blog. I lost my camera on the trip and only have these few photos from my mate and the text below is from the Australian Buell owners forum where I had […]
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