I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))

[Biggles]

Well... that's it after 20 years in the Printing Industry. I've just resigned this morning.

My last day will on the 19th Feb Big Scary step.

I'm moving into a Customer Service/Social Media/Consulting position. It'll be a work from home position, for the US based company.

A new Adventure awaits.

I'm very happy about getting out of Printing/Publishing industry.

Good for you to move with the times. 
Keep us informed about your new venture.
I'm sure you're fully aware of the hazards associated with working from home.
You can remove one by sending your wife and kids out to work.   

[Lionel]

If you ride, alans1100, take advantage of the trip to do an IBA ride in each direction.
Peterborough to Katherine, 2536 kms, in 36 hours is relatively easy for a BB2500.
When are you likely to go?

[alans1100]

If you ride, alans1100, take advantage of the trip to do an IBA ride in each direction.
Peterborough to Katherine, 2536 kms, in 36 hours is relatively easy for a BB2500.
When are you likely to go?

Not to fussed about IBA rides at the moment;

If it happens I'd need to be there on the 16th so leaving the 13th would see me with two maybe three nights on the road. Anyway another option is on the cards which might mean I take Heather to Marla and Heather and her other sis go up to Darwin. So I have two trips planned now. If that happens I might be able make that one of the FarRider list rides (e.g. 1000 kms on day 1 and 800km or more on day 2) Guess we'll know tonight or tomorrow either way.

[ppopeye]

All the best with the new venture Marcus. (More riding time)


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[WendyL]

I just planned a possible ride to Darwin - sis in law wants someone to look after the dogs while she's on a trip to Hong Kong. Either Heather flies up (flight paid by sis) or I ride up.

So when are you here?  We'll need to have an RTE in your honour 

[alans1100]

I just planned a possible ride to Darwin - sis in law wants someone to look after the dogs while she's on a trip to Hong Kong. Either Heather flies up (flight paid by sis) or I ride up.

So when are you here?  We'll need to have an RTE in your honour 

I don't know if I'm even going yet; it's just one of the three options on the table. Roughly planned the fuel stops just in case. More than likely though it will be Heather flying up as it's the cheaper option (about $380 Return) since it's her sis that's paying.

[Sabie]

Good luck mini me...I hope all goes really well for Marcus.....fingers crossed. ..

[WendyL]

I just planned a possible ride to Darwin - sis in law wants someone to look after the dogs while she's on a trip to Hong Kong. Either Heather flies up (flight paid by sis) or I ride up.

So when are you here?  We'll need to have an RTE in your honour 

I don't know if I'm even going yet; it's just one of the three options on the table. Roughly planned the fuel stops just in case. More than likely though it will be Heather flying up as it's the cheaper option (about $380 Return) since it's her sis that's paying.

But the ride would be so much more enjoyable.....

[alans1100]

But the ride would be so much more enjoyable.....

True but the route with the fuel stops is saved in the GPS anyway. I think it's 50/50 at the moment.

[Shiney]

Good luck with the new job Marcus
And I hope your able to get your job situation worked out Gadget

[Biggles]

Mt Panorama as you may never have seen it.

[alans1100]

Good luck with the new job Marcus
And I hope your able to get your job situation worked out Gadget

What he said.....

[alans1100]

But the ride would be so much more enjoyable.....

True but the route with the fuel stops is saved in the GPS anyway. I think it's 50/50 at the moment.

Heather flies out on the 22nd and returns on the 1st so all the riding I'll get done is a double trip from home to the airport plus an overnight stay at a friend's place on both trips.

[WendyL]

But the ride would be so much more enjoyable.....

True but the route with the fuel stops is saved in the GPS anyway. I think it's 50/50 at the moment.

Heather flies out on the 22nd and returns on the 1st so all the riding I'll get done is a double trip from home to the airport plus an overnight stay at a friend's place on both trips.

Drats......

Tell Heather to give me a call if she'd like to catch up for lunch or a coffee while she's here, my number is 0458 229 003.

[gaz]

 I just found liddells sour cream in Woolworths Brisbane Airport. 

[alans1100]

I went down to Adelaide on Monday, stayed overnight and picked Heather up from the airport yesterday. On the way down I decided to put the cam on the helmet for the suburban traffic thing. Stopped off at a Hungry Jacks store for lunch and I noticed an SD card error on the GoPro; funny as it was okay on the Sunday.

It's a 32GB class 10 SDHC mini card and it failed after 15 months. I thought it might have been a file error or something and a no go on trying to reformat
it when I got home so it's now in the bin. Heather had the same type of card in her Chinese cam and it's (after reformatting) now in the GoPro. I ordered a new card this morning so hopefully it will be here in time for our ride to Pirie on the 10th so I can try out the new cam mount on the trailer.

[alans1100]

I Finally got around to setting up the 3D glasses that came with the new TV a few months ago. Even more surprising was when I selected 3D on the TV the 2D show that was on TV got converted to 3D; didn't expect that. Only have one 3D movie which I used to set the glasses up.

[Biggles]

Well, it happened today!
I've traded the ST13     

But wait, it's not the end of the world as we know it!!   

I've been looking for a replacement for the Wing, believe it or not.  Something lighter as a commuter, gravel road runner, whatnot.
The ST does for me what the Wing does (as I think Brian will understand now).

Yesterday I took a test ride on a Tenere because they're very popular with the FarRiders.  Too bush oriented, uncomfortable, and overly technical for my tastes.
The salesman says, "Oh, a simpler bike- how about this low mileage recently traded Triumph Explorer?"
Took it for a ride.  Argh!  Rough as guts.

Went to another dealer who has a low kays Honda Crosstourer.  Took it for a test really hoping it was the one, being a Honda V-four shaft drive with cruise control.  All the boxes ticked.  BUT it buzzed like a twin and had a hopeless seat.  AND, wait for this:  the indicator selector and horn switch are upside down!!!  I could not live with that.  On the test ride I kept blowing the horn to indicate. The designer who put that on the bike should be forced to use hand signals, standing up,  naked, in Winter, for the rest of his life (no, I'm too generous). 
Now a person might get used to it if it was the only bike you ever rode, but I'll have it as my second bike and at my advanced age, I depend heavily on muscle memory to navigate this weird world, and it just wasn't feasible.  I might have lived with the buzzy engine (the reviewers called it "silky smooth"- they haven't ridden an ST, obviously) but that was a deal breaker, simple as that.  So now what?

They had a pair of brand new 2015 V-Stroms on the floor and I've always been partial to them.  I took the DL1000 for a ride and found it very buzzy (you forget how rough inferior bikes are after you've ridden an ST for a while!).  Heaps of power and very responsive.  Cornered nicely, hard seat (another thing I've been spoiled by the ST) and "clunky".

I took the V-Strom 650 out and found it much smoother.  The instruments are modern and readable.
I know, I know- it's chain driven.  Life is full of compromises.  I'll learn to live with it- they tell me modern chains and lubes are better than the dirty old days.

I wasn't keen on the LAMS model- the 2016 comes in Cherry red and I got it at the 2015 price.
My first ever brand new bike.  It comes in from Sydney next week.

I'm stripping most of the farkles off Ruby and she's the trade-in.

And no very far down the track, the GL will morph into my next ST1300   

Scared ya, didn't I??   

[alans1100]

And no very far down the track, the GL will morph into my next ST1300   

I can understand the 'wing sentiments if I could get one I would. The 1100 was the next best bike at the time ( can't believe it's a few months of 10 years) but I know she won't last for ever. The current 40th anniversary model (or one a little older) might be affordable for me when I reach pension age in 6 years

[Streak]

Well, it happened today!
I've traded the ST13     

But wait, it's not the end of the world as we know it!!   

I've been looking for a replacement for the Wing, believe it or not.  Something lighter as a commuter, gravel road runner, whatnot.
The ST does for me what the Wing does (as I think Brian will understand now).

Yesterday I took a test ride on a Tenere because they're very popular with the FarRiders.  Too bush oriented, uncomfortable, and overly technical for my tastes.
The salesman says, "Oh, a simpler bike- how about this low mileage recently traded Triumph Explorer?"
Took it for a ride.  Argh!  Rough as guts.

Went to another dealer who has a low kays Honda Crosstourer.  Took it for a test really hoping it was the one, being a Honda V-four shaft drive with cruise control.  All the boxes ticked.  BUT it buzzed like a twin and had a hopeless seat.  AND, wait for this:  the indicator selector and horn switch are upside down!!!  I could not live with that.  On the test ride I kept blowing the horn to indicate. The designer who put that on the bike should be forced to use hand signals, standing up,  naked, in Winter, for the rest of his life (no, I'm too generous). 
Now a person might get used to it if it was the only bike you ever rode, but I'll have it as my second bike and at my advanced age, I depend heavily on muscle memory to navigate this weird world, and it just wasn't feasible.  I might have lived with the buzzy engine (the reviewers called it "silky smooth"- they haven't ridden an ST, obviously) but that was a deal breaker, simple as that.  So now what?

They had a pair of brand new 2015 V-Stroms on the floor and I've always been partial to them.  I took the DL1000 for a ride and found it very buzzy (you forget how rough inferior bikes are after you've ridden an ST for a while!).  Heaps of power and very responsive.  Cornered nicely, hard seat (another thing I've been spoiled by the ST) and "clunky".

I took the V-Strom 650 out and found it much smoother.  The instruments are modern and readable.
I know, I know- it's chain driven.  Life is full of compromises.  I'll learn to live with it- they tell me modern chains and lubes are better than the dirty old days.

I wasn't keen on the LAMS model- the 2016 comes in Cherry red and I got it at the 2015 price.
My first ever brand new bike.  It comes in from Sydney next week.

I'm stripping most of the farkles off Ruby and she's the trade-in.

And no very far down the track, the GL will morph into my next ST1300   

Scared ya, didn't I??   

Well mr biggles your joining me in the land of stroms...... i had best show you to http://austromriders.com.au/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/AuStrom/  just in case you want info on the strom 

and basically what you said above is what i came up with when i made the choice

cheers

Streak

[Brian]

I'm a little confused ......you've traded the ST for a STrom 600 and your selling the wing to get an ST1300?
My brain hurts...muST be Friday

[Gadget]

I'm a little confused ......you've traded the ST for a STrom 600 and your selling the wing to get an ST1300?
My brain hurts...muST be Friday

I'm suspecting a white one is in the wings. (Pardon the deliberate pun)

[Biggles]

I'm suspecting a white one is in the wings. (Pardon the deliberate pun)

Speaking of Wings...  anyone here with some loose change like to be the next OZSTOC proud owner of this beauty?

[Biggles]

I'm a little confused ......you've traded the ST for a STrom 600 and your selling the wing to get an ST1300?
My brain hurts...muST be Friday

Yep, it's Friday.
There's a little more to the ST story than I'm going to publish...

[Shiney]

Congratulations on the new bike Biggles, I look forward to checking it out an RTE sometime

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