Author Topic: felt like going for a ride. (Read 12999 times)

Shaun · « **on:** April 07, 2012, 03:42:02 PM »

So it's the holidays and I find myself sans-kids.

What else to do but pack some camping gear into the bike and set off.

Ridden from Sydney and have pitched my tent in Tenterfield (where else to pitch a tent?).

Took a slightly askew route. Turned left off the pacific highway at Port Macquarie to make use of the gloriously twisty Oxley Highway between Wauchope and Walcha. Then jumped onto the New England all the way up to here. Great weather and great fun.

Tomorrow I will be continuing north through Warwick, up through Toowoomba and then across through Blackbutt to my old stomping ground, the Sunshine Coast.

From there, who knows. I have a tent and a bike, what else does one need?

Cheers, Shaun

harieg · « **Reply #1 on:** April 07, 2012, 06:45:13 PM »

good onyo mate

Couch · « **Reply #2 on:** April 07, 2012, 09:36:49 PM »

Half your luck Shaun.............but who's your little 4 leg'ed mate, or shouldn't I ask!!

LocuST · « **Reply #3 on:** April 07, 2012, 09:41:17 PM »

Good stuff... more updates please

Diesel · « **Reply #4 on:** April 07, 2012, 11:02:07 PM »

Nice one Shaun. if ya wanna meet up, just holler!

Cheers Diesel

Shaun · « **Reply #5 on:** April 08, 2012, 11:54:06 AM »

May do, may do.

I have just arrived in Toowoomba and pondering important issues like lunch. The night was comfy, my nice new airbed had a hole in it so I had to buy another in Tenterfield, so I am now on the hunt for a Big W to convince some pimply teen to take it back and organise for me to pick up the replacement in Sydney.

The doggie is my little companion. Comes everywhere with me.

Now to find some tucker.

Cheers, Shaun

Streak · « **Reply #6 on:** April 08, 2012, 12:17:03 PM »

Should have let me know, would have had you over for lunch

Teela is used to random motorcycles turning up and me forgetting to tell her about it!

Couch · « **Reply #7 on:** April 08, 2012, 12:50:08 PM »

Fantastic...........where does he ride?

Quote from: Shaun on April 08, 2012, 11:54:06 AM

The doggie is my little companion. Comes everywhere with me.

Cheers, Shaun

Shaun · « **Reply #8 on:** April 08, 2012, 12:59:12 PM »

There's a dog carrier tied down to the pillion seat :)

Streak, still in town. Can't find this bloody Big W :D

Streak · « **Reply #9 on:** April 08, 2012, 01:32:50 PM »

I have a work display out at Highfields today

If you put: Highfields Pioneer Village, 73 Wirraglen Road, Highfields, Queensland into the GPS, it is well worth a look out here Los of history, even face panting lol and of course me.

Think it is $10 to get in

Shaun · « **Reply #10 on:** April 08, 2012, 01:44:48 PM »

Got the mattress returned and am currently feeding my face. Got a store credit and blew it on books like the nerd I am.

$10 bucks? You had better be sensational company!

Streak · « **Reply #11 on:** April 08, 2012, 01:48:29 PM »

Quote from: Shaun on April 08, 2012, 01:44:48 PM

Got the mattress returned and am currently feeding my face. Got a store credit and blew it on books like the nerd I am.

$10 bucks? You had better be sensational company!

Lol I hope I am! Here till around 5.30

0428 79 106 is my mobile

There are some great old bikes here!

Streak · « **Reply #12 on:** April 08, 2012, 03:14:07 PM »

Shaun has been and gone, plus his side kick

Couch · « **Reply #13 on:** April 08, 2012, 03:57:11 PM »

Nice pic fellas!!

Quote from: Streak on April 08, 2012, 03:14:07 PM

Shaun has been and gone, plus his side kick

Shaun · « **Reply #14 on:** April 08, 2012, 07:15:25 PM »

Like the opposite of most intrepid explorers, I was drawn east. I hit the east side of Bribie Island just in time to watch a stunning moonrise over the water, amidst some streaky stratus clouds and the rhythmic blinking of the green starboard running lights of the cargo ships queued out to sea en-route to Brisvegas.

My ST gets lots of attention at lights and rest stops. Aren't there any in Queensland? :)

For those interested, Mars is in the sky around 30 degrees north rotated from the moon's current position.

Cheers, Shaun

Shaun · « **Reply #15 on:** April 09, 2012, 11:50:40 AM »

I was very kindly put up by Mr and Mrs Diesel. Their big dog tried to eat my dog, but to be fair, my dog tried to eat him as well.

Diesel took me out this morning for a lovely ride out behind the glasshouse mountains. He is right about the roads, they are fantastic up there.

I went from there to Mooloolaba and chilled on the beach.

Now on my way down towards Byron.

Cheers, Shaun

Shaun · « **Reply #16 on:** April 09, 2012, 05:04:05 PM »

Sitting in a cafe at Byron, wondering where all the hippies went and where these thousands of people have all come from. All my favourite cafe's are gone, the First Sun holiday park charges $64 for an unpowered patch of grass and there all these pasty white English folk around the place.

Still the same old beach though. Love this place.

Tomorrow will see me continuing down probably as far as Scotts Head, depending on my backside.

Only hiccups so far have been a blown accessories fuse (faulty double adaptor I am guessing) and the bike deciding to tip over on a slight sideways slope. Diesel was kind enough to assist me in picking it up. Low profile tyres look nice, but they do mean I have to hunt carefully for where I try to put the stand down.

Till tomorrow.

harieg · « **Reply #17 on:** April 10, 2012, 07:17:51 AM »

Shuan
a bit over board on the AzSTOC stickers there

Shaun · « **Reply #18 on:** April 10, 2012, 07:40:47 AM »

One is overboard?

You probably saw the Arsenal stickers, and there is no such thing as overboard for those.

Cheers, Shaun

Shaun · « **Reply #19 on:** April 10, 2012, 09:58:46 AM »

Ah, I am quite fond of Liverpool also. Wheels have fallen off a bit this half of the season though.

Just as long as you aren't in with that Manchester lot or the Sp*rs.

Cheers, Shaun

Couch · « **Reply #20 on:** April 10, 2012, 10:25:13 AM »

I just don't understand all this foreign talk

Couch · « **Reply #21 on:** April 10, 2012, 10:57:58 AM »

Then start speakin the lingo or they might just send you back!!

Quote from: Kev on April 10, 2012, 10:51:26 AM

I'll have you know that i'm an aussie....i've got the piece of paper that says so...... they let anyone in these days...don't ya know

Cheers

Kev

Couch · « **Reply #22 on:** April 10, 2012, 11:16:52 AM »

Shaun · « **Reply #23 on:** April 10, 2012, 07:16:56 PM »

Headed off from Byron this morning.

Stopped off in a few places, including New Italy, on the Pacific Highway.

Weather started to turn slightly inclement the further south I went. I almost got to my destination for the evening. I stopped over to get some fuel, and then the bike wouldn't start again. The immoboliser wasn't responding to the remote. The bike is in a shed at the fuel station for the night while I stay at my folks place.

Serves me right for saying that nothing had really gone wrong on the trip :P

Couch, I understand him, so that must make him an Aussie, right?

Cheers, Shaun

Couch · « **Reply #24 on:** April 10, 2012, 07:53:18 PM »

Hey Shaun.................you obviously haven't seen his lilly white legs!!

Quote from: Shaun on April 10, 2012, 07:16:56 PM

Couch, I understand him, so that must make him an Aussie, right?

Cheers, Shaun

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