G'day, I have been on the STowners blog since I bought my ST1300 in 2010. Last weekend I was parked at the Garage at Strathalbyn and the Historic Japanese Bikes gathered there on a ride from Victor Harbor. Someone attached an OZSTOC card to my tank so I thought I would register and see what this site was like. I have benefitted greatly from the STowners site, but something local would be a lot better. My bike has now covered a bit over 62,000 K's about 95% of that use has been 2 up touring. We were looking at trading it on something new, but the pillion in a million cannot find anything she likes better (even thought the Goldwing was not as comfortable - pillion seat way to wide apparently) so looks like a few more farkles for the old ST and another couple of years of hard work for it. Looking forward to some interaction on the site and hopefully on the road.