All rides must have a theme. A theme-less ride is a random ride; why don’t we just ride to Perth like we would have when we were teenagers but Western Australia hadn’t been discovered?!? Quickly becomes we’re riding 2km to Maccas because we realised the cat and the goldfish were unlikely to survive the 4 … More Obrigado Gracias. Mercy.
The BMW Clubs Australia “Nationals” is an annual gathering of the BMW faithful, with the cars alternating years with bikes. Fortunately, and completely at odds with pro-rata wheel numbers, we get one every two years. The Gold Coast did it spectacularly well in June 2022 at Kooralbyn, and according with tradition the next rally location … More Rally in a Valley
As the old saying goes; All work and no play makes Duncan a dull boy. However, there is absolutely no proven causative correlation between the work:play ratio and boyness dullity, so as long as some play is introduced then surely Duncan will not stand out as awkwardly boring in social situations. The problem precis – … More All Work With Some Play
Wedding, work, weather. The three main pillars of a short trip to Tasmania in October 2023, with a 4th pillar added to bolster the experience: Wriding. As we’d had the wedding on the Saturday night and catch-up with Best Maid of Honour daughter Kate on the Sunday, we were scheduled to pick the bikes up … More Lapping It Up
We left Colombye-bye saying bye-bye to our riding companions that we had laughed, cried, drank and had fun with over the past 100 or so days and headed to the airport for our flight to Panama City. Our itinerary post Ultimate South America was based on the feeling we had after finishing our epic 80 … More Post-Ultimate
The end always starts with a beginning, which was in Santiago. Then the end of the beginning, that probably happened on arrival into Buenos Aires. Then the beginning of the end, which occurred once we’d escaped the confines of buses and were back on the bikes in Lima. Just out of sight over the hill … More Colombye-bye
Please excuse the title of this post, sure it covers Ecuador, but it also includes getting out of Peru. Pecuadorable or Perecuadorable were thrown around by the workshop team but didn’t make the cut. Anyway, the Minibus Peoples described in Nada Motos quickly changed chameleon-like back into their more highly evolved form of Adventure Motorcyclists … More Ecuadorable
Or the interlude via planes, trains, boats and autobuses….. The news that we would not be able to cross the Bolivia/Peru border due to civil unrest was at first disappointing but knowing that Compass had put hard work into making sure we still got to see the Peru highlights – albeit flying there and travelling … More Nada Motos
Crossing the halfway point of the trip and entering a new country; those were the fun things we did on Day 51 of the Ultimate South America. Heading north from Purmamarca (Permanent Marker) in Argentina, we re-crossed the Tropic of Capricorn although didn’t realise it until later on so didn’t get any photos. The scenery … More UnBoliviable
Death. The final frontier. We’ve all heard of Bolivia’s Death Road built by Paraguayan prisoners of war in the 1930s, connecting La Paz with Coroico with a drop of 3,500 m over 64 km starting at a gasping 4,600 m. The bus with more than 100 people going off the edge in 1983 is famous, … More Preferring Death
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