UPDATE: The weather looks like it will remain fair/good for the duration yee hah!!
Thursday 24th, Friday 25th & Saturday 26th – Last chance for schoolies to let loose before going back to work. DoubleD has planned a great roundabout ride down to our nation’s capital Canberra where an overnight stay is planned. The Friday can be spent on a day trip to Cooma or ?? and then back to overnight in Canberra. Ride a roundabout path home on Saturday.
A bit dated but photos from a previous ride up to Tamworth across to Walcha, Gloucester, Nabiac, Buladelah, Clarence Town, Morpeth, Wollombi – home! Tony D on the Honda & Scrounger on his much missed Ducati.
Jerry’s Cafe’
In the garage ready to go!
Wollombi with the Baron
Tony D before dinner night 1
Scrounger later on night 1!
Tony D disputes findings of local paper
Ducati freezing its little Italian soul at Bendemeer
Honda also freezing!
Walcha – fantastic breakfast after a very cold ride from Tamworth
Bikes parked at Plough Inn
Named after the Scrounger of course!
NIGE Motorcycle Club Top 20
The older we get, the better we were.
20. The two most useless things to a rider are the braking distance behind
you, and nine-tenth of a second ago.
19. Remember… gravity and centrifugal force are not just good ideas. They
are laws and are not subject to appeal.
18. Keep looking around. There’s always something you’ve missed.
17. Good judgement comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually
comes from bad judgement.
16. In the ongoing battle between objects made of metal, rubber, and
fibreglass… going 160 kms per hour, and the ground going zero kms per
hour, the ground has yet to lose. Same holds for cars, large trucks, and
animals taller than you. Draws don’t count.
15. If all you can see in your mirrors is sparks and all you can hear is
screaming from your passenger, things may not be as they should be.
14. You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The
trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
13. There are two simple rules for riding smoothly and fast in rain and on
wet roads. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
12. Always try to keep the number of times you put your sidestand down equal
to the number of times you put the sidestand up.
11. Never let a motorcycle take you somewhere your brain didn’t get to three
seconds earlier.
10. You know you’ve left the sidestand down when your first left turn is one
of those bad learning experiences. You know you’ve left the centerstand down
when your in 1st gear at 4000 rpm going nowhere.
9. Learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make all
of them yourself.
8. When in doubt slow down. No one has ever hit something too slow.
7. The rear wheel is just a big fan on back of the bike used to keep the rider
cool and his/her butt relaxed. If going into a corner too fast,
slamming on the rear brake causes the “fan” to abruptly stop. When this
happens you can actually see the rider start sweating and his/her butt
become tense.
6. The only time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire.
5. It’s always better to be on the sidelines wishing you were on the track,
than on the track wishing you were on the sidelines.
4. Riding isn’t dangerous! Crashing is dangerous!
3. If you push the bars left, the bike goes left. If you push the bars right,
the bike goes right. That is, unless you continue pushing the bars
all the way, then the bike will go down.
2. Every ride is optional.
1. A “good” ride is one from which you can walk away. A “great” ride is one
after which you can use the bike again.
Destination: Sandy Creek Road down to Wollombi, back up to Broke and through wineries to Cessnock and back home. A1 ride, excellent day.
Riders: Brizzer, Patto & Nige
Setting up the action shots on Sandy Creek Road
The ‘Bird waiting her turn
Look at the girly scenery behind him
Me! Me! Me! – My turn
Patto going way too fast for the NigePhone
Patto mixed up with some more girly scenery on Sandy Creek Road
The ‘Bird on the roll
Coming through Patto
Briz having a ‘senior moment’ in his topbox 🙂
There were bikes by the zillions and it was SO hot!
Briz dreaming of riding the ‘Bird
There are worse places in the world to spend a Sunday arvo
Brian practising his horizontal yoga
Took a loop up to Broke and topped up
Harrigans, where if you are a big mean biker, you can push in and sit where you darn well please 🙂
UPDATE: This proposed ride appears to have stalled a bit with the poor weather and a lack of participants for a variety of reasons. Stay tuned if the weather improves and a couple more (other than me) riders are keen.
Suggested rides to make up for the miserable weather encountered during the ‘Long Ride Up’ are either West to Mudgee (great open roads, lovely place with friendly pub) or South to Kiama (no history on this to share but edit this if you have). Planning for one or both of these to happen during what is left of these school holidays. We will be taking much more notice of the weather forecasts 🙂
Hotel Kempsey
3-5 Belgrave Street
Kempsey, 2440, NSW
Phone:026562 8588
Fax:026563 1049
Licensee – Manager: Bruce Hancock
Members of the NIGE Motorcycle Club were personally looked after by Bruce and would like to thank him and his staff for going out of their way to be friendly and helpful. We would encourage anyone travelling through Kempsey and needing accommodation to talk to Bruce.
Members of NIGE won 5 meat tray raffles that they donated back to the hotel staff as a thank you for their help.
L-R: Droopy, Baron, Brizzer, DoubleD, Toddster and Bruce (the well dressed gentleman)
After a successful run north, I have decided to sell my “Flying Brick” K100Rs – 4/89 model. 129 000km, ultra reliable, well-presented 8 valve BMW. Want to go ‘old school’ and get a R – series boxer (like the Baron’s). Near new rear tyre, good battery, good front tyre, comfort seat & touring panniers. Rego is due on 25th of this month (Jan) so, will sell now for $3000. and you sort out the rego OR let me sort out the rego and the sale price will be $3000 + whatever it costs me to get rego’ed ($3600?). Call Brad 0404 065 750 or leave message on this site.
Motor bike clothing – excess to my needs.
1 x Dri Rider jacket with removable quilted liner & wet weather liner, remove all for ‘summer’ jacket mesh construction allows full flow air. Armour in elbows, shoulder & back. Less than 18 months old, no rips or tears – excellent cond. Size XXL but I wear a size 42 shirt or large size T-shirt and fits me comfortable SOLD
1 x RJay Touring pant size L ( I wear 84 / 33-34 pant) removable quilted liner, wet weather liner included, armour in knees & hips, zip & velcro leg – excellent condition.
1 X Barbour Touring suit – oil skin, wet weather proof. Retro look – zipper & studs all excellent cond. Jacket & pants included (size as above)
1 x RJay bike rain 3/4 Jacket – water proof, worn only once, extra large size to fit over your leather jacket etc. SOLD
Will consider offers on all – save on new prices, will sell separate or sell all together.
Contact the “Toddster” aka Brad phone: 0404 065 750
Destination: Freeman’s Waterhole
Riders: Lewie, Baron, Nige
What a terrible job of parking, lucky that there were only the three of us.
I’ve seen this bike around before.
Wild men of the NIGE Gang with their water and milkshakes.
Yes Toddster, I know that I am Number 1 in your eyes, aww shucks.
A visiting Norton that the Toddster liked.
