WARNING: LOTS OF PICS, I took about 500 and 48 was the best I could cull it down too.

Well it was a very long ride (for me anyway.)

Here’s the route I took roughly. I ended up with 1100k’s on my odo at the end of the weekend due to getting lost alot on my way from the royal forest to kellyville, yes I suck at navigating but I still had fun for the most of it. :thumbsup

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Started with a nice early cruise out towards the highway. can’t say the start was too interesting cause I took the federal highway. took about half of the old federal highway to make it a bit more interesting but missed about half of it due to missing a turn off.

fast forward a bit and I’ve made it to robertson, home of the giant turd…I mean potato (POINT B ON MAP). I was feeling a bit tired and lost at this point so figured I’d eat half of lunch here.

moving onwards again I’m lost and hoping I’m going in the right direction, must have been cause I stumble upon the awesomeness of Macquarie’s pass. To say this road was awesome is an understatement, would have been my fave bit of the road cept maybe another bit later on that was ruined due to terrible weather.

Some more riding and I end up at Bulli. A nice look out and another great spot to eat the other half of lunch at, the weather was pretty hot so strip out of everything cept pants and t-shirt. get a couple of odd looks from having my gear sprawled out all over the floor but it was very relaxing.

A couple more snaps at Bulli and I’m off again but not far, stop off at the southern gateway to check it out, totally not worth going into cept it has air con.

Finally at the pinnacle of my trip. I make it to sea cliff bridge (in daylight so I can see stuff this time). Ride back and forth about 5 times then continue onwards. was a bit disappointed that there aren’t really any good photo spots without walking and stuff walking in full leathers in this heat.

A night of sleep and it’s off to the Sydney motorcycle show.

The amount of bikes parked out front was outstanding. Was defiantly the largest collection of bikes I’d seen in one place.

A very nice looking b-king.

mmm, Buell

Very clean looking gixxer

Ewww, I know it’s for the pink ribbon ride but what did this poor bike do to deserve such a colour scheme.

Triumph rocket III eat your heart out, each had a really good custom paint job, pity I don’t’ like em. But I know a couple of people here have soft spots for em.

I want it!

Another Buell, damn I love those under slung exhausts.

One of the first busa’s I’ve actually liked, normally I just recon that they look a bit fat and blobby but this one looked really nice even with the extended swing arm. Had a nice yoshi on it too.

The trials guys were really good at this, a lot better than the Canberra guys but their fun box is actually solid and apparently one of the best trails guys is from Canberra.

This bike was pretty crazy, no suspension and the dude jumped it up from one box onto another like a sidestep.

Red bull gives you sidecar?

One of the best cruisers I’ve seen. Really nice and a simple, looked very clean.

The mini version of the bike was a nice touch.

This was the most comfortable bike I sat on at the show, looks pretty awesome too. It’s the Chris Pfeiffer edition. YouTube him if you haven’t seen his stuff. He’s really good at stunts. But being a beemer I guess I better start saving now.


Rossi’s bike in the flesh. Had to resist the urge to jump up and sit on it.

A bike done by one of Australia’s best air brushers, this guys work was flawless.

One for you Patrick!

Lukey Luke’s stunt bike.

It was a great show well worth going. It was only cut short by the fact that I could not walk due to wearing bloody thongs. Both my toes had blisters between then from the stupid cord. They had then popped and it was very painful to walk. I shall never wear thongs again, I hate them. I had walked out with a full one piece suit for $225 made by rivet. It was slashed down from 600$. I also got 9 issues of rapid for $25 including the latest one that hasn’t even come out yet.

Finally it was time for the trip home and rather than doing the sensible thing I stay up talking to friends and planning my route home. My mind doesn’t feel like sleeping so I pack at 3am and leave at 3:30am.

The weather crossing to Lithgow from Kellyville was horrible. I’m pretty sure I was in the Blue mountains but I just could not see more than about 8m in front of me even with my high beams on and my visor open. There was heavy fog and the rain was blasting down so hard that it was stinging my face. I dropped back to about 50k/hr but was worried about being collected by a truck in this 100k zone. It was about 4 am and was pitch black so I told myself to HTFU and keep moving. A ute came round me at what seemed like warp speed so I gunned it and followed it’s taillight fro about 70k’s till I made it into Lithgow. When I saw the sign to Lithgow I had massive target fixation on the sign and almost went into a barrier. Never have I had a worse ride than that. I was soooooo happy to see light again and the Chi Chong bakery. A hot pie and coffee with caffeine (the stuff mum had was decaf, wtf!) and I was feeling awesome. The weather had picked up a lot and I was happy to be out riding again.

When at Bathurst one must go on the track. I did it one in the reverse then once in the normal direction. Just as fun as ever.


At this point I was heading to either Canowindra or Cowra. I could feel I was getting micro sleeps really badly. Best way I could describe the sensation was like real life lag. Was kinnda cool but at the same time I realized it was really bad so I stopped and just shut my eyes for a min or two to get my head back in check. Took a couple of pics and got some more water into me.

Made it into Cowra and saw there was a Japanese Garden. I had actually been planning a trip here a while ago but totally forgot about it. Was happy to go there and relax for a bit. I was making good time so I hung around there for about an hour. The garden was a tad small and the native aussie plants in the back wrecked the experience a bit but still not too bad of a place to go. Entry was $9.50.

The last 100k’s into Canberra was horrible, it was riddled with road works. I was tired but I made it back in one piece.

It’s pretty satisfying to see all the places I’ve been in such a short space of time and it makes me want to travel and see other parts of Australia I haven’t seen before. Well that’s it for the ride. Seeya on the road!