[Ray-zer]

Nice pic -- nice skeleton mask.

 

[JayD]

Getting ready to hit the road again...

Hi Folks,
I've been home now for a while added a DJP sidecar to my scooter and the wife and my family has had a great time touring in it around Tasmania.

Mater of fact I've spoilt my wife as she mopes around a little when I tell her I need to take the sidecar off so I can blow out the cobwebs in my head...or next time we go riding I take the hacksaw and take care of business and not look back....lol's...

This run I will be riding around 1800 miles by the time I pull up in my driveway in Tasmania and as always you blokes will be coming along with me as I explore the mainland and push myself to my limits.

So my cyber brothers stay tuned for updates as I ride reporting the good, the bad, and the ugly...as usual I'm prepping my bike now....changing out the oil, new high flow oil filter come oil cooler...and a general wrenching where needed.

have bike will travel............:rollin

 

[Chief Illiniwek]

Jealous and happy for you at the same time. Take too many pics and stay up, brother.


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[Pred8er]

Have fun bro! I look forward to the updates and pictures as I doubt that I'll ever get the chance to get to your part of the globe.

Stay upright!

 

[JayD]

Sitting outside Iron Horse Bar n Grill

this is looking out of the window at the Iron Horse Bar n Grill at Richardsons Harley Davidson in Prospect Tasmania, we rode in to buy oil so I could change the oils out before I head out on my run...I had a Fatboy burger for lunch and it was huge !! and bloody nice to the end. I like having a meal here as its very relaxing having a drink while watching the Harleys come and go while eating your food...

If you look across the driveway you can see the compound for HOG Tasmania.

 

[RoadSofa]

Pretty

 

[JayD]

When I first landed in Tasmania I laughed as the local consider this a Hwy and all I could see being a mainlander was an ordinary run of the mill road (Locals call anyone from mainland Australia this) but it is a nice short ride, its around 12 miles nice corners a small straight into the next town from where I live.

Here is a photo of my Softail on the side of the road waiting for FilthyPhill to come back to where I am as I blasted pass him going the other way...

 

[lakeforktx]

glad them fires down there didnt get to ya...

 

[Pred8er]

JayD, you live in some beautiful country!

 

[JayD]

Fate...

glad them fires down there didnt get to ya...

Thanx mate...Luckily for me I live at the other end of the island, we had "to be advised warnings" and smoke blowing up from the south and fires around 40 miles from us.

My wife was on holidays from work when this all happened and if my daughter was not about to give birth to new GrandSon we would have been right amongst it as we have not seen Port Arthur yet.

I would have whisked her down there cause I want to see the olds convict buildings and visit where Marten Bryant lost the plot and mindlessly killed those innocent folks. Obviously it was not our time to go...fark being burnt to death ! We are however surrounded by forests but have the sea on one side...very beautiful...this is photo where I sit to have my breakfast and use my computer...

 

[JayD]

JayD, you live in some beautiful country!

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Thanx, I think so, but I can only ride during the day as the roadkill down here is everywhere, so I dont ride early mornings or at dusk. Even if you dont get hit by a roo you run the chance of coming round a corner into it hitting a dead carcass that got splatted the night before...we have the biggest fatest crows down here as they feed of the the fresh meat...

 

[JayD]

the ride to the boat

The ride from Bridport to Devonport was a very windy ride, I was being blown across the lane with the wheels feeling like they were blown out to one side... an eerie feeling.

With showers as I went along. I spent the night at little town called Deloraine When I woke up I packed up my Harley and rode on to the dock where the Spirit of Tasmania was waiting. They were already loading up the cars, trucks and bikes.

I am onboard the Spirit of Tasmania heading to mainland Australia. The cruise to to Port Melbourne takes around 9hrs. Once we reach land I will be riding around a hundred miles to a little town called Euroa where I will be spending the night and leaving at 4 am to make the most of the day.

 

[Pred8er]

Have fun brother!! Stay upright!

 

[JayD]

I.B.A 1000 SaddleSore...

Hi Folks,
I've been home now for a while added a DJP sidecar to my scooter and the wife and my family has had a great time touring in it around Tasmania.

Mater of fact I've spoilt my wife as she mopes around a little when I tell her I need to take the sidecar off so I can blow out the cobwebs in my head...or next time we go riding I take the hacksaw and take care of business and not look back....lol's...

This run I will be riding around 1800 miles by the time I pull up in my driveway in Tasmania and as always you blokes will be coming along with me as I explore the mainland and push myself to my limits.

So my cyber brothers stay tuned for updates as I ride reporting the good, the bad, and the ugly...as usual I'm prepping my bike now....changing out the oil, new high flow oil filter come oil cooler...and a general wrenching where needed.

have bike will travel............:rollin

I rolled into my Sydney home at in the wee hours of the morning after competing the I.B.A 1000 in 24 hrs, what a ride ! all the way from brilliant sunshine to being blinded by fog on my glasses and being showered with fuel...the joys of motorcycling.... oh did I mention rain ? lol's

Once I fully recover from my ride I will be getting my paperwork together and forwarding it to Mr Kneebone.

 

[JayD]

My Ride Report...I.B.A 1000...pt 1

Hi Folks,

This is my ride report for the Iron Butt Association Saddlesore 1000 mile in under twenty four hours.

We arrived in Port melbourne on a sunny Sunday afternoon, we were soon negotiating the Melbourne traffic as I rode and my Wife and Daughter drove out of the city limits to the freeway North.I rode for about 60 k's then we stopped for tea at KFC at Wallan Vic, Once we finnished our tea in was back out in the saddle to the Hume Hwy bound for Euroa.We pulled onto the Hwy and around 20 minutes later it started to get dark...roo time in Australia and if it was going to happen it would happen at dusk the transition from day to night.

My stragety was to ride behind my Wife car at a respectable distance hopeing the sound of her approaching vehicle would scare any roos away from the road.Riding at night is just another aspect of riding as you hurtle along into the black inkiness following your narrow beam of light and tail light from the car in front. You can see nothing from your handle bars back and the thoughts that run through your mind are many while you try and watch out for roos bounding out in front of if you became their chosen one to run across the Hwy to meet their fate and yours.

Luckily for me, it was not meant to be as we pulled up at Castle Creek Motel in Euroa for a well earned sleep before I headed out in the morning at 4am. I awoke to the sound of beep beep beep....and I bounded out of bed...nah ..lol, I draged my self to the side of my bed waiting for my eyes to stop rolling in my head and begin to focus on my surroundings. The Wife got up before me and made me a cuppa before I left. I gave her a quick kiss on the cheek and complimented her on how nice it was to see her acting like a Wife...lol's

Game on! I primed my bike and pushed the starter motor button and scared the dickens out of me as it was still in gear. it didnt start. I slapped myself around my head mentally for this rookie mistake pushed the button once more and started up the bike then I pulled out onto the main drag of Euroa and rode down to the Hwy to fill up my bike and get my official start time docket receipt.

Once out on the Hume Hwy I decided to cruise at a slow pace or around 100 k's (60miles) per hour. Riding at night once you are over eeriness of darkness is very soul searching as you ride along with the wind whistling around your body as you ride.

Before long I was watching the sun rise over the mountains and fields off in the distance. I could see the weather was going to be good for me.

 

[Pred8er]

Sounds like a good start!

 

[Chief Illiniwek]

YES!!! Go, JayD, GO!!!

 

[JayD]

JayD's Ride Report...I.B.A 1000...pt 2

Riding out onto the Hume Hwy my bike was heading North to Coffs Harbour, my original turn around point was Nambucca Heads but I wanted to make sure I had plenty of leeway in my kilometer count. My bike has an after market 6 speed in it and the engine only ticks over while maintaining 110 k's, the price I paid for this six speed is my speedo sensor is over where 5th used to be and this put out my speedo.

I have installed an inline adjustable correction unit which I calibrated using a speedo app with the aide of around twelve satellites while maintaining a constant speed. I rode up the Hwy relaxing while I rode contemplating everything from why the world is round to stars in the sky as I'm sure you do as you ride distance, I found myself singing to myself to my self having a ball as I rode...boy do I need to get a ipod, my singing sucks big time !!..lol's.

Passing the odd car here and there and watching semis coming the other way. As I approached Albury I pulled off the Hwy to refuel and to get my next petrol receipt. I rode back out to the Hwy and headed of into a beautiful sunrise. clear crisp and ozing the great open spaces that only a country like Australia is so well known for.

I was heading for my next petrol stop Gundagai,as Sun rose it has presented me with a beautiful sunny day...or so it appeared at the time...to be continued.

 

[JayD]

My Ride report I.B.A...!000...pt3

After pulling back out onto the Highway I was heading to Gundagia, just short from where "The Dog sits on the Tuckerbox". Once I refuelled my bike I had some Subway for breakfast as I needed energy to do this endurance ride, keeping in mind the most important meal of the day is breakfast.

I learnt this when I was doing full contact Kung Fu (non classical) as the days I did not eat breakfast my butt was bounced all around the academy…lol's. The ride from Albury to Gundagia was spectacular with views of the sun rising of in the distance, beautiful rays of sunlight illuminating the fields as I rode, cows in fields looking up while they chewed their cud. My motorcycle was going like a Harley should eating up the miles ever so effortlessly.

Around this time I started to experience pain in the sides of my neck as I was wearing a skull cap helmet with a small visor on the front, this acted like a small scoop which pulled my helmet back and placed pressure on my neck muscles causing my neck pain. I rode along thinking to my self…great! I reached up to my helmet and held it at the top to one side like I was saluting as I rode, this alleviated the pain for a while but it returned on and off until I put on my neoprene face mask which fixed the problem. It must have been the extra support form the mask.

Back on bike again heading Goulburne where the " Big Ram" is for my next fuel stop. I paid for my fuel and brought some water to keep my fluids up and stretched legs walking around the service station area and took a photo for you all to see... to be continued

 

[Chief Illiniwek]

You shouldn't be giving is these words for free, JayD. It's a beautiful story that should be a book. God bless.