Scooterotica

siobhanellis wrote:.....Riding a smooth bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=treTM8ns_x8

That looks as though you'd need to be keeping your concentration up, good job it was straight

By the way, wasn't joking, that was a smooth bit. Sometimes the corrugations were so bad that it was like hitting brick wall.

Just after that video, a 4WD came round the corner on my side of the road, forced me over, I hit gravel, came off and broke my collar bone.

I was 50km from the nearest help. No choice. Pick up scooter. Start it. ride 50km to road house with back pack (Containing tools and spares).... then faint from the pain.

The road houses, I remember them well after driving a Datsun 120 y coupe through the red centre, happy happy days

Great journey by the way.

siobhanellis wrote:Well if you'd paid attention, you could've done the Australian 23 Days Trial, where the first 800km of the total 7000km was Dirt. And for some sections, calling it Dirt was being kind.

Kind of makes the UK coast to coast look a bit pathetic really

a small puddle: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l_fEKJyl2Fk/U ... 010175.JPG

Riding a smooth bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=treTM8ns_x8

But I don't live in Oz land

Donnie wrote:
But I don't live in Oz land

And nor did any of the other riders. Italy and the USA.

Planes are a magical thing!

So's money and time

Donnie wrote:So's money and time

Too true.

I was the only person not independently wealthy or retired. Fortunately, as I was raising money for charity, the company gave me time off. Still cost me a small fortune to do though..... but was fun. Well worth doing.