Category: Motorcycling

5 weeks and counting

WOW, hasn’t the time flown!! This time in 5 weeks the NSW contingent of the Black Dog Ride will be pulling into Tamworth for the end of day 1 in our journey to The Red Centre. I can only continue to thank everyone who has donated to date. With your help my fund raising tally is …

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Winstons Oxley Trip – day 3

Bit of a chilly morning and Kimmie had a rough night but still managed to put a smile on her face. A much easier pace today and we just cruised at the back…..my little ears got a bit chilly…. brrrr A little bit up the road and I could sense something was up with Kimmie. …

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Winstons Oxley Trip – day 2

Oh boy, did I get some wind through my fur today or what…….I think or what – go Kimmie. We were blessed today with bea-uti-ful weather. I could’ve just sat up there and happily barked while Kimmie cruised her way through those lovely bends. A bit of the way up Kimmie thought it would be nice to …

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Winstons Oxley Shake Down – day 1

Kimmie’s been frantically trying to get things ready for the BDR to Alice that she’s taking me on. My seating arrangement has been modified now that Karl has installed the panniers (bless him for his hard work) and I now have a nice comfy place on the pillion seat…WOOF!! So this morning we headed off …

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Update on Preparation

People have been stopping me asking “so how are you going with the prep”, “well done on the fund raising” so I thought I’d give you a little update. Firstly, I’d like to thank all who have donated to the Black Dog Institute through my fund raising drive. I set a personal goal of $3000 …

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Preparing for the Black Dog Ride

  WOW, I have been waiting since September 2011 for the details of this ride to be available. Can’t believe time has gone so quickly but unfortunately it hasn’t been uneventful. Too many losses have occurred during this time and two of them in particularly have torn my heart to pieces. One of these losses inspired …

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Tintaldra 2012

With the hard work all done, Karl & I woke early Friday morning excited to begin the annual pilgrimage to Tintaldra. This event has been going for 6 years and now is a co-ordination between Sydney, Victoria & Canberra riders. It’s cool and dark what else would I expect at dark o’clock and we head …

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FarRide East #18-Nambucca Heads

FRE #18 Nambucca Via……. Canberra. Yep you read it right, that’s what we FarRiders do. I ran out the door of work Friday and obtained my start docket from the local ATM with a stamp of 3:14pm, excellent. Then straight on the M7 to the Hume Highway heading for Canberra.  The blue sky had disappeared and turned …

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FarRide East #17- Eungella QLD part 1

Day 1 – Home to Goondiwindi Angel’s packed and raring to go at 6:00am as we roll out the driveway in the rain…it’s a FarRide so of course it’s gonna be raining (wouldn’t be right if it wasn’t). First stop for fuel on the F3 at the twin servo’s. Pretty non eventful up the freeway and through …

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FarRide East #16-Euston

Make the plan and ride the plan is trusty advice that you’ll find here on FarRiders. So when Charlieb asked whether Karl & I were we going to register for FRE#16 my brain instantly went into plan mode before even registering. Unfortunately Karl couldn’t make this one so it was me & Charlieb. Two days …

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