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Tuesday 3rd March 2009
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By Wom Battle

Since I bought the Road King my car has been pushed outside for parking, there's no way I'm leaving it outside, despite having purchased the lovely HD cover for it.  The dilemma was, my car has been replaced with a nice shiny new one and it's sensible to look after it too.  Sadly, the Harley-Davidson now lives at my office. 

It's

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Category: General Banter
Saturday 28th February 2009
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By Wom Battle

It's Saturday, and the weather looks OK but before I go for a ride I need to wash off the grime that settled on the Road King riding home from Sydney in the wet on Monday afternoon.  My daughter was keen to help in order to secure a seat on the ride for her second official outing.  An hour and a half later the Harley-Davidson was sparkling....

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Friday 27th February 2009
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By Wom Battle

Just so we are clear... no puns intended anywhere in this blog!

Today was the day my wife and I had organised some time for her to finally come for a ride on the Road King.  After annoying delays beyond our control she was finally geared up and we were ready to leave.  She expressed a lack of opinion about where we should go, so

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Categories: General Banter | Rides
Monday 23rd February 2009
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By Wom Battle

Today was the day, Oran Park... Advanced Riding Skills Course...me, my son and the Road King! The weather was relatively fine and the forecast was good, so we headed over to Oran Park from the overnight stay at Narellen.  There were a bunch of bikes of all brands and sizes there when we arrived, with 25 participants booked in for the day. There

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Sunday 22nd February 2009
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By Wom Battle

Oran Park is on tomorrow, hopefully it won't get rained out this time.  Today, however, was the trip down.  My son came along and we left around 3pm for the 200k trip to Narellen for the overnight stay. A quick fuel stop 10.31l @ $14.94. Great riding weather, we headed down the freeway and took the old Pacific Highway (of course)

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Saturday 21st February 2009
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By Wom Battle

After spending two months or more getting my wife ready to hop on the back of the Road King for the first time I arrived home this morning to a request of an immediate ride.  Very surprisingly though, the request wasn't from my wife, it was from my 11 yo daughter. My daughter hadn't previously expressed any interest in going for a ride, in

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Categories: General Banter | Rides
Friday 20th February 2009
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By Wom Battle

I'd made a tentative booking for a ride with a school buddy ("old" is assumed) to go for a ride this morning weather permitting.  The sky was black in the early a.m. but I was determined to head out, so I called and told him I was prepared to get wet and was going anyway.  He thought that was a plan and we decided to meet at

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Sunday 15th February 2009
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By Wom Battle

It's been 14 or 15 days (other than the reshoeing trip) since I've had the opportunity to take the Harley out. Last weekend was stupidly hot (very high 30's - low 40's) and today was an eagerly anticipated opportunity to take my second ride with the local HOG chapter.  Except it fair pi$$ed down all day again. It was doubly unfair because my

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Category: General Banter
Tuesday 10th February 2009
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By Wom Battle

I thought when I bought the Road King that I'd get a thousand or so k's out of the well worn rear tyre, I managed 2k k's, so as happy as I was about that, it was time for a change.  A new rear white walled tyre plus new rear brake pads makes the new shoes story complete for the bike since I bought it.  All just in time for my second try

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Friday 6th February 2009
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By Wom Battle

After the second wash of the Road King last Saturday I realised that the bike was getting nearly as much dust on it from sitting in the garage for the week than it was from riding on weekends.  It was also almost time to start storing the bike in a location set aside in our offices and return my car to it's spot in the garage.  So I had

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