After all the fun of Thunderboxley yesterday, this morning saw the decision being made about which route to take home. Was it to be back through the twists and turns over the mountains or sedately down the Pacific Highway? 

The riders in us all wanted to go back via Walcha, the realists though saw the boring old highway as the most

On a night out just before Christmas I discovered that a couple of blokes I used to work with many years ago (Splitpin and Bear) had bikes and one of them, Scotty, suggested we try to work out a suitable date for a weekend ride. After some communication Thunderbolts Way and the Oxley Highway, fondly known to a few as Thunderboxley, for an overnighter

This was going to be my year, my Australia Day to get stupidly drunk, wear the aussie flag as a cape, abuse all and sundry and get my postcode tattooed on my neck but bugger me, it's not fashionable any more! The next best "true blue Aussie" thing for me....a ride on the Icon of Australian Motorcycling, the Harley-Davidson, with a delightful

After a weekend in Sydney with the family I stayed an extra night with my son and a friend, DW, who came down to join us at an Advanced Rider Training course at Eastern Creek Raceway today. Not exactly sure of the way between the accommodation and the Creek, deciding to ignore the GPS wasn't really a good idea but after a minor hiccup with a toll

Thinking of the year ahead on the first, rather dull weather wise, day of it prompted me to start the year with a ride.  It's been more than three weeks since my last ride, the Toy Run, and the Harley was getting dusty.  The family were busy playing with Christmas gifts and on Facebook so I took the opportunity to gear up and without

Big John's Newcastle Bikers 4 Kids Toy Run 2009 was on today in support of the Salvation Army.  Armed with a clean enough bike and my wife keen to participate we headed to the gathering point at the Sandgate fruit markets.  I knew where the members of the local HOG chapter would be so we found them among the throng of bikes, parked

After a light breakfast at the Park Hotel, Bathurst it was time to line the bikes up outside to take a formal group photo, a copy of which was to be provided to our host.  I'm sure a few of the locals raised their brows at the site of one of our number squatting in the bushes on a nearby roundabout.  It wasn't immediately obvious that

An invitation was extended through the local HOG Chapter for people interested in joining a ride to Bathurst organised by Mark from Thomas & Coffey to raise funds for the Children's Medical Research Institute .  The ride

An early morning rise in Wee Waa was required, I needed to be home in the early afternoon for a social engagement.  Also planning to leave early was another member of the local HOG Chapter who had also taken his son on the trip.  The young men with us were similar in age, and it turns out after the conversation the previous night,

My first HOG weekend ride with just the local chapter saw us meet at 8am sharp at a designated location.  Dust was on everyone's mind and everywhere else, the wind was lifting but there was no talk of going home. 

So with the sky a dusty red hue off we went, 10 bikes, 16 people (I think.. must learn to count) with the first