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Bendy Long

​I am extremely fortunate to have a great bunch of mates. Some of them ride motorcycles. The relationship I share with my riding mates is qualitatively different from the one I have with the non-riding ones. This is a story of my ride down to Bendalong with a couple of great mates

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Puttying Around

There’s a village called Putty you know, it’s not just a road. You’ve seen the sign haven’t you? A thousand times, out of the corner of your eye, as you zoom past the turn-off, the little sign that says “Putty, 4KM”. Ever since I first hit the Putty road 10 years ago, I’ve wanted to explore the mysterious bushland that surrounds the tarmac. So with the Husky 610 under me and a map in my pocket, I went exploring on the dirt.

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Floating fucks on track

I bought a Honda CBR 600RR a few months ago. Last week I did what any self-respecting CBR600RR owner should do. I took it out to the race track and flogged many fucks out of it. When I bought that pretty CBR, it came loaded with chicken strips and fucks. I have made this bike my own, it has no more fucks left to give. They were all scattered randomly along the 5KM of race track at eastern creek that day. And by now, depending on prevailing winds, I expect many of them floating fucks are half way across the Tasman en route to New Zealand.

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It's always a Race!

Sometimes, just sometimes, I get drawn into a death race. Where 2 gladiators face each other with jousting sticks and charge at each other. And both parties know that neither will give an inch or flinch, to the death.

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Rumble Tumble (TumbaRumba 2015)

The first BikeMe "Gimme Shelter" run happened in TumbaRumba in March 2015. It was epic for all sorts of reasons. Read On. 


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Hills, Spills and a little Lunacy (Drake 2014)

The 4th annual BikeMe Lunatic Run was held in the picturesque hillbilly country of Northern NSW recently. 
I went, I saw, I made video. You Click, You watch!


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Anatomy of a Motorcycle Crash


Motorcycles are time machines you know. They can make time go faster or slower and manipulate the space-time continuum. Don’t believe me? Then you have obviously never crashed a motorcycle.

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The 2014 BikeMe! Pilgrimage

Every year, in the dead of winter, a few hardy souls travel from all over this big brown land to congregate near the holy mountain of Australian Motorcycle Racing, Mount Panorama. We ride, camp, eat, drink and be merry. But above all, we give thanks to the road gods for continuing to bless us motorcyclists with open roads and fair winds on our travels.

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Midweek blast out west, March 2014

So yeah, I woke up this morning and started to get ready to embrace the day. Then I peeked out the window and the view made me sick. The sky was a deep blue, the world was bathed in soft sunshine, the birds were chirping away and it all made me sick. So sick, in fact, that the need for remediation was paramount and overwhelming. And the only remediation for this sickness...


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Weekday Dreaming

So I was just thinking...if one was to take a weekday, any weekday really, today even. If today, one was to cut short their day at work, get on one's bike and head off aimlessly. If one was to head off aimlessly in any direction, south for example.


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The 3 Stooges Go North 

In January 2013, with Sydney reeling under a heat wave raising temperatures to over 40 deg C. Tony, Paul and I planned a 3 day trip to ride the amazing roads of northern New South Wales 40. It was a bit of an epic trip with us covering close to 2,500KMs of mostly twisty roads in 3 days. We had a absolute blast and met up with some mates too.....


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MotoGP 2012 with the BikeMe Boys

In October 2012 I rode down with the BikeMe boys from Sydney to the Philip Island MotoGP.
It was such a rich and diverse trip that as I sit down to pen these words, a thousand different images, phrases and moments bombard my brain – Doing a 2 wheel slide on the Bonang, Res narrating a Russel Peters joke, iMick wobbling his head (incorrectly of course), Stoner racing past Siberia, Boris hugging me goodbye at Rhyll. It’s all in there, jumbled up and in no particular order....


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Putty Road and Bylong Valley Loop, July 2012

This was my first proper ride on my Aprilia Dorsoduro. Five of us headed out on a beautiful spring day and covered around 700KMs of some of the best twisty roads around Sydney.
It was a bloody good day...


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Eastern Creek Track Day, Feb 2012

My first track day on the BMW K1200R. It was surprisingly fun as the big beemer served up huge dollops of grins.

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The Bylong Valley Cultural Excursion, Aug 2011

The Bylong Valley Way had substantial stretches of dirt for a long time and it was all finally sealed in 2010. This trip was my first on this magic piece of road and one of my most memorable on my BMW K1200R. There were 8 of us on this overnight trip that took in Bathurst and the legendary high speed sections of the Nerriga road as well...

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The first run to Nerriga Road, July 2011

Nerriga road had recently been sealed and I'd heard some good things about it. So I put a crew together and we rode down to check out what the fuss was about. 
They are right. This road is worthy of the fuss.

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The Hotham Diaries, Feb 2011

The Hotham Salute is a form of polite greeting used by motorcyclists when greeting their fellow riders after a particularly hard piece of riding. It expresses joy, satisfaction and brotherhood. It involves making a fist out of your right hand and then raising the middle finger. The original Hotham salute involves keeping the palm of the hand turned upwards so the middle finger points vertically upwards (the Hotham Classic). There are several variations of this simple greeting now in operation. 


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Harry & BigPete on the Oxley, Nov 2010

I set out from Sydney on my own, to ride the king of twisty goodness, The Oxley Highway. My mate BigPete met me along the way and we spent a couple of fantastic days chasing each other through the countryside.


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