Day 4 was the final day of the Ducati Turismo and was a run down to the coast. Tenterfield was cool but dry when I set out and I stopped first at the Corner Cafe in Tenterfield for a good country breakfast. The first section of the run was on the Bruxner Highway to Casino - 128 kms of a mix of twists, turns, sweeping bends and undulations. There was a reasonable amount of … [Read more...]
2015 Road Trip #3 Day 3
Day 3 started out with a refuel at Armidale in northern NSW and the planned route was to head over towards the coast and then back to Glen Innes before finishing up in Tenterfield. I consulted the weather forecast to see that it would start cold, get much warmer and have no rain. The forecast was wrong - very wrong! I left Armidale rugged up riding in 10 degree C temperatures … [Read more...]
2015 Road Trip #3 Day 1
Well, I'm back on the road again, this time for 7 days and three of those will be the 2015 Ducati Turismo. This will be the 5th Turismo I've done in the last 10 years and I love doing them. These runs introduce me to roads that I have continued to use because they are in the country and pass through stunning areas and ones that need our dollars to survive! So today was a short … [Read more...]
Road Trip – Final Day
The final day and what should have been a cruise day, however the word abysmal springs to mind - that pretty much covers what the road surfaces were like! I started at 8am with a short run from the Abbotsleigh Motor Inn at Armidale back to Uralla where I had a good breakfast at Trina's Cafe on the main road. Then on to Walcha for fuel 40 kms away. Walcha is a nice little … [Read more...]
Road Trip – Day 3
So day 3 was a truly hard day of riding! It started out hot, very hot - most of the day was between 38 and 40C. The first section was from Brisbane to Rathdowney and this took about 90 minutes. I was sweating from the started and I took the M3 out of the city and then a section of Logan Road before getting back on to the M2 which put me on to Mount Lindesay Road through … [Read more...]
