I think this year marks my fifth trip to the annual World Super Bikes at Phillip Island and this year I rode down from Canberra on the VFR 800 Crossrunner again after a return to the pillion seat in prep for Butt Lite last year. We headed out of Sydney on Thursday morning leaving a…
Bermagui Far Ride
So this weekend we stepped it up a bit in terms of prep for the IBR with a 1000km day ride to Bermagui and home again... The Far Rides are always a great get-together for the LDR community in Australia and a bit more achievable for those of us who don't always get a kick…
Baby steps
It's February already (only 17 weeks until we leave for the US!) and my IBR prep is happening, but slowly. Mainly my prep this month has been in the form of working on my fitness. Turns out if I want to eliminate my lower back pain I need to work on getting 'buns of steel'!…
Perhaps not quite the end…
So it turns out I might have been bitten harder by the rally bug than I first thought. At the finishing banquet rally master Lisa Erbes asked whether I'd maybe do it again and I was pretty emphatic in shaking my head that this was a one-time only deal... I was sleep deprived, I had…
The end… for now
Saturday morning started early - technically the rally didn't finish until 6am with the penalty window open until 8am. We were up at 4 to get the odometer read and then hit scoring. Unfortunately this time around, I had made a mistake. When we'd stopped at the Eternal Light Peace memorial in PA, I'd written…
Day 6: Lewisburg, WV to Lexington, KY
Our last day dawned at the relatively sensible time of 5.30am. We availed ourselves of the hotel breakfast at 6 and got on the road with a plan to hit bonuses on the way to Lexington and, if we felt like it and could make it in time, to head back to Mammoth Cave National…
Day 5: Bedford, VA to Lewisburg, WV
Day 5 dawned better - even if it was 4am... And maybe it wasn't dawn yet, but whatever... I'd had some sleep, we had two days of riding and collecting points ahead, and I was no longer seriously sleep deprived - only moderately so. Around 5am we were back on the road and found a…
