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Day 3 & 4: Road Trip - Albury
- From: Dimitra
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Day 3: Road Trip - Albury to Canberra
We woke to a beautiful day, 32c degrees. Headed out from Albury, across the Hume Weir across a huge girder bridge. Absolutely awesome road along the Murray River (pic on right of page) to Jingellic, where we crossed back over the border into NSW.
Then headed from Jingellic up to Tumbarumba, all bitchumen with big sweeping curves which Dim really loved. Except for one spot where we came around a corner and had a 5 foot long Red Belly Black Snake sunning itself in the middle of the road!! Adam went to the right of it (on the wrong side of the road), it lifted it's head to look, and Dim passed it on the left side, right in front of it's raised head. (No pics of the snake, didn't really want a closer look!!)
Got to Tumbarumba and checked out their Information Centre / Museum which had a lot of information on a famous 1930's plane crash called the Southern Cloud. From there another fun ride up through Batlow to Tumut where we had lunch, beautiful food from a run down looking little milkbar.We asked some rangers about different roads through to Yass, one road we'd been told about was very rutted and dirt and wasn't advised even for 4WD vehicles. So they sent us on a back road from Tumut through Brungle, then to Gundagai which was a really good ride! It was on this strip of road, that Adam spotted a massive Goanna on the side of the road... (He must have scared him off cos he was gone by the time I passed by).
Pulled in to Gundagai and took some photos with the Dog on the Tuckerbox (pic right of screen). Got back onto the boring Hume Highway and droned on to Canberra. So boring Dim's average speed crept up to 120km p/hr to avoid falling asleep. (Will that defence work with the cops?)
Booked into a nice Country Club in Canberra who were very good by letting us park the bikes under cover
and even gave us sponges & a bucket to give them a wash the next day.Day 4: Road Trip - Canberra
This is where Adam ran into some trouble, his bike refused to start after the wash.
He'd had a regulator / rectifier replaced just before we left and this had died again. One in a
million chance, faulty part failed. We searched out a local Yamaha Dealer (Canberra Motorcycle Centre, Mitchell). They checked out the bike and confirmed it was the regulator again. They ordered the part in after our local Yamaha guys from home (City West Yamaha) faxed up the paperwork to do a parts claim through Yamaha and we went off to do our sight seeing at the Canberra War Memorial and Parliament House.Cruising around Parliament House we were approached by a security officer on a bicycle, and we were expecting to be told off for going in so close, but he just suggested a good spot for taking pictures. Then we cruised to the War Memorial down Memorial Drive, which is a long stretch of road between the two buildings and
the middle of the road is divided by red gravel and on the sides of the road are monuments the whole way down, which represent each of the wars Australia has been a part of. All the while expecting Adam's bike to die at any minute, because it wasn't charging.
The Australian War Memorial is well worth a visit. A huge place and very interesting. Adam loved it and could have stayed there overnight looking around. Some amazing interactive video, light and sound displays and the most amazing exhibit of the Japanese Mini Sub which was sunk in Sydney Harbour.
Took the bikes back to the country club and did a 'once over' on the bikes before Adam's bike goes in for work & hopefully we can leave town!
Stay tuned for the next episode... will Adam's bike ever be fixed or is he stranded in Canberra while Dim galavants off into the sunset? LOL
Dim & Adam
- Blog post
- 3 days ago
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A Short Run in the Park
- From: kimmer127
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We are renovating the house at the moment. It is something we seem to do so frequently that one reno job seems to blend into another. The painters just finished painting the interior about a week ago and now the contractor is setting up to add a bathroom in the basement. I don’t have a very good idle speed so waiting for people to turn up (the gas company, the builder) makes me edgy. I make Maureen edgy when I am edgy so she suggested I go for a shot run to kill time (an t get me out of her hair).
It’s a nice sunny clear fall day here so it was not hard to get talked into firing up the Road Glide and hitting the road. The Niagara River Parkway is almost empty this time of year and it sweeping curves are enticing me to crack the throttle and dance the Glide through the 10 km of great ride.
The stock sound system and speakers are no match for my helmet ear flaps and the Rineharts. Maybe one of the Cruiser Customizing friends can point me to a good sounding upgrade. Christmas is coming!
The Falls area is bathed in yellow afternoon sun as I cut away from the parkway. I just axed the Glide and don’t want the mist from the Falls to ruin the wax job. Back near Marineland is a small oasis above the Falls called Dufferin Islands. I stop and park the Road Glide pulling my Nikon D90 out of the saddlebag. The sun and shadows are fantastic. I take several shots then an obliging person sitting in their car having a late lunch enjoy the peace and beauty, offered to take a picture of me with the Harley. I couldn’t resist.
A few more shots and it is past the time to meet the builder. I fire up the Glide and take the back roads out to the main highway and get on the throttle as traffic is moving about 70 mph. The sun is just glorious and I feel great. It is just a short respite from the world of home renos but I will take every minute I get to ride and to shoot photos on such a wonderful fall day.
- Blog post
- 3 days ago
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A Learning Video
- From: CromagnaMan
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I'm trying hard to learn the in's and out's of this video editing software I own, so I'm uploading a "first attempt". The road I'm traveling in the video is US 90 between Quincy Fl and Tallahassee Fl ... a nice ten mile stretch of divided country highway. Not too may curves, but fun and pleasant to ride on. I’ve also included some photos that were taken chronicling the custom paint I put on the Magna.
Enjoy!
- 1 week ago
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Amateur Video
- From: hagar1
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good point 6 there are enjoyable posts the family pics and the pets, yes these are ways of getting to know more about the person who owns the bike . and we have all meet people via the www and CCC THAT SHARE THERE LIVES WITH AS THOUGH THERE STORYS AND PHOTOS .
"if you don't learn something new about the people in your life every day you have had a bad day."
my pop
1 week ago
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Re: Disappearing Profile Photo
- From: bzambrano
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DITTO.... When I check my profile the photo is there, but no where else!!!! Never really thought about it till you guys brought it up!!! Later-Later......
- 1 week ago
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disappearing photos......
- From: spirit7
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Yeah it happened to me also. Put it back in and as far as I know it's still there. You ever noticed how free beer taste better though. lol
- 1 week ago
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Fall on the James
- From: vasoftball5
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For weeks now, i've been trying to get out to the bend at James to take photos of the fall foliage. Usually, the colors are really vibrant with yellows and reds. Unfortunately, the weather was poor the last few weekends, and a flu illness kept me down. Finally, the weather kept up its end of the bargain, and the wife and I got to take the trek.
Route 5 is a really great ride. Nice and curvy, without too much traffic. The shadows from the sun being low in the sky keep the temperature down a bit, but it was warm enough this weekend to ride down without the leathers.
A few weeks back, we took Route 5 from Williamsburg up to Richmond, and found the overpass at the James was astounding. So, we were going back down to get shots of the fall foliage.
Sadly - it's a little late, and most of the brighter colors have dropped. But the shot here I got from the pinnacle of the bridge. Wanted to share with everyone.
Keep riding and keep alive everybody. Here's to a short Winter and an early Spring.
- Blog post
- 1 week ago
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Continental Tire Review - Part
- From: greyfalcon2112
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The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and... Wait... Wrong story... Rewind.
The time has come, finally, when my VT1100C Shadow Spirit's odometer turned 20K and my Conti-Milestones now officially have a full 5000 miles on them. Here are the results of what I have discovered about them...
Wow. Is as good a description as I can think of. If you go back and search for my original post, I said this already, but it still fits. I have done a careful examination of the tread, both front and rear, and although the rear tire does exhibit more wear than the front, (go figure) I am confident that there is still approximately 60% of usable tread remaining on the rear and I can't really see any visible tread wear on the front. In all, I'm impressed. Really impressed. I don't remember if I had mentioned how I ended up with them, but my OEM Dunlops were worn WAY past where I should have let them get to, (really dumb, wouldn't recommend it), and I was in the market for new shoes for baby. Following the advice of a friend who is a long time rider and the advertisement stating for 'heavy cruisers' pretty much sold me. I plunked down about $125.00 for the rear and $95.00 for the front, threw forty bucks into getting them professionally mounted and balanced, away I went and here I am.
For the ride and handling, I am still very pleased with them. the turn in is still very neutral and the ride is still very smooth. The thing that suprised me is that they actually got more quiet as they broke, or rode in. I attribute a lot of my luck with them from becoming anal-retentive about tire pressures. I wish I had some actual tread depth numbers for you, but go figure, my depth gauge flew the coop. (I'll stop at a local tire shop and get a reading for you and stick up another post really soon.)
I also promised some photos of the tires to go along with the blog post/review but since there's only enough room for a thumbnail on here, they really wouldn't do the Conti-Milestones much justice, so I'm gonna stick some tire photos in my profile for you guys, (and ladies) to take a peek at.
In conclusion... Am I happy with the Continental Milestones? - Yeppers!
Will I buy another set when it's time? - HELL YEAH!
P.S. Accoring to the rules I think you now have to include... "No I do not work for nor am I getting paid for this blog posting for Continental Tires." Regulations... Sheesh.
- Blog post
- 2 weeks ago
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