Gladstone follow-up

Just got back from an initial 2 days in Gladstone. I noticed a number of
bikes parked where I'll be working (GPA) and despite them mostly being
Hardlys, it does suggest that there is something of a 2 wheel thing
happening up there.

Thanks to Adrian (rustydog) and Aaron for your suggestions. From the air,
it does look like an interesting area to check out on a bike and so I'll
probably bring up the beast. Otherwise I may buy a dirtbike while I'm up
there and get feeelthy. Hehe

Incidentally, Gladdy is much nicer than I had expected. Plenty of
characters and folk seem pretty happy. ...and how about that temperature??
Mmmmmm

Cheers,
Dave ZZR600 => ST2 (stolen) => '03 XX

 

Hey, when you're in gladstone - maybe you should look up some fellow
ausmotians...

Rob and I moved up here from Sydney January 2003 (mind you - I grew up
here.... if you can say that I managed to grow up)...

I hate to disappoint you though - not much in the way of riding roads up
here... but - bring your dirt bike - heaps of state forest... (woops
did I say that?) to ride in...

We're into trials up here - and those bikes get used a helluva lot more
than the road bikes..

I miss going zoom on my storm


Teddie

 

Something. Not much.

From all I've heard that's the go.

Temperature? It's 'winter' and you're complaining about the temp. Come
summertime you're fucked...

Weekend ride to Townsville?

Aaron
ZX6R

 

Hi Teddie,

Sounds great. I'll be up for a beer and a chat. Heading your way on Monday
to start work.

If you want to email me your details, I'll give you a bell. You can get me
at: [de = deldridg, oz = ozemail].

Cheers,
Dave

 

Mate, that was no complaint. I was truly loving the weather in your part of
the woods.

Absolutely. I may try to get the XX up there asap. Should be able to knock
it off in a day and a half, yes?? (...from Sydney). Otherwise the dirtbike
option sounds good.

 

People here are great - always a friendly face....

It's just starting to cool down for winter... (I had to go and buy a
blanket the other day... how sad is that??? haven't been outta sydney
for two years yet - and I'm feeling the cold here already.... I'm such a
queenslander)

Summer is ok - if you have friends with:
1. Swimming Pool
2. Aircon

We have the latter - and hopefully by summer we'll have the former!!!

When we moved from sydney - we did the trip on the bike in a day - but
that was because we could switch and drive the car - I did the first leg
- I rode from Sydney to Goondoowindi (believe me - inland is much
smarter - it's only a 1400km trip then)

(We were smart enough to at least have one bike on the trailer - it
couldn't do more than one bike)

But at least you won't be doing it in January - we left end of January -
I had leather pants on until goondoowindi when we met up with my
parents and my brother rode the bike - it was freezing going through
muswellbrook and the like at 3am... but Goondoowindi was stinking hot -
I could hardly get the pants off because of sweating so badly - not a
good thing!