Australia's best motorcycle roads. G.A.R

The Great Alpine Road.Top to bottom the Great Alpine road starts more or less at Myrtleford and runs all the way to Bairnsdale. If your heading south from Sydney or Brisbane then you may arrive on to the road just south of Bright having traveled across the excellent Tawonga Gap road. The lead in roads from the north are the excellent Murray Valley highway and even better Murray River road after

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Cutting corners

Hey - its a bike not a Hummer.Soap box time...Whats the go with riders cutting corners on mountain roads? I saw some guys doing this on weekend for no good reason that I could fathom and it reminded me of how often I have seen this of late. Perhaps its just laziness however my first thought whenever I see this is ' don't do that you idiot I don't want you to crash and take me with you' . If

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Good motorcycle roads #40 - Tweed Valley, Nunderi.

Dodging rain clouds






First ride today since my tour. Forecast was morning showers clearing, well it was not raining in the morning thankfully to cancel the ride however the rain clouds circled the Gold Coast and northern NSW mountains all day and my ride partner and I had to alter our ride plans accordingly to avoid getting wet. Good thing we have developed some reasonable skills on reading

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Australia's best motorcycle roads. G.O.R

The Great Ocean RoadThis is Australia's most well known scenic drive and is a road every rider has probably thought about visiting at some point. I was told many times it was overrated but thats rubbish it is a superb road and wonderful ride On a fine day like I encountered the views are wonderful, something really uplifting.The road follows the ocean at first and later into the countryside a

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Australia's best motorcycle roads. The Oxley.

The Oxley HighwayUpdated and reposted 8 Nov 2007Start of the mountain eastern sideHigh countryI now have some new photos of the Oxley after my recent tour so I shall kick off my posts of the best bike roads in Australia with a refresh of this previous posting. This is now a post I can look back at and see photos of the last three motorbikes I owned.The sign is now gone but gingers creek

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