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1Back to top Go down   South OZ ride yesterday Empty South OZ ride yesterday Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:12 am

Ghost who rides

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Had to hit the hills, could be a while before I can get on the bike again.

South OZ ride yesterday Dscf2110
Part of the Gorge road, many cuttings like this, constant elevation changes with sweeping curves, near perfect surface ( has been for 30 plus years! No heavy transport?) Great camber, no "surprises". Me two up  steady 80- 100 kph , oops I mean 70- 80! Sports bike riders? Modern bike ? 120 plus, oops,  I mean 70 - 80!

South OZ ride yesterday Dscf2111
Top of the corkscrew, short sharp elevation rise 4 hairpins and same number nearly hairpins. Not the Stelvio by any stretch but that 1st gear one really settles you down, Ok, you win hill! and putter the rest of the way! Still a Hoot Ha Ha ! Couldn't get a good pic of the road, Google earth?

South OZ ride yesterday Dscf2112
Many of you guys like these, so do I when they are like this. Who knows what it is? 

South OZ ride yesterday Dscf2113
As the sun sets I'm on my sisters' front lawn. Onkaparinga river oxbows just before the estuary.
Visible is the new rail bridge over the river/wetlands. Longest "incrementally advanced" in the southern hemisphere, their claim. I saw this built/advanced. 1200metres abuttment to abuttment.
Not in service yet but testing last week...

South OZ ride yesterday 2013-013


180 km day with socialising etc. Wet road start 9am, a little slip early so steady as then clear sunny sky but strong winds. Steady again getting used to a pillion. Coffee and more conversation, I met a guy i have been trying to catch for 12 months, we gabbed and gabbed 2 years ago, after Marco Simonchelli died, young Michael and I "cried " together for Marco. I feel an enormous bond to Michael even since not least because of my concern that he WAS Marco on public roads! Already badly bent up from an early smash and now he rides a ZX10, 2010 maybe, You know how they GO?
So i meet him on the road yesterday, He's alive , my bond with him had worked, I'd "had his Back".
Guess what? he's on his new V'Strom especially for his new partner Karen who is gorgeous, tho she still prefers the Ninja for the 140kph wheelies!
I've exaggerated my part in this glimpse of his life, i'm just privileged to be witnessing it.
The bond is bikes, how can this mechanical thing cross racial religious cultural generational boundaries?


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1986  K 75 C   2nd owner 187,000kms showing .
1987  K100RT  Police repainted, rough and unloved.
    

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rosskko

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Many of you guys like these, so do I when they are like this. Who knows what it is?
I was going to say it is a tank, but that would be to obvious so I will say a Leopard tank.

Nice pics and good story.


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1986 K100RT VIN 0093801K100RT with summer fairing for a northern visitor

Basic/2 6308802K100CJ  05/1988

K1100RS 0194321
    

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charlie99

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nice one gordo .....thanks for taking us along


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cheezy grin whilst riding, kinda bloke ....oh the joy !!!! ...... ( brick aviator )

'86 K100 RT..#0090401 ..."Gerty" ( Gertrude Von Clickandshift ) --------O%O
'86 k100 rs.. #######..  "Fred " (f(rame) red ) ( Fredrick leichtundschnell ) - -
bits and pieces from many kind friends across the k100 world ...with many thanks ..
1987 k100rs ########   "Red"  - (red sports rs TWB style )
1989 K100rt #009637   "Black Betty"  (naked rt ala Nigel , now sporting an rs main fairing )
    

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Two Wheels Better

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Written with feeling and care for the subject. Ta, Gordo.

It's raining and coolish (14c) here in Fife, Washington. The annual US Pacific North Wet 'Rain Festival' is a month early. All I get now is a wet slog of a 50 km commute to work. No more sunny pleasure rides.

It's good to see and read about riding back at home.


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1977 R75/7-100, '93 K11/K12 Big Block, '95 R100 Mystic, '96 K1100RS, '98 K1200RS, '06 K1200R & '09 K1300GT. Projects: 1993 & '96 K1100RS, & 1st '98 K1200RS.
The Mystic, Big Block, 2nd K1200RS, K12R & K13 are running & ridable.
    

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88

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Nice roads and scenery Gordo, thanks for posting.


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South OZ ride yesterday Ir-log1188....May contain nuts!South OZ ride yesterday Ir-log11

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine from 1600 years ago & still true!

K1 - 1989 - AKA Titan (unique K1/K1100RS hybrid by Andreas Esterhammer)
K1100RS - 1995. AKA Rudolf Von Schmurf (in a million bits)
K100RS - 1991 AKA Ronnie. Cafe racer project bike
K75RTP - 1994
K75C - 1991 AKA Jim Beam. In boxes. 
K1100LT 1992 - AKA Big Red (gone)
K100LT - 1988 - AKA the Bullion brick. Should never have sold it.
    

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