Tell us about your latest ride

[Marty_d]

Starting a new topic, similar to the "tell us about your last flight" on the sister site, but for motorbikes. (Or whatever else you've been riding. Just remember it's a family site 😜)

 

Had a lovely ride this morning, met @nomadpete and his better half for a coffee then down to Dover.

From there I took the Esperance Coast road (which I've never done before - but it was a beautiful riding road), which comes out at Surges Bay.

Beautiful day, no pesky cars in the way for most of it. Pure fun!

 

[willedoo]

My last ride wasn't very exciting at all. It was on a battered old postie bike down the driveway to pick up the mail from the letterbox. Uneventful trip down but broke down halfway back up and that's where it stayed for a few years. Haven't had a road registered bike for quite a few years now. Still remember my first ride (175cc BSA Bantam) and some of the more exciting ones. Some memories I cherish, some involving hospitals I'd rather forget.

[willedoo]

The two longest trips I ever went on were both two up with a mate on his Guzzi, sharing the riding. One was from Melbourne to Adelaide and back, around 1,500 klm, and the other was from the Sunshine Coast to Cairns and back, around 3,200 klm. There's a ton of bikes I could name that would make those trips a horror story two up, but the Guzzi was a great tourer with a nice long comfortable seat and quite low from top of seat height to the ground. I could imagine it as the sort of trip where a BMW would be good as well.

[nomadpete]

I'm keen to read the test ride report on a custom bush trike.....