2014 Trip Planning

Hi everyone,

I don’t know what the weather is like in your part of the world but I am f’kn sick of over the rain here on the Gold Coast. Sure the sun is currently out, but its the grey clouds that darken the skies constantly that get me…….and now the sun has gone……

So as today’s title states…. I’m planning to do some travel in 2014, more specifically I’m riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle out in the big wide world!

There were two planned trips for the next 2years, NZ and the USA. Due to a few factors I have decided to drop one of them and focus solely on the other for next year……and the winner is a 15 day trek across the USA along iconic Route 66. Geoff, I will be coming to NZ to visit, it may not be on a bike, but I will definitely be over there to come say hello…..and ride your Triumph!

I’m doing a self guided trip, with planning and organisation from Eagle Rider they supply the bike, which for this trip is going to be a Street Glide. They also take care of accommodation, detailed itinerary, route planning etc.

I have a HOG chapter friend who is a travel agent and she is going to assist with flights, insurance and all the other stuff I’ll need to make this dream a reality.

So “Route 66 – 2014″ will be taking place in July!! More updates will appear as I begin to organise more elements of the trip,

Have a awesome week, stay safe,

Anthony

Gasoline Alley H.O.G Chapter – January chapter ride – on board footage.

In my last post I wrote about my day out in the Sunshine Coast hinterland with my fellow HOG chapter members. Here is the completed footage, and you can view it at More Than Life Productions.

I hope you enjoy it,

Cheers,

Anthony.

Awesome H.O.G ride today.

Hi everyone.

Today I went on my first Gasoline Alley HD H.O.G chapter ride. We headed north from the GAHD store at Springwood and went north over the Gateway bridge and went to the Sunshine Coast. The ride included some freeway miles, followed by breathtaking hinterland travel to the pub at Landsborough, before heading back south via to hinterland roads.

It was a great day out, and I have 32GB of video footage to edit from the ride too. When it’s done I’ll post a highlights package.

Thanks again to Gasoline Alley Harley Davidson at Springwood. I wandered around the shop before the ride, checking out the clothing ranges, reckon I could have easily burned through about $2000….can’t wait to go back with some cash!!!

Enjoy your week, ride safe,

Anthony

Sunshine Coast road trip

Hi everyone, it’s going to be a busy riding week next week.

First up on Sunday I’m off on the Hinterland Highs and Lows ride with the Gasoline Alley H.O.G chapter. I have been a member of this new chapter for a few months but haven’t been able to go in a ride or other functions yet, so I’m really excited about this one on Sunday. The route is going from the GAHD store at Springwood, up to the hinterland areas of the Sunshine Coast. I’m going to having the Gopro camera running to capture the day too.

Then the following weekend I’m off on a trip up to the sunshine coast once again. I don’t have an exact route planned, but like the Gold Coast there are plenty of cool roads to explore. I’m thinking of the return hinterland route between Eumundi and Maleny on the Saturday, looking forward to that one too.

Other planned rides for the next 12 to 24 months are a South Island NZ tour and then the big one will be riding a Harley from Chicago to LA along Route 66….so excited about those ones.

For some non bike related news….I recently got tattooed again. I’ve always loved tattoos and was wanting another one, (i got my first one back in 2004) I won a $50 voucher from kustomline tattoos at broadbeach in November and decided to finally get a design I had done on my skin. I worked on this design for about 2 years and then one day after coming home from work I picked up the drawing and did a bit of adjustment to it then decided it was time to put the pen down and step away from the drawing……and there it sat for 15 months until a few weeks ago when it went from this…..

To this……..

On my right wrist I got this one…..

It’s Italian for “Beautiful”, and really means a lot to me.

And next up is a full arm tribal design on my right arm, moving from my existing right arm tat down to my wrist…

Thats it from me, Enjoy your weekend.

Cheers,

Anthony

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 8,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 14 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

2012 Le Minz 24 hr scooter race

As a former scooter rider, I just had to checkout the 2012 Le Minz 24 hr race. And an added bonus this year was seeing Troy Bayliss and Gary McCoy going nuts around the Parklands circuit.

Sadly their team’s bike finally broke apart with a hour to go, but seeing them pushing beyond its limits was awesome. Troy crashed 4 or 5 times, the first was in front of where we were standing yesterday during hour three.

So here’s a series of photos capturing some of the action.

Casey on pole for final Australian MotoGP

Great to see Casey Stoner get his fifth successive pole position for tomorrow’s Australian MotoGP race. He will start alongside Jorge Lorenzo and his Repsol Honda team mate Dani Pedrosa.
Ducati’s Valentino Rossi starts in 8th.

Regular readers of this blog may remember a post from last October regarding a trip I was planning to this year’s race.

That trip hasn’t eventuated this year, but maybe 2013 will be the year that I venture down to Phillip Island, a place that the late Barry Sheene once described as “the gateway to hyperthermia”

Hopefully Casey will win tomorrow, taking his 6th consecutive win, considering it will be his final assault on the Island.

To all those at the race, enjoy! To those watching on TV, have a great day – especially Scott and the boys at Maclean!!!

Cheers,
Anthony.