Saturday, 20 April 2013

Turning Point

  Nice to see some sunshine. Lovely autumn day. I believe this might be only the 2nd ride (in Australia) I have done this year. That is mostly due to the weather. I have however covered considerable distance in other countries. Some I have already posted and one tour I am still to write about. The delay is partly because I need to work on the photos I took from my iPhone which all came out very

Sunday, 14 April 2013

Motorcycling New Zealand North Island

New Zealand truly is a paradise for motorcycle riders. The south island gets a lot of press but I recently rode the north island and the riding was superb. As with my south island ride I used the Hema New Zealand motorcycle atlas to plan my route and plotted the GPS route in Ride with GPS and I convert my GPS track files to maximum 100 point routes using GPS Babel.   I rented a motorcycle for

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Malaysia motorcycle ride

Malaysia was a terrific ride. It kept surprising me in many nice ways. The people, food and of course the roads were great. But let's rewind.

I had previously planned a ride in Malaysia but cancelled it for a couple of reasons. I was traveling in Asia and decided to return to Australia via KL and rent a motorcycle for a couple of days however this was in the tail of the rainy season and I had no