Record wet season. Crocodiles everywhere.
Motorcycle hazard.
#motosky
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Record wet season. Crocodiles everywhere.
Motorcycle hazard.
#motosky
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Like a request to perform a randomised controlled trial to confirm parachutes save lives or not.
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I rode that bike from Sydney to Alice Springs in 48hrs to visit a girl I was keen on over Easter.
She said if I was really interested in spend more time with her I should have caught a plane.
27 years later - she rolled her eyes again when I bought the V7.
I hear you. Just turned 58.
Time flies. That photo is about 27 years old. It’s a bit of a project now to get it back on the road.
Gowanloch’s in Sydney mildly modified it for me in the mid 90’s. 40mm Dellortos. 780cc kit with a little more compression. Ported with slightly hotter cams. The induction roar was tremendous.
Cheers 🍻
Red and silver Ducati with leather saddle bags parked on red desert dirt with a white salt pans in the distance.
Looking down the muffler of the motorbike after 5000km on the road. Milky coffee coloured exhaust. Not white.
Outback touring in the 90’s on my ‘88 Ducati 750 Sport.
Salt pans in the distance.
Light brown exhaust meant the carburation was correct for the air/oil cooled engine at prolonged high speeds.
The additives in the fuel then
caused the colour apparently. Don’t see it now.
#motosky #ducati
50 to 80 in built up areas like anywhere else.
100 out in the country.
110 on well engineered multi-lane divided expressways and some very remote areas.
NT didn’t have speed limits because it’s the NT. The road fatality rate is three higher than the rest of Australia.
Yes 130km/hr in the Northern Territory since about 2007.
The rest of Australia always had a max speed limit of 100-110.
Yes - and the night skies are endless out there as well.
Sun rise over the desert. Bike parked next to the fuel pump.
Large petrol station and truck in the desert and not much else.
Some more photos touring in the 90’s. Heading to Alice Springs.
Early start from Pimba roadhouse in South Australian desert.
Fueling up the ‘88 Ducati 750 Sport.
#motosky #ducati
BMW motocycle by the side of an open road. No speed limit sign.
Bike touring across the country in the late 90’s.
That road sign is rare now but it means that there is no official speed limit. Ride to the conditions.
130km/hr on the BMW twin was the sweet spot with petrol stations up to 300km apart and kangaroos and emus about.
#motosky
They are relatively solid now. It’s just a 15 year old bike that has lived in the tropics its whole life.
Failing regulator/rectifier is a know issue on this model though.
Interesting. That would make it pretty rare I’m guessing. So it doesn’t have the 16 inch front wheel?
That’s a really tidy Le Mans 1000
Looking down on an air-cooled V twin motorcycle with the tank off.
Moto Guzzi. Turning riders into auto-electricians since 1921.
#motosky #motoguzzi
Gravel bike. A view of Dili, the capital of Timor Leste, in the distance. Tropical view of palm trees and large island in the distance.
Brought my gravel bike over to Dili this time. Thought it would be much faster than my little folding bike but it wasn’t.
#biketouring #gravelbike #cycling
This entitled white man born into wealth messed with the measles vaccination program in Samoa in 2019.
Over 60 infants died as a result.
Now he is head of HHS with yet more blood on his hands.
No consequences for these men. It’s criminal.
#motosky #motoguzzi
A handful of twins riding out to Wangi Falls. A bit of water flowing. A good wet season.
V twins are intrinsically more balanced than the parallel twins on the market.
Parallel twins are cheap to mass produce, easy to install and only need one set of cam shafts….but I think they are generic and soulless.
If you really want to nerd out about it. It was actually the exhaust from the turbine that just ran the fuel pumps, that were directed to cool the nozzles.
A fuel pump needed to generated 55 000 bhp on its own to supply the oxygen/kerosene fast enough.
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I somehow feel both seen and invisible at the same time…
Front on view of the air cooled V twin
Water over the road with Egrets fishing.
A wet season ride out to Fogg Dam NT. Water over the road with Egrets fishing.
#motoguzzi #motosky
Poster of Akira movie based on the manga series. Set in Post apocalyptic Japan.
These bikes are getting closer and closer to that post 2020 Tokyo Olympics vibe from Akira.
Two Wheels was a popular Australian motorcycle magazine from the 1960’s through to the early 2000’s.
Many of their original bike reviews have been digitised.
It’s a brilliant historic resource.
Highly recommend the site.
#motoguzzi #motosky
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Gang-gang cockatoo feeding
Gang-gang on the Great South West Walk.
Taken with a phone camera held up to binos.
#birding #nature #hiking
Monsoon rain clouds in the early morning sunlight.
Wet season morning bicycle. Darwin.
#cycling
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Many in the police force are sympathetic to far right views.
Education, policing, safer roads and cars have reduced road mortality but it’s now stalled and increasingly again. (Distraction, SUV’s, COVID brain fog?)
Less cars - more public transport and safer bicycling must be part of the solution.
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