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Mr. Bean's holiday. Care to follow along??

Started by pdxfj, February 25, 2009, 11:34:32 PM

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ogmudbone

awesome pics...beautiful place. i have always wanted to go down unda me self but never had the funds...this vicarious vacation its the shiznit :D ;)


OGmudbone
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andyoutandabout

Garth,
Ain't adventuring just good fun? I see your near Byron Bay, which used to be a really nice quiet surf town, but I heard it got 'discovered' and thus buggered up. Anyway, I'm sure Klavdy knows some less touristed spots where you can plug into the real Oz.
Safe travels
Andy French
life without a bike is just life

pdxfj

K-man, Dave and I are in Armindale, NSW for the night.  Excellent day of riding.  SPOT tracking is working great!

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=04mQyBrhrt4eByvlahZLsbzxLNtxc10Xq

Pictures to come, along with some great video (sometime).

-Bean


Harvy

Garth, what's your skype chat username please mate?

Harvy
FJZ1 1200 - It'll do me just fine.
Timing has much to do with the success of a rain dance.

Arnie

Harvy,

What happened to you?  I thought you were going to be part of this conga line.
I'm planning to meet up with the pair S of Canberra and help guide them around the (non) fire-ravaged bits of Vic.

Cheers,
Arnie

pdxfj

Quote from: Harvy on March 03, 2009, 02:58:43 PM
Garth, what's your skype chat username please mate?

Harvy

Hey Harvy,

It's "pdxfj87"

We're in Port Macquarie now.  Your national speed limit is horrible.  Although given how rough Hwy 1 is in spots it's just about right for that.

All in all you've got a beautiful country here.   Plus the light amount of clothes the women wear in summer is a nice bonus.   ;D


Arnie

Hey Harvy,

Seems you knew the softcocks (K-girl and beeny-weeny) wouldn't be able to handle the distance.  Called to find out where they'd got to today and when they'd be around Canberra so we could meet up, and was told they weren't riding any further south than Port Mac.  They were going back to BrisVegas and would fly to SinCity.
Gotta say I'm bummed.  All dressed up and nowhere to go.  I'd been planning to be riding for the next week or so.

Cheers,
Arnie

Marsh White

Arnie, yeah, that is pretty lame of them!  I tried to figure out which city is "Sin City" thinking it was Sydney.  Then I came across this article: http://www.tntdownunder.com/article/2444463562.html
So, now I'd venture a guess that "Sin City" is actually Canberra.  Correct?  Are you going to take the boys out for a night on the seedy side of town?  If so, the pictures are bound to get more interesting...

Arnie

Marsh,

Actually, I was referring to Sydney, but understand the Canberra ref. (one of two places you can legally buy porn and fireworks in Australia) :-) 
They're still a couple of hundred kms North of Sydney, and are going to not venture any further south.
No, I won't be meeting up with them now. I have other commitments and have to be back home on the 10th.  Getting info about this non-Tour-of-Tassie "group ride" from K-girly has been like pulling teeth from a chicken. I'm just very irritated that I cleared this time to ride, got a new front tire, am packed, fueled, ready to go - and they've just flaked.

Arnie
 

Klavdy

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Arnie

K & Been,

I've had my whinge. I won't count on you again.
Get over it.
Enjoy the rest of your ride, and holiday.
And post those reports and pics so more tourists come here to spend.

Arnie

ogmudbone

dang! looks like the first real dust up of the new group. i hope this doesn't get too ugly. i don't know what plans were made but i can understand that things can change on very short notice. vacations, especially to other parts of the globe don't exactly afford you a huge amount of leeway to do extra things time wise. perhaps there just wasn't enough time to get to everything?

anyway i can understand Arnie gettin bent that he took time off work and all that, but i hope this doesn't ruin friendships.

OGmudbone
aka
John 
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Klavdy

Quote from: ogmudbone on March 06, 2009, 01:30:40 PM
dang! looks like the first real dust up of the new group. i hope this doesn't get too ugly. i don't know what plans were made but i can understand that things can change on very short notice. vacations, especially to other parts of the globe don't exactly afford you a huge amount of leeway to do extra things time wise. perhaps there just wasn't enough time to get to everything?

anyway i can understand Arnie gettin bent that he took time off work and all that, but i hope this doesn't ruin friendships.

OGmudbone
aka
John 

Ah, the tyranny of distance conspired to thwart the half arsed plans of the Seppo/Aussie FJ Toasted Ham Cheese & Tomato tour.




There's nothing to get over, no firm plans were made, hey, this is the FJ group, when have anything other than half arsed plans been made?
The combination of a freshly blown fork seal, a dodgy feed at the Chew&Spew combined with jet lag and heat stress for Mr Bean,rigidly enforced 100KMH (60 mph) speed limits on the major roads or long distances on really rough roads and ruinous expense added up to us doing 1800 + KM's in four days around Northern New South Wales.


Bean was introduced to the Meat Pie,


he was also told that water is safe to drink,



Dave was the only one who turned up to ride,here is the shin of shame,





Harvey had other things to do and nobody else really bothered.
Arnie can always come to Queensland, it would have been great to ride down to the Snowy Mnts and back,even better to go to Tasmania via the $600 return ticket ferry but it wasn't to be.

So, Bean got to meet many locals,






Coz making friends is easy when you are on a bike,




We saw many a scene and spotted wildlife,




Go on Bean, pat the Goanna,




Portland, thataway,







Perhaps a Merlot?



Hmmm, may I suggest a cheeky little breakfast Claret instead?



 
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Klavdy

We rode some great roads and some really crappy ones,

took Mr Bean to some small Aussie towns,


Beaches too,





And the Bush,

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