Great story allright. Reminded me of the time I got flat back tyre 6 or 7 ks from home. I would have been 16 years old and was riding my pride and joy , a Honda MB 5.  50 cc's of raw power!

Now ain’t that the way! Ya do one thing and get bloody caught out. Least in those days coppers were, um reasonable. Bet that weren’t the only thing ya got caught as time went on. The thing is “here now” my friend, keep those men’s and tell ‘em is good shite. 

https://youtu.be/yqwegFuzdEE?si=RslkwkMy4NjUV84a

Baloffski's comment on another thread prompted me to take a ride through 2 of Qlds big drug production regions. So out through Kingaroy to Wondai, then out past Proston to Durong, back to Memerambi then home.

The road west of Wondai is a great one, narrow, undulating, winds through crop land on the flats, rough pasture on the hills a lot of them capped with old scrub forest, scrub used in the SE Qld way, dry rainforest. The Hivesville pub was open, first time I've seen that.

Headed out your old stomping ground today Steve up thru Suicide then back via the tar home. Very close call at the roundabout just before Claytons heading towards Bli Bli with some stupid bitch , on the fucking phone, coming off the motorway at 110kph straight across both lanes of the roundabout....luckily no foul and the game of riding continued. 

When I hear of things like this, I'm almost keen for the bigger use of self driving cars. While I don't trust them, they can't be any worse than the blind bastards driving half the cars on the road now.

And like we have all experienced, she was looking right at me while cutting me off and sort of giving me the what's your fucking problem look!!! 

I reckon with today's technology the car should punch the c***s in the face if they pick the phone up while driving, half of the country would have black eyes I'd wager.

I've had  people act like that when I've been driving a big yellow fire truck with all the flashing lights going.

You only have to watch a youtube dash cam video to see our driving standards in Australia.....it aint great!

Throw them into a truck also. Lost count of the amount of dropkicks doing stupid shit in front of me while at work. At least if it goes pear shaped they come off worse than I do.

I am gunna start a new thread dedicated to all the useless pricks out there. I will call it the Bad Behaviour thread.

I took the afternoon off to give the 950 a run, as it was probably the last decent day we'll see this season .

The sun is out but it "feels" cold, beautiful spot though, where is it?

Sunny Ballarat - nice spot.

Needed to use the Vic bagger for 2 up backup transport so spent an hour or so in the shed the other night, hadn't ridden it for 5 months.

Went back up through Monsildale yesterday, where I rode the Sporty through 2 weeks ago. Went on one of the Victories, mate came along on his Honda 1200X Cross Tourer. An ADV sort of thing, 1200cc V4. I had to slow down a bit to keep him in the mirrors on the pretty smooth dirt, which surprised me. Once we climbed the range and reached the Kilcoy Murgon road, which is pretty chopped up at the moment from heavy weekend 4X4 traffic, we swapped bikes for a few more kms of dirt to Jimna, then tight bitumen curves for about 40kms down to Kilcoy. I've known the bloke for 40 years, since I was riding a 750 Commando and he had a fast '68 Bonneville so we trust each other on swapped bikes. Now I haven't ridden anything without high bars and mid or forward controls for a very long time, it was a very unsettling experience. Couldn't find the gear lever or brake pedal, found the engine to be all whiz and no grunt, lots of power with the whizzing though, and was really surprised that the suspension didn't seem more comfortable and controlled. I was expecting much more comfort from 165mm and 145mm travel front, rear, compared to 130mm front, 98mm rear on the Vic, and a 19 inch front dirt oriented tyre compared to a 16 inch touring one. Very happily swapped back at the pub in Kilcoy.