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18 Nov

Articles

On the Banks of Coopers Creek

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I’d been trying to leave Navarra for a week, but there seemed to be a force holding me down, like extra gravity, every time I tried to ...

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15 Nov

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Pot Scourer Soup

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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Goodbyes are hard and so is packing a ridiculous amount of stuff onto a motorbike so that it doesn't fall off. I felt like I was right ...

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14 Nov

Articles

Misadventures Resumed

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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Beastie was ready to go. Sitting in Shane's garage in Brisbane, waiting for me, waiting for the misadventures to resume. I packed up...

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07 Nov

Articles

From the jaws of defeat

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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We rode back to Brisbane in the freezing rain then turned around and drove back again in the ute. In the pitch dark, I waited with trep...

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05 Nov

Articles

Deluge

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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Beastie was running nicely and I had a couple more days in Brisbane. I suggested to Shane that we should go for a ride - a bit of a tes...

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02 Nov

Articles

Tears, snot and starter clutches

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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It's maybe 1500km from Navarra to Brisbane. I watched the open spaces of the outback being replaced by manufactured landscapes and conf...

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31 Oct

Articles

Things are not right.

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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The following week Andy and I were back in town. I got the bike out of Roy's shed and wheeled her back to the bike shop. It still doe...

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17 Oct

Articles

Rocker arms

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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So I went to work for Andy, and tried not to think about my motorbike. I helped him install solar pumps and passed up pieces of windmil...

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15 Oct

Articles

Waiting for Beastie

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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So it was back to Navarra, a couple of weeks earlier than planned. With Beastie racking up bills for me, I was happy that I'd accepted ...

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14 Oct

Articles

Beastie’s in the shop.

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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It was a two day haul back to Longreach. Unimogs don't go very fast - highway cruising is not really their thing - so we draughted one ...

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13 Oct

Articles

Moto Problems

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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What's up with Beastie? It's the burning question. She was running fine, but suddenly became difficult to start. I thought flat battery...

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12 Oct

Articles

This Fishing Life

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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You wake up at six, when it's still dark, and blindly slather all exposed flesh with sunscreen and insect repellent. Then you go and ha...

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06 Oct

Articles

Barramundi: the sweet taste of victory

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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The centrepiece of the fishing camp was a giant insect-netted marquee grandly named the Taj Mahal. It was here that I found more of tha...

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03 Oct

Articles

Across the claypan

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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My fishing friends were hard to miss in their Unimog. They no longer had the air conditioned galley on the tray of the truck, nor the a...

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27 Sep

Articles

Limping to Burketown

• September 27, 2017
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I pressed the ignition button and listened to the engine turn over sickly. I tried again, watching the readings on my voltmeter plummet...

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