What are your hobbies?

sptrawler said:

June 2020
Probably not, I'm not into clubs, usually they are too political for me.
I'd rather just head off for the day with the wife, any longer than that and I go alone, the wife is over long distance touring on motor bikes.

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Just read back through the thread and came across this gem.
Well it shows how badly the coronavirus has affected people, the wife is so depressed about not travelling and life slipping by, she wants to take a motorbike holiday. What a hoot, two 60 odd year old's travelling about 300kl a day before their joints lock up, it should be interesting.
I love the idea, it's my idea of the perfect holiday, if you can't challenge yourself, you may as well go down to Bowra and O'Dea and sign up.

So now I have two motorbikes to work on, one to get running and the other to convert to a geriatric tourer. ? ? ? ?

sptrawler said:

Just read back through the thread and came across this gem.
Well it shows how badly the coronavirus has affected people, the wife is so depressed about not travelling and life slipping by, she wants to take a motorbike holiday. What a hoot, two 60 odd year old's travelling about 300kl a day before their joints lock up, it should be interesting.
I love the idea, it's my idea of the perfect holiday, if you can't challenge yourself, you may as well go down to Bowra and O'Dea and sign up.

So now I have two motorbikes to work on, one to get running and the other to convert to a geriatric tourer. ? ? ? ?

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Great opportunity. You know this could be the opportunity to go for an electric motor bike and tow a back up battery ? Clearly your handy with mechanics and rebuilding. Perhaps something to consider as a hobby.

You know if it worked out I think there might be a niche market for such a businesses..

Or just lash out and buy a Brutus V9..

I already have three electric bikes and two electric segway ninebot scooters, I've had them for a couple of years.
You should try them, they are starting to become very popular.
Actually in total including the electrics and mountain bikes, we have 9 bikes plus the two segways.
We use the segways as transport when we are catching the trains.
The electric bikes if we are travelling long distance (over 20klm, carrying a lot of gear)
So here they are:
Two 50v 250W electric mountain bikes in Perth, for long distance shopping, 20klm in windy conditions
Two standard Giant hybrids in Perth, when we are up there babysitting, used mainly for shopping ( the wife has two huge baskets on hers).
Two standard Giant hybrids in Mandurah, when we are there on the weekend having me time, used for shopping.
Two Giant Talon mountain bikes in Mandurah, to go cross country riding in the hills around Dwellingup on the weekend.
One 50v 1,000W Giant electric mountain bike in Mandurah, for really quick trips to pick up chicken treat or beer cartons.lol
Two segway ninebots, in Mandurah to get too and from the train when going to Perth, to babysit.
So yeh, I'm into electrics and bikes in general.
Harley have a new electric motor bike, but $50k is a bit rich, plus I think they have been recalled for catching fire, from memory.
The problem with bikes like the livewire and savic is, with my replaced knees i couldn't get my feet on the footpegs. ?

sptrawler said:

Just read back through the thread and came across this gem.
Well it shows how badly the coronavirus has affected people, the wife is so depressed about not travelling and life slipping by, she wants to take a motorbike holiday. What a hoot, two 60 odd year old's travelling about 300kl a day before their joints lock up, it should be interesting.
I love the idea, it's my idea of the perfect holiday, if you can't challenge yourself, you may as well go down to Bowra and O'Dea and sign up.

So now I have two motorbikes to work on, one to get running and the other to convert to a geriatric tourer. ? ? ? ?

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300kms a day. Hope you have an iron ass and cruise control. I use to ride back and forwards from Brisbane in my 20s in one hit. So bloody far. Bring music as there are signal dead spots

I sit on a bike for 20mins now and I'm done. You are a braver man than I.

moXJO said:

300kms a day. Hope you have an iron ass and cruise control. I use to ride back and forwards from Brisbane in my 20s in one hit. So bloody far. Bring music as there are signal dead spots

I sit on a bike for 20mins now and I'm done. You are a braver man than I.

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Yes I know, I have done the Nullabor a couple of times, ridden around Tassie, had a motorbike as my only mode of transport for a lot of my younger years.
But the time is fast growing close where I will have to give them up, two replaced knees and one replaced hip on the high side of 65, so I just want to do one more trip and what better time to do it than now, when you can't go anywhere else anyway.
I will probably regret it, but I'm sure I wont forget it, pain tends to get etched in your memory.
All I need now is the bloody lazy pricks to reopen the out of school care, so I can get out of babysitting for a month.

sptrawler said:

Yes I know, I have done the Nullabor a couple of times, ridden around Tassie, had a motorbike as my only mode of transport for a lot of my younger years.
But the time is fast growing close where I will have to give them up, two replaced knees and one replaced hip on the high side of 65, so I just want to do one more trip and what better time to do it than now, when you can't go anywhere else anyway.
I will probably regret it, but I'm sure I wont forget it, pain tends to get etched in your memory.
All I need now is the bloody lazy pricks to reopen the out of school care, so I can get out of babysitting for a month.

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I hope I'm as active at that age. Long distance riding must be the similar to childbirth. Pains easily forgotten. I do love it though.

moXJO said:

I hope I'm as active at that age. Long distance riding must be the similar to childbirth. Pains easily forgotten. I do love it though.

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I might post up a few photo's of the preping the bike and maybe a few of the trip, god it has to be better than the regurgitated stuff that is happening at the moment.
At least everyone can take the pizz out of me and have a laugh when I break down.
Especially when Wayne has to come around to put me down when I fall off and all the metal bits come apart. lol
What do you think? I would hate to bore everyone to death, but in my defence they are boring the bejeezus out of me.

Sp, A few years ago I saw a bike with a very heavy trailer attached.

Wow! Had to talk with the owner and, yes, he had made the rig himself to travel around the country side.
Two electric motors on the bike and in the trailer a small generator to produce the electricity to keep the batteries charged as well as all his gear. 400kgs of trailer and load!

On the other hand you could emulate Alvin Straight and rig up a ride on mower with a trailer and travel cross country at 5mph. Give you lots of time to think. The Straight Story movie is on SBS. Excellent and pretty close to the truth.

Good luck on your road trip.

basilio said:

Sp, A few years ago I saw a bike with a very heavy trailer attached.

Wow! Had to talk with the owner and, yes, he had made the rig himself to travel around the country side.
Two electric motors on the bike and in the trailer a small generator to produce the electricity to keep the batteries charged as well as all his gear. 400kgs of trailer and load!

On the other hand you could emulate Alvin Straight and rig up a ride on mower with a trailer and travel cross country at 5mph. Give you lots of time to think. The Straight Story movie is on SBS. Excellent and pretty close to the truth.

Good luck on your road trip.

Alvin Straight - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Yes nice setup, if I was going that way, I would take a car. Maybe it would be a good option for you?
The wife rode the mundi bidi trail on the mountain bike a couple of years ago, 800klm in 15 days, through the bush, I was the back up vehicle.

At $25,000 per knee and $15,000 for the hip, it would be a bit irresponsible to wear them out doing that IMO, but everyone to their own.

I'll just meander along on the motorbike going to places I've been to 100's of times before, catching up with people I knew years ago, but my guess is it will be the last time doing it.
W.A is a big place and I've lived and worked everywhere, so there will be people still there that were there when I was, so it will be good to catch up, have a beer and hopefully a laugh.

sptrawler said:

I might post up a few photo's of the preping the bike and maybe a few of the trip, god it has to be better than the regurgitated stuff that is happening at the moment.
At least everyone can take the pizz out of me and have a laugh when I break down.
Especially when Wayne has to come around to put me down when I fall off and all the metal bits come apart. lol
What do you think? I would hate to bore everyone to death, but in my defence they are boring the bejeezus out of me.

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Post it up. Love that kind of stuff.

moXJO said:

Post it up. Love that kind of stuff.

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Well this is the bike that i will be using, in the morning when you start it up, the sweet smell of vindaloo wafts out of the pipes. ?