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    Over the shoulder: Rides of a decade

    As life, events and rides roll along year after year, things tend to blur into each other.
    “Remember when...” turns into “I think there might’ve been...” and trying to sort out who was on which trip, what happened when and where and to whom is all turning into mush.

    Time to “look over the shoulder” and put things together from old ride-reports, pics stashed away for a long time and comments of those who were there, possibly shaking lose some memories of things here and there.

    Some of those who came along on all those trips have somehow “faded away”...others came and went....but quite a few are still around.


    A few pics to pull the trigger... and it will be a bit of a project for a while.

    Where better to start than with the “early days” of digital cameras and the all-conquering JPG’s...

    There weren’t too many motorcycle-related groups on the Net then, the AusMoto Newsgroup the only mob around, including Jason and Vic, who , a little later, founded NetRider first as a Yahoo-based newsgroup, turning into a forum later (2002-03?).

    No ADVrider, no HorizonsUnlimited, no mcnews, Overclockers, owner forums....this was Forum-Ice Age. I doubt even the BoM being on the net at the time, so we couldn’t check weather ourselves, but had to believe whatever the Channel 9 weather bunny was telling us.

    Bikes, rides, travel....it’s been a ripsnorter of a decade !!
    pete

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    Sept '01_ Euro Alps

    European Alps from/to Vienna.

    Another Usenet Bike Group in Austria (at.freizeit.motorrad) had been the contact to organize a bike-swap with a couple near Vienna.

    We took their bikes for a 3week ride through the European Alps, they took our bikes for a 3 week ride around Vic some months later....and it all worked out great.:thumbs:

    Mick G organized a then brandnew Canon Powershot A20....2mp... at a fantastic price, used for the shots below.

    The 300kg Honda PC800....Cruiser with Tupperware-coat and the ~ 350kg BM-monster, wrong kit for the Alps, but we had to find that out ourselves.




    It sparked our love for Slovenia:woot:



    Discovered the Local’s taste for fast “tripods”







    Grossglockner, Austria





    “Danced” in the Dolomites/ Northern Italy












    Stayed with friends in Merano and rode the Mendel Pass.





    ...and the Gorge Road into the Eggen Valley.





    Across the Timmelsjoch into the Oetz-Valley to visit the folks in Vent where I learned how to ski as a kid.






    Lost our hearts in Glurns, the medieval town that was granted city rights over 1000years ago.




    Had to ride the Passo di Stelvio, too...:so





    ...and watched the local "pines" change colour amongst the ice-giants of the Swiss Bernina Mountains near St. Moritz






    Walked the Tschuppa Gorge in Southern Austria/ Slovenian border




    ...and gave “oma”(granny) a spin on the BM...and she was "talk of the town" for a month.




    Spotted the only KTM shaftie ever built





    Checked out a tiny bit of Vienna on the way out






    For the complete yarn and ALL the pics (total ~135)

    http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1683
    pete

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    November '01__6_peaks #1

    Vic High Country


    Australia-Day weekend ...and we didn’t know it then, but this was the start of something that’s still rolling at full steam more than 10 years later.

    The Original 6-peaks
    (...and the start of nearly 10 years of tour-shirts for all of the big rides)



    It all started with Graham and Joy getting hitched in Eildon :chug:









    L to R: Latte Dave (FondaHonda)...???? on BabyBlade,frozen white....Danny Trumpy TT6...Graham in front, MickG (MickG) in the back...Joy...Jason...Dave Mountainhitter GSXF750 and Jan, his better half.




    Latte-Dave on the CBR6 and MickG at Dinner Plains






    Christ, was it miserable up there or what? Mayhem on the Falls Creek Rd. Bikes down like flies.
    That "carpark" is right in the middle of the Falls Creek Rd.
    (and the pic is still used in the NetRider forum banner)




    It’d sometimes turned into a “survival” ride along the way...



    For the complete yarn and ALL the pics (total ~a dozen)
    http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1175
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    2001_Mornington Peninsula

    Sometime through the winter months....

    Goodie took the shot
    Looking into the camera Mark Micallef.... MickG with the cap.... Jason, as always, feeding himself....Dave Mountainhitter...Rupert (damige) , laughing...Pete (glitch)....Danny on the front-right.



    Arthurs Seat




    Rupert (damige) and the Green Monster-Smoker

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    2001_Broadford Motards

    July

    Saw some motard racing in Broadford



    Jason grinning into the camera with a brandnew, first-batch NetRider cap.



    pete

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    2001...Girlz Only!

    Andi had taped a little note to the BTX (Fern Tree Gully Kawasaki/ BMW dealer... now defunct) front door in Fern Tree Gully.
    And they came! And had a pearler of a day!
    No idea where else they went, but Mt. Pinniger Lookout above Eildon was one of the spots.

    Sitting on the bench on the left is Andi, Goodie standing behind her.

    No idea about the rest of them.







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    2001...NetRider Donna Buang after work ride

    Just a couple of pics from the meetup at the 7/11 in Kilsyth...one of the hot summer nights, daylight 'til 9pm, going for a squirt up Donna Buang.


    Dave Mountainhitter doesn't give a shyte




    L-R : Jas (carrothead, ZZR250), Rupert (damige), Paul (drizzt)....the guy in the black/yellow gear went under the name "Dark Clown" I think....and was another one of those Across-Cosmonauts. :bs

    Can't remember the others....the half-covered guy in the Dainese-suit could've been Brandon from Rowville, used to have a sweet, little Bandit 250.

    pete

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    2001_AusMoto_Sept

    September Ride

    No idea where we went that day, but everyone came along for a cuppa afterwards.

    Chromedome in the middle is Vic, who not much later started NetRider together with Jason, who's standing next to his blue Viffer on the right.



    Jas and Vic

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    2001...Bunyip State Park

    Another winter ride, mid-June or so...aka The 2001 Aussie Pegaso Convention :bs
    Ok, ok...at least the Victorian Pegaso Meet then!

    Great weather, great ride....and Warren showed us some of what a Peg can do on dirt.









    C'mooon ...they DO look sweet!:thumbs:

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    Jan 2002...Grampians

    Now under the NetRider banner, it's still the same crew of culprits...

    Latte Dave (FondaHonda) threw one of his legendary Royal Breakfasts at his place in South Melbourne for the whole bunch to kick of the weekend ride along the GOR and Halls Gap/ Grampians.




    Port Campbell



    Moike clowning around



    Latte Express and Stef on the CBRthou




    L to R: Sarah (who married Jason a year or 2 later).... Yours Truly....Paul (drizzt)...Jas....half-obscured is Latte-Dave... ?Grant, I think? (had a ZZR250 which had never seen a spanner in its life)...Stef





    Latte Dave showed us some new roads through Lexton and Clunes on the return leg :chug:
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    2002_Tassie

    Feb '02


    Ingo, the old HighSchool mate and German Lufthansa Pilot had managed a 2 week “rotational break” in Melbourne, so we had to show him some of Australia’s best riding country by dipping down south.



    Goodie, Garry and Ingo at Station Pier.
    3 Pegasos and a B12





    East Coast





    Bicheno





    Rossarden Loop





    Mt. Wellington, Hobart at our feet





    Strathgordon Rd.





    This could be the Tassie Trip where the guy on the Busa decked it when the backpack got caught in his back wheel...what a mess.

    Down the Derwent





    Getting crappy near Queenstown, note the stylish “Goretex” shopping bags to keep the feet dry.



    Needed a tetanus shot after a bite from this little bugger....but fed him Claret-soaked bread till he keeled off the verandah.





    Guzzi Club boarding.....one of their shortest, sorta 5ft cube, rode the longest-suspension-Quota I’ve ever seen....some serious acrobatics were on show every time the queue crept forward.... bloody hilarious.







    Great trip, lots of laughs and around 4500k’s, all road.

    After some checking around it looks like I've never done a RR, nothing crops up when doing a search. ops:
    But I'm sure I've linked quite a few of the pics in the past...if I find something later, I'll edit the post.
    pete

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    2002...6-Peaks #2

    April 2002...

    A week in the Vic High Country and Snowies

    Only 5 months after the Inaugural, 6-Peaks #2 got underway.
    Word had gotten around and numbers were swelling as a result.
    Warren (RIP) sitting on the tree-stump of Tallangatta Caravan Park, Stef on the CBR1000 and Mark Micallef on that bent ‘n busted, old grease-bucket Across
    :lollol:





    Jaz smoking it up Mt. Buffalo




    Yours Truly on the loudest Pegaso around....and that was before she occasionally blew the exhaust can off the link pipe. Clean off, no sweat. Oh....and if anyone dared to chase, they finished up with a suntan and molten jackets, that thing threw 2foot flames on every high-rpm down-change .






    Dave Mountainhitter tried to blow up the BBQ at the Jindabyne Caravan Park






    The whole mob at Charlotte’s Pass, incl. BT Humble from Canberra






    Paul (aka Drizzt... RIP, mate!) wrenched his knee and discovered the delights of a Pegaso while I took his rumbling TL1000 home for him.

    Stef gave Garry’s Pegaso the berries up the Alpine Way, while Garry nearly buried the CBRthou in a righthander, going bush big time and somehow emerging upright out of the greenery 30m further up.

    Discovered the Mitta Valley and Dartmouth Dam, Lockhart’s Gap and the then still unknown Redbank Rd.

    Good stuff

    Full story here (~40 pics)

    http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=803
    pete

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    2002_NetRider Girls

    August brought along the Netrider “Girls-Ride”...


    L to R: Jodie (Rupert’s/ Damige’s better half), Jas and Goodie




    They only made it to Healesville, but sure had fun while at it.
    Jodie on the tiny Yammie 100 stroker

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    2002_Netrider Eildon

    August


    Just a few days after the Girlz-Ride, the pack assembled at The Basin.
    L-R: Rupert (damige)...Marty (MartyH)....Mike (Moike)...John Birrel...??blank???...Goodie...Danny, TT600 Trumpy....Wayne Holderhead in the suit, stirring the shyte before going to work....???another blank???

    There also must’ve been Paul (drizzt), who rode that cyclopic, purple Gix750






    Skyline Road above Lake Eildon







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    2002....Noojee

    September 2002


    More fine winter weather, good enough for a tootle out to Noojee.





    Paul (drizzt) thumping the TL up Mountain Hwy (still minus the Lycra Bandits, then)





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