Friday (15:30 start)
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*some lucky bastards have already done the putty!
*BA F4i loan bike (Big tahnkyou to Andrew the CBR archivist)
*Aaaahhhhh, Andrew's got a new black Blade!!
*F@#$% Pac Highway traffic
*FUN up the old road
*bored stupid on the F3 (is every WRX driver a fruitloop?)
*F@#$% Bucketts Way is bad at night
*mmmmm awesome accomodation and HUGE delicious dinner at Wards River

Saturday
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*Great hot brekky
*F@#$% Bucketts Way is bad during the day too!
*Bumpy start to the thunderbolts way, taking it easy, keeping an eye on the girls
*Quick Thunderbolts lookout stop
*Smooth thunderbolts, slow start then taking off after the others - Phil being very sensible and almost law abiding.
*Dump luggage at Walcha Caravan Park cabins - much negotitating on snoring rights v bed allocation
*Long lunch (its all Phils fault)
*Oxley to Long Flat and return - if you've been there you know, if you havent we cant explain it.
*Drinks at the Commercial Hotel, Dinner at a motel, vodka shots
*Walcha is very f@#$% cold at night

Sunday
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*Motel brecky
*Discover the BA loan bike has been 8psi down in the front tyre and 12 psi down in the rear - so that's why chris and marek and scott and andrew .... and well almost eveybody passed me.
*Walcha is still f@#$% cold
*Thunderbolts way is FUN, even when you cant feel your fingers ... particularly with some air in the tyres!
*No Phil, i dont know why they stopped in Gloucester, you clearly said we are stopping in Stroud.
*F@#$% Buckettts way - there's potholes in the freshly layed hotmix!!
*Bumpy, lumpy twisties to Singleton then Broke.
*OK the rest of the trip was just a warm up - im ready to go now - I
LOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEE Broke to Wollombi.
*Yeah you can go past Scottie, oops I forgot thats the dirt section
*OK if i can just hang on to Scott, OMG this is fun!
*I LOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE Wollombi to peats ridge too.
*Peats Ridge raceway YeeeeHaaaa gotta love those bends.
*Old road raceway!!
*Bobbin Head raceway (in the dark)
*MotoGP at the Monkey Bar - OH! NO! Casey what have you done!!!! Go Sete!
*Hmmm German girls!!

Sean Hawley

That was indeed a great weekend... and I found it hard to put it   into words how much fun I had. 3 days on the bike yay :-) no cops, no rain, no crashes; great bunch of people; corners as I have never seen before hehehehe ;-)

...I only wish I had a bigger bike even though I lost concentration about 4 times... but was lucky enough to have all the room I needed to get back on my lane hehehehe great experience to mentally force my mind to stay focussed doh!

Big thank you everyone for making this weekend such a memorable weekend. I look forward in joinning you all on the next weekends away (Andrew!!!! Make it happen ;-) hehehe)

I still can take the big smille off of my face :-)

Cheers
Bia

The Oxley and MotoGP go together like ... well, like the Oxley and MotoGP I suppose, though I definately recommend you do the Oxley before the GP, not after, as even though Vale, Sete, Max and the gang are fun to watch, they may prove a bit inspirational for all those with weak attitudes towards speed *ahem*. Riding home on Sunday night I for some reason had to clip the red line changing gears - that hadn't happened along the entire Moto-Oxley :)

So you're most welcome to take another run down The Road Of The 1000 Corners, though I won't be able to join - someone's gotta pay for these adventures too y'know...

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Moto-Oxley, guys'n'gals, you're absolutely great! I'm happy that everyone had a lot of fun, even though I may have been impatient to start and slow to continue...

Chris, as always, thanks for the photos, and taking the fast boys for a good thrashing!
Sean, great ride report, though I maintain - it wasn't THAT cold heeheehee. Oh, and WHAT BUMPS???
Thanks Andrew for sponsoring our prez a ride and for bringing the slickest bike along (second slickest, after Justine!).
Kudo's to Scotty for setting the standard in how addicted anyone can possibly be to riding a bike in the middle of the night up a bumpy road, and for keeping Chris honest at the pointy end of the pack.
Big shout out to Isabel who attained quite new levels of girl-bike bonding with her Raul. Big Cheer to Marek who is always keen to blast ahead and who actually kept all his luggage this time around ;)
Cheers to Will - for some 255 is a number, for others a velocity...
Bia, it's not about how fast you go, but how hard you wring your bike's neck - and your GPX gave it all, including headlight, starter button... and god knows what else! Time for an upgrade?
And of course Andreas, the charmer who can't ever get enough km's under his belt (so what was Nina's phone number????).
Last but not least I've gotta thank Justine for providing me with the funkiest ride I've had so far. She may not be the fastest, but she's definately the best looking :)

See y'all later,
Phil