End of rainbow

Somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly, birds fly over the rainbow Y then oh Y can't I ?

Getting closer

The birds will miss me. The team is now four people, I have been declared fit by a 'photo shoot' (colonoscapy and endoscopy) so trial packing is on the agender; just found out kitchen sink will not fit in Wing. Must find softer shoes that will bend, luggage will take 3 x 20 pounds but want to keep it as light as poss., need to pack all I need would like then to have top box empty for the things I forgot or dirty washing etc. We have now decided to take one man tents, sleeping bags and self inflating mattresses in case we cannot find a motel with vacancies, this equipment will have to be waterproofed and strapped to the rear seat. I intend to replace the tyres with new ones but keep the old ones ( they are near new) and refit them when I return, after 20000 Klms I think the new ones will be worn out, the Wing will have full Honda service before I leave and again in Perth. Suddenly the trip is just around the corner, we go to Coffs harbour for the A.G.M. (party) about 5000 of us, then we leave on 29/05/2007 heading South {keep the blue one on the left & the brown one on the right} and ... Be Lucky........ Bandit on the Wing

coffs meeting

Guess who took motel keys home????????, big fella on the left. Poor old soul. Adventure B4 dementia!, and we R going round Oz together? Bandit gets spare set of keys or 2

Round Oz team

Hear no evil, see no evil. HOW big?????

I won't but Vegi mite

Just playing with pics, not bad for Ex Pomme

St Clem

St. Clem

Winter on the beach

Change in plan. Now 5 of us are going round Oz on motor bikes. I am 64 and the youngest. 'Grow old disgacefully', about ten weeks. We leave the A.G.M. (party) on 29.03.07 at Coffs Harbour and go clockwise around Australia, about 20.000 Kilometres; sounds safer than my solo plan. We meet before the trip in Coffs Harbour just to make sure we get on, something GREAT to look forward to, how lucky am I?

Chatters

We even have places for people to chat, not easy in a parashute.

Steak well cooked?

U did say 'Well done?'
U sure now?. Note gas bottle under the flames. B.B.Q. Oz style. Got a camera but that won't put flames out

Lost on a painted sky

Lost on a painted sky where the clouds are hung with a poets eye, you may find him....... Jonathon Livingston Seagull

Bandit people

My sons and grandson. How lucky am I? Grandad is a bit slower these daze!!!!!!!!!!

Quiet week end

Team Bandit at home, R6, 1200 Bandit, 1832 Wing, How lucky am I??????

sunday morning

She is wrapped up in our country and why not?

Oz Day

Australian and proud of it, A great country that I chose to live in, so did the others. What a great place, we are lucky.

nice lady

bandit plays marbles

we played marbles that day behind the pub for charity. Pub WAS not open

lady Bandit betta pic

My Lady Bandit with our leader at Gold Coast A.G.M. 2001. How lucky am I? He started it all in 1983, how lucky are we? Fantastic club.

Lady Bandit

Old pics I just found, slider was in 1968, just before I ended up in ambulance others are surfers A.G.M. with our founder Stephen Dearnley and my Lady Bandit, old pics taken before digitals, maybe able to enhance them. What great times we have, we are so lucky! Money cannot buy these memories.

Quiet Sunday morning

The things people do on a Sunday morning, I took the Wing to Byron Bay the other guy took the more scenic route; how did he get there? The life savers rescue more than people, they got him out in minutes and the tide was coming in, he is a very lucky man. Still having medical probs but can ride Bandit almost with one hand, more tests to come. GOTTA get fit.

boxing day

What a machine, goes like scalded cat an handles. Snap!!!!!!! :-)))))))

Sunrise in Eastern Queensland

Xmas day, 29 deg, nice. just had lunch with lady over the road, she IZ only 85 L.O.L.

Xmas Morn

Camper trailer

We tried the camper out today, my sons and I. IT is huge when opened, so much room and double bed PLUS anex, it is massive and so easy to put up. THIS is the thing to go with, gotta get fit before trip. Be lucky

Legless

Grandson's Xmas prez. as U do, managed to MT bottles rapidly. I am learning, need more pics from club of chickies; dwarfes are all very well BUT!!!!! They go to Goblin parties.

what a difference

We came 11th that day at Thruxton, Rocket Gold Star, top end 115 m.p.h. drum brakes, little tyres but what a race. Redman and Hailwood were there. My wife did not ride, bit short one end!!! Pic taken in 1963. Oh to be fit again, so tired, with Wing and Bandit in garage, Y do we grow old?????????? I have been lucky.

Erin 2

Still having trouble with shoulder, cannot ride Wing but must get it fixed VERY soon, only ride 1200 Bandit at the moment, waste of a good Wing. Like my birds? and I only 64, what if I waz 28?mmmmmmmmm

Nice birds