Well, after sleeping for 15 hours yesterday following BCW and spending the day looking and feeling like a zombie, this brilliant idea popped into my head and I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before now.
As some of you know, my parents live in Melbourne and every christmas I head down-under to spend a month with them. The past 3 times have been great (laying by my dad’s pool, drinking his beer and chilling out) but this year I wanted to do something a bit different and make more of the time I had there. So…I thought to myself last night, why don’t I use my dad’s bike (Honda Deauville) and ride from Melbourne to Brisbane along the coast, taking in Sydney on the way, then back to Melbourne. It’s about a 5000km round trip and I think my dad’s bike would be perfect, and I have mates that live in Brisbane so accomodation wouldn’t be a problem once I got there. I was even thinking of turning it into a bit of a sponsored event to raise money for our friends at the London Air Ambulance.
My question is do any of you guys know of any good motorbike forums in Australia that I could post questions to and get some local knowledge from regarding routes and places to stay along the coast that are biker friendly etc.
Here’s a rival for Flat’s coastal ride to Portsmouth
The more and more I think about this the more feasable I reckon it is…just imagining me riding up the coast on my dad’s bike donned with large LB stickers
I am Australian, lived most of my life in the Hunter Valley (although not many more years I’ll be able to say that for!) but also 3 years in Newcastle and 5 in Sydney. I might be able to help with some of your questions, so feel fee to PM me.
nice one…git 
OMG! Have you not been to Warrnambool before?