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Southward Car Museum

Sir Len’s shed A giant car and bike museum filled with mystery It’s probably true that, as I’m frequently told, I have one of the best jobs in the world. Editing a motorcycle magazine takes […]

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Vineyards run

Tasmania the easy way Let someone else do the planning Early in the New Year, Mrs Bear and I packed our bike gear and headed south to Tasmania. A perfect Busman’s Holiday awaited us — […]

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Off-line NSW

Princes Highway deviation – Off-line As is often the case, the road less travelled calls us Nobody likes roadworks while they’re happening, except sadists who are riding behind beginners with no gravel experience. But we […]

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Macquarie Pass

Handle with care It’s not the safest road in Australia, but it’s one of the best In his book, Down Under, Bill Bryson credits Lachlan Macquarie with “the world’s first nearly successful attempt to name […]

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Gold

There’s more than gold in… them thar hills Take a ride around Victoria’s Gold Country IT SOMETIMES SEEMS to me that every town I visit in Australia was founded for just one reason: because gold […]

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Route 66

Guide to the kicks Old Route 66 has almost disappeared. Dale Butel is there to make sure it doesn’t evaporate completely Believe it or not, there are more roads in the world than we have […]

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GREAT CRUISER RIDES #3

Up and back again How many different kinds of road are there? I have to be brutally honest with you and admit that I just don’t know how many different kinds of road there are, […]

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Gilera Fuoco

Three wheels on the Hume Once again, the best-laid plans of mice and bears gang agley… Mice? Who said anything about mice? But the bearly-laid plans definitely went agley when I headed down the Hume […]