What a Month

December is always a busy month for the Harley Rides industry, and 2006 was no exception.The first weekend of the month saw the demand for sidecars stretched to the limit for Corporate Family Christmas parties. We had 3 on Saturday 3rd Dec and 4 on Sunday the following day. I started at 9 am on Sunday doing a 3 Sidecar job for Tourism Victoria, where we took a group of Travel Agents from New

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Harley Rides Video

People sometimes hav a hard time coming to grips with exactly what it is that we do. Quite often they confuse our service with Motorcycle Hire, where they actually ride the bike. But, that's not what we do. When you go on a Harley Ride, you are the passenger - we do the riding - you don't need a motorcycle licence - you don't even need any prior experience (in fact the ones who have never sat on

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Manx Radio Interview

One of the many things we do is to get involved doing work for Tourism Victoria as part of their Visiting Jounalists Program.This week we had the pleasure of taking the Crew from Manx Radio out for a ride around Melbourne.Producer Alex Brindley sat on the back of my bike and interviewed me as we rode along. You can listen to that interview here.

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Summer is on the Way

Things are starting to heat up, and I'm not just talking about the weather here in Melbourne. I'm talking about how the demand for Harley Rides starts to build at this time of year.As always, there is one weekend every December when the supply of Sidecars runs dry. This year that weekend is the 3rd and 4th December. This is the weekend when all the Corporates hold their Family Christmas parties.

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Get Noticed?

One of my other passions, when not taking people for a Harley Ride is in the area of Motorcycle Safety and related issues. This video came to my attention yesterday and I encourage everyone to have a look at it. You can view it at:www.pleaselooktwice.comIts always a pleasure to share ones's love of motorcycles with others - especially when they are in the planning stages decidinh how to get

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What a Week!

Thank god its Monday! As the weather starts to warm here in Melbourne, the workload soon heats up and demand for Harley Rides begins in earnest.This past week has certainly proven that year in year out the story remains the same.Just to give you some idea of what we get up to, I'll detail several of the rides underatken over the last week:On Thursday, we took two girls for a half day ride up into

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People Who come for Harley Rides with us

Click Here to see Our CustomersHere is a link to a Photo Gallery of people we have taken for a Harley Ride.

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Visions of Melbourne

I stumbled over an excellent Video Page on the Visit Victoria web site the other day.It contains four magnificent Video Clips that showcase magnificent Melbourne.

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Group Rides - Incentive Rewards

We frequently get asked top take large groups for a Harley Ride and as can be seen from this photograph, these can involve quite a few bikes.On this occassion we picked the group up from the Crown Promenade Hotel in downtown Melbourne and transported them out to the Calder Thunderdome, where they were scheduled to spend the afternoon driving Nascars at high speed around the dome.This group was

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Fathers' DayThe weather in Melbourne has been perfect over the last week and the demand for Harley Rides on Father's Day for this year, 3rd September 2006, as a consequence was high. But, then as Sunday dawned the weather deteriorated and it looked like it was going to be a wet day.Our first customers took it all in their stride as we kitted them out in "head to toe" protective gear that included

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PeopleThe guy sitting on the bike in this photo is a big TV Star in MalaysiaPossibly one of the best things about introducing someone to the joy of riding as a pillion on the back of a Harley Davidson is the people you meet. Most are quite often amazed to find out how easy it is to talk with each other as we cruise around Melbourne.I have met some very interesting people over the years. Its

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Too Cold to go for a Ride? You must be joking!For some bizarre reason, winter is the time when things go quiet and I start to question my sanity as to why I operate a Harley Rides business. But, then along comes someone who isn't afraid of the cold, someone who wants to have an experience. That one person and I ventured down the Great Ocean Road together last Wednesday.When I arrived to pick up

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SEEing Life DifferentlyOur customers are a pretty diverse bunch. Whenever I tell people about what we do, they immediately assume that only motorcycle enthusiasts would want to go for a Harley Ride. The truth is - anyone who has a motorcycle licence isn't actually in our "target market".Take a look at this accompanying photo. Notice the number of people wearing "suits"? Would you believe that

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