In Heaven on The Great Ocean Road

One of the great pleasures/rewards about taking people for a Harley Ride is going down the Great Ocean Road. That was exactly what I did yesterday.




The Great Ocean Road is a motorcycle riders's heaven. Its where one can become engrossed in the real joy of riding a motorcycle along a challenging stretch of road that twists and turns. At one moment you are at sea level, the next you are 60

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Melbourne on Google Earth via Panoramio

I discovered a great application last week - I now have images of Melbourne mapped on Google Earth via a handy new Google application called Panoramio.You can view my photos of Melbourne (and some other places) via This LinkI took this picture of the Melbourne Skyline and inserted it into Google Earth, where hopefully others will see it soon.

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New Years Eve Melbourne

For the last 8 years or so I and several other Harley Riders have spent our time working on New Years Eve.It all started back in 1998 when it was discovered that there were never enough taxis in Melbourne to service the enormous demand created by having 1/2 a million people descend on the Melbourne CBD for the night. Our solution? Supplement the taxi shortage with Harleys fitted with

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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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