Australian Road Rider

GET OUTTA TOWN!

Every now and then I like to pack up my old Blackbird and head out the door for a few days. No real plan, no real destination, no set agenda. Just bloody go.

It’s incredibly liberating. The feeling as you pull away on that first day is reminiscent of the rush you got when you first discovered motorcycling. And it’s the same. Every single time.

So I thought… why not start a section in the mag entitled “Snag in a Swag” and head out on one of these fairly regularly. You get my drift. I’m actually working when I do this.

I knoooow!

This time round I rolled up the swag and headed into the south-west of Victoria. I was determined not to route plan too much, but I had one thing in mind — secondary

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