LONG-DISTANCE DELIVERY
The plan was simple; to ride from the east coast of Australia to the west, Brisbane to Perth, straight through the heart of the Outback.
The bike choice was equally simple; the iconic Australian postie bike, officially known as the Honda CTI 10, a bike I knew well from having ridden one home from Australia to the UK almost a decade ago.
They're great bikes: sturdy, reliable, easy to work on, as slow as glacial melt, but they do the job and for a ride across the barren stretches of the Outback it would be as good a bike as any. They're much like a Cub 90, only 4-speed not three, and fitted with regular telescopic forks rather than cantilever. CT stands for Cub Trail, so in a way they were built for the job.
The bikes were sourced from One Ten Motorcycles in Caboolture, a town just to the north of Brisbane. They specialise in the CT and agreed to source and prep a fleet of nine bikes for what would be a 5000km crossing from coast to coast.
All the bikes were fitted with long-range tanks mounted in the step-through, as well as official postie delivery sacks to act as panniers. Other than that, the bikes would be standard.
The route would take in some of Australia's most iconic desert tracks. From Brisbane we'd ride inland for a thousand kilometres on the Tarmac before reaching the New South Wales town of Bourke, marking the start of the Outback, before heading due west to Cameron Corner, then out along the Strzelecki Track, joining
