The right-hand side of Australia has been under water for much of the last two years and our roads are as wrinkly as our waterlogged fingers. Tarmac has vanished at alarming rates and councils are hard-pressed to keep up. It is a particular problem in the bush, where roads are long and ratepayers few.
My destination was Albert, 120km west of Dubbo, for an annual motorcycling gettogether at the Rabbit Trap Hotel. But first I had to make sure the old girl was up to the 1100km round trip from the coast. Fixing the left-side rear blinker was easy enough; more worrying was a wonky rear wheel. It
