I love it when a plan comes together. A positive response to my tentative Aussie bike-loan request from editor Deano saw two Yamaha Tracers turned over to us from the middle to the last day of February this year. Enough time for all the WorldSBK work/work stuff to get done, between some road testing and simply drinking in the sights and sounds of Australia as NSW, ACT and Victoria rolled past under our wheels. Here’s a Scotsman’s and an Italian’s take on Oz. Not quite the A-Team but…
SYDNEY TO CANBERRA
Our perfectly prepared Tracers, a 7 and 9 GT+, were loaded up with work and regular travelling gear at Yamaha’s modern HQ in Sydney. My iPhone was going to play sat-nav (except it overheated regularly under your vengeful Australian sun) and my UK phone was not compatible with the Aussie Yamaha satnav lingo on the 9 GT+.
Having only had one restless night in Sydney after being liberated from the 24-hour penal colony of economy class from Europe, we bailed out of a longer coastal run
