The road trip was planned, booked and paid for in October. You need to pay ahead to make things happen.The opening round of the World Superbikes coincided with Jono having two weeks leave to move house from Kingaroy to Roma. Fortunately Narelle is a capable woman who didn't need him for that. He arrived on his new bike, ZX 1400, Wednesday evening, we packed my bike and headed off not so early on Thursday morning.
1100km mostly avoiding the highways, through Oberon to Goulburn, transport stage down the Hume to Gundagai, then through Tumut into the Snowy Mountains to Cooma. Bum fatigue was relieved by bike swapping on the ride from Cooma to Cann River in Victoria. The last 30km into Cann River is a joy of smooth 60kph sweepers, the best form of fatigue relief known to bikers.
We finished the day in transport mode to Sale where we had the only accommodation prebooked for the trip. Friday morning we hooked up with Jonos mate Rosie and his travelling companions for the run into Phillip Island. By lunchtime tents were up and bed rolls unrolled?, then we headed out to trackside for the first days practice sessions. The bikes racing were world superbikes, world supersports, Aust superbike and supersport, superstock and historical. Missed a class or two there. Friday night a cold front with very cold and strong winds drove the whole campsite to bed about 8.30pm. Saturday were more practice sessions for all classes and superpole for the superbikes.
To be continued.
Here is a slideshow of the trip:
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