Bike #890: Results are in. Sadly our first DNF in 7 tries. But, with the vintage bike it was always a high possibility – so close! Clean up and pack day Alice Springs Up reasonably early to do a Big Wash down in the laundry. Got in early to avoid the rush. The park now […]

Yes, this is frost; a COLD night Pack up and team heads back to Alice Springs As we didn’t have to get Roy back on the track to ride back to Alice springs in the race we were able to be a bit more relaxed with packing up the campsite. We still got up at

The whole team, swelled in numbers by our merger with our friends from Canberra, the Hammer Team. L-R; Graeme, Chris, Belinda, Karl, Fiona, Roy, Heinz, Rich & Luke. The challenge is on for the next 226km of dirt track to Finke. Out to the racetrack with bike and rider and team members in separate cars.

Powering around the prologue track on the vintage bike Prologue Day; Combined age of rider +bike = 115 years Headed out to the racetrack around 8:30 this morning. Rider sign on was at 10:30. We went out to the track in separate cars to Chris and Graeme and arrived not too far apart to grab

Crowds looking at the entrant’s vehicles Scrutineering night Scrutineered bikes lined up for show Early afternoon was taken up with making sure the bike was all ready for scrutineering, ticking off the list getting serial numbers etc. Then about 3 o’clock we headed up to the track separately from the crew as we would have

Major Mitchell cockatoo with keeper Sight seeing day. We all headed off to the Alice Springs desert park nice and early so we would catch the birds show that was on at 10:30. We made the bird show and even the dingo talk before that.  Bruce the willy wagtail was definitely a star.  Perentie In

The long job of putting on all the safety gear! Day 2 on the Finke track; pre-running the rider! This morning we headed off to the start of the Finke Desert racetrack, unloaded our rider set him up and sent him off southwards on the track. We also headed down south on the road in

Coffee at the Telegraph Station cafe Rest day! Today is a rest day after four busy days of driving and pre-running the racetrack. We had a good sleep in before reconvening with Graeme and Chris and we took the car and vintage bike out to the car wash washed off all the red dirt from

Rider and team manager Taking the vintage bike out on the track to see how it really goes Is it going to survive the distance! We drove out on the race track to find a good place to stop. Found a good spot which is 16.5 km out on the road. We took Roy &

Red sand hills = arrived red centre! Two and a half thousand Km in 2.5 days is quite a journey from Canberra to Alice Springs. An early, 5am start on Friday arriving in Renmark just before 5pm. Admittedly with some generous coffee and lunch stops along the way. We definitely needed to buy Roy and