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Luxo
Tour 2025
With a nod to the lovely 1978 Joe
Cocker album, Luxury You Can Afford, we go
touring on our cheap and cheerful $13k luxo barge.
More on
this bike, here.
Road diary
Melbourne,
September 16
Final check
Aside from tyre pressures, the final job
today was to put the battery on charge so there were no
surprises in the morning.
We head off tomorrow and it's fair to say
we're not exactly crossing the Andes by a new route on a
donkey. By any reasonable measure the 4000km (2500 mile)
round trip from Melbourne to Brisbane via the Newell and
other highways should be easy.
The big question was whether we'd take
the Honda Valkryrie
Interstate or the K12 Bimm. It ended up being a
no-brainer. I have longish 600km-plus (370-mile) days
planned for much of the trip, with three feature stories
lined up in Brisbane, all of which has taken a lot of
co-ordination.
The BMW has the advantage of a big and
predicable fuel range and I know we can simply pump put
the first 300km (180 miles) each morning without stress.
Moments after we unhooked the battery
charger the temps in not-so-sunny Melbourne this afternoon
halved from balmy to what-the-fug almost instantaneously,
with winds and heavy rain. Tomorrow promises much the
same.
Of course Brisbane, at the other end, is
having good-old sub-tropical weather which will feel like
we're on another planet.
That was when I reminded myself we should
be doing this for pleasure and not as an endurance test.
So we take the bike best able to deal with the menu of
crap and good weather.
Meanwhile the Valkyrie can wait for the
Adelaide cruise, with shorter ride days, we have planned
for early November.
A reminder this is at least partly a work
trip was packing the topbox with two camera kits and a
drone.
More to come...
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