weather

[pomme busa boy]

only me, want to visit oz in early August, where is the warmest place with a beach, as im fed up with the bloody weather over here, also, can i rent any decent bike over there, obviously a busa would be lovely, bit to expensive to ship mine for to weeks
Cheers
Andy

[the shredder 3]

Diary of a Brisbane Summer (by a Pom)

August 31st

Just got transferred with work into our new home in Brisbane!! Now
this is a city that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings.
What a place! I watched the sunset from a deck chair on the verandah. It was beautiful.
I've finally found my home. I love it here.

September 13th:

Really heating up. Got to 35 today. Not a problem. Live in an
air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure
to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.

September 30th:

Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of
palms and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for me.
Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

October 10th

The temperature hasn't been below 30 all week. How do people get
used to this kind of heat? At least today it's kind of windy though.
But getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected.

October 15th:

Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.
Missed 3days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson
though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

October 20th:

I missed Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this
morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Kitty had died and swollen
up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $3,000 leather upholstery.
I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Wiskettes and cat shit.
I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.

October 25th:

The wind sucks. It feels like a giant bloody blow dryer!! And it's
hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the blink and the AC repairman
charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needed to order parts.

October 30th:

Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. Bloody $450,000
house and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

November 4th:

It's 35 degrees. Finally got the ol' air-conditioner fixed today.
It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 25, but this bloody humidity
makes the house feel like it's about 30. Stupid repairman. I hate this stupid place.

November 8th:

If another wise arse cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going
to strangle him. Bloody heat. By the time I get to work the car's
radiator was boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

November 9th:

Tried to run some messages after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the
black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my arse was on fire.
I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and my arse.
Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried arse, and baked cat.

November 10th:

The weather report might as well be a bloody recording. Hot and
sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do anything for
2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week.
Doesn't it ever rain in this damn place? Water rationing will be next, so my
$2,000 worth of palms just might dry up and blow into the bloody pool.
Even the palms can't live in this heat.

November 14th:

Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 38 today. Now the air-conditioner's gone in my car.
The repairman came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?"
My wife had to spend the $2,500 house payment to bail my butt out of jail for assulting the repairman.
Bloody Brisbane. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?

December 1st:

WHAT????? This is the first day of Summer???? You are kidding...... he he



The only warm place with a beach & to go swim will be up north around any of the island holiday spots at that time of year. Dont know of bike hire places up that way except for the moped deal for the tourist
shane

[AstroBusa]

If you want to spend time at the beach in August, head for Cairns. Not sure whats available in terms of hire bikes up there though. The older I get, the better I was. Regards.... Rob

[BUSGO]

The Gold Coast is a good destination for visitors and I think you can hire anything from a moped to a Triumph up there.
Any time of year is purving time on the Gold Coast.

Rgds BUSGO

"TAKE MY ADVICE"
I'm not using it anyway!

[simmo]

Nice try Shedder I saw that e-mail, its was about the Northern Territory an few months ago.
Hows that shoulder coming along.
Cheers Robert
Aren't all 'busas Copper, the others are just copy 'busas!!!!!

[Zephyr41]

Cairns is beautiful in August, usual disclaimers about unseasonal long wet spells apply of course! Temps should reach mid-20s, too cool for us locals to swim...

Apart from nice weather another not very well kept secret in the area is the great twisty roads from the coast up into the hills.

You can see some monthly temp. data at www.bom.gov.au

There is at least one bike hire place, you can hire a variety of Hardly-Driveables & Trumpets, Hornet 900, etc but no Busa as far as I know.

HTH
Rich