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24-09-2006, 12:11am
Hi All, we got back to Perth Friday afternoon from Phillip Island. We caught the ferry from Sorento and travelled along the Great Ocean Road to Mt Gambier and then to Adelaide. Awesome peice of road. Windy though.
We met Mark on the Barry Sheene ride while we were riding along, and Busgo in Cowes and had coffee. Would like to have caught up with more of us though and exchanged some lies!
The Busa went well, made it on a single rear tyre (Bridgestone 020) Perth to Perth, with lots of luggage and my son. Tyres buggered now though. Didnt need to adjust the chain at all (sprayed just the exposed bits you can see every night while it was still hot). Still seems to be acceptably tight. Amazing. We travelled about 700 - 800 km per day with a couple of days of 1100km on the way home. Speed mostly around 130-140 km/hr cruising. The Busa cruises at any speed but around 140 was comfortable and not too illegal, Got a few hard looks from the police. In Victoria we were very good boys and used a GPS to keep the speed legal. Fuel consumption was OK but it fell to around 12km / l when the speed crept over 140 and the head winds were high. Best I got was around 18km/l cruising (no wind to speak of). On Thursday the side winds were terrible across the Nullabor and the Busa was actually quite a handfull to keep on the road. Still managed the trip from Ceduna to Fraser Range though, but I was pretty well stuffed at the end of it.
Any way, nice to have met Mark and Busgo.
Cheers <i></i>
We met Mark on the Barry Sheene ride while we were riding along, and Busgo in Cowes and had coffee. Would like to have caught up with more of us though and exchanged some lies!
The Busa went well, made it on a single rear tyre (Bridgestone 020) Perth to Perth, with lots of luggage and my son. Tyres buggered now though. Didnt need to adjust the chain at all (sprayed just the exposed bits you can see every night while it was still hot). Still seems to be acceptably tight. Amazing. We travelled about 700 - 800 km per day with a couple of days of 1100km on the way home. Speed mostly around 130-140 km/hr cruising. The Busa cruises at any speed but around 140 was comfortable and not too illegal, Got a few hard looks from the police. In Victoria we were very good boys and used a GPS to keep the speed legal. Fuel consumption was OK but it fell to around 12km / l when the speed crept over 140 and the head winds were high. Best I got was around 18km/l cruising (no wind to speak of). On Thursday the side winds were terrible across the Nullabor and the Busa was actually quite a handfull to keep on the road. Still managed the trip from Ceduna to Fraser Range though, but I was pretty well stuffed at the end of it.
Any way, nice to have met Mark and Busgo.
Cheers <i></i>