Author Topic: Watch Out Aussies, Here We Come!!!! (Read 6122 times)

jbrough7 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 19, 2006, 06:24:30 PM »

Cool site, ray -- thanks - I'm going to check it out in more detail later. is it just me or is having a big bike ride for blood donations just a bit too gruesome or suggestive!?! I just saw a bike laid down on a big sweeping corner so the blood thing was right there..sorry.

Aussiebandit - what's that old joke about telling your friend you've been married for 25 years and he asks if you will get time off your sentence for good behaviour?

Jim

B6mick · « **Reply #16 on:** April 20, 2006, 06:52:53 AM »

Quote from: "aussiebandit"

Actually, I was looking for a bit of sympathy. 18yrs, I would've been out on parole 8yrs ago if I'd committed murder.....

As for looking back at where you came from as being the best thing since sliced bread, well I was only a wee little lad of 5 when we moved to the land of Oz, but by all accounts we're a hell of a lot better of than we would've been. Shyte, I'm always telling the relatives in Pommy Land to move here, the weather is warm and the beer is cold, and Beef looks, smells and tastes like Beef, and we can eat it......

Sympathy, ha, never.

As for the rest, in regard to the home country, I'm with you.
One of my relo's went back, bitching all the way, how shyte it was here, he got back and lasted 3 weeks. Got a phone call, "come pick me up, I'm at the airport", I laughed.

jbrough7 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:09:24 AM »

B6 - I'm with you - when they do go back to their 'beloved' home, they just pi$$ and moan about that too! How much it has changed and it'll never be the same or as good. Maybe it's just the personality type that is never happy about nothin'. Give 'em $1 million and they would whine that it's not $2!!

Jim

aussiebandit · « **Reply #18 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:11:06 AM »

Hey at least I'm not going back for seconds -

DON'T YOU DARE TELL DONNA I SAID THAT - I LIKE MY NUTS RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE NOW.

B6mick · « **Reply #19 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:18:27 AM »

Quote from: "aussiebandit"

Hey at least I'm not going back for seconds -

DON'T YOU DARE TELL DONNA I SAID THAT - I LIKE MY NUTS RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE NOW.

Mum always said try and try again till ya get it right son.
so I'm trying again, and before the minister, her indoors, gets her 2 bobs worth in, yes I'm very trying

Yes and who would have thought I would ever get married again, after the bitter and twisted, 1st try.

slo coach · « **Reply #20 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:19:11 AM »

perth sounds good....thinking of going there,my daughter lives there,my wife 28 years wants to catch the train to perth ,from sydney,,so hows that for straight and flat travelling....but i,m thinking its a good excuse for a ride on the bandit,anybody know whats involved in getting some aussie plates on the bike if i ship it over as would be ther to long to make renting one worthwhile...cheers slo coach

jbrough7 · « **Reply #21 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:20:36 AM »

Sydney to Perth?? Is that like, 18 million kilometres??

B6mick · « **Reply #22 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:28:22 AM »

Quote from: "slo coach"

perth sounds good....thinking of going there,my daughter lives there,my wife 28 years wants to catch the train to perth ,from sydney,,so hows that for straight and flat travelling....but i,m thinking its a good excuse for a ride on the bandit,anybody know whats involved in getting some aussie plates on the bike if i ship it over as would be ther to long to make renting one worthwhile...cheers slo coach

The train is the best idea, even if ya catch it on the west side of the great divide. Sit back relax with a few cold ones, and for safety sake, give the nullaboring a miss. I did many years ago, never again , I don't care how good the road is suposed to be. On my trip back I took the train option.

I'm pretty sure you can temp rego, on your plates. But if memory serves me correctly there is a time limit and you have to pay a bond, to make it not worth your while selling the bike here.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #23 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:29:56 AM »

I wouldn't have thought that you'd need Aussie rego, providing you weren't staying too long, like permanently.

I'd check with one of those bike tour places like

http://www.motorcycletours.to/index.htm

oh and Jim our new found Canadian friend may find that web site useful....

B6mick · « **Reply #24 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:38:07 AM »

That makes me wonder, cause quite a few times over the years I have spotted, adventure travellers on UK rego'd bikes.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #25 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:47:47 AM »

I would've thought it's no different to us going over to the land of the long white cloud with our bikes, or going to the IOM in June with you own bike - now there's a road or 2 I'd like to ride.....

Oh and just for the record, no I'm not going, it is simply one of the things I dream about doing when I'm rich and famous....