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Less than a month from pushing through $20,000 the Everyday Hero Ride Around Australia team has broken through $30,000 and is still climbing. Combined with the offline fundraising I would put the total well in excess of $60,000 that has been raised for the Steven Walter Foundation to the Answers for Kids Cancer program. What a huge effort! You can read a bit more about the Steven Walter Foundation at their website.  So with bang on (only) three and a half months to go I need to get cracking on the work I need to do to my Yamaha Road Star. By 1 September I want to be at a stage where all work is completed so there is no last second mishaps. This means I only have ten weekends to get everything done which should be fine, providing I don’t mess anything up along the way. There’s a number of tasks to do including: Installing my rear Yamaha cast wheel Change the exhausts from my Bub Jugg Huggers to my Bub Big Continue reading the full Time to Start Working on the Motorcycle post. You know, there’s something special about starting a ride on a crisp winter’s morning. Up at 7am and outside there’s a beautiful fog curling its fingertips around the edge of the windowsill. Out the door by 8 and the cold, sharp air quite literally takes my breath away. As I roll down the road on my Yamaha Road Star, constantly wiping my visor free of the fog’s watery kiss, there is the evocative smell wood smoke on the breeze. I can picture the scene now, young children in big fluffy robes sitting around an open pot belly stove, maybe toasting pieces of bread on the end of a Continue reading the full Melbourne Star Riders Big Chill Long Weekend post. Short update today. I’m off for a run with the boys from Melbourne during the long weekend starting tomorrow. I’ll be riding from Canberra to Kevington, a small dot on the map just north of Melbourne. During this ride of three days I am going to try out some things with my iPhone as a practice run for October. First I am going to try the MotionX iPhone application which I will use to automatically log location updates to my Twitter and Facebook account every 15 minutes. Unfortunately I have been advised that most GPS apps for the iPhone absolutely Continue reading the full Testing iPhone Apps on a Motorcycle post. |  You can donate to the Steven Walter Foundation at the following link. | |||||
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