That’s it, there’s no going back now!

At last, our bike has been collected and will soon be on a boat to Melbourne, it should land around 16th Jan. It needs to get to Sydney, so will go by road for that last leg and hopefully our friends Richard & Jude can get it through customs easily enough.

We fly out via Hong Kong and should arrive in Sydney in plenty of time to start our trip on the 1st Feb. We will have a week in Sydney and hope to get in a few ride-outs from there to make sure everything still works and to acclimatise the best we can – there will be quite a difference in temperature between winter in North Wales and the height of summer in Australia!

If anyone thinks our bike looks overloaded, we have all our riding gear, including boots strapped on there and our helmets in the top box. We actually came in well under BMW’s recommended max weight, including us in riding gear, clothes and camping gear – result! It also includes up to 16 litres (so 16Kg) of water if we fill the bladders we have packed.
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Our garage looks empty now without the bike, but it will give me a chance to have a good tidy up. Our dog is called Woody and one of the hardest things about this trip for us will be being without him for 6 months.

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