end of January at me Constantin. He is currently in Perth and wanted to hear what I regard Sun Constantin had worked in the past three months in Western Australia on a farm as a harvesting aid workers and now had some time and money to travel. We hatched a daring plan short term and three days later I got it from the Melbourne airport. I had already run for the end of February, a "conspiracy" with Magnus to the tour guide to the Cape York to. So we decided to organize a motorcycle Constantin and us together to make north on the road. Compare After only two days with offers to rent or buy, classifieds study, bought Costa (his Australian nickname), his wild Italian: A Aprilia Pegaso 650!
The weekend was spent Aprilia to make the tour fit and Costa to buy motorcycle gear. On 7 February we tortured ourselves out on a Monday from the Melbourne city driving through the Victorian high country to the north to drive.
after short lunch we turned at last from the main road into the forest and drove some nice forest trails. I stopped at a lookout point on a few photos to make. Costa did not come. With foreboding I drove the way back and found him sweating and swearing to unload his luggage motorcycle. Plates! And this after only 5 hours drive! This a good start! We only have 5000km to go.
I after more than 26.000km on my Honda still had not a single plate, our experiments did with the tire lever to get the tire off the rim rather amateurish in so that we ultimately made the raw violence of Bavarian Constantin used. See video 1 below. By the bush fires in the previous year, the trees were not in leaf, so that we could only find shelter from the sun in the narrow shade of the tree trunks. After two attempts to patch the hole, we set everything back together again and decided to go to a town near Costa a proper hose to buy. In the crafts booth, where a local had described us as a motorcycle repair shop, three men sat on folding chairs and drank beer
. A fourth seemed to work, but not for us and not even the fat Labrador mongrel took note. So we dismantled the tire again, then, gave the tires a fifth, probably straight from the toilet or lunch or both, came and gave us the flat foot-wisdom along the way: Make "The front tires are the branches, and with the rear tire then you drive over it and has NEN plates. " He had found the culprit in the casing. A piece of wood.
Finally it went on. We drove in the Alpine Naional Park and found a fantastic campsite near a mountain stream with trout and crayfish. Other highlights of the tour was a total breakdown Costas brake hole in the radiator, loss of luggage rack, ice cold rain, no fuel more landslides are blocking the way, accident with trailer, but all the more fantastic views, great routes and was a successful three-week adventure trip . This will detail in my book. To Cape York, we have never had. Due to the heavy rainfall was all closed above Cairns. Costa left me just outside Brisbane to Sydney to go back and meet with his friend in January I drove to Mackay and allowed to stand my bike there. The monsoon rains and the many closed streets convinced me this tour at a later time to install. I flew back to Melbourne, but soon it should go back to Magnus Across Australia. This in the next journal. 
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