Australia's best motorcycle roads. The Gillies.

Gilles highway - Northern QueenslandJust south of cairns the Gilles highway runs from Gordonvale up the Lamb range to the Atherton Tableland. It has a reputed 258 corners in the main 19km section and is the premium ride in northern Queensland. I traveled to Cairns and the nearby areas a few times when I was younger and I would love to return there and ride the Gilles, Parmerston and Kuranda

More one day ride suggestions

The South West.There is some great riding to be had to the west and south of Brisbane. Some ideas for you are:Ride towards Boonah from where ever you live, for me this is Western f-way then Ipswich f-way, the Warwick b-pas h-way to Yamanto then the road to Boonah. There is some excelletn views of the ranges to be had if you deviate via Kalbar and then I don't actually go into Boonah, rather try

Australia's best motorcycle roads. Alpine way.

Murray power station 1Alpine WayFrom Jindabyne to Khancoban is a motorcycle road talked about alot on the forums. IMO it is a bit over rated perhaps because people get the Apline way and the Great Alpine road confused. The later is in Victoria and is one of the top 3 rides in the country, the Alpine way is in NSW and not of similar quality.I will describe riding south however the road is better

Australia's best motorcycle roads. Brown Mtn.

Brown Mountain.The riding from Bega to Cooma is already pretty good without a mountain climb, add in Brown Mtn and its a superb ride.Leaving Bega you will enjoy a series of sweeping bends which are very enjoyable, you can hold a nice pace and roll on and off the throttle and get into a real groove. I might actually like that part more than the mountain - its just so nice and flowing.Brown Mtn is

Air Hawk motorcycle cushion

I have purchased a Air Hawk seat cushion in hope of doing some touring or longer distance riding on the MV than the standard seat will allow - which like many factory seats is good for maybe couple hundred kilometres max.Full review soon if I get to do my '07 Alpine roads tour.

Japan Motorcycling

Damn - I was directed to this YouTube video today of riding a motorbike in Shizuoka - now I really am sad I am not going to be riding there this year.And I have a new position at work which I have to start in April so my holidays here will be cut short - thus the planned tour here will either be shortened or changed to another time.Sigh ... oh well these things happen for a reason I guess.

Australias best motorcycle roads - Waterfall way

Waterfall WayIt has taken me quite some time to get down and really ride this road fully. From Grafton you are spoilt for choice when it comes to good motorcycle roads.If you ride over Nymboida then the road on south via Ebor to Armidale is much more direct and leads you onto the Thunderbolts Way. However if you detour via this road then it sets you up to ride the Oxley h-way. I elected to simply

Earplug review update

I have found the silicon putty type of ear plugs - designed actually for swimmers - to be the only ones that seal off the noise successfully every use. These are a bit more expensive to buy locally than foam ear plugs so I may buy some in bulk from the USA rather than buying from Chemist's here. So far I have not found any other places that sell them at reasonable amount.Other suggestions I have

Good motorcycle roads # 30 Urbenville

Far south west. Toolum forest, Urbenville and Old Bonalbo.This is about as far south west as many people will wander to in a day and there is a couple of good rides nearby.South of Queen Mary Falls is a nice run up or down the mountain and then you are at Legume and the terrible road from there to Woodenbong is barely passable being so rough it will bottom out suspension and probably smash