Saturday, August 14, 2010

The story so far....

Welcome to David Closs' blog. This is my first blog and will lead to the story of what I hope will be my trip from Cockle Creek Tasmania to Cape York in Queensland. I've got 7 weeks to do it, so I will try and keep everyone up to date with progress. To go back a bit. I attempted a trip of this nature in 2006 on my Yamaha TDM 850, but apart from Cyclone Larry stuffing up the plans, found the TDM to not be a very good bike in the dirt, so in January this year I bought the BMW. It's a 2006 R1200 GS which had 6,000km on it when I picked it up in Melbourne in January this year in absolutely mint condition. The couple with the bike are my very good friends Brian and Rose in Melbourne who helped me to get the bike. I've now modified the bike with panniers and a small fortune in other bits, so all I have to do now is head off. The trip starts on September 5th. I'll try and keep you up to date with my progress and some piccies.
Cheers
David