27th February
I've just been asked to go to Japan. Yamaha Motors Corp. have just invited me to meet them at Head Office in Iwata; it'll be a meeting, take me out for a meal, have a few beers, offer up a presentation, get the bike prepped, ride back up to Tokyo, see what if anything we plan to do in the future. I need to get to Sydney to catch a flight and squeeze this into my already tight schedule so there will be a temporary intermission in the blogs, replaced with some not uninteresting archive footage of previous visits to Australia. Service will be resumed occasionally.
Journey Beyond Reason (2005)
Archive footage from a previous crossing of Australia. I rode around the world in 19 days 4 hours on Yamaha's YZF R1 averaging 1600kms each day, sometimes riding much more to allow for the average falling in hard places like India.
Map of the Day
Dear friend Nick
Your trip to the Yamaha CEOs is a big chance to proof them the performance of their YAMAHA eBike, and the one of a human diver (you Nick) for this incredbidle journey, which is a world record one!! You have all cards in your hands. NO ONE ELSE WOULD DO SUCH A JOURNEY. Point.
Ford Company actually claims, that their new Ford Explorer BEV 100% electric driven car will arrive in about 2 months in a world record driving around the globe. A car with a driver. After several months. An e- car with many charging points. You are alone with a push bike with a small e-engine. With one T-Shirt, one underwear, and one rain coa…