Here are some more photos from our recent trip to Australia:
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Parked outside Deus ex Machina, a Honda VTR 250, a baby Monster, perhaps my ideal of a daily driver. |
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Also parked outside Deus ex Machina, a belt drive Peerless, someone else' idea of the ideal daily driver
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Geoff Clatworthy's shop |
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Geoff's killer ES-2 Norton |
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With a Fiat 500 at Sydney Motorsports Park, Eastern Creek, during a Fiat track day. |
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The control tower and front straight. That's Don Lange on the right. |
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How could I resist a 'Roper Rd' sign? That's Maurice Candy riding shotgun. |
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This is the abandoned Catalina Park circuit we visited in Katoomba
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Kenny checking out the run off
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![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjRwUvsekXn8wk47RWyjWFCL_dD69QwUwiFkU81YL0dwwk-l6r2HLB7LuDjFcA6poZE5EDu5aPYy4F5ZJUMAw0RgtZeFFeltEPtEvUfwOoqqMld1WsuXT9D6mtQPe6SwQLTnjCJuxAHWtD/s1600/Catalina+Pk.+4.jpg) | The circuit is 2.1km./ 1.3mi. long |
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The front straight finishing the lap |
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A BP sign in the old pits |
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A map of the Catalina Park. |
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A memorial to the fallen soldiers from Bathurst in the Boer War. It boggles my mind that colonials in Australia would go to South Africa to fight for the Empire. But, I guess no harder to understand than the Great War, WW II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Malaysian War(?) that were added to this memorial.
From the Mt. Panorama Motor Museum: |
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a somewhat modified AJS 7R |
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A home made, 2 liter, 90 degree motor in a drag bike |
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A very original Kawasaki A1R
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The four valve G-50 Railway Spl.
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from the other side
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from the back
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Metal sculpture at Thredbo
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![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_eREg3EuNQsZrMnQYPFY2Xf9IYlSj4mphdlPkk0v6uqqDUMyA9_2QbyHyDvkRxViCjhXhpuPnCT5sa8hQ0n7psBqBR0v05rJTadlqEKyj05Cl_39sKriyEvvP_oKmZvjv3zEQpqbrFmJV/s1600/Thredbo+view.jpg) | The view from the top of the chairlift
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkD-fuTuB6sCms8dO1sHNAnJ5K6xWm2tzjo3Pjs9wn8mEW2K0IjIdGMi_Zyv3_-uqpcDyh1aZBj0d6AZmsx1oiJSaj3kk9yUR8di6Sgro-B2nSuO3_RwtfXnsQLUkLhuBNutq20TpR3nEk/s1600/ERTT+pre-crash+1:23:14.jpg) | My H-D ERTT Sprint in the garage at Phillip Island |
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Racing the ERTT sans windscreen after my get-off. That's my arch nemesis, Phil Paton on a 270 Bultaco #91. He beat me by 0.005 sec. in race 2 and I beat him by 0.003 sec in race 3. #79 is a MT 125 Honda. Photo by Jake Skate, jakeskateimages.com
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Here I'm on Tom Marquardt's 492cc Honda CB400F. This must be practice or qualifying as #800 (TT 500 Yamaha) and #34 (SR 500 Yamaha) finished well behind me, or didn't finish, in all the races. Jake Skate photo, jakeskateimages.com
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