BACK ROADING ON THE MANNING

Australian Motorcyclist Issue #119

• THE OLD GUY – POETRY
• OUR COMMUNITY – SIKH MOTORCYCLE CLUB AUSTRALIA
• BEAR TALES
• BORIS COLUMN
• CUSTOM BUILD
• KAWASAKI KZ900R – REVIEW
• MOROCCO PART 2
• AUSTRALIAN MOTORCYCLE TRIBES
• PUB OF THE MONTH
• BACK ROADING ON THE MANNING
• COMMUTING ON A BIKE? WHY NOT?
• TEMORA – BEAR’S MAP
• 2023 MOTO GUZZI MANDELLO – REVIEW
• 120 YEARS OF HARLEY-DAVIDSON HISTORY
• THE VORTEX – RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
• THE GREATEST SHOW ON TWO WHEELS – RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
• NEWS
• EDITORIAL

THUNDER BOLT’S WAY IS ALL VERY WELL, BUT GRAVEL IS BETTER
WORDS & PHOTOS – THE BEAR

This is where the story starts, on Gloucester Road just out of Wingham.

THERE WAS A TIME when an adventure bike, or even a dirt bike, would have been just right for Thunderbolt’s Way. It was the theoretically tar, but the surface was so badly chopped up that many road bikes found their suspensions … inadequate In fact, I remember a time when the last 20km north to Nowendoc was surfaced with a particularly aggressive lot of jagged black rocks,but that’s probably going back a little too far…..