LOCAL RIDES SHARE YOUR LOCAL RIDE

By Tug McClutchin

It’s hard to not start this story with “back in my day”. So, I didn’t. Not quite, anyway

But I still reminisce.

The Sydney I cut my road motorcycling teeth in had a couple of popular “local rides”. The type of place you go when you can spare a few hours away from the chores and get on the bike for a quick blast. The Old Pacific Highway, commonly called The Old Road, and the road through the Royal National Park south of Sydney were the popular spots. For those in Sydney’s west, like I was, Bells Line of Road presented opportunities for all sorts of trouble.

Back then the speed limits were higher and largely unenforceable in the twisty bits with the available technology.