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A record of owning My Harley-Davidson® motorcycle.  It's here for my ongoing analysis of ownership, and because my memory's rather shit. If you read it I hope you find something in it for you.

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Tuesday 14th April 2015
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By Wom Battle

Sadly I don't seem to be getting the Road King, or my other bikes,  out of the shed as much as I'd like lately. 75,000kms on the clock and it's still going strong though. However it was time to blow the cobwebs out of it and the others so I decided to do a 3 day ride at Iron Butt pace on a different bike each day.  My Harley-Davidson

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Category: Rides
Monday 5th May 2014
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By Wom Battle

The alarm went off at 3.15am and my get out of the motel routine kicked and I was out the door with a docket at the Caltex at 4.01am and a witness signature.  It was quite cool so the heated vest was turned on and away I went.  Yeah yeah, heated vest, what a pussy. Let me tell you, if you are going to

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Category: Rides
Sunday 4th May 2014
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By Wom Battle

I was in Cairns at the National HOG Rally and I needed to get home. The HOG Rally was fun but didn't leave me in an appropriate condition to take on another 2300ks in one day trip so I left Cairns before lunch on Sunday and rode down the Bruce Hwy to Mackay, which is conveniently located 1621kms from home snd

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Category: Rides
Thursday 1st May 2014
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By Wom Battle

"You can't ride to Cairns in a day from Newcastle" "No you say? Lets see."  Sadly I didn't have time to take any pictures, but the ride is documented and witnessed as per IBA rules. Here we go....off to the 2014 National HOG Rally.

Central and Northern Queensland isn't really my favourite place

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Category: Rides
Saturday 23rd February 2013
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By Wom Battle

JP and I are now Road Captains of our local HOG® Chapter and a while back we mentioned we were going to do an Iron Butt SS1600K for a bit of fun  and were happy to take a long anyone who might like to have a crack but weren't sure how to do it (other than just getting on a bike and riding 1610ks).  We got two starters

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Category: Rides
Saturday 6th October 2012
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By Wom Battle

An increasingly busy life, an in part a selection of other bikes to ride,  has seen my Harley-Davidson® Road King® gathering a little too much dust in the garage for the last 5 weeks or so, but today I was down to lead a local HOG Chapter new members ride and I was really looking forward to it.  The first

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Category: Rides
Monday 24th September 2012
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By Wom Battle

A little while ago I wrote about the demise of my SPOT Connect resulting in my sending it off to Pivotel for a warranty claim.  Well the news is mostly good.  The SPOT Connect has a 12 month

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Category: General Banter
Monday 24th September 2012
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By Wom Battle

While riding my Harley-Davidson® Road King® up through the centre of Australia in June this year I was reminded how cold it can get

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Category: General Banter
Saturday 1st September 2012
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By Wom Battle

A beautiful day for riding my Harley-Davidson today.  It was sunny, warm for the season and a new members ride day for the local HOG Chapter.  @officerhardass was to be the rear  Road Captain for the day with another member leading the group.  I went to the local dealership early to do a little shopping and immediately noticed

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Category: Rides
Thursday 23rd August 2012
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By Wom Battle

A while back I bought a SPOT Connect (review here) so I could log/track my long distance and Ironbutt Rides on my Harley-Davidson® Road King®.  While it had it's

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Category: General Banter

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