Forever 2 Wheels..

Forever 2 Wheels, memorise the name and clear some space on your iPad people. F2W is a digital interactive magazine, coming soon to an iPad near you. Not only that, but they're the latest to fall under the influence of my arguably evil plan for world publishing domination.

Showing remarkable taste and foresight, they've decided to use my 'Devil of a Tale' article about rattling up down and every which way including loose around Tasmania, as the headline act for the fledgling publication.

There's a swanky preview video of the interactive mag here:




Shame about the pictures of me ruining the whole thing, but Gosling One was looking suitably motorbike-like. Unlike how she looks at the moment, which is like a giant pile of parts.

The experiment in hammer based percussion, also known as putting her back together, continues with renewed ferocity as I've got my replacements parts. Stay tuned for more news!

If it's not broken, stay the hell away from it...

It's been a while since the last update, which would be shocking if that wasn't the norm really. The main reason being, there's not a lot to report. Despite being back in Australia and raring to race toward the horizon in a lustful quest for adventure and hi jinks, I've not really been anywhere yet. Unless you count the local Yamaha dealer, which is as exactly as exciting as it sounds.

Gosling One is currently basking in her natural state of 'broken'. I only have myself to blame really, mainly because nobody else stayed around long enough to carry the can. It all started out as some relatively innocent tinkering with the carburettor in and attempt to solve a fuel supply hiccup and, well, one thing led to another. Things got stuck, stuff didn't un-screw like they should, hammers became involved at some point, sense of humours were damaged, some bigger hammers were found and swear words utilised to full effect.

The end result of this 'harmless tinkering'? A busted carburettor, which is now being employed as a paperweight and a long stint of being stationary.

The technical term is 'buggered'

A plus point to all this tinkering with the inner workings of Gosling One, is that I now have something resembling a clue about how the carburettor works [or doesn't], and exactly how much impact trauma one can withstand before becoming so many shards of shattered metal. [Not a great deal]

I've also developed a universal, fix anything on any bike tool kit. See below, and feel free to tweak your own adventure motorcycle tool kit appropriately.

This lot will fix anything. Cable ties are an excellent addition to this tool kit

So I'm now waiting for some replacement bits to appease Gosling One and the mechanical gods.

All this time twiddling my thumbs has unforunately given me ample chance to forget how to put all this back together:

Think I'll just hit it with something and hope for the best

Whilst Gosling One can't escape and frolic across the outback, I'll be making a few additions to her arsenal. I'll add a few images and news about those if all goes well and I don't break anything else.