Only applicable to French eggs. [biggrin]Quote:
Originally Posted by Tins
Only applicable to French eggs. [biggrin]Quote:
Originally Posted by Tins
Had my BMW K100 RS Sydney- Melb, Adelaide, Perth, Shark Bay and several other not quite that far trips. I should have kept going around!Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
Sold it in Perth sadly. My Navy Kit bag and gear sack was enough with two fishing rods looking like radio aerials. No cool panniers for me[biggrin]
Love to do that again
The RT version would have been smarter than mine
hmm not that much [bigwhistle][bigwhistle][bigwhistle] BMW R 1200 GS Adventure bikes for sale in Australia - bikesales.com.au
Francis Birtles did London to Melbourne in a Bean back in 1927 but they are probably difficult to track down nowadays.
His car is in the National Museum of Australia. Birtles and the Sundowner car | National Museum of Australia
Looks like a reenactment by Warren Brown in his Bean later this year.
Birtles and the Bean: a reenactment trip from England to Australia - Australian Motor Heritage Foundation
Better roads now, sorry....there are road now all the way. Birtles was cutting his way through Jungles.
Round the World by sea in a Jeep GPA ?
Ben Carlin - Wikipedia
I think you could do the trip in almost any vehicle nowadays, depends how comfortable you want to be.
Colin
Not so much RTW but when i was in Zimbabwe our Aussie truck driver had an ex WWII MAN 6x6 truck he used for touring Africa, huge truck with massive portal diffs that could almost drive over a mini, i thought that would make a great overland vehicle.
if your into classic cars, the nutters that own those little 2cvs do "raids" every year. It is a very minimalist way to travel, as weight is your enemy if you wish to travel in a 2cv.
Raid Australia – Home of the 2CV Raids in Australia
here's the australian "raid" website. Be warned, you need to be to have a remote area 4wd type mentality to go on these. You're not going to be towing everything behind ... or even carrying a fridge most likely. If you own a 2cv, nearly every country in the world seems to do these "raids".... you can go anywhere with like minded people. nearly anything can be fixed on the side of the road.
The 2cv guru (2cViking) aka: Peter Fosselius has just shifted back to australia. so google up his name if your interested and he can point you in the right direction.
The CDP (carnet de passage en douane) requires a lot of cash yes. if your car is say 3000,- (seems likely for an old 2cv) it would cost you 6500,- or thereabouts for australia since it is one of those countries that requires one of the highest coverages. Of that 5000,- would be the deposit that you would get back with a stamped out document.
Then again, a 2cv... no thanks. A bug, very maybe but probably not :) There is bloke from the UK who did south america with a combi and changed/repaired/rebuilt his engine 10! times. (kombi life)
The goldwing was once on my list as well :) but I decided against a motorbike since I was already brash enough with cars...
An MAN Kat.1 with an air cooled V8 6x6 was also on my list, very briefly, since they are huge, not allowed to go everywhere or CAN even go everywhere.
-P