Wombats Go To Jirisan

Smashing weekend had by all. We had a HUGE ride up to Jirisan last weekend. Gathering at 8am saturday, leaving at 10:30am after some early shag-ups. We arrived at our destination at around 8pm sat night sufficiently tired and sore in that really nice "I just rode my arse off all day and I feel great but tired and sore" way.

We had lots of new people who were smashing company, everyone fitted in really well. Its amazing how it all gels. I think I speak for more people than me when I say that after two days of riding and one enormous piss-fest I feel like I have know every single one of these guys and gals for years. I guess we are all 'Weiguks In A Strange Land' and we share a common and quite serious addiction. That could go aways toward explaining how uncannily well it always seems to flow.

We had 13 bikes, which dropped to 12 straight up with one Kwaka vulcan shitting its nappy before the get-go and 17 people dropping to 16 with the vulcan episode. Unfortunatley, and to the chagrin of all, Aussie Dave and his Frankencycle will be making their last appearance for a while as he is chosing to accept a position on a sailboat heading from Bali to Australia next month. We hope to see him and his lovable (and perplexingly reliable) monstrosity early in the new year.

It has been decided by popular majority that the next ride will be on the 14th and 15th of October. We will be riding to Gayasan National Park in the peak of Autumn. It will be stunning. Sean Costello will fill the ridemeisters seat and I again am looking forward to filling the shoes of the Ridemeister's Bitch.

Don't forget to check out the Wombat Riders Introduction Website, click on the link to the right of here on screen and see you all in October.

Random Bikes We've Seen

This is a 1947 harley (above) that we found in Fukuoka and a 1939 (below) that has been converted into a ute.


This is a Triumph Thruxton from the place where we rented the scooter in Japan.

This is a Corean Fire Department Bike from Gangneung. Photo generously donated by our good Gangbuster mate, Nathan.

Wombats Get Burned

 
 
Have a bit of a squiz at $1100 worth of burnt plastic. My black box shit its pants. Not frikin' happy. Not really happy. Actually not happy at all. I'm trying to look at it from a funny angle. There isn't one. End of story.

But I tell you what is funny and that is the new apartment building going up somewhere around here. I could give you directions, but most of you (readers) are Australian so it wouldn't matter a little white pig anyway. first let me give you a quick Corean lesson. ㅇ is a silent consonant. ㅏ is A. 아 is therefore A. ㄴ=N. ㅓ=U. ㅅ=S. ㅡ is EO but more commonly used as a (semi-silent)consonant ender when transliterating foreign words into the Corean alphabet. The word "Villa" or Villas" in Corean is 빌.

The new apartment complex across town is called 아너스빌. You do the math.

The other funny thing that i saw yesterday was a girl (maybe 12) wearing a t-shirt that stated "I Love TB". I asked her (she is a student of mine) what TB is, apart from tuberculosis, she told me ... actually its funnier (for me) if I don't tell you. 

Video From Japan

  

Watch this one with the sound turned off, the quality is bad. Actually none of these vids are very good but give them a whirl anyway. For the full story on Japan go to www.bonzotheweiguk.blogspot.com

have fun