MOTO PHOTOS. 2019 Machine Show, Braidwood, Australia
Gasoline?s ?The Keeper? BMW R65, made for our good mate Cam ?Stories of Bike? Elkins
Written by Andrew Jones
The same thing happened every year. I’d promise myself that I’d go to Australia’s Machine Show and then at the very last minute the reality of travelling three hours south of Sydney would kick me in the family jewels. With a six-hour round trip, it’d either be a seriously big day or I’d have to organise accommodation and/or camping gear. And as it was now just a few days before the event, neither were very likely to happen easily. So I’d miss the show for another year. But not this year…
Sabotage Motorcycles? 1976 Honda CJ360
Braidwood is a quite, historical town directly east of Canberra, Australia’s capital city. Three hours south from Sydney and eight hours north west of melbourne, it’s remote location only adds to the ethos; close to nothing but the Aussie bush, you know that the people who turn up are there for the right reasons and not just to pass the time between lunch and dinner. Hell, I was rained on twice and I dried out twice before I even arrived.
The show’s location also provides for an interesting mix of patrons. While most country bike shows would be lucky to have anyone under the age of forty turn up, exactly the opposite is true for their city counterparts. They are all wall-to-wall ?yoof? and craft beer. But at the Machine Show, the twenty-somethings with the waxed moustaches and the iron...
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