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DavidC
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Traveller. Recovering academic. #piano #motorcycles 🇦🇺 Dad to one teenager and two dopey cats. Married to a gorgeous Hungarian. We ride motorcycles in random places around the world. 🌍

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I returned to riding in 2018 after a thirty-year absence.

I was trying to run away — but as Mike Brady said, “Wherever you go, there you are.”

Eventually I stopped running.

Motorcycling stayed.

Here’s what changed.

youtu.be/FPyFu8t_FrE

#motosky #motorcycle
When Riding Stops Being Escape | Thought Ride 2
YouTube video by Two Wheels In
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February 8, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Lately, I've been looking at the software I use and considering opting out of gated systems like windows and mac. And esp Adobe. I installed Linux on my travel machine. I've used Joplin and Libreoffice for years, but the one thing holding me back was a decent video editor. Hello, kdenlive. 1/2
February 6, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Particularly pleased with this photo. Near Wellawaya in #srilanka #travelphoto #travel
January 23, 2026 at 6:35 AM
The places our travels take us. We've wound up in a place called the Fortey Grand Hotel which is one step away from ruin, drinking a beer that we bought from a dark and unlit stores, and listening to a group of people singing and playing drums. Crazy. #travel #srilanka
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Yeah. So.. Sri Lanka is pretty good. 😳

Just came across this landscape while riding. Incredible.
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Dalma riding in Sri Lanka. Gosh she's an awesome motorcyclist. #motosky #motorcycle
January 20, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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What's new in Joplin 3.5? 🚀

This update brings a host of refinements across desktop and mobile from a more powerful editor to smoother navigation and better sync reliability.
Let’s dive in 👇
joplinapp.org/news/2026011...
January 19, 2026 at 3:35 PM
In other news, while we're swanning about in Sri Lanka, this is the scene near our home.

Fires to Floods. Welcome to living in Australia.
January 18, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Riding abroad isn’t unsettling because it’s chaotic — it’s unsettling because the rules you rely on stop lining up with what’s happening.

This one’s about learning to ride (and travel) as an outsider, before confidence and momentum kick in.

youtu.be/uEtFkmcy-yU

#motorcycle #motosky
January 18, 2026 at 12:38 AM
More details on the RE EV, the flying flea.

What's missing is price and range. Ho hum.

#motosky #motorcycle

www.rideapart.com/news/783570/...
Here's a Closer Look at the Royal Enfield Flying Flea S6 Scrambler
Royal Enfield’s new electric mobility brand unveils an electric scrambler motorcycle. It's pretty to look at, but details remain limited.
www.rideapart.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:39 AM
One of the things I like about down time is the capacity to read not for work. I've started Around The World in 80 Days, first time I've read it for forty years. A friend of mine described it as "a spreadsheet in prose form". Unfair? Perhaps. But still a decent read.
January 13, 2026 at 12:36 PM
I'm super proud of Dalma.

Learning to ride a bike wasn't a linear path for her. Panic attacks in the early days, spending years on scooters, and now riding traffic in the rain in Sri Lanka. Crazy!

Watching her is awe-inspiring and humbling. And she married me! On purpose! 😳😍

#motorcycle #motosky
January 13, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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Today in electric motorcycle news…

(not technically electric motorcycles, just that where they’re supposed to be first installed).

You’ll recall earlier this week at CES a startup Donut Labs revealed they’d developed the world’s first production solid state battery.

Well:
youtu.be/Qsi-TS8PX7U?...
Investigating The World's First Solid State Battery
YouTube video by Ziroth
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January 10, 2026 at 11:53 PM
The first few days in a new country are about learning to stand, observe, and not make snap judgements. Not about jumping on the bikes and wheelie-ing out of the airport.

This is our first few days in Sri Lanka before heading north into the unknown.

youtu.be/9d-X7PHAzow

#motosky #motorcycle
January 11, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Jaffna traditionally had a lot of awesome old cars, though they seem to be being replaced by the usual shitboxes you see everywhere. This fantastic Austin Cambridge was just chilling near a mural with a local family inside. #srilanka
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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Repost with the most recent photo of any of your pets.
January 2, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Dalma looking every bit the fierce female rider that she is! 😍

Riding the islands around Jaffna. Long bridges and what feels like the ends of the world.

#motosky #motorcycle
January 8, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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An absolutely cracking episode. Make time for it. You are going to be fascinated.
www.tampodcast.com/tamp-season-...

#motosky #motorcycles #mototravel #RTW
TAMP Season 8 Episode 2 Mary Motorcycle Sievier
TAMP Season 8 Episode 2 Mary Motorcycle Sievier page for The Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast
www.tampodcast.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Awesome. A week into the trip, and our near-new nanopresso has failed. Guess it's cowboy coffees for the rest of the trip. #wellfuck.
January 7, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Oh joy. Ended up in Munnar hospital. Pain on my right leg. Not DVT.
Probably muscular stress and dehydration. Your idiot author didn't drink enough water on yesterday's long ride. 🙄 Dalma's looking after me. Probably out this afternoon we ride to Jaffna tomorrow. #motosky #motorcycle
January 6, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Starting the year with a Thought Ride.

Recorded before we left, it’s about what keeps pulling Dalma and me toward new places — and why we go at all.

Watching it now, from Sri Lanka, feels about right.

#motosky #motorcycle

youtu.be/rnnSqTKVZeQ
January 4, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Bikes were delivered without issue. We took off from Negombo and made it to Kalpitiya. It's lovely. All salt and sand and bleached white colours.
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 AM
So... we'd organised two of these bikes we wanted three months ago. Now when we turn up, they're unavailable. No idea what's going on. They promise they'll be here tomorrow. If not, I release the Kraken that is Dalma. You don't want a Hungarian/Transylvanian lawyer pissed at you.
January 2, 2026 at 9:21 AM