The Lap – The Speakeasy

The Lap: Days 73, 74, 75: Pick your poison

December 14, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Food, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel

“We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin’ rain … and big ol’ fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath.” – Forrest ...

The Lap: Days 70, 71, 72: Why motorcycling is meditation

Lincoln Vaz

December 11, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel

The past three days on the road have been uneventful: long rides, with only essential stops for fuel/ business/ rest. Departing from Albany marked a notable change in scenery: the lush forest replaced with ari...

The Lap: Days 61-66: This part of paradise

Lincoln Vaz

December 5, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Lifestyle, Travel, Uncategorized

I was awoken by the sound of her playing Beethoven on the piano after her first student for the day left. I went next door and asked her to play me a Chopin piece, and she gracefully obliged. I barely noticed t...

The Lap: Days 59 & 60: Flying and hanging on

Lincoln Vaz

December 1, 2018

Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel

On the second dive, we were instructed to perform a basic free descent upon entering the water, instead of following the mooring line down. The waves were too choppy due to the winds which I learned about yeste...

The Lap: Days 55, 56, 57, 58: Cornering on straights

Lincoln Vaz

November 29, 2018

Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel

Riding long distances on heavily cambered roads means one side of the tyre wears faster. In countries where you drive on the left, this means the right side of the tyre (facing direction of travel). One way ...

The Lap: Day 54: Welcome to WA!

Lincoln Vaz

November 24, 2018

Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel

"How's the road?", I asked the man outside the sign board at the turn off. "It's fucked", he spat, "where you going?" I woke up to some girls at the rest area singing happy birthday to their friend befor...

The Lap: Day 53: Got a smoke?

Lincoln Vaz

November 22, 2018

Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel

I left Darwin this morning, riding through Katherine and Timber Creek, towards the Western Australia border. I pulled over to call it a day some 750 km later, at Saddle Creek Rest Area, named after a beautiful ...

The Lap: Days 50, 51, 52: Old shoe, new friends, and a middle finger

Lincoln Vaz

November 22, 2018

Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel

I dropped in at the rangers' office at Mary River National Park, and told them I'd be heading over to a couple of spots on the road into the delta. After getting a run down of the area, area briefing, and a gli...

The Lap: Days 46, 47, 48, 49: Topping up at the Top End

Lincoln Vaz

November 18, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Lifestyle, Travel

I planned on walking the 4 km with my jerry can, but luckily, just as I put the bike on the stand, the first car I saw on the road in 2 hours offered me a lift to the nearest servo and back. I told the kind man...

The Lap: Days 44 and 45: Hey CU in the NT, here’s a roo and a thunderstorm!

Lincoln Vaz

November 14, 2018

Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel

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"If I'm gonna hit him, I'd rather hit him going fast than while slowing down and risk losing control", Ben had told me a week ago of his motorcycle vs kangaroo experience, while sinking a stein of beer with a m...

The Lap: Days 22-42/43: The Blur/ Here I go again!

Lincoln Vaz

November 12, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Food, Lifestyle, Travel

https://youtu.be/WyF8RHM1OCg Great song. I meant to write a post summing up my time in Cairns before I left, but I never got around to it. Now I'm writing from my tent in Croydon after a 540 km ride, as I...

The Lap: Days 17, 18, 19, 20: Stranded In Paradise

Lincoln Vaz

October 19, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Food, Lifestyle, Travel

I woke up in the 20ft container I decided to sleep in on the road train. I maximised my time asleep by not going to the city to a backpackers, and back to the truck yard in the morning to sort the paperwork at ...

The Lap: Days 15 & 16: The Big Off

Lincoln Vaz

October 16, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel

Day 15 I woke up to birdsong and the smell of wet earth from the rains overnight, feeling fantastic and ready for another day's riding towards Cape York. I absolutely did not anticipate my biggest crash to dat...

The Lap: Day 14: Momentum is your friend

Lincoln Vaz

October 14, 2018

Comedy, Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel

"Momentum is your friend", I was told multiple times by multiple people over the past week. "Keep your weight on the pegs on the corrugations, and steer by distributing weight on them in dirt", Patrick the Cana...

The Lap: Days 11, 12, 13: Well, you’re up!

Lincoln Vaz

October 12, 2018

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel

Day 11: "Are you guys going across that on your bikes?", the lady standing next to me by her car said before Ben bolted. Apparently he'd asked me to stay on the southern bank while he went across the river, an...

The Lap: Days 7, 8, 9, 10: We can’t stop here, this is croc country!

Lincoln Vaz

October 9, 2018

Food, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel

Day 7. I'm in my tent in Giru, where I've swapped the steady hum of my bike engine for the steady hum of a sugar cane mill 100m away. Woke up with a mouthful of Jagermeister after last night's antics with th...

The Lap: Days 3, 4, 5, 6: Airlie Beach

Lincoln Vaz

October 6, 2018

Lifestyle, Theatre, Travel

This entry has less to do with motorcycling, and more to do with me keeping myself occupied for the last 4 days. I think it's worth writing about, so I hope it's worth reading about. Tuesday (Day 3) morning...

The Lap: Day 2: Can’t believe I rode 850kms for this shit!

Lincoln Vaz

October 4, 2018

Lifestyle, Travel

I had an excellent sleep in my Black Wolf UL 1 tent beside the Booyal Roadhouse Fuel and Restaurant. I woke up warm and dry, to the sound of some horrendous sounding birds, at two in the fucking morning... "...

The Lap: Day 1: The Storm

Lincoln Vaz

October 1, 2018

Food, Lifestyle, Night Life, Travel

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If I rode under the arse of a thunderstorm yesterday, then today I crawled up the guts of another. The weather forecast said there'd be scattered thunderstorms all day, pretty much anywhere north of Brisbane...

The Lap: Day -1 (Minus One): The Calm Before The Storm

Lincoln Vaz

September 30, 2018

Lifestyle, Spotlight, Travel

"Everything so far has gone quite smoothly", I thought to myself last night, shoving the last of my kit into the Aldi 50L drybag I was planning on using as my main pack. It let out a loud, cringe-inducing rip a...

The Lap: Day -2 (minus two)

Lincoln Vaz

September 28, 2018

Lifestyle, Spotlight, Travel

2

I thought today should be the day I sit down and write about my planned recklessness for the next coming while. I don't know how many people will read and follow this, or how many will care, but it gives me an ...

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