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Australian Road Rider

the social network

Facebook social groups are the new black. Everybody is doing it, but what are they? They’re a group of people who you mostly don’t know, apart from the person who initially told you about it, and one or two people you may just happen to know by accident. You engage on the group page, but you don’t really know what the members are like, as people or riders, until you go for a ride. You can get an idea what they’re like based on their personal pages, but people aren’t always completely truthful. I’m a perfect example of this. According to my profile I’m 112 years old and live in Norway. I don’t live in Norway.

“The cafe looks to be a top place; the barista has dreadlocks and enough facial piercings to qualify for taxable status as a scrap yard”

THE PLAN?

A Facebook social group decides to do a fiveday trip to ride the Oxley Highway before the

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