hehehe our chase guy has given himsilf a name that we joke around with, he claims he is quite happy being a jelly butt rider, he doesn't want to do the ride on a bike because he has a few issues with his back, and cannot do it on a bike, and he is relatively new to riding, we have on just got him riding to the state speed limit, but he can travel the distances in a car because he can sit back into the seat of a car and change his posistion, our youngest member that is going to give it a go, is typical of young people willing to have a go and is full of himself and thinks he is indestructable, he is a good rider though, but not yet done too many long distance rides, and not against the clock. He has not got any roadside insurance yet, we have advised him to do so, and he says he will get it when the day comes to challenge himself, our second rider is a loverly lady who has plenty of long distance rides under her belt, she has roadside assist, and she is not going anywhere without it, it was her that put the idea into our heads to have a go, she was originally going to have a go at it on her own, she is no stranger to doing 100,000Km per year, and has always wanted to do this challenge and has decided to do it in 2018, so we chatted about it, and I thought it would be good to challenge myself to have a go against the clock, I have ridden from my home in Rockhampton to Cairns, or to Melbourne a few times and inland to Mount Isa, but never against the clock, this is why we decided to plan a route that would be benificial to all of us, I also have roadside assist with HOGs, our motorcycle association is Australia wide, and we got on the subject at a rally in a tiny place called Appletree Creek, Qld, we were actually discussing a ride to Uluru that our association does bi-annually. So we are going to start at the location of a lady rider in Colac in Victoria, riding along the motorways where we can to keep our legal pace a bit higher, and finish in our home town of Rockhampton, I have joined the forum as I have always got extremely valuable information from forums in the past. I am getting a lot of information from here also, and I am conveying that to the rest of our team as I become aware of it. We do have another 3 members who are thinking about it, but as yet have not decided to commit to it yet, that is our little bit of a story.