Riding Down Under - Tropical Cairns Australia

[MacDoc]

Went to sleep too early, up too early. FB stuffed up and refused my hiking poles as medical devices, and the Gumtree ad attracted a pretty good scam attempt which I reported. Put the poles up as Trekking Poles and FB accepted it.

Heading out shortly up the Gillies for ride with mate. Possible to get wet but better day than tomorrow.

Also decided to keep the Apple Watch 6 and sell the SE v1. Might cost me a bit more but 20% faster, better crash and fall alerting, always on feature and it's RED plus I get a years warranty.

I shall be oh so fashionable and with better health features too as it has EKG etc

• Heart Rate and Irregular Rhythm Notifications Optical heart sensor.
• AFib History Optical heart sensor.
• ECG App Electrical heart sensor.
• Low Cardio Fitness Notifications Optical heart sensor and GPS.
• Blood Oxygen Level Optical heart sensor.

 

[MacDoc]

Vaguely crossed my mind going up the Gillies that I had not kept track of mileage.
Missed my connection with buddy and came lazily down the Gillies...got within sight of the main highway to Cairns and the bike stuttered....that felt like no fuel.
Kept the bike going enough to get to the service station across the highway and coasted in. Filled it with 16.9 L which is kind of odd

Fuel tank capacity CB500F

15.5 L (3.4 imp gal; 4.1 US gal) (2013–2015)

 

[MacDoc]

About to get wet ...hope I get break later in the morning to get the Apple Watch to buddy to get sorted.

Got watch to buddy and had indulgent cake and banana smoothie. Stayed mostly dry.
Biggest surprise was fired up the bike and after all the hoop jumping the original cluster just started working again....will give it til tomorrow and if it works tomorrow will cancel the order for the new one.

 

[MacDoc]

What a sweet start to the day

Off to buy lunch for my former riding buddy who just got his drivers licence back. He had some seizures which made him stop riding and he lost his licence.
He's back on the road but will not ride again. He's done up my new watch and I owe him a steak sandwich.
Lovely day for sitting by the water and chatting feeding my carnivore.

Tried the instrument cluster on the bike and it showed up fine. Cancelling the order for the new one.
Nice lunch with riding buddy. His driving still tenative after a long layoff and his wife has purloined the Mercedes so buddy is left with manual old something his dottor used.
Interesting that he navigated with his phone giving commands to his hearing aids.

Noticed this blinking green light going up and down in the place next door
....robot table server. Clipped along nicely.