Two days later, Bob had his bike, but adding the sidecar took a little longer. I didn’t have to sell him on the idea at all!” Bob laughed. “I casually said to Joe, ‘Do you reckon we could build a bike to take a sidecar around the world?’ Joe’s reaction was instant – he got so excited. So, in August, 2016, Bob called in to Joe Hanssen at One Ten Motorcycles in Caboolture to buy a CT 110 and get some advice on how to best prepare it for a global ride. “When we were in South East Asia, we saw these little scooter sidecars running about all over the place and I got thinking, ‘Why couldn’t I take one of those around the world?’ That’s where it started,” Bob explained.īeing an Australian, a postie bike was the obvious choice for Bob when looking for something smaller to do this sort of trip. But, taking the ‘grey nomad’ thing to an all new level, Bob decided on the eve of his 70th birthday that he wanted to ride the world again, this time on a postie bike! Now, for most people, one motorcycling adventure like that would be enough, especially when it unofficially made Bob the oldest person to travel around the world on a sidecar outfit. In 2011, aged 65, he fitted a Yamaha Diversion with a sidecar and, with his wife Yan, rode through 50 countries across the US, Europe, Russia and South East Asia, covering more than 65,000 kilometres on a journey that lasted 18 months. In 1997, the Queenslander took an HR Holden sedan across North America, Canada, the UK and Europe. A spirit of adventure – and a hefty portion of determination – is in Bob Dibble’s blood.
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