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A quick sprint between Sydney storms

April 25, 2015 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

hailstorm clouds anzac day 2015 sydney

Here we are on ANZAC Day, 2015, marking the 100 year anniversary of that fateful landing at Gallipoli. One year ago today we cancelled a planned ride to the Blue Mountains due to poor weather and visibility (although we still drove up there by car and Zorro made a motza on the 2-Up floor, which… [Read More]

Filed Under: Ride days Tagged With: autumn, Sydney

An Ode to Autumn

April 19, 2015 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

trees dressed in autumn colour

[A side note from the Pillion Passionista: I know it seems like I’ve lost 2 whole seasons, with no posts published since Winter 2014. Rest assured that we have been riding. And that I have been blogging. Just not as much as I’d hoped, on either account…! There are a bunch of partially-written posts sitting… [Read More]

Filed Under: No ride Tagged With: autumn, Sydney

TGIM – Thank God It’s Monday

May 5, 2014 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

west head lookout

Bad weather, late boozy nights and a bunch of outstanding chores all combined to prevent us getting out on the road on the weekend. So I was pretty happy that Zorro’s work had decreed the Monday to be a corporate ‘picnic day’. Especially when the day dawned clear and crisp. Autumn is definitely making itself felt in… [Read More]

Filed Under: Ride days Tagged With: Riding, Sydney

Two-up of another kind

April 27, 2014 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

Zorro elected as spinner at 2-up

Sadly, the stunning weather from Easter didn’t last through to the following weekend (another long one). ANZAC day dawned wet and our planned ride up to Mt Victoria fell through. We drove the car instead, in convoy with some other bike friends. The winding journey up Bells Line of Road is a favourite with bikers… [Read More]

Filed Under: No ride Tagged With: NSW, Sydney

Two days of two-up

April 22, 2014 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

pie-in-the-sky-pie

After so much recent rain, the Easter weekend in Sydney this year was – incredibly – beautifully sunny, warm and dry. Perfect weather for riding. We’d made plans to go for a ride with some friends on the Monday plus had quite a few non-bike activities planned for the break. By Saturday night I found… [Read More]

Filed Under: Ride days Tagged With: Old Road, Riding, Sydney

Escape to Mangrove Mountain

March 30, 2014 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

Old Road Photographer shot 300314

Sunday was another perfect day for a ride with friends – also two-up. We again did the “run up the Old Road” for brekky at Road Warriors and then continued on. The Route: At the Calga intersection we turned right and did the loop around through Somersby and Peats Ridge, then up to Mangrove Mountain. This… [Read More]

Filed Under: Ride days Tagged With: Old Road, Riding, Sydney

Mixing it up with a multistrada

March 16, 2014 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

banana bread

We were invited to stay down the coast at Coledale with some friends for the weekend. This was my first ‘overnight’ ride and I was fretting about how much (or little!) I could pack into the very small panniers on the S1000. As luck would have it, a friend offered us the use of his Ducati… [Read More]

Filed Under: Ride days Tagged With: NSW, Riding, summer, Sydney

Too hot for you?

March 9, 2014 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

BMW S1000RR on tow truck

It’s been a very “Indian Summer” in Sydney and March has been easily as warm as February. We didn’t decide ’til mid-morning to head out for a ride, and by then it was already edging 26C. Not being too sure if we’d get too hot, I suggested we head up the northern beaches for a… [Read More]

Filed Under: Bike gear, Ride days Tagged With: gear, Riding, summer, Sydney

A quick rap up ‘the old road’

February 23, 2014 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

bikes parked at the hawkesbury river

Any Sydney motorbike rider who’s ever headed North of the Harbour Bridge would know about “the old road”. It’s how the locals refer to the Old Pacific Highway, which many moons ago was the Pacific Highway – the only route up to Gosford and Newcastle. Much of it is single lane as it winds around… [Read More]

Filed Under: Ride days Tagged With: Riding, Sydney

Our first ride – West Head views on a Sunday

February 9, 2014 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

lion island seen from west head

The time has come for our first ride together. Riding attire: I’m all kitted up. Kind of. I’ve got my brand spanking new helmet and teamed it up with a pair of jeans (ok, so they’re Armani), a leather jacket (admittedly, it’s only a dress jacket, but it zips up the front and sits hip-length),… [Read More]

Filed Under: Ride days Tagged With: NSW, Riding, Sydney

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Who is the Pillion Passionista?

Who am I? Probably not who you imagine. Nothing like the cliched 'bikie chick', certainly.

I grew up in the middle-class leafy north shore of Sydney, worked in the corporate world for many years, and left my mid-life crisis behind me some miles back.

When I tired of playing second fiddle to my beloved partner's beloved motorbike, I decided I wanted to be a part of his weekend road trips.

Not fancying the idea of learning how to ride, I took the easy rider option and hopped on the back.

Follow along as the pillionpassionista discovers the joy of being on the back of a motorcycle, one weekend at a time.

She rides with her partner "Zorro" in Sydney, Australia - the greatest city in the world (at least when the sun is shining and the roads aren't jammed).

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