“It was not the prettiest of attempts to cross a river,”
she laughs. “Thinking that the quicker I got to the other
side would be better, how wrong I was”
She laughs that hitting the water at about 60
kilometres per hour, bouncing uncontrolled from one
side to the other, was enough to bring on an adrenalin hit
that lasted for hours, making her feel ill for hours after.
What’s worse it was witnessed by numerous four-wheel
drivers who asked if she could do it again as they hadn’t
caught it on video the first time.
The Kimberley is just one region of Australia where
the GS has taken Megan, covering almost 70,000 in five
years.
“My bike has taken me all over Australia,” she recalls.
“From Melbourne to Cairns and back, up to Darwin,
across to Broome and across the Nullarbor twice.”
Listening to Megan describe her bike and the varying
outback tracks they’ve taken on together you get the
impression there’s a bond, yet unlike so many Megan
doesn’t have a name for her bike.
“No! No name,” she shrugs. “But I do think of her as
being female. I’ll often catch myself saying, ‘Come on
girl, just another 20km to the next fuel … you can do it!’
or something similar.”
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