2009 Moto GP travel

You either like bikes or you don't, if you do like bikes then is it road bikes or dirt bikes, if it is road bikes you probably have a specific preference for a brand, a style, an era and so on. Bike people are pretty difficult to pin down. So for all my fellow bike fans out there this post is about travelling to the Moto GP. We send people to events all around the world on a request basis but in the case of Malaysia and Australia we organise the "full monty" an end to end package with; hotels, transfers, track access and a function ( Wayne Gardner at Phillip Island this year).

We do the Phillip Island bikes because it is in Australia, it is in our state and we love it. The Malaysian Moto GP we do because every year as we get more requests for this event than we do for Hungary or any of the big Spanish GP events.

The thing I think that makes the GP event so interesting for the traveller is that like the V8 Supercars you can get on a similar machine to the bikes you are following, you can ride the track at Phillip Island, buy the gear and have a real sense of the event or the race. With F1 and other events I dont get to feel so close to the actual event experience. You don't get to feel like Jesen Button on the street in your 2004 Celica but being on the open road on your Aprilla is another matter.

I am of course forgetting the fans you gotta love your Moto GP fan. The events have a sort of out door music festival buzz about them except that everyone is eyeing off everyone else's gear & bikes in the parking area.