The tube I used for the Banner is a regular telescopic one for rolled up architects drawings, screw cap one end and it has done a great job of protecting the  Banner and great for travel on the K!

To maintain professional Australian courtesy this photo was taken by Gaz on his visit to Ireland......

Spoke with some airlines yesterday and there is a good chance that you could have a carry on tube up to about one metre or so in size as carry on.  As long as it fits in the overhead locker.  It all depends on the airline and the check in chick/bloke on the day as well as how full the aircraft is.  As long as your are polite, repectful and arrive with heaps of time before check in then you have more chance of success.  

The only airline we see issues with is TigerAir.  After all a budget airline is all about money.  If in doubt book your oversize items in on line as you'll save around 40%.  General rule is one suitable size carry on and a laptop/handbag.  

Dai, we predominantly have B737s here on out domestic routes to major hubs.  Only Jetstar use the A320 and bin loading.  As the B737 is floor loaded there is a bit more room for oversize articles.  The straps in those bays are more of a gate than a tie down, so I would expect a bit more movement on a rough landing.  Of course there are prop jobs for regionals, a handful of A330s and small buisjets like the F100/B717.  

The international airlines use a broad mixture of A330/B777 and the newer A350 and B787 are coming online.  The NZ legs also use the B737.  

Have I put you to sleep yet?  

Try this   on second thoughts maybe not.

Nice try Stan.  As long as it is empty.    

I spoke with one of my favourite Jetstar check in chicks last night and their limit for both domestic and international is 0.89m for carriage of tubes in the cabin.  They even have a measuring device to ensure it is within limits.  Too big and it goes in the hold for which they usually won't charge extra.

Dave,
I thought my device was a just the shot. No one would know that the sKroll was inside.

the only issue besides the weight accumulation is the baggage limit count

most air lines have a strict limit these days *(around aussie) depending on your travel carrier benefits ...once had a silver virgin card entitling me to 3 bags 32 kg limit for free

but pre purchasing extra  can be quite cheep , don't leave it to book in times , recently an extra bag cost me $62 ...pre booked .. was about $15

TacKler wrote:Dai, we predominantly have B737s here on out domestic routes to major hubs.  Only Jetstar use the A320 and bin loading.  As the B737 is floor loaded there is a bit more room for oversize articles.  The straps in those bays are more of a gate than a tie down, so I would expect a bit more movement on a rough landing.  Of course there are prop jobs for regionals, a handful of A330s and small buisjets like the F100/B717.  

The international airlines use a broad mixture of A330/B777 and the newer A350 and B787 are coming online.  The NZ legs also use the B737. 
Have I put you to sleep yet?  

Have you ever loaded an RJ-100/BAE-146? Floor loaded, hands and knees, no room to kneel up - I HATED the feckin' things, especially after the day when I knelt on a spike where the floor was peeling and it went right though my knee. 737s have a bit more room in them, but not much.

What's about printing another banner for the 35th anniversary?
I would include the forum logo.

if you do bert ...make it wider , like the aussie one , will fit far more names -signatures

charlie99 wrote:crikey   !!   that has to be a win ...eh dazza ? 
good to hear .

I will be back in brisvegas on the weekend after all ...work commitments have changed ...yet again .

perhaps I should collect the sKroll - Banner and pass it on when we all next meet  at the new England tablelands meet in a couple of months for further adventures south ?

but before then, there are a few locals that are new to the forum since the last appearance of the banner up- this ways

namely martin , reg , black brick , Mathew , and a few others that haven't seen it at all ...yet

perhaps a local meet in the coming weeks could be a good idea?

do we have any events - swap meets on the calendar guys ?

or perhaps just a bbq up at the lookout ,,,before Mt Nebo ...might be in order ...again ill bring snags, bacon , rolls and drinks ...?   anyone ????

if I get  a decent response perhaps Saturday week 29th ...and twb can pass the banner and meet the new guys ?

unless dazza is up for a local ride before then ?

glorious sounds good on sunday 23rd ??

Righto, I'm back in the Brissie area and the calendar is free from today thru the 1st of Movember, bar the week round the 13th/14th of October when I ride down to the Kozzie. If anyone in the SE Qld/ Northern Rivers region wants to do a weekend day or overnight ride somewhere. I'll be fiddling with minor details on the red RS today then doing day rides on my local roads this week. Bloody hell I've got too many spares in my shed to sort through. Must make a list (bits of plastic trim, indicators (but not RS front), tail lights, engine covers, rubber trim, all manner of grommets, etc) to see if any OZs need this or that. Cheers.

some pics arrived from Black brick ,(john)  of his adventures in Kiwiland and the Bert Munroe challenge  in invercargil , and the banner travelling

also of kiwik100 (Richard) and his fabulous k bike restoes
















thanks john

any more, of the trip ???

Thanks for putting those up Charlie. I will have to work out how to put photos on here. There is lots of photos on Facebook and Instagram, plenty of the Transport and Motorcycle Museums. It's worth a trip to Invercargill just to visit them alone.

Congratulations to Bert on 10years of this wonderful forum . 
From the Aussie Krew and one down under Eccentric at the Northern Tablelands Ride . 
A bit early in the morning for some 
L-R -  Rick G, Tom FKR , Klompy Al 58 , our host -Smithy, Charlie , Rickmeister , Paul ( BAE), Andrew ( Pegasus ), Warren C, Gaz 
Front row lower -  Ed.
thanks to Marie P for the pic .

For the non-OZ contingent
Marie P = Mrs AL-58 

I caught up with Al and Marie at Spencer today, I ask where they went to last week. They replied we went to the K Fourum meet. Shit, I was going to sign up up at Christmas, now it’s nearly next Christmas. Anyway I’m finally here, Al help me sign up today at no internet connection Spencer, Central Coast. Ok will make the next meet I hope. Mick F signing off.

Good to hear you are on board this Knuthaus Mick . Coffee at Spencer , darned I missed it . 
Charlie has been kind enough to pass the sKroll on, so we will catch up some time soon .

Mick F wrote:I caught up with Al and Marie at Spencer today, I ask where they went to last week. They replied we went to the K Fourum meet. Shit, I was going to sign up up at Christmas, now it’s nearly next Christmas. Anyway I’m finally here, Al help me sign up today at no internet connection Spencer, Central Coast. Ok will make the next meet I hope. Mick F signing off.

No stinking Suzuki V-Stroms allowed!

Not sure who owns the V storm but I will ride with you.

The sKroll has no sooner made its way back to Oz , and it seems plans are under way for another global pursuit.

Whilst resting up here in Australia , the skroll catches up with some new and not so new forumers . 
Next stop is the Karuah River Rally to hopefully see our mates Malcoops , Mick F and possibly Michael Sydney . 
The sKroll then has plans to return to Ricardo ( Komando Alicante) in Spain for the Kedada Alicante , which is held in early March.

Following its time in Spain , we have had some chat with Andreas Esterhammer, who is conducting a K1 Convention in Germany during May 2019, and the sKroll should be making its way there to share in the festivities.

Okay, so the Banner/Skroll is just flatout an amazing beast to have jetted from continent to continent uniting us all in our love and affection for the mighty K.  The morning I signed the Banner was an affirmation of the good that was to to be found on the internet and just a helluva good way to share a breakfest among comrades in arms - thank you!

I think this forum generally represents what is good about the internet and an internationalist  " Weltanschauung".
Schooorn

Has anyone ever put together a map on Google Earth or whatever to document the banner's trail around the globe?

duck wrote:Has anyone ever put together a map on Google Earth or whatever to document the banner's trail around the globe?

I'm not sure how to put the virtual map together , but I can put together a time itinerary of its travels since 2013.

Ed wrote:

duck wrote:Has anyone ever put together a map on Google Earth or whatever to document the banner's trail around the globe?

I'm not sure how to put the virtual map together , but I can put together a time itinerary of its travels since 2013.

If you can provide me with an itinerary of where it's been I'd be happy to take a stab at putting together some sort of map.

duck wrote:

Ed wrote:

duck wrote:Has anyone ever put together a map on Google Earth or whatever to document the banner's trail around the globe?

I'm not sure how to put the virtual map together , but I can put together a time itinerary of its travels since 2013.

If you can provide me with an itinerary of where it's been I'd be happy to take a stab at putting together some sort of map.

Here tis'

 
2013 September – Tottenham , New South Wales ,AUSTRALIA               Whilst celebrating  the 30^th Anniversary of the K series , the Banner is obtained at the Far Kairn Rally in Tottenham , NSW AUSTRALIA , and thus starts its global journey to share the Kamraderie of K riders internationally. 2013/14 - the banner spends time in Australia , before departing to the Emerald Isle to shre time with our fellow krew , the Irish Eccentrics.
2013 - Sydney New South Wales AUSTRALIA    RossKKo is the first forum member to share the banner amongst the krew.
2013 November -  Guyra, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA             Klompy conveys the banner to Smithys during the Nortern Tablelands ride .Where it is passed on to Charlie .
2014 -  Brisbane ,Queensland, AUSTRALIA  in the care of our good mate Charlie.
2014  January -  Kingaroy , Queensland AUSTRALIA   Charlie visits Alby (AlbyAlbatross) and Nic.  
2014 February - Dungog , New South Wales , AUSTRALIA                        the banner is shared amongst BMW colleagues at the Karuah River Rally .


First overseas adventure
2014  May – Cork , County Cork ,IRELAND                                             the Banner arrives in Ireland to spend time with the Eccentrics.    
  
2014 – FRANCE                                                                                      the Banner visits Bruno’s Café in France and returns with OLaf to Cork , County Cork, Ireland.


2015 – Dublin, IRELAND                                             Indian 036 from Australia meets up with the Eccentrics at the Guinness factory.  The banner remains in Ireland with Olaf .


2015 – Bristol, England ,United Kingdom                                Paul (BAE) Visits the Irish Eccentrics in Ireland ,  where he gathers the Banner for his visit to Bert in Nova Scotia .
 


2015 - Nova Scotia , CANADA                                                      Paul (BAE) and the banner visit Bert ( Crazy Frog) in Canada. The banner returns to the UK with Paul.                                                                                                                                                                   


2015 – Bristol , England, UNITED KINGDOM                                                           Paul shares the Banner with Sidecar Paul in Gloucester, UK. 


2015 - the banner is handed over to Ringfad for his trip to Norway.



2015 July - Fredrikstad, NORWAY                             Ringfad accompanies the Banner to Inge’s residence in Norway and then returns with the banner in hand to the Eccentrics in Ireland .

2015 July - – Cork , County Cork , IRELAND  currently residing with Olaf in Cork , Ireland.
2015  September - Cork , County Cork , IRELAND                                        Gaz 80 visits the Eccentrics in Ireland and Blarney Castle , “Po mo Blarney Stone”.
2015 December - Greta , New South Wales ,AUSTRALIA                                Gaz80 returns to Australia with the Banner for Christmas gathering. 


Back in Australia
2016 – Newcastle , New South Wales ,AUSTRALIA                                                                                                                                                                                     2016 February - the Banner spends time amongst the Aussie Krew . 
Including trekking with Ed and Tackler to the top of Mt Kosciuzsko , highest point in Australia. Also attending the Annual Karuah River Rally in Dungog , near Newcastle. 
2016 April - Grey Gum Cafe , Putty Road, PUTTY , New South Wales AUSTRALIA . Paul ( Born Again ) visits Down Under.


Second oversea trip 
2016 May – Seattle ,Washington USA                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Now known as the “sKroll’ , it takes two attempts to post the sKroll to the West Coast of the USA , ( Seattle) , where TWB takes time to share with our Amerikan friends. 


Back in the land down under-Australia
2016 October – Newcastle , New South Wales , AUSTRALIA                                          the sKroll returns to Australia , for a quiet spell .


2017 October - Sydney Harbour Bridge , Sydney , New South Wales AUSTRALIA              Sees the Skroll starting to move around again in Australia for some antics amongst the Krew, and antics there were. Especially at the DGR ( Distinguished Gentlemans Ride in Sydney .What a great krew to be amongst.

2017 - Brisbane , Queensland AUSTRALIA                                     A brief stopover with Blackbrick


Going global again in 2018



The Kiwi's have it
2018 January – Invercargill, South Island, NEW ZEALAND  and the sKroll is on the move again , thanks to Blackbrick ( John) for taking it across the ditch to New Zealand , on his return the sKroll was forwarded on to Komando Alicante in Spain . 


2018 March - Villena (Alicante) SPAIN  Unfortunately we missed the Kedada Alicante by just a couple of days . However Ricardo was very accommodating in taking the sKroll to the K1 fest in the UK , on K bike of course.

2018 May – Donington Park, Leicestershire, England, UNITED KINGDOM the sKroll is welcomed at the very successful Kfest celebrations in the UK. Thanks go to Frank Miles and all involved.


2018 June – Viaduct de Millau, FRANCE Olaf arrives in France to pass the baton “sKroll” onto Bert ( Crazy Frog) . The sKroll now shares its travels with Berts new “10 year anniversary” forum banner . Bert returns with both banners to Nova Scotia for a planned meetup with TWB.

2018 July – Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA TWB makes his epic two week journey to Nova Scotia , meeting up with Bert ( CF ) , where he is handed the banners . 

A kollossal kross America ride
2018 July - Seattle , Washington, USA At this point both banners are now conveyed from the East Coast of the USA to Seattle on the West Coast , via Niagara Falls and a few Amerikan krew to sign.

Back in Oz
2018 October – Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA TWB and the banners arrive back in Australia  and are passed on to Charlie . 

2018 November - Newcastle , New South Wales , AUSTRALIA              During the annual Northern Tablelands ride, the banners are passed on to Ed for their next adventure.
2018- The sKroll has now been circumnavigating this globe for 5 years . We also now celebrate 10 years of the awesome forum and all that it offers ,  thanks to Bert aka Crazy Frog. 


2019 – we will see the banners travelling to Spain for the Kedada Alicante ,and Germany for a gathering of K1’s.


Hope this explains it a bit Duck... 

That was a 24 day August run cross country and back via Canada.

It would help to know specific cities/towns where it has traveled.

I may need some help from our hosts on that side of things . I would be surmising most of them .

You've done a great job handling the Banner Ed  It keeps moving which is great.

Al

duck wrote:It would help to know specific cities/towns where it has traveled.

I'll start it rolling.

I received it in Summer of 2016 via the post and it stayed round Seattle, Tacoma and Portland Oregon during its time with me. Recall you and I met with NVBoy from BC in Gig Harbor for a quick signing. Next it was off to The Lucky Country (The Sunburned Country) in October of '16, via Hawaii, landing in Brisbane Queensland. We travelled down along the east coast of OZ through the Gold Coast, Byron Bay, and Coffs Harbour, to near Newcastle New South Wales and handed it off to Ed.

In August of 2018 I retrieved it from Crazy Frog in Woodstock New Brunswick and took it along with my brother Jo through Maine (Augusta), the White Mountains of New Hampshire (Concord) and into central (Pepperell) and western Massachusetts (Lenox). From there I travelled directly across upstate New York (Albany, Syracuse) and met with several forum members in Youngstown, crossing into Niagara Falls, Canada with Woodie and Robmack, heading up and over Lake Ontario to Ontario, then over the Great Lakes via Sault Ste Marie, Wawa, Nipigon, and Thunder Bay. Next was basically highway 17 to Winnipeg Manitoba, highway 1 to Regina Saskatchewan (which I can say without starting to stutter ), Medicine Hat & Lethbridge Alberta, then dropping down to Sand Point Idaho to escape the wildfire smoke, Spoklahoma Washington was next, followed by Cle Elum and Tacoma.

In September of '18 I flew back Down Undah over the Mighty Pacific, again landing in Honolulu (Waikiki) for a night and day, then handed it and the other banner to Charlie99 in Brissie Queensland.

I don't think I missed anything, but someone please pipe up if they recall something else.

A long and circuitous journey indeed.

Ringfad wrote:If only we had put a GPS on the banner to see how far it has travelled.

Duck is endeavouring to map it out .

duck wrote:It would help to know specific cities/towns where it has traveled.

Thanks TWB , very detailed indeed, just goes to show the outstanding effort put in by many krew to share in the kamraderie. thankyou . 
Duck , I have re - edited my original post , just pick out the localities as they are highlighted   ie; Cork , County Cork , IRELAND  
Cheers Ed.

2015 Ireland. Indian036 (Bill) signed the banner in Dublin, in between sojourns in Cork. That was in March of that year.

Bill

Is this pretty accurate? (I abbreviated TWB's cross-continent trek a bit.)

I recall signing it in East Maitland 8th Dec 2013, at the coffee shop on Melbourne st.

December 13, 2014 - Kilkeel, Northern Ireland. At least I think I joined the forum that year; hopefully CF can confirm because the joining date doesn't show in your profile.

Well, I haven't found anything yet that will show it going between points but I did find a site that puts all of the points on a map:

And if anybody wants to play around with it here's the data in a CSV(comma separated values) file:

http://dws.x10host.com/K100banner/banner.csv

Dai wrote:December 13, 2014 - Kilkeel, Northern Ireland. At least I think I joined the forum that year; hopefully CF can confirm because the joining date doesn't show in your profile.

Look to the right of the screen (forum's portal) where it's shown who is online. Touch, or highlight your name. Next screen, down the bottom, you'll see what the date was when you officially registered. Fun for the whole fambly.

K75cster wrote:I recall signing it in East Maitland 8th Dec 2013, at the coffee shop on Melbourne st.

You did Keith , I didn't put in all the precise locations , Mainly just to show the continents .

Two Wheels Better wrote:

Dai wrote:December 13, 2014 - Kilkeel, Northern Ireland. At least I think I joined the forum that year; hopefully CF can confirm because the joining date doesn't show in your profile.

Look to the right of the screen (forum's portal) where it's shown who is online. Touch, or highlight your name. Next screen, down the bottom, you'll see what the date was when you officially registered. Fun for the whole fambly.

Thanks TWB. Date and place for the banner is correct

Dai wrote:

Two Wheels Better wrote:

Dai wrote:December 13, 2014 - Kilkeel, Northern Ireland. At least I think I joined the forum that year; hopefully CF can confirm because the joining date doesn't show in your profile.

Look to the right of the screen (forum's portal) where it's shown who is online. Touch, or highlight your name. Next screen, down the bottom, you'll see what the date was when you officially registered. Fun for the whole fambly.

Thanks TWB. Date and place for the banner is correct

No worries, glad to enlighten. It's a cool piece of info. I note mine says early 2012 when in fact I was off the forum for a while, having originally signed on in possibly late '09. Back then you felt you knew every member. It's grown into quite a community. Sumpin for everywun.

indian036 wrote:2015 Ireland. Indian036 (Bill) signed the banner in Dublin, in between sojourns in Cork. That was in March of that year.

Bill

I think in fact this signing was at the Newgrange megalithic site, a fairly historic location. We did meet up in Dublin and Bill travelled pillion on my RT

Can confirm that - I was there.

the banners will soon be visiting the Karuah rally once more in the coming weeks. 
Then they are off to Spain for the amazing Kedada Alicante.

Official postage weight of the banners = 2.00kg

The banners had a successful outing to the Karuah River Rally earlier this month . 
Al even managed to align it with his outfit . 

I have heard from Ricardo ( Komando Alicante) that the banners are now resting with him in readiness for the Kedada Alicante , which takes place on the first weekend in March . One of the biggest K events on the globe .

good to hear ED

next time you email him say G'Day  from me ...I guess he doesn't know who I am sometimes on FB

The skroll in Spain , here with Que Kcien-kuk at the Kedada Alicante

You can follow Komando Alicante ( Ricardo Palao's post of Kedada Alicante here)