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FarKin Ride to Blinman – 28 June 2025
Meet fellow long-distance legends at the North Blinman.
Check-in Window: 11:30 AM – 12:00 Noon on Saturday 28 June 2025.
Standard rules apply – complete an iRode ride of your choice, either FarRoader 805 km in 12hrs or 1000km or 1,250 km in 24hrs, checking in at Blinman between 11:30 AM and 12 noon. If that don't cut it for you, then do a long-haul challenge by your design, you'll be in good company regardless.
The historic North Blinman Hotel (est. 1869), Grid Reference: Latitude -31.1350°, Longitude 138.6340°, will be our check-in point, and lunch host, with its signature outback hospitality.
To be counted as a registered finisher, be sure to bring your starting docket!
Please register your participation at RideMaster. (https://rides.jasonjonas.com/index.php)
Refer to Forum chat to provide your feedback... Rides in 2025 (https://farroad.au/forum/index.php/topic,506.msg2949/topicseen.html#new)
Registered, leave booked, and looking forward to it.
Registered. See you there gents!
Being in distant Queensland, this event has no relevance to me as a FarRode, but I'd like to comment that I'm not comfortable with rides being named using swear words in their title. Prudish maybe, but that's how I feel about it. It may be claimed the term isn't a profanity, but that would seem to be the whole intent of the choice of the word regardless of its spelling.
Biggles
I can assure you it's not in anyway a profanity. It's a term that marries the constituent terms of Farroad and Kinfolk, and no other meaning should be applied or implied.
Cheers
Taff
Quote from: Taffey on May 27, 2025, 11:20 AMIt's a term that marries the constituent terms of Farroad and Kinfolk, and no other meaning should be applied or implied.
Very few people would know that esoteric bit of knowledge and so they are left with the blatant word used as an expletive throughout the English speaking world, albeit with a different spelling.
So while your intentions are apparently as pure as the driven snow, we're inadvertently going to be left what to just a few of us is an eyesore.
Hey mate, I can see where you're coming from — the word is meant to sound a bit cheeky at first blush. But as I clearly said, it's actually a mash-up of Farride and Kinfolk — nothing more, nothing less.
We wanted a name that reflected both the challenge of a serious long-distance ride (Farroad) and the strong sense of community that forms when riders come together like family (Kinfolk). So it's a nod to that shared spirit — not a play on profanity.
In our riding circles, it's just a bit of fun, and we all know the meaning behind it. There's no intent to offend — quite the opposite. It's about camaraderie, endurance, and a bit of rider humour. But I appreciate your perspective, and if the name ever starts getting in the way of what we're actually building together, we can talk about that too.
Cheers
Taff
I agree that the word is cheeky and can understand its structure now that you've explained it.
But Biggles is from QLD. He lived through the VLAD years. If some bloke with flashing lights pulled him over and said "Hello hello hello. What are you dong out here after dark?" and he replied "I'm a farkin motorbike rider" he would have been tossed into the back of the van.
Between yelps from the rubber hoses and phone books (remember those?) the public servants thumped into him he could be heard moaning "I'm just a farkin motorbike rider, I'm just a farkin motorbike rider".
We're also very visible to the general public, and I certainly don't mind being an advocate for our community. If a little old lady says "Hello, that's a lovely bike, I used to ride on the back with my late husband years ago. What kind of bike is that it has those extra lights and things?"
"I'm a farkin motorbike rider. Its a farkin motorbike. I'm on a farkin ride, lady".
I like the name FarKin. You don't have to go far in public places in Australia, pubs, sports clubs, and walking down the street to hear the "F word" sprinkled liberally through peoples conversations. Its in the music Australians listen to and the content they consume on screens. I teach in a primary school. Plenty of 5 years old up use the 'F word' and the 'C word' daily. I hear it used by learners all the time. Directed at objects, their peers, and the educators. Its the language of Australian home life. You might not like it but its a fact of our Australian culture. To take the F word and modify it in this way is actually clever. It pokes fun at our culture and creates discussion.
Thanks for your contributions — I appreciate you taking the time. Just to be clear, Farkin is a simple combination of "Farride" and "Kinfolk." It's meant to be a name that reflects both the spirit of endurance and community that defines our rides. There's no offensive intent behind it, but if you're an apprehensive Queenslander your best bet is exercise some discretion when explaining the name to a remaining Joh styled copper or some old dot with Victorian values, as I have done here.
We've discussed it among the group, and we're comfortable with the name. It's part of the culture we're building together — a bit of rider humour, nothing more. So while I understand it might not be to everyone's taste, we're sticking with it and moving forward.
Appreciate your understanding.
Re. FarKin or Farkin.
I acknowledge and understand all opinions. For those of us in the know, great title. For those that aren't, well, it could come across as something less desireable.
Taffey et all, may I suggest, to emphasis the two word relationship and to remove any misconception, that a hyphen be used i.e., Far-Kin.
Having that hyphen would help by enunciating a pause between the two words, instead of rolling both into one which to me, will be a cause for unnecessary issues.
On and of this, I'm sure level heads will prevail.
My post for those what need it.
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