Lunches + Flats...Longwood Sat. 9/4

John_Johnny

Long Timer

Great day. First stop, Violet Town market. Got some yummy wholemeal pita bread.


Euroa-Merton Rd. Talk about a red rag to a bull!


....and the warnings kept coming. Not far after this sign was another warning of log trucks, then falling rocks!


Yea BP. No one here yet. Off for a sausage roll and a cappuccino.
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
For the start, thanks to all who came along...and jeez, what a spread!.
A footy team and a half, making for plenty of laughs and a brilliant day in the sticks.
Ant's flat looking after the entertainment side of things, sweet and deserted roads and tracks...and not TOOO dusty...some pretty bloody speccy vistas across the Strathbogies, a "Wicked Hill"...and some sloppy mud, lots of puddles, steep, slippery climbs with a blinking fuel light and a cracking assortment of deep ruts, roots and chunky gravel up the Captains Creek Rd. after I bailed out of the highway-home-run in the back of Kinglake.


Great day out....thanks guys!!:glu:clap:

Only got a couple of pics this time around, will pop them on asap.
 

John_Johnny

Long Timer


After Yea the dusties hit the dirt tracks while us roadies went to Yarck, turned left and up to Gobur then Ruffy.
(If the dirt riders are 'dusties' then what does that make us bitumen riders?)

We stopped at the hall and chatted to some locals then on to the General Store a bit further down.
It's hard to notice as it's not really a general store. No ice cream signs, sandwich boards etc, just an upmarket produce store set back from the road under a massive oak? tree. Very nice inside.

Just past Ruffy I bottomed the beemer on a tight left hander that dipped. The crunch was loud and it felt like I was about to be catapulted. Turned out ok, and we ran into the dusties just down the road. Now it was on for young and old trying to keep up with ozav8r on his new Africa Twin.
 

stevethi

Just through the door
I bailed out of the highway-home-run in the back of Kinglake.

Thought that was what you did, I turned at the next left as well and did the Chum Creed Road to Healseville.

Was a great day, thanks for showing me them great roads Pete. Time to get a new front tyre before I end up on my arse.

A little dusty, but that's the fun of it. I am still in love with this TigerXCX, it's a dream bike to ride and the suspension really takes up most of the bumps etc.

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John_Johnny

Long Timer


Glitch trying to get the anger out of the ant.
Checkout ant's eyebrows looming ominously over his piercing eyes. Hands on hips. Looks like Johnny when he doesn't want to share with his sisters. :bs
 

ant

AngryAnt
Yeah yeah... I'm just trying to learn from the master!

And thanks to everyone for moral and actual support, top marks to Pete and Marty but also everyone who helped lift the bike and the escort into Longwood.
 

John_Johnny

Long Timer
Yes indeed. Thanks for the educational lunch time entertainment. It has been on my mind lately what to do with those little gas cylinders, levers and sharp poker thingamebob under the BM's seat. Glitch made it look easy enough...well not easy, but he seemed competent and confident. Might not be the same if I was doing it. RACV Total Care still seems to be my favoured option. I doubt those gas canisters still work after 20 years anyway.

What do you reckon caused the puncture? Was there a nail?
 

nev

Super Térrarist
Yes indeed. Thanks for the educational lunch time entertainment. It has been on my mind lately what to do with those little gas cylinders, levers and sharp poker thingamebob under the BM's seat. Glitch made it look easy enough...well not easy, but he seemed competent and confident. Might not be the same if I was doing it. RACV Total Care still seems to be my favoured option. I doubt those gas canisters still work after 20 years anyway.

What do you reckon caused the puncture? Was there a nail?

Your bike has tubeless tyres doesn't it? Most tubeless punctures can be quickly fixed on the side of the road. I have a small kit I carry which will put a mushroom plug into a tubeless tyre without having to take the tyre off the wheel this is the type of fix that a bike shop would do on a punctured tyre.
As for the canisters... if they haven't been punctured then they will still hold the same amount of air/gas inside. Hard to imagine them not working even after 20 years.

As for the puncture. I think it was a pinch flat, where the tyre and tube get compressed enough, maybe after hitting a pothole or a deep corrugation on the road, and the tube gets pinched under the rim. The damage to the tube was pretty bad yesterday because the bike had ridden a further 20km or so with low pressure, making the damage much worse than it probably was initially.
 

Hytram

<-- now went that way
I have changed my tyres over on my last 4 bikes, as in physical swapping tyres on/off the rims with tyre irons in the garage, dozens of times, and I have never done it in the wild with the tools I have carried with me..

I am going to have to set up the bike on the front lawn and with the tools I carry and give it a go...


on the ride note..

I get a little cynical sometimes about riding around Victoria, "seen it", "been there before"....

not this ride, Thanks Pete for the route, that Spur Road in the the morning after Yea and the roads in the afternoon through that valley and farmland before with split off was absolutely magnificent!! :clap:

I am definitely going to have to get up there and explore some more, its great ADV teritory


thanks to all day a Magic day and to catch up with you all

Sorry to Ant for leading you up the garden path.. :oops:


have a couple of photos, will post them later tonight
 
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