Over The Shoulder....Rides through the Decades

nev

Super Térrarist
Re: 2005...TassieGems #1

I will get that fixed one of theses days, planning to getting it done, lost the lot when let Parcom go last year...... not much was backed up but still have all photos

Shouldn't be too hard to rebuild the directory structure from the broken links.
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
Re: Over The Shoulder....Rides Of A Decade

wasn't 6 peaks #3 in 2004? That was the 1st ride I did with you guys.. After that we did Tassie and NZ in the first half of 2005


Updated the 2 placeholder posts....you're right, 6peaks#3 was in '04...the one where Suzie decked the Kwak in Buchan.
Goodie also found the pics of another ride...

All here
http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4139&page=9
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
2007...We Deliver!!

2007....was the start of an UNBELIEVABLE string of rides which are still roaring along at full tilt right now.
Beyond rides.... a tour-de-force that's turned into a lifestyle-choice.



January brought along the "We Deliver" postie ride....2 weeks of backroads, and sometimes footpaths/ tracks, of the High Country and Snowies.

Been there often enough, heh??....but this was different!!


Copped thunderstorms and hail in Tumut on New Years Eve

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Saw some superb countryside

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Roamed the backtracks of Cabramurra (and there's quite a few of them).



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The old Cabramurra Airfield that was used in the '50s through the construction period, since abandoned.


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Tawonga Gap after the fires

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Hotham, the Blue Duck twisties and the Bogong High Plains Rd. before is was rooted by getting sealed.

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Found some alternative ways along the Trappers Track

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Had a pearler of a time jumping cattle gids near Lake Eucumbene

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...then sweating blood and water crossing the ridge between Eskdale and Dederang.

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Man, it was grouse!!!

:lao



More here:

http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1271
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
2007...CheapArse Weekend, Strathbogies et all

Only a few weeks later...Australia Day Long Weekend, late January.

3 days and nearly a 1000k's on the little CT's, fully packed with camping gear and pots/ pans.

Tim was along for that one :chug:


Donna Buang... Toolangi State Forest...the roundabout way into the Strathbogies...

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...flats...some paddock-bashing when the tracks peetered out...


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Mt. Wombat

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Found some obstructions....

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...found some memorials in the bush


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Some playing around

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The whole box'n dice:

http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1293
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
2007...Postie Day Ride

February

Just a little tootle around the Acheron Way, Murrundindi Stat Park, Donnellys Weir and a few waterfalls in between.

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glitch

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2007...April Fools with the Balla-Rats

April Fools Day....and the raving-mad basterds from Ballarat were back with their gaggle of posties.

Mayhem in the Bunyip State Forest
This quote pretty much set the tune for the day:

The 2 L-platers Will and James (only 3 months on L’s), the bunch of Ballarat rednecks.... Stoo, Jeremy, Paul and Jeff (sp?) and some local drop-ins/-outs :p Tim, Goodie and I.

A sedate start only saw a couple of 360s and an attempted burnout….and we weren’t even off the car park!! CHRIIIST!!


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The video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XPT0uonc0






And the full yarn here:

http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1350
 

BB63

SV, DRZ & now DL Rider
Re: Over The Shoulder....Rides Of A Decade

Reckon wew were very close to crossing paths for this one "2007...We Deliver!!"
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This was taken between Threadbo and Jindabine as the date says new years eve 2006-7. Thats the remnants of the Hail storm on the side of the road.
Cheers brian
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
Re: Over The Shoulder....Rides Of A Decade

Small world, mate.
Whoohoo, is that SV loaded up or what?
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glitch

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2007...Tassie Gems #2

Damn those itchy feet!!
A glorious Indian Summer in Australia's South stoked the fires for another 9 days of Tassie....as always, it was easy enough to find a bunch of mates to come along.

With the Tornanti-Ride (Euro-Alps) only a few months down the track, this also got the crew together for a chance to bed-in and get used to eachother's little quirks and general flow.

The smallish troupe of 7 (or rather 8 with TimTim the only local) turned out to be the best and smoothest bunch I've ever ridden with!!

Moike (100RS) was on again...Tim on the DR....and Marty on the Strom.
Another 3 Stroms with Karel (carver), Goodie and Yours Truly.
Steve (from BikesandScooters forum) on the FJR....and TimTim from Hobart on the Capo joined us for most of the time.





Started off with the youngest AT-member having a dribble...


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Smoking up the A5 to the Great Lakes


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Checking out the Ida Bay Railway

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Seeing the rest of the world in Adventure Bay, South Bruny Island


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Spending a night at Joe's Garage and having a chat, a beer and a laugh with Matt (RIP, mate!!)



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The Western Explorer, Cradle Mtn and the backroads of the North Coast...what a humdinger of a trip!! :glu:glu


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More here:

http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1390
 

glitch

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Staff member
2007...Tornanti 1

September/ October 2007

Nearly 3 years of planning....



This was it!!
THE BIIIG MOMMA!!
6 (SIX!!) weeks of carving the European Alps


Anything and everything from the gorges in the south of France, the Mediterranean Coast, Route Napoleon through the French Alps, Switzerland inside-out and upside-down, Southern Austria, the Dolomites, the Alto Adige and the little-known Friuli in Italy... Northern Slovenia, Liechtenstein and various little tax-havens...100s of passes, 9000km of twisties without end....and literally, carve-'til-ya-barf.

Starting with the bikes we DIDN'T book and pay for, to finishing up in a brothel in Milano/ Italy.

From 2ft. of overnight snow on the Stelvio to sharing the "Roof of Europe" with a fashion model on the glaciers above Grindelwald, Switzerland. From a meet with the Alpenbikers near Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Germany and Hitlers Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden/ Germany to the tiniest single-laner dirt roads above Martigny in the Rhone Valley (Switzerland/ French border), the list is endless.

The ride-report has turned into a reference-work even for the locals (it was also translated)...and has had over 500.000 hits through the various forums around the globe.
The pics are scattered around the globe, from Brasil to South Africa, Sweden to Canada.



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Where you shouldn't go, definitely not on a hire-tourer :bs Col de Tende/ Italian/French border


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Col d'Izoard, France OMG!!! :glu:glu:glu


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On the Stelvio



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The tiny Mortirolo Pass/ Italy...with all the Giro d'Italia Bike Race graffiti


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Dolomites

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Mangart-Madness/ Slovenia


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Segantini Hut, St. Moritz at our feet


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Riding Skilifts...bloody dangerous, I tells ya!!


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Here's the full yarn with over TWO-THOUSAND-FIVE-HUNDRED gobsmacking pics.:drool:
Lock the door to your office, arrange hourly coffee-infusions....enjoy :thumbs:

Don't mind the shakes and that terrible yearning in yer belly at the other end....it's just part of that sort of thing :so
http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1506
 
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