nev
Super Térrarist
Next morning we were up at the crack of dawn and on the road heading south through Tuena, Crookwell into Goulburn.
Arrived in Goulburn and i dropped Jo at McDonalds to steal their wifi while I went to hunt for a tyre. My pilot road 4 rear is 10000km old and I knew it would need replacing before we got home. The tyre is down to it's tread depth markers and there is only 1000km or so before we get home, but I know how quickly the last few mm of rubber in a tyre can disappear... (and only a couple of days prior in Walcha we'd seen a bloke putting the third plug in his tyre which had the steel bands showing, as he contemplated how he was going to get home to Port Macquarie on a tyre which had clearly already given up the ghost.
The Yamaha dealer had no 150 profile tyres on his rack, (sold a lot of tyres the previous week to riders heading to the island and hadn't received any restock) but just as i was about to leave the bloke in the workshop whips out a secondhand Anakee 3 rear tyre which another customer had tried but not liked. It had about 60% tread and it was mine for $75 including fitting. Can't argue with that. An hour later I collect Jo and we're on our way again.
Some very light drizzle has we head out of town, but as the road drops out of the clouds the sky clears.
A quick stop in Braidwood to stretch the legs.
We hit the coast at Bateman's Bay and stop for fish and chips.
Was originally planning to stay here the night, but we've made such good time today (and I'd budgeted a lot more time getting the tyre sorted out) that I decide another 100km this afternoon will give us a shorter day tomorrow, so we continue south along the coast to Bermagui.
Arrived in Goulburn and i dropped Jo at McDonalds to steal their wifi while I went to hunt for a tyre. My pilot road 4 rear is 10000km old and I knew it would need replacing before we got home. The tyre is down to it's tread depth markers and there is only 1000km or so before we get home, but I know how quickly the last few mm of rubber in a tyre can disappear... (and only a couple of days prior in Walcha we'd seen a bloke putting the third plug in his tyre which had the steel bands showing, as he contemplated how he was going to get home to Port Macquarie on a tyre which had clearly already given up the ghost.
The Yamaha dealer had no 150 profile tyres on his rack, (sold a lot of tyres the previous week to riders heading to the island and hadn't received any restock) but just as i was about to leave the bloke in the workshop whips out a secondhand Anakee 3 rear tyre which another customer had tried but not liked. It had about 60% tread and it was mine for $75 including fitting. Can't argue with that. An hour later I collect Jo and we're on our way again.
Some very light drizzle has we head out of town, but as the road drops out of the clouds the sky clears.
A quick stop in Braidwood to stretch the legs.
We hit the coast at Bateman's Bay and stop for fish and chips.
Was originally planning to stay here the night, but we've made such good time today (and I'd budgeted a lot more time getting the tyre sorted out) that I decide another 100km this afternoon will give us a shorter day tomorrow, so we continue south along the coast to Bermagui.