The rally, not a state of mind :!:
Confusion rally has been running for over 20 years. Conveniently near Licola, it gives everyone an excuse to ride some particularly fantastic roads.
So, with plans coming and going faster than mushroom induced flashbacks, myself and Mike (Moike) headed for Licola on Australia Day weekend. We were both a bit short of time, so couldn't head up Friday. No matter, it was a relatively short run form melbourne.
We played dodge the rain, semi-successfuly, on the way out of Melbourne, but by the time we got to Lilydale, it had all but cleared. We kept heading out of town, via the well worn path of Yarra Junction, Powelltown and Noojee. When we got to noojee, Mikes BM was starting to suffer from slipping clutch so he fiddled with the adjustment to try and correct this before heading inside for a coffee.
After the break, we headed on, climbing up out of Noojee and on to the Icy Ck road. On this section, Mike went backwards in my mirrors, especially on the long uphills. We stopped at the corner and Mike decided that he was going to have to nurse the bike back to Melbourne but would come through to Willow Grove and cut back across to the freeway from there. By Willow Grove, he'd decided that if he kept the massive power of the R bike in check, the clutch didn't slip, so with a commitment to judicious throttling, he decided to keep going. e rolled on through Tyers, Glengarry and made it into Heyfield for a spot of lunch at the pub.
At the pub, we met up with another 2 riders who had been forced to stop their journey to Licola the night before when the VTR 1000's reg-rec died. After he rang around the Gippsland bike shops that morning, his mate headed over to Sale for a new reg-rec and battery. Once they got got that sorted, they realised that most of the light globes had blown, so off went his mate again. They got them fitted and were ready and keen to roll again, so they headed off while we had lunch.
Confusion rally has been running for over 20 years. Conveniently near Licola, it gives everyone an excuse to ride some particularly fantastic roads.
So, with plans coming and going faster than mushroom induced flashbacks, myself and Mike (Moike) headed for Licola on Australia Day weekend. We were both a bit short of time, so couldn't head up Friday. No matter, it was a relatively short run form melbourne.
We played dodge the rain, semi-successfuly, on the way out of Melbourne, but by the time we got to Lilydale, it had all but cleared. We kept heading out of town, via the well worn path of Yarra Junction, Powelltown and Noojee. When we got to noojee, Mikes BM was starting to suffer from slipping clutch so he fiddled with the adjustment to try and correct this before heading inside for a coffee.
After the break, we headed on, climbing up out of Noojee and on to the Icy Ck road. On this section, Mike went backwards in my mirrors, especially on the long uphills. We stopped at the corner and Mike decided that he was going to have to nurse the bike back to Melbourne but would come through to Willow Grove and cut back across to the freeway from there. By Willow Grove, he'd decided that if he kept the massive power of the R bike in check, the clutch didn't slip, so with a commitment to judicious throttling, he decided to keep going. e rolled on through Tyers, Glengarry and made it into Heyfield for a spot of lunch at the pub.
At the pub, we met up with another 2 riders who had been forced to stop their journey to Licola the night before when the VTR 1000's reg-rec died. After he rang around the Gippsland bike shops that morning, his mate headed over to Sale for a new reg-rec and battery. Once they got got that sorted, they realised that most of the light globes had blown, so off went his mate again. They got them fitted and were ready and keen to roll again, so they headed off while we had lunch.