West Gippsland Ridge-Hopping...and beating Murphy

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
Murphy...what can go wrong, will go wrong! And bloody hell...it did!
To top it all off, the Klacka pulled into the carport on a dead-flat rear.

"She felt a bit funny down the Mt. Dandy twisties"


NO SHIT! :doh:

But what a ripper of a weekend it turned out in the end :glu
Pics and yarns to come...:thumbs:
 
P

PiJiL

Guest
Haha, I had a flat today too...

b266e189973acb399d99d3c26b8bae76_zps481bfb81.jpg


a3daf964bf9b100c08f23f1a1cb56b5b_zps5d03734c.jpg
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
First there were 10...with more on the "reserve bench".

Then there were 8....and the reserve bench had made other arrangements.
One flies to Brissie for some weekend work, the other samples the outstanding nursing staff of various Mel hospitals with a smashed right hand...and six rock up at Gembrook for the start.

Doug's the first one in, taking the call that the bloody KLR is playing up and won't start.
Then does his back in when the Strom starts to keel over and he tries to catch it.
(Hope you've come through that one ok and avoided another major back-episode, mate :eek:)

Down to 5....when the weather turned dubious, the KLR finally coughs into life under a smoking 24V helped by a pair of jumper leads.....a moment that starter motor will never forget :upyrs: :mad: Played along happily ever since, the shitter!!

A spittle of rain here and there out of the threatening skies, a wayward Trumpy finding some fresh greens....and dust, dust, and more dust.
Another KLR..... with a sloppy chain, not enough oil, not enough fuel...but one hell of an enthusiastic punter making up for all+more, sliding the sucker all over the place with abandon. :bs:thumbs:

Until it splutters and farts and quits the game. A fuel-cock with reserve dangling off the bottom of the tank is a bloody long way from fuel injection and Pacman-dashboards. :killingme :thumbs:

There are bits coming loose...and bits falling off....it's "Circus-Ant" for the trademark skid+double-flip on the Saturday, just to rattle the crowds some...Goodie wobbles down Mt. Dandenong on a rapidly deflating rear after collecting a 2" flathead-nail on Sunday arvo.....and that about closes the show apart from some needed repairs on various bikes through the coming week(s).

How good was it???



BLOODY FABULOUS!!! :happy: :happy::glu


As hoped for, found A SWAG :glu:lao of brilliant, little roads.... gravel/ dust/mud.... and delicious tar-twisties dotted all over the place along the ridges and steep valleys of Western Gippy.
No question: Mission accomplished (and exceeded!!):slobb


Mt Baw Baw in the distant haze....and promises of a wild and blowy night to come from those leaden skies. From Torwood-Topiram Rd.


GippyRidge_01.JPG



Logging above Darnup/Yarragon....along the Childers Settlement Rd.


GippyRidgeM_01.JPG



GippyRidge_03.JPG



GippyRidge_04.JPG




GippyRidgeM_03.JPG



GippyRidgeM_04.JPG



GippyRidgeM_06.JPG






More to come
 

hayesy

Tour Pro
Jees sounds like a netrider ride.... :bs

anyone make it home in one piece?

Ant, could that have been one of those extinct giant wombats...how wide was it?

Usual entertaining report and great photos Pete.
 
Top Bottom