Over The Shoulder....Rides through the Decades

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
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2010...Spyder-Glider

Mid April.....and the Spyder Demo-mob was in town.

Gotta give this a whirl!! Some other well-known faces showed up...



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Jo thought it worth a giggle


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More here....pics and links in the 2. half of the thread:
http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2887
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
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2010...Kirwans Bridge

Early June.....and the ride that never happened.
Southern Australia's drought finally broke and things washed away.

Only Steve (SteveGT738) showed up on the bike, we'd swapped to the cage.

A miserable morning....

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...turned into a surprising day.....


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....and made us finish in the old gold-diggings somewhere around Whroo, north of Nagambie.

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More pics near the end of this thread:

http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2985
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
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2010...Gippsland -Cruise

Late August....and a perfect winter day!!

Derek (Crustyvarmint) was there....Tracey (canary) and Pete (Vtwin)....Doug (dougman1)....Andrew (Hayesy) on the blue SV...Goodie and I....Guy (GuyM) on the TDM...who else?
And did Pete (Vtwin) show us some of Gippy, or what?:slobb


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More juicy goss and some sweet pics :
http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3132
 

glitch

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2010....Yankee Tootle Dandy

September ....
Fall, man!!...not autumn!
That's for the Northern Half of the globe, and that's where we're heading again.


Not Switzerland or Slovenia this time around...

....nor the Route 66 for us...not even the Highways.

But the byways of the Great NorthWest, the National Parks and Natural Reserves and wonders of Southern Oregon and Northern California.

There's also a V-Strom to fix after I tried to skirt the issue for years...the bike's proven a basket case...shunted quickly out the backdoor of various dealers ...for years!

Those 3 weeks would turn out fatefull...and throw a lot of misconceptions out the window.

California, here we come....dusk creeping up the slopes of Mt. Ashland, views into Northern California

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Giant coastal Redwoods

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Mt. Shasta, NorCal, late summer, 4300m/ 14.000+ft, one of the highest peaks of the Cascades.

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Rogue River near Hellgate Canyon


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Oh man.....
the Bear Camp Rd., a crappy single-laner through the coastal mountains....
the rugged, rock-strewn Oregon Coast...
an old bridge across the Smith River




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Mt. Hood near the Washington border

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Stunning Lava fields in the Willamette NP

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Some stunning local hospitality

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Heated pear-orchards


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Gobsmacking Crater Lake


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Sawyers Bar, Salmon River and BigFoot in the NorCal forests


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What a ripper of a place....and...what a screamer of a ride
WHOOHOOO!!!


For another bible-sized yarn with a lousy 550 pics, clickety-here
Oh....better get a box of tissues, yer dribbling already !:so

http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3211
 

glitch

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2010...Victoria HighCountry Flood-Out

The usual Cup-Day weekend fitted perfectly and made a 4-day weekend.
The previous heavy rain had flooded the High Country and the weatherfrog promised more of the same across the whole weekend.

Everyone quit, we got weak-kneed as well...and took the cage.


Still turned out a GREAT weekend!!

Let the pics tell the story.

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Discovered the "other Ensay Pub"

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More pics, some nice stuff
http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3285
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
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2010...Xmas-New Year...Mt. Buller

More rain and flood damage everywhere in Victoria made us lock up the bikes and grab the cage and walking boots.

Having the use of a ski-lodge at Mt. Buller made it an easy choice.

This one's mainly a pictorial then.

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What a pearler of a week to close the year!!


More alpine pics (incl. the whole series of that sunset):
http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3350
 
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