stewy
Still young and stupid
well i am back already, just went up to bruthen for the over nighter, though as it turns out i was lucky to make it there, left with a rear tyre with the centre on the wear indicators, thought that should be heaps for a round trip, well WRONG!!!
Got to strafford and could see it was down to the fine layer of rubber, make a mad and wild dash for bairnsdale to see if i could get a new tyre, but missed the ktm shop by the time i rolled in...fark tiny bit of belt showing, well don't didn't know where any other places where so i thought fark it, i will just ride the rest of the way to bruthen and sort out my mess in the morning.....
heres the sunset from the pub
So upon arrival at bruthen it was a clear steel belt showing about 2inches wide showing in the centre of the tyre ( i believe a few member might have a pic or too, good night was had and great to put some faces to names, just after 6 and packed on the bike at 7 to head back to bairnsdale on the hope to to get new rubber and return to try and catch the road group for the run over the high plains road.
Well a very slow run i get about half way then stop check tyre and drop pressure to about 20 psi and really drop the speed to about 30km for the last 10kms or so and make it, pull into town about 7.30 and a sevo attendant directs me to mcleod street where to my surprise the kwaka place already has a handful of bikes already moved out onto the road for business, so i pul in there and all they have were mich's and dunlops (don't like either tyre, but i opted for a mich) waited round while they changed the tyre, all doen and finished and i return to bruthen.
here is my baby getting some new rubber
Here we are just before we set off to hunt down the road crew
Get back by 8.45, asked the bloke at the camp what time they left and he says 8 bugger everyone already gone, and then the smile can across my face thinking wow a chase woohoo, a pie for breaky, and off at 9.00 on the catch up and what a blody hoot it was through the early section had quite a few 4wd to pass but once past them i had the road to myself and had a blast, toke a route which was discussed the night before last and rolled into omeo a little later only to find the road group still there wooohoo, quick fill up and throw on some warmer clothes tim waits around for me but the rest of the group heads off, well open section leading away from omeo was a blast with tim hot on my heels, we blast through the up hill sweeper, and round the a open sweepers and quickly march up on back of the group, np pass one a few turn later no tim hmmm strange slow down a bit, look back and it looks like he is playing tec, bugger np there is still a few bunnies in front to run down, and off i go again...
Well it's need to be said i seriously love this road reckon the section from bruthen to the mt beauty might be the best road in the country (helps cos it's also about 200km long of solid twistys), and it isn't long before i reach and pass mioke whole is leading the group, np i think i will shot ahead and grab some pics of the group, dragging pegs and boots and every downhill hairpin trying to make to make as much time on the group as i can....from here it was a constant leap frog with the group while taking some pics once tim passed my we would stop and then play catchup together till he caught the last rider and i would be on my own again, also along once section of the high plain road thought i would try some riding while taking some pics here the results, noting too speical but certinaly something i would like to try and practice a little more, though maybe i will try it on a road with a little less gravel as i had one moment were i thought i was going to get a close up shot of the road...luckly manged to keep it up right and on my side of the road...
Here is the road crew in no order, really need to get a camera that snaps the pics quicker, especially when the first 4 guys were riding soo close together, think i got pics of everyone, though some aren't so great but it was the best i could do with a point and shoot.
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This was me practicing riding and shooting one handed about the only decent one i got and not long after i toke this i rounds a corner to find gravel everywhere and almost got a nice close up view of the it, opps, so i decided that was enough practice for one day, 2 hands for beginners i think
This is just a nice stream near the end of the high plains road
Finally said goodbye to the group at mt beauty and we parted ways, had lunch with my folks who were staying in mt beauty so helped them setup the tent by the time that was done it was almost 3pm fark...on goes the helmet across the gap and decided to go via oxley instead of round buffalo as wanted to see how long it toke to do oxley and it's about 45mins via the road and when we road the buffalo back road with rosie i think we did it in 60mins but she was still very new to bike and dirt riding....so i reckon it would be fairly close as i did about the same sort of speed on both sections....any pull into whitfield at right with another 3 other riders who had just come from manisfield as the servo was shutting up (ie i mean the guy had just filled his ute and was locking the door!!! That was bloody lucky....had a quick chat with the other riding asking how the road was and where they were going, they say they are about 5 hours behind schedule, after stopping and helping a bmw1200 rider who decided to check out how goo dirt was offroad, and throw it off the cliff.....rider ok sore ribs etc.... (not sure if he was part of there group etc as they were all riding extoics brand new bigger moto guzzi etc...
So across to manisfield nice crusiy ride, but by the time i reached the power lines i could feel myself drifting and struggling to pick and set good corner speeds, so back the pace right off, and it turned into a gentle cruise for me......into mansfield stopped for a good break and umm and errr which way to go either jamieson or the hwy......i sat there long and hard and all i could think about was how long and boring that hwy run is compared to did i really want to do that 14kms of dirt, finally i convinced myself jamieson only takes me 3hrs (if i am on it) to get home and so i set off, we another mistake, go to near the turn off and i could feel i was struggling again, thought about it as i was riding thinking fark i just ridden 30km in the wrong direction now by the time i go back i will only have saved myself about 50kms overall, so push on i do......
This was a huge mistake as it was now close to 6.00pm and as once you make the turn you are then facing into the setting sun, and it make sthis road hard and difficult, the sun coming through the trees and shades leaves you in some turns without vision and all you can do is hold your line until your eyes readjust or you reach the shadow from the next tree, make my way to the dirt section and this is slow going anyway cruise through that ah back onto the tar and again the same issue with the sun and the light, make for a very tiring ride but if that is not not bad enough about not far after the dirt section i see signs of roadworks, and there is loose stones and gravel and dirt everywhere, actually with all the shit covering it, looks the same as a dirt road, grrr this lasted for large percentage, through all of the downhill sweepers one of my fav parts of the road, so i slowly make my way along it, for me now it was about getting myself and bike home in one piece, having fun was a distance second on my list.....
A boring run through taggerty (was pretty much over it by this stage, and onto the spur (actually had an amazing run not another bike in sight) and only 3 cars so this put a little spring back in my stride as i relived the good memories or a nice road a suitable speed....from there the hwy home and pulling in abour 9.20 to lenna open arms...wow what a day, i seriously knacked
I gotta go keep going on the reno for the bathroom so will post my pics tonight as photobucket is taking for ever to up load them
Hop ethe rest of the group is having a blast up there in those hills, and wish i could be there with you all
Got to strafford and could see it was down to the fine layer of rubber, make a mad and wild dash for bairnsdale to see if i could get a new tyre, but missed the ktm shop by the time i rolled in...fark tiny bit of belt showing, well don't didn't know where any other places where so i thought fark it, i will just ride the rest of the way to bruthen and sort out my mess in the morning.....
heres the sunset from the pub
So upon arrival at bruthen it was a clear steel belt showing about 2inches wide showing in the centre of the tyre ( i believe a few member might have a pic or too, good night was had and great to put some faces to names, just after 6 and packed on the bike at 7 to head back to bairnsdale on the hope to to get new rubber and return to try and catch the road group for the run over the high plains road.
Well a very slow run i get about half way then stop check tyre and drop pressure to about 20 psi and really drop the speed to about 30km for the last 10kms or so and make it, pull into town about 7.30 and a sevo attendant directs me to mcleod street where to my surprise the kwaka place already has a handful of bikes already moved out onto the road for business, so i pul in there and all they have were mich's and dunlops (don't like either tyre, but i opted for a mich) waited round while they changed the tyre, all doen and finished and i return to bruthen.
here is my baby getting some new rubber
Here we are just before we set off to hunt down the road crew
Get back by 8.45, asked the bloke at the camp what time they left and he says 8 bugger everyone already gone, and then the smile can across my face thinking wow a chase woohoo, a pie for breaky, and off at 9.00 on the catch up and what a blody hoot it was through the early section had quite a few 4wd to pass but once past them i had the road to myself and had a blast, toke a route which was discussed the night before last and rolled into omeo a little later only to find the road group still there wooohoo, quick fill up and throw on some warmer clothes tim waits around for me but the rest of the group heads off, well open section leading away from omeo was a blast with tim hot on my heels, we blast through the up hill sweeper, and round the a open sweepers and quickly march up on back of the group, np pass one a few turn later no tim hmmm strange slow down a bit, look back and it looks like he is playing tec, bugger np there is still a few bunnies in front to run down, and off i go again...
Well it's need to be said i seriously love this road reckon the section from bruthen to the mt beauty might be the best road in the country (helps cos it's also about 200km long of solid twistys), and it isn't long before i reach and pass mioke whole is leading the group, np i think i will shot ahead and grab some pics of the group, dragging pegs and boots and every downhill hairpin trying to make to make as much time on the group as i can....from here it was a constant leap frog with the group while taking some pics once tim passed my we would stop and then play catchup together till he caught the last rider and i would be on my own again, also along once section of the high plain road thought i would try some riding while taking some pics here the results, noting too speical but certinaly something i would like to try and practice a little more, though maybe i will try it on a road with a little less gravel as i had one moment were i thought i was going to get a close up shot of the road...luckly manged to keep it up right and on my side of the road...
Here is the road crew in no order, really need to get a camera that snaps the pics quicker, especially when the first 4 guys were riding soo close together, think i got pics of everyone, though some aren't so great but it was the best i could do with a point and shoot.
[IMG=http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3555/p1230077.jpg][/IMG]
This was me practicing riding and shooting one handed about the only decent one i got and not long after i toke this i rounds a corner to find gravel everywhere and almost got a nice close up view of the it, opps, so i decided that was enough practice for one day, 2 hands for beginners i think
This is just a nice stream near the end of the high plains road
Finally said goodbye to the group at mt beauty and we parted ways, had lunch with my folks who were staying in mt beauty so helped them setup the tent by the time that was done it was almost 3pm fark...on goes the helmet across the gap and decided to go via oxley instead of round buffalo as wanted to see how long it toke to do oxley and it's about 45mins via the road and when we road the buffalo back road with rosie i think we did it in 60mins but she was still very new to bike and dirt riding....so i reckon it would be fairly close as i did about the same sort of speed on both sections....any pull into whitfield at right with another 3 other riders who had just come from manisfield as the servo was shutting up (ie i mean the guy had just filled his ute and was locking the door!!! That was bloody lucky....had a quick chat with the other riding asking how the road was and where they were going, they say they are about 5 hours behind schedule, after stopping and helping a bmw1200 rider who decided to check out how goo dirt was offroad, and throw it off the cliff.....rider ok sore ribs etc.... (not sure if he was part of there group etc as they were all riding extoics brand new bigger moto guzzi etc...
So across to manisfield nice crusiy ride, but by the time i reached the power lines i could feel myself drifting and struggling to pick and set good corner speeds, so back the pace right off, and it turned into a gentle cruise for me......into mansfield stopped for a good break and umm and errr which way to go either jamieson or the hwy......i sat there long and hard and all i could think about was how long and boring that hwy run is compared to did i really want to do that 14kms of dirt, finally i convinced myself jamieson only takes me 3hrs (if i am on it) to get home and so i set off, we another mistake, go to near the turn off and i could feel i was struggling again, thought about it as i was riding thinking fark i just ridden 30km in the wrong direction now by the time i go back i will only have saved myself about 50kms overall, so push on i do......
This was a huge mistake as it was now close to 6.00pm and as once you make the turn you are then facing into the setting sun, and it make sthis road hard and difficult, the sun coming through the trees and shades leaves you in some turns without vision and all you can do is hold your line until your eyes readjust or you reach the shadow from the next tree, make my way to the dirt section and this is slow going anyway cruise through that ah back onto the tar and again the same issue with the sun and the light, make for a very tiring ride but if that is not not bad enough about not far after the dirt section i see signs of roadworks, and there is loose stones and gravel and dirt everywhere, actually with all the shit covering it, looks the same as a dirt road, grrr this lasted for large percentage, through all of the downhill sweepers one of my fav parts of the road, so i slowly make my way along it, for me now it was about getting myself and bike home in one piece, having fun was a distance second on my list.....
A boring run through taggerty (was pretty much over it by this stage, and onto the spur (actually had an amazing run not another bike in sight) and only 3 cars so this put a little spring back in my stride as i relived the good memories or a nice road a suitable speed....from there the hwy home and pulling in abour 9.20 to lenna open arms...wow what a day, i seriously knacked
I gotta go keep going on the reno for the bathroom so will post my pics tonight as photobucket is taking for ever to up load them
Hop ethe rest of the group is having a blast up there in those hills, and wish i could be there with you all
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