Grand Final Day...in Paradise!

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
To get it over and done with:

I hereby declare the Annual Footy Grand Final Day a

"MUST-RIDE"-DAY!!



Period! :drool::drool:
No crowds, no traffic, no hectic, no 4WD-yahoos raping the bush tracks, no cop cars or radar ANYWHERE!!!...not even a lousy echidna and only one solitary wayward wallaby on the Rowleys Ridge....Grand Final Day is THE day to ride FREE!


Monbulk Central....not everything has been suburbanized yet.


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Sounds like an interesting Monday night coming up :eek:


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Willo and the mighty XT showed up in Gembrook. :thumbs:


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Gembrook Terminal of the Puffing Billy looking neat and clean on a sparkler of a morning.


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Saying goodbyes...Pete (twowheeler) and the still shiny K13, despite a dusty cruise through Bunyip State Park.
Quick break at the Blue Rock Dam


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Southern end of the Rowleys Ridge



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Tanjil River Bridge


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Easy cruisin'...



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glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
One of the clear spots....Latrobe Vally and Mt. Worth State Park in the background


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Brad letting the Husky fly


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Getting closer to that "paradise" bit.... sweet as, bro!!
The slopes of Mt. BawBaw in the background.



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Loads and loads of fresh, thick, 1" gravel, just to keep things interesting.



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Sparkler, I tellsya!! :clap::clap:



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A dogleg out of Tanjil Bren and we're on the 9Mile Rd. shortly after.
More "paradise" stuff....



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Finishing at The Triangle, the Woods Point Rd. to Cumberland junction is a plain, old SHITTER at the moment :bang:...the loose gravel up to 6" deep just off the central wheel tracks, some MAJOR potholes following a smooth, encouraging clay run up a blind crest nearly rip the front-end out of the headstem, some other roadworks filling deep corrugations with deep, floury, soft shyte for some pack-the-daks-polka....it's a busy 45k or so to Cumberland Junction :doh::doh:

Hot and dusty, Doug and self are the final remains of the morning's troupe and we're on for a sweet and lonely dance across the top towards Marysville before abandoning the twisties for some more gravel, a track that's been irking me for a while as it ties in with some other, spectacular gravel roads above Marysville, connecting into the Acheron for a convenient, traffic-free way home.


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Here we go ....20k's of paradise, rockin' + rollin' along the ridge, rollercoasting the alley of bleached, dead trees, blue skies above, The Cathedrals a distant backdrop, Marysville, Buxton and other places at our feet.

PARADISE!! :glu:glu


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The Paradise High Plains morphing into the Strickland Spur....with Lake Mountain bringing up the rear. AWESOME stuff!! :lao:chug:




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Descending the spur towards the Acheron, views are just as mouth-watering....the Yarra Valley through the trough in the hills.




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Some Monteith Black set the mood for yet another "ride"...but I'll leave that to Doug :eek: :bs:bs


Great day out...and All Hail Grand Final Day, hoo-bloody-ray!! :chug:
 

dougman1

Part of the furniture
Oh yes, it's a must ride day for sure, but everyone has their limits.
The Croydon Brewery was a nice end to a fantasic day....

BUT, a pushy?

Be still my beating heart. :killingme

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glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
Google Map link, please. Some of us dream of a re-enactment.

Re-enactment there will be, no sweat.
Gmaps baulks at the "Paradise" bit, reckons there's no trafficable road/track up there even with extreme zoom and in "walking" mode.

I'll post a shorter ride pretty soon, just an Acheron/Lake Mtn/Reefton loop with a few little extras thrown in to pad things out a bit. Sort of a 1/2 day-3/4 day thingy.:scull:
 

twowheeler

two wheels are best
A handful of pics from me. Joined everyone at Gembrook and rode along until the Blue Rock Dam, mostly on roads I've never been on before -




Then all my fwiends wode away and left me on my lonesome :( -






But's that's OK, sketchy gravel and the Bender don't really go together :wink: .


So I went my own way, through green green Gippsland, near Icy Creek -




Then up Baw Baw -




Stopping for coffee and cake at the top -





Back home along this fab road via Noojee, crossing paths with Squizzy again for a short bit near Gladysdale. In the door 20mins before the start of the Grand Final, that's serendipity :wink: .
 

dougman1

Part of the furniture
Gippsland in Springtime, reminds me of NZ's Waikato region. (Minus the Gum trees )

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Bugger all traffic, just scenery and dirt roads.

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Simply stunning riding amongst the tall gum trees.

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A bit of a re-group somewhere in the whop-whops. Gave Squizzy time to set the aircon (by mobile app) on the beemer. :bees:

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This bloke turned up for a chat, but he didn't shut the bike off. Combined with the full face helmet, everything he said was lost in the 2 stroke zing.

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Goodie, quietly motoring through the forest.

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I don't know whats killed all those trees, but to see them swaying in the stiff breeze, made you very aware. There was lots of evidence of trees down on the roadways.

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What a thoroughly enjoyable day. Thanks to everyone that came along. It was a fantastic day out. :chug:
 
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