Cutting a long story short...when this place was "born" on a stinking hot Saturday afternoon in Feb. 2006, I didn't really expect that spur-of-the-moment idea to outlast the afternoon's BBQ.
We wanted a place that lived by its rides and travel, yarns and pics. Concentrate on the essence of traveling on bikes... near and far...and leave everything else to the others.
10 years on, it still does.
And it does so thanks to you folks filling this place with life and colour, stories and character, quirks and endless, glorious pics.
A BIG THANKS to all of you. :bow:
Things turned truely freaky when chance-meeting one of the ancient AusMoto punters in Omeo on the weekend, a bike-newsgroup around at Internet-IceAge (now pretty much defunct), which had spawned most Aussie bike forums/ groups in one way or another.
With folks like Moike and Steve and some others "back on deck", the happy allegiance with the OpenRoader troupes and some other tie-ups with other groups and clubs, things are looking good for the future.
It also made for a healthy birthday-bash with nearly 40 swamping the tiny town of Eskdale.
"Quit the waffle, Harry!!! Where are the pics??"
Too many bananas in this "Queenslander's" topbox lost one of the hinge-pins. Easy fix...Paul's got all the delicate tools needed for the job
4 hrs of pelting rain broken by heavy drizzle made for drenched jox + sox...the Friday arvo-run to Bruthen isn't pretty.
....and the next morning isn't looking much better.
Back into the muck after the usual "hallway-brecky" in the Bruthen Pub, but the 50km foray to Buchan South and up the soaked and mushy dirt towards Ensay prompts a turn-around, loosing 100k total and a good part of the morning.
Up the Omeo Hwy then towards Ensay...drying out a tiny bit more each kilometer. Tambo Crossing sprouts the first bit of dry asphalt...and the first ray of sun through a veil of muck on a hillside.
Some backroads later....
...and Pretty Flat is actually Pretty Hilly!
...before it gets Pretty Rocky....
....and then turns Pretty Nice.
We wanted a place that lived by its rides and travel, yarns and pics. Concentrate on the essence of traveling on bikes... near and far...and leave everything else to the others.
10 years on, it still does.
And it does so thanks to you folks filling this place with life and colour, stories and character, quirks and endless, glorious pics.
A BIG THANKS to all of you. :bow:
Things turned truely freaky when chance-meeting one of the ancient AusMoto punters in Omeo on the weekend, a bike-newsgroup around at Internet-IceAge (now pretty much defunct), which had spawned most Aussie bike forums/ groups in one way or another.
With folks like Moike and Steve and some others "back on deck", the happy allegiance with the OpenRoader troupes and some other tie-ups with other groups and clubs, things are looking good for the future.
It also made for a healthy birthday-bash with nearly 40 swamping the tiny town of Eskdale.
"Quit the waffle, Harry!!! Where are the pics??"
Too many bananas in this "Queenslander's" topbox lost one of the hinge-pins. Easy fix...Paul's got all the delicate tools needed for the job
4 hrs of pelting rain broken by heavy drizzle made for drenched jox + sox...the Friday arvo-run to Bruthen isn't pretty.
....and the next morning isn't looking much better.
Back into the muck after the usual "hallway-brecky" in the Bruthen Pub, but the 50km foray to Buchan South and up the soaked and mushy dirt towards Ensay prompts a turn-around, loosing 100k total and a good part of the morning.
Up the Omeo Hwy then towards Ensay...drying out a tiny bit more each kilometer. Tambo Crossing sprouts the first bit of dry asphalt...and the first ray of sun through a veil of muck on a hillside.
Some backroads later....
...and Pretty Flat is actually Pretty Hilly!
...before it gets Pretty Rocky....
....and then turns Pretty Nice.