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  • January 10, 2010 at 9:25 am #97869

    simon burke
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    just got home from the coast and have been talking to an Ambo mate of mine.The Wauchope Walcha road is a mecca for road bikes and also dirtbikes through the hills as mick(and other coastal ferrets) would know :) .i have just driven through it tonight,more turns in it than a packet of twisties…any ways…he was listening to his radio this morning in the ambo and apperently some poor bugger left the road at pace and went off a 150 m cliff :ohmy: …sent 2 choppers …as the first couldnt get him and an ambo from walcha and 1 from warchoppy.Dont know how he faired in the end,guess they got him as there was no action on the road tonight…poor bastard :(

    January 10, 2010 at 9:34 am #167792

    Mick D
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    We hear the ambos head up the mountain nearly every sunday arvo. :ohmy: That road sees a lot of road bike traffic especially on sundays. It is rated the 2nd best road bike road in Australia, 2nd to The great Ocean road.

    January 10, 2010 at 9:38 am #167793

    Greg
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    micknmeld wrote:

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    It is rated the 2nd best road bike road in Australia, 2nd to The great Ocean road.

    Voted by who? I mean its a good road bike road I have been over it a lot of times and it is Wauchope I know but who voted it?

    Wonder how ol mate went?

    TB

    January 10, 2010 at 9:43 am #167794

    Mick D
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    When I posted that I knew you’d call me on it. ;)

    Australian Motorcycle News was the first to bring the poll to a head and it has gained popularity every year since. :dry:

    January 10, 2010 at 9:45 am #167791

    simon burke
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    checkmate :laugh:

    January 10, 2010 at 9:46 am #167795

    Greg
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    No dum nuts I and the world arent out to get you fool I read that years ago and couldnt remember where was all and as I said its a great road ;)

    (whats wrong with you :laugh: )

    TB

    PS I have boxes of Australian Motorcycle News from my road bike days :)

    January 10, 2010 at 10:14 am #167796

    Greg
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    Anyway Mick now your over yourself and know I am agreeing with you but couldn’t remember, being in the news business are you able to find out tomorrow how ol mate went please ?

    Also the poll was wrong Wauchope is better then the ocean road, ocean rd over patrolled as we agreed ;) look forward to riding it again on the 30th eh?

    TB

    January 10, 2010 at 11:11 am #167797

    glenn
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    gingers creek owners have actually put in a helipad for the MRU to land and extract road bike and dirt bike rider following a fubar., very,very popular area ,,westpac 3 chopper has it loaded on speed dial on the gps.
    we unload at least 3 riders a month from up that way. :(

    January 10, 2010 at 7:39 pm #167800

    Mick D
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    FROM Port Macquarie News

    A PORT Macquarie man is fighting for his life in Royal North Shore Hospital after a motorcycle accident yesterday.
    The 55-year-old man suffered serious head and chest injuries after he was catapulted 50m from his motorcycle down an embankment on the northern side of the Oxley Hwy, near Gingers Creek.

    The man hit the guard rail on a corner at the end of a short straight about 8km east of the Gingers Creek Roadhouse, about 9.15am.

    Reports said he was riding in a westerly direction when he misjudged the corner.

    Police from Laurieton and Port Macquarie Highway Patrol assisted ambulance officers from Wauchope and Walcha.

    After being retrieved from the slope he was taken the short distance to Gingers Roadhouse where a helicopter was able to land.

    The Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service, from Tamworth, flew him to Port Macquarie Base Hospital for further assessment.

    He arrived at Port Base about 12.15pm.

    Yesterday afternoon the man’s condition hadn’t improved and the decision was made to fly him to Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital.

    January 10, 2010 at 7:44 pm #167832

    Greg
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    Thanks Mick, doesnt sound like ol mates doing real good eh?
    55 years old you would like to think he was riding within himself at that age shows how easy it happens :huh:

    TB

    January 10, 2010 at 7:51 pm #167833

    Mick D
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    I am thinking he was with a large group of local bikes that met at Timbertown yesterday morning.(Like they do most Sunday mornings.)

    We were waiting for Unit at the same spot and going by the time the accident happened it all fits the time frame

    January 10, 2010 at 7:59 pm #167839

    glenn
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    we ride out to gingers for a coffee when we bush camp in the area,and the amount of tar riders that stop there can be on par with wolombi pub some days,you can sit in camp late in the arvo and hear the throttle jockeys belting through the windys,and several of them are riding by them selves, the do a run from long flat pub to either walcha road or bendemeer pub and buck,

    January 10, 2010 at 10:48 pm #167840

    Bruce Curtis
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    Bad stuff, good road, excellent rallies used to be held out there.

    On the middle-aged roadie rider issue, we have an absolute legion of them coming out here on the weekends and a good portion of them are “Born again Bikers” you know (and there’s nothing wrong with this if you keep it real) kids left home always wanted a bike since getting their bike licence from the local copper 35 years ago and never riding since, so they go out and buy the latest (whichever type tickles them) and off they go.
    To illustrate my point last weekend there was agroup on large Jappa sports bikes, matching leathers in the colours of their rides, latest blingy bits and polished everything, as I watched them leave the Cafe’ they were so wobbly and obviously uncomfortable i felt sorry for them, I was actually concerned one old fella on a GSXR1000 (yes I kid you not) was going to hit a parked car as he wobbled off up the road.

    As I write this I just found out one of my workmates, a beaut bloke who operates an excavator and helps everyone out at work a real doer, was the bloke who head-on’d a car at Umingar last week on a ride I heard about on the news. I believe he had just bought the bike as a chrissy present to himself and was on his first group ride, now in brisbane hospital with smashed pelvis legs, some head and spinals for good measure, poor bugger.

    All of us are vunerable, but a modicum of good sense can help.

    Bruce

    January 11, 2010 at 1:41 am #167865

    Eric Smith
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    Poor bugger, hope he pulls through ok. :(

    As far as the great ocean road, I can’t see how it could compare to this one. Its a gridlock with so much traffic. Not even close for mine. My 2 cents anyway. :dry:

    January 11, 2010 at 2:03 am #167894

    Bruce Curtis
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    GOR is overrated these days, it’s helycon days are well behind it.

    Apparently was the go back in the day of Triumph twins and CB750/4s before it become “the place”, sorta like the old putty road as well.

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