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“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.” Hunter S. Thompson
I have just bought a GPS course with a set of track notes, Ive got no mates with me and i cant ride for shit either..
At least the tshirt fits, And ive got an indemnity form to sign.. What could possibly go wrong!
The DR has 50,000k’s on it so i put on a new chain and sprockets and generally fixed all the broken shit from the RIDE ADV High Country run. New cush rubbers spare set of bearings front and rear tubes spare oil filter and 2ltrs of motul 5100 and a bag of tools .
Fresh D606s and a tank of premium.
After getting f^%#@% around on the last day at work i rolled in on Friday night in the dark to Wisemans Ferry, Some of the Regular Old Bulls were in the pub and put me in a bit of a panic with the photos of last years obstacles, sketchy log bridges and all sorts of gnarly looking shit
So i grabbed a 6 pack and f*&%^# off to camp down the road
APC 2014 Official Starter
Day 1 Gardens of stone – dropped the 36 down to 26psi bike was a lot happier
Portland – Oberon – Jenolan Caves – Burraga 390ks
Spent the night in the Burraga Community hall
Publican wasnt to impressed there were only 3 of us when they were expecting 17
Cant find day ones video i reckon the SD card is sitting on that table. Quite a bit of familiar trails but they had been cleaned up. No more bouldery uphills and down hills to the creek by the house on the river, Easy day to get settled in
Another update – Been out for a hunt at Hill End
Day 2 Burraga – Tunena – Binda – Gunning – Murrembateman -Talibingo 448Ks
Goodradigbee River, Brindabella, NSW
Some really long drops from off the Mountains, All part of the missing SD Card.
Nearly ended up in the table drain a bit further down the road f%^@#*& with the GPS after a missed turn off into a riot of a section !!!!
Unused single 4wd track with slappy bushes great run one bike in front one behind..Spent the night at Talibingo Tourist Park, Great Operators there, Rolled in at around 4 or 5pm, And was offered a lift with the boys down to the local club for a fantastic Chinese Meal and a few beers.
Talibingo – Corryong – Benambra – Omeo – 320Ks
Currently travelling with two champions Pikey and Darcey. It was decided that the bikes would be rolled down to the main street to save waking the whole joint up, Funnily enough Pikeys battery was flat and this was discovered at the bottom of the hill. I removed one of the ratchet straps holding the swag on to use as a tow rope and Darcey towed him back up into the park and proceeded to wake the whole joint up trying to clutch start the dead bike – Absolute pisser the shit that is starting to go on day to day.
We then sat around till 8 waiting for the petrol station to open up with another 6 bikes
The power station is probably pretty impressive but i was on a mission to get through the high country unscathed
First of many trees over the road, This one was easy enough
Awesome looking country
Then it started to get real fun – Ive never had to ride past an operating excavator with only a meter between it and a 10 meter drop into a creek. Just to make it interesting that part was made of rubble too, Mighta had something to do with the road closed sign i saw earlier so i wasnt hanging around to take photos
Cant go over go under – The Blokes in front were working on making a passage for a good hour up here,
Everyone got hit with leeches for there efforts too
Spent the night camping at the Omeo Caravan Park – Owner there gave us a lift to the Golden Age Hotel, Beers and shooting the shit
Courtesy bus back to camp with a few roadies to top off a good dayIts done and dusted Wigster ! I’m off to Cape York on Saturday might have to finish this up when i get back
Omeo – Dargo – Harrietville – Bright 318km
Grabbed a ham cheese roll from the bakery and got stuck into this road
Another Log with a story without video
Darcey charged this log and a fully loaded dr650 looks very wrong after catching 3 foot of air in the nose down position, Landed on the front and got spat off with the bike down the embankment with 6 onlookers – Champion just jumped up and gassed it back onto the main track
On a marked trail bike err Trail 3 i had my first decent getoff
Bike was pissing out fuel through the breather and my wrist was pretty jacked up, And there was no one behind or comming back for me. Dragged the bike another 5 meters down the trail to a position where i could unload all the gear and pick it back up
Bars were completelly tweaked out and the ignition switch was destroyed, I put my boot into the swag and without a word of a lie it hurtelled down the hill and wedged itself under the bashplate. Quickly bodged the damaged switch up and tried to catch up with the pack
Just out of Dargo there is a waterfall mentioned in the track notes so grabbed a picture
Also in the track notes there is a big hill
I had a full tank and this hill went on for 5 minutes – front wheel got real light and even lifted off a few times. Later on i find out a few of guys had the wrong gearing and didnt even make it up the thing
Pressed on from Harrietville to Bright which was listed as an easy 33km – it took me well into the dark after dumping the bike a few more times on some nasty clay downhills – Firing the DR through creeks in the dark dodging black cattle sure had the adrenaline flowing!!!! Spent the night in a motel in the main street, Limped into the pub covered in shit looking beaten and an older couple gave me half a gourmet pizza they couldent finish. Pizza & Beer warm fire. Swore id never press on from 4:30 ever again (Sure)
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