Camerons Corner again

[TrevorMember]

Just a quick post.

As dicussed briefly in previous posts. I am heading out to the corner tomorrow (Sunday 12th morning)
There are three of us departing Lismore at 6am headed West through Tenterfield, Inverell, Moree, Walgett out to Bourke. Don’t know how far we’ll get the first day.
Next day (Monday) we should get a fair way towards the corner. Probably camp out along the way somewhere and try and keep warm. Wondering / hoping there’s wood for a fire out there?
We plan on touching base at Cameron Corner and maybe spending the night there or heading back on teh track.
We may go a bit to the North on the way back via Cunnamaulla and St. George but plan on being flexible.
If it rains we may be flat out just trying to get back from the corner.

Have prepped the bikes as best as we can. Full services done.
We are on two BMW 650 GS Dakars and a Suzuki V-Strom.

My Dakar has brand new Mitas E09 Dakars fitted front and Rear. Thanks for the advice TB. Looking forward to seeing how they perform. Heavy duty tubes installed.

Spent up big on all the camp gear and bits and pieces required for this first excursion but plan on using all the gear many times again.

I’ll be taking a few photos and will post a ride report when I get back.

[TrevorMember]

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Just testing to see if I can post off my phone.

[Nick JacksonMember]

Good luck with your ride Trev , I’ll be following your posts with intrest !

The bike looks the business

[TrevorMember]

All right heres a couple of photos of the bike loaded up.
Spent the day on it. How much fun is that.
I reckon the preparation is sometimes one of the best parts of a trip.

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Not sure about the fuel bottles on the back? They might bounce around a bit.
One for fuel the other for water. There will be some better straps before morning. Oil has to fit in there somewhere too.
Should have got some more straps from Andy Straps. Bugger….

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Lets see what these tyres look like in 3000km. About 1000km bitumen. 1000km dirt and then another 1000km bitumen home.
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6 am departure. Lets hope theres no rain. Apparently up through tenterfield was -5 degrees this morning. Go the heated hand grips….

[Dwayne OMember]

Good Luck Trev,,,,
And keep it rubber down for the whole trip mate

Keep the updates comong as well please,,,,,,

Cheers

[kel galeMember]

Looking Good can’t wait to try that myself ! keep us updated

[GregMember]

The setup looks great, good luck cant wait to see the pictures and updates

TB

[TrevorMember]

Well, here we are in tenterfield.wet and cold.2 hours in rain. Other guys tipped water out of their boots. I’m not as wet as them. Heading west now. Hope the rain eases up. Out come the dishwasher gloves to try and keep warm my wet hands in wet gloves.

[Nick JacksonMember]

Good to see your pushing on though Trev , I just checked the weather and it looks like as you go west the rain will ease mate

[TrevorMember]

Well, that was a big day. The first 350km was in solid drizzle. Brand new knobbies on a shiny wet road. We were all totally soaked through. Heated hand grips worked great till my gloves were soaked through. It was miserable but still fun to be headed west finally. After Glenn innes and inversely the weathered eased up and the road became dry. Never been so glad to dry out. made it another 300km all the way to collarenebri where we had planned to get fuel. Servo closed 6months ago apparently. We managed to get fuel from a guy at the pub but the bar was just too attractive.5pm and they had rooms out the back. Bikes in storage. Hot shower. Huge steak and some bourbon/rum and we are off to bed. Tomorrow looks like more rain. Get to burke maybe 10am and see if the roads passable to the corner.
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me happy it stopped raining.

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Biggest steak ever

Bikes running great. Tyres still have tiny little rubber sprigs on them still after 700km they still look brand new.
Dakar is getting 23.5 km to the litre which means about 400 km max from a tank.

All good so far. Happy days.

[Nick JacksonMember]

Good to see your still having a good time in the rain Trev!! The forecast for Bourke is max 5mm today :whistle:

The road from Tiboorburra to Cameron Corner is shown as open at the moment on the live rta site so you might get lucky mate !! :woohoo:

Nick

[Dwayne OMember]

Go you good thing Trev :laugh:
That steal reminds me of Boulder`s effort at the ROYAL HOTEL Hill End

Happy tripping in the rain mate, Good Luck with the remainder…..

[TrevorMember]

Well another day in a wet saddle.300kms roughly collarenebri to bourke. All in the rain. Made it here and stopped in at the cop station they advised it was pretty wet on the track. They rang wanaaring and confirmed they had some fuel but said it had rained out there…. we’re camped up at a motel in bourke hoping for clearing weather tomorrow. Eternal optimists hey. We had a little test down near the river bank this arv to see how the bikes would handle a bit of rough. The two dakars ate awesome. The V strom went maybe 5 metres off the road before its front wheel choked up with mud and the front locked up completely. Mmmm. We may be in trouble here. What a laugh. The Dakar has a brace in between the front forks leaving maybe 20mm clearance between the tire and the brace limiting the build up of mud. Good thing. Here’s a few photos. Hard to put them in order off my phone.

We are loving this trip. Meeting some real characters. What a great country we live in. Wouldn’t be dead for quids. We’ll find a way to the corner somehow…alternate routes will be sorted at the bowls club Chinese tonight. Need to hydrate a bit. Apparently beer is made of mostly water….
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Jamie used his fuel can .150km an hour chews fuel fast…

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Bourke wharf. Bit of site seeing. Too wet for much else.

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Muddy v strom wheel.

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Scrape that mudguard out.

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Mites e09 after 1000km. I am impressed.

[Dwayne OMember]

From all reports mate, there is a lot of water around out there still :whistle:
Have fun, but most importantly stay safe dude ,,,,

Enjoy

[alanMember]

looks like you have had a great time even if the weather has not been faverable good stuff may give it a crack in a few years thanks for the report

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