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Dejay wrote:Great stuff, hope there’s plenty of coverage so u can keep the photos coming!
Dejay!
No worries Bud that’s the plan watch this space
TB
Jeffro wrote:Looks like the guys have gotten directionally challenged, they are currently heading South by the looksBurdkin Dams spillway was closed we have had to back track wasnt all bad but great tracks
Nick had a flat
Followed ol mate here on the dirt for a while that’s serious dust :laugh:
Burdkin Dam
Random
TB
That’s the hardest tyre change I’ve ever done …. Kram , Moose and me left TB to adjust his boots and headed to Collinsville top pub for ONE !!!
And ONE it was , well just after , about 1.30 we rolled back. A Band played Pink Floyd , Metallica and The Angels . A charity night saw all the local girls in nurses uniforms and the beer was cold
Say no more , today was hard
Good stuff Nick. It is an adventure eh!
Hopefully that is the last puncture for you eh!Ride safe gents and keep the pictures/vids coming.
Cheers,
LeftyAmazingly we got away just after 6 the run to Bowen river hotel was awesome and testing given it was darkish and foggy we shot past there about 7.15am. It was cool and I heard a couple of the boys even had their grip warmers on :blink:
The bowen river hotel is worth a look if you are ever up here, I didn’t even know it was there or we would have camped there last night (but then Kram wouldn’t have been chased out of Colinsville
don’t ask if you weren’t here you will never know )
bowenriverhotel.com.au/We kept pedaling laughing at Kram who wasnt himself you could say and was showing he had reflexes that could be measured with a sun dial. Nick and I both had a little moment on a concrete causeway ( no falls Lefty just a slip ) and we commented how that was the slipperiest crossing ever and Kram would fall off there and he did
We rode on to Burdkin Dam about 160 kms through tracks and country that reminded us of the flinders ranges. It was twisty with dip dirt causeway after causeway at times leaving you in two minds on how fast to hit them never sure what each one had to offer. We eventually got to the dam only to find the back road closed because the dam was running over :angry: No signs saying road closed ahead either ( I posted a picture earlier)
Out came the maps and we detoured nearly 300 kms in the end. At one stage whilst traveling between stations I came up behind a 3 trailer road train and was left wondering how if I could get close enough through the dust would I pass it? As luck would have it we came into river crossing and he saw me hanging out behind him. The crossing also lead into a small town where this guy owned the servo as well. We filled up and chatted with him about trucks, Cummins engines, bikes etc while Kram tried to work out anything anything at all :laugh: :laugh:
Moose and I have been loving the road trains. We set off with a 250km run to Charters Towers where we are camped tonight, the boys are a little quieter tonight and all in their tents early after last night :pinch:
Nick had a flat on the run to Charters Towers that we couldn’t get the bead out on when inflating it. So Nick and I had to run the tyre back up the road on Moose’s bike to use a compressor (80km round trip) All that excitement took place about 165kms out of CTs.
After talking with a guy here tonight that manages a station up near Musgrave on the Cape regarding a road closure we aren’t going to Normanton. I had been chasing track information with Chicken’s help and the local police, thought we may have been able to get through but have heard its a no go tonight. So a reroute tonight and a 7.30 leave tomorrow hopefully will see us up at Hann river or Laura roadhouse tomorrow night
Random country
First crossing that displayed croc warning signs this trip
Mates truck from another angle
I also have some video and helmet cam footage of the beautiful country and tracks we have been traveling which will have to wait until I get home
TB
Great pics and report there TB. Yes mate I am the King of causway crashes :blink: :blush: just ask Mick he has seen it first hand. :laugh: :laugh:
Big detour gents and alot of Km’s covered.
Ride Safe eh!cgeers,
Lefty
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