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No matter how much work you put into planning a ride like this, it’s mother nature that has the final word and in this case the rain gods were against us.
Nevertheless we still got to ride some really great roads and tracks and see some fantastic country. The outback is in full bloom at the moment and we were lucky to see it in all it’s glory.
Thanks to all the blokes on this ride for their good company and humour, even when things didn’t go to plan. Hope we can have a beer at the Corner next year guys.
We were very lucky to have Bollocks and Gaz along to look after us and the food was bloody great!! Always a cold beer waiting for us at camp, it doesn’t get any better than that.
Thanks Guys.
Thanks to Pep for the use of his truck even when he couldn’t come along!!
Thanks to TB for all the work he put into planning this trip and for always finding us a route on this ride. Bloody legend mate.
I didn’t take many pics but here’s some anyway.
Watching the Spot Tracker, it seems like Nick hasn`t made it past STM`s place yet ???? :laugh:
A big trip for our Pommie mate the last week & a bit
Funny to see a Pom outlast a Seppo in the outback too hey :laugh: It`s ok Krusty, you can actually do the Corner run staying in caravan parks & pubs if you so wish (softy)
It was done that way by the boys from Trailzone mag in August (as featured in the latest issue)Next year is a new year & a new challenge :woohoo:
EAGLE`02 wrote:
Quote:It`s ok Krusty, you can actually do the Corner run staying in caravan parks & pubs if you so wish (softy) It was done that way by the boys from Trailzone mag in August (as featured in the latest issue)
Next year is a new year & a new challenge :woohoo:
Krusty came good mate, he has signed on for next Oct already and is prepared to go unsupported if needed and camp every night. He earned his outback adventure riders merit badge
Next years is already well and truly on the planning table already and will be the same and different :laugh: But before that there is the 3 state tour (NSW, ACT and VIC) in Feb, March or April. The 4 day great dividing ride and all the regular OBT rides like the Birthday ride, Micks Birthday ride etc
TB
Great stories and pics so far!!! bloody awesome actually.
Moose not long left here, he dropped by on Ol Burple for a beer and a yarn before he rode that last 5km home. :laugh: What a champion. :laugh: He filled me in with some great yarns.
Glad everyone had a great time and got home safe.
Well I woke for the 10th time at 3am and went that’s it I am getting up
, I went down stairs made a milk coffee and watched Race to Dakar while I waited for Moose, Mick and Krusty to get up. Slowly everyone got up, had a drink and we left at 5am. Straight away the fog was thick as and we wobbled out through the dark and foggy mountains. Nick and I chatted on the blue tooth like excited school kids while Moose had taken up a spot on the rear rack of the Tenere it seemed with Burple as he reckoned the Tenere’s headlight rocked. As I rode through Lawson Owl 02 (Gaz or my logistics go to man as the trip wore on) rang, he couldn’t sleep either and was sitting up watching the “A Team” (I think he said) He was watching us on the tracker and said it was raining at Blacktown, had I known this was a sign of things to come, us running from the rain that is :laugh:We stopped in Katoomba, I was looking for a place with light so we could check over the bikes. I found a place, it was up the driveway of so fancy bed and breakfast place. So 4 bikes at 5.30 rock up their driveway we didn’t stay long
but Krusty’s exhaust as a crackle to it that could wake the dead :huh:
From there it was out to Tarana to meet Donna and Mal5.1. I tell Donna is very cool, whose wife gets up Sunday morning early and to go out in the freezing cold for a bike ride to meet dudes for breakfast, Donna does
We took of and got onto the first of the dirt for the trip, 2kms later I hit a Wallaby, yup 2kms into the trip, following Mal and bang a Wallaby!! I stayed upright and he continued on as well. Minutes later I just missed a rabbit and then had a Galah hit my helmet. Nick was pissing himself laughing and taking the piss out of my plastic shoo roo’s. The only thing that seemed to run from my bike was cows so Donna at breakfast said I may have fitted Shoo Moo’s by mistake. :woohoo:We rode around the entrance to Mt Panorama where I asked every inner breed hillbilly worker directing traffic who was on pole?? No one could answer that, Christ they were working at the event!! Doesn’t matter cause Lowndes and the mighty Holdens cleaned up the next day
We went for breakfast (thanks Donna for organising that)
Krusty eating his breakfast
Boulder drove past, we tried ringing him to turn around for breakfast but we missed him
We bid farewell to Donna and Mal, thanks for the route to breakfast Mal
We headed off towards Orange out through the back blocks and onto the dirt again after a while. I stopped and suggested we try the singles in the pine trees behind the parents when we wound through the fire trails but alas Krusty said no :laugh: :laugh:
We headed around Orange and started down a little short cut when we found a tree down, “U” turns all around expect Nick who dropped the DR. We the flew through some phat dirt roads, sweeping corners, 90 degree bends rolling hills into Molong for a fuel stop.
From the there we rode across country to the Dish, again dirt roads and a 35kms tar section that had the smaller bore bikes revving. Once I spotted the Dish we wound some tracks including a closed dry weather only road to the Dish
It was only a quick quick stop because time was getting away for a counter lunches at Trundle and Jeffro would be waiting so the pace was wound up somewhat as we zigged and zagged country dirt roads and lanes to Trundle. It was here that in anything that was remotely sandy the Tenere displayed something that can only be described as trying the commit suicide
, this was troubling me although not as much as the thought of missing a counter lunch at Trundle :laugh: . As I said the pace was on 110, 120 to 140 odd were on, Krusty and Moose sat out of our dust and then Krusty over shot a 90 degree cornerWe rolled into Trundle to find the Wee Strom loaded to the hilt at the pub. I charged in to order a mixed grill and ol mate say’s “We only have two pizzas left” WTF no counter meals!! OK I will have a pizza, thinking it would be a frozen bloody pizza for Nick and I, Moose and Krusty ordered the other but only one could be cooked at a time :laugh: :laugh: Best pizza I have had in years honest it was a beauty.
Trundle Pub
Main street of Trundle
Moose and the 1x bike at Trundle
We saddled up and headed to Condo, again the Tenere was bloody nervous but I thought it was me :huh: , but it was a worry. Into Condo, we fuelled and went to the Pub, Gaz, Boulder were waiting but not Mickp, Lotsa or Bollocks so we got on the piss.
Rooms were taken, and when Bollocks fronted we handed out the shirts and packed the support vehicle, a route change for days 1 and 2 were suggested by Greg at the pub so it was hard at work on the laptop and then GPS’s were loaded. This became a event every night as I poured over routes and maps, it was a real head case as I ended up with a headache from it more then once.
Dinner was had, many drinks consumed knowledge shared, shit spoken and people readied UHF channel decided plans made etc
Bikes locked and loaded at Condo
Service vehicle
Well here we go
A better crew you wont find (although better heads you may see in a trough if thats your thing :laugh: )
Moose just coming to the end of the bitumen just outa Condo
Mickp and Lotsa
Jeffro the ironman
Waiting at the start of the railway section wasnt long before I binned the Tenere
Random Scenery
A stop about 40kms from Ivanhoe, Nick has wood in foot and doesnt know it the hard core Pommy :laugh:
A dirty Tenere, guess which side fell in the mud :laugh:
Nicks holy foot, doesnt look much but he said a sleeper got stuck in it :dry: The impact was taken on the top of his foot, and I bet it has broken the bone, the problem with the piece that went in is infection as they treat those sleepers with some serious shit
His church boot
I felt bad so I got him some ice at the pub, oh and a beer
The beer tree we planted about 40kms from Menindee
Once in Menindee we went to the waiting place, oh locals call it the pub :laugh:
Camp TB night one
Brains trust :laugh:
Ring of knowledge
Nick (he looks funny, maybe its the drugs for his foot, yeah lets say that :laugh: )
Out the back of Menindee lake
Look back at the others coming
Moose as he was all trip
Crossing the border in the middle of no where with not a sole noting we all took our boogie boards :laugh: :laugh:
Blue Steeling and Yunta Pub
And normal
So we head north, and as the sign says the roads are open (12 hrs later all shut)
Jeffro drilling the Wee Strom foot peg bolts out
Nicks daughters chair (he got the wrong chair at home :laugh: )
A wet Jeffro
The camping area
Krusty’s castle
Wet wet wet
The support vehicle back at Yunta
Just up the road a dry spot, at 10 oclock roadie at the railway track
So there we are 185kms from Broken Hill, more later
TB
(A special thanks to Nick at Teknik’s he rang me back his mobile to help sort the Tenere, I thought it was only me on the first day as I couldnt relax all day. Moose the rode it and told me dont ride it until I get it fixed because it is dangerous and is an accident waiting to happen. Nicks suggestions fixed it sweet and it is a different bike, it can be poked along at a good pace anywhere)
Well it was a great trip, about the only thing TB could not organize was the weather.
Some thank yous that have been said before but I will repeat them:
Thanks to TB for all the organizing of the trip along with Boulder our route marshal.
To our support vehicle crew Gaz and Bollocks who looked after us ssooo well, I’m sure they will be riding next year.
Pep for the loan of his vehicle for support duty.
And to the rest of the crew for their comaradery, good humour and companionship making the journey a memorable one.Mick
Some photos to follow
The GPS logged about 2250km for those of us that rode from Condobolin and back with a moving average speed of 90kmhGathering before the ride
OB Condo-Corner crew
Waiting for support vehicle
TB’s misadventure
Boulder repairing TB’s brake lever
Somewhere between Condo and Ivanhoe
Somewhere between Ivanhoe and Menindee
Menindee Hotel waiting for support crew
1st nights camp at Lake Pamamaroo, Menindee
Gaz preparing dinner
Heading towards S.A.
Moose on border patrol
Arrival at the S.A. border
Lotsa at the water trough
Lotsa roadside repairs
Lotsa coming to confiscate my camera
2nd nights camp spot at Waukaringa Town ruins in the distance
Packing up to head back to Yunta
More photos to come
More photos
Railway service track between Yunta and Broken Hill
Returning to NSW
Silverton Hotel
Clouds to the SW
Waterfront camping Lake Pamamaroo, Menindee
TB route planning
Lotsa on the weir between Lake Pamamaroo and Lake Wetherell
Bollocks trying to catch dinner (lucky theres plenty of food in the eskies)
Packing for the great escape
The escape route
Great Western Hotel Cobar
Thats all the photos from me folks
Mickp
Looks like only one person was dissapointed with the detour
OWL04 wrote:
Quote:Looks like only one person was dissapointed with the detourIf I knew she was there owl04 I would have pushed on without the suport vehicle.
lotsa wrote:
Quote:OWL04 wrote:Quote:Looks like only one person was dissapointed with the detourIf I knew she was there owl04 I would have pushed on without the suport vehicle.
Ha ha I would have carried the support vehicle :laugh:
Trailboss wrote:
Quote:Well one of the funny things that happened was when we spotted Boony walking through Silverton, obviously head down and a long face cause he wasnt on the ride :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GToBGes2dGc
Bloody jinx us with a 100 year weather event
TB
Nah not unhappy he wasnt on this ride,,he was actually on one of the best rides he has ever been on at the cells
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