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The bikes were trailered to Gloucester for a 9am meeting and Gav rode. Everyone was there at 8.30am so we had a latte and left for the departure point.
Base camp where we left the trailers
Bowman Farm Rd
Jeffro
GavB
Through Goucester and out to Bundook and then north.
Lots of great dirt road, twin trail and wide single.
I hit a wallaby with the result being bike a ride ok but the wallaby was beyond repair so was, unfortunately, dispatched.
Just out of the forrest near Comboyne Jeffro’s bike started playing up and we found a problem with the battery but it ran ok once we jump started it again. Looking for a replacement battery, it was off to Wauchope on the slim chance Mud N Tar was open. No luck there but Jeffros bike was running fine and starting so back to the forrest we went.
It was a nice day for it though
Gav
Holliday traffic was pretty bad. We had this caravan in front of us holding up traffic flow until we got to a creek crossing.
These blokes were following me
Tryhard through the caravan creek crossing
More top trails and we came out here
Jeffro
There were nice dirt roads and another creek crossing, which I wasn’t too keen on as it was getting late in the day.
What lay ahead
Trepidation?
A walk revealed largish river rocks, a broken concrete causeway, missing sections and the flow was pretty fast. After the words “we wouldn’t be men if we didn’t”, Gav took the plunge, not literally, crossing first and everyone followed with varying success.
Shortly after my bike developed an oil leak. It was getting on in the day so instead of going for fuel we made the priorities beer, food, accommodation and headed to Taylors Arms pub for the last pizza about 7pm.
Gav and his flies eyes, lucky the photos blurry
Gav
Being the only ones in the accommodation we had a bathroom each and at $25 a head is great value.
The next morning the output shaft seal on my bike was repaired as best we could to stop the oil leak.
No fuel in the morning threw a spanner in the works as far as the planned route was concerned. A reroute was mapped and Tryhard and myself had nice morning blast into Macksville for fuel (and a latte, but don’t tell anyone). We were back by 8am, fuelled the other bikes and set off to Willawarrin for fuel and breky.
Taylors Arm pub
Good roads, nice weather to Willawarrin
Detoured around the creek crossing this time
GavB
Not this way
This way
Brings you up here
and down here
The DR sprung a leak again so were picking up oil where we could.
At Elands we stopped at the café an had a chat to some blokes on XR650 who were getting racks to do more adv riding and camping, had a quick latte and took off.
Tar to town
Got into Gloucester where Gav and Tryhard took off for home and Jeffro and myself went back to the trailers and home.
Luckily Tryhard had his plastic poncho on the last half of the day which kept the rain off us but not off him if it had
Thanks to Jeffro, GavB and Tryhard for sharing the good company and great riding.
Nice work Lotsa. Big couple of days and covered some interesting area, both planed and the stuff in between. I had an awsome ride thanks to everone.
for me from home & return was 1120KmQuote
Lotsa- Kilometers
Lotsa- Laughs
Lotsa- Fun
Lotsa- Missed turns
Lotsa- Creek Crossings
Lotsa- Dust
Lotsa- Oil
Lotsa- Smoke
Lotsa- Fasting
Lotsa- Beer, at a Pub with no beer? Should be called a pub with no food!Feel free to add more “Lotsas”
Glouster Meeting point, sure Ill ride there. I love this town. Left home at 6.00am and was having breakfast & coffee there in no time with Joe & Wayne and before long Jethro turned up and the gang was complete, pumped and ready to go.
Tunnel Vision
Dingo Tops
The DR sounded a little rough and then shot out a foot long flame that had me ducking for cover and hoping there was no cannon ball in front of it. Lucky it turned out to be bad connectors and ran well for the rest of the ride.
A river somewhere
Holiday Traffic was terrible. Fair dinkim I don’t know if the guy taking this caravan down this track was all there. You will see the creek crossing in the next few pics that he had to cross. Deffinately no room to turn around.Actually he was the only one of the few people we saw on the tracks the whole two days.
There was a little concern at the next crossing, but we wouldn’t be men if we didn’t cross it…….Joe “Come on in the water is a lovely temperature”. Joe didn’t need to shower after his bath.. ahem both of them..ahem..
Accommodation was good
Jethros landing area. Yes he flew. If anyone goes past here please look for his watch. He realised too many km later to go back.
Again Thanks all.
And thanks for the pics & Vid Jeff. good stuff. Had to laugh out loud again…Looked like you guys had a ball , great ride reports and pics
Nick
Nickj wrote:Looked like you guys had a ball, great ride reports and pics
NickThere’s great riding around there Nick and plenty of it.
boulder wrote:Hope you will do this one again Lotsa!!Definitely. Another recy ride or two and there would be a good three or four days.
Trailboss wrote:Thanks for the report guys looks good would be in for that loop if you did it again Lotsa like the long distances in short times. The DR isnt the picture of reliability lately Lotsa :blink: whats doing there?
TBI’ll keep you posted on the ride TB and I’ll be ringing Mud N Tar tomorrow to see what they can do for a new DR as an option.
gavb wrote:Jethros landing area. Yes he flew. If anyone goes past here please look for his watch. He realised too many km later to go back.
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Yeh that’s where I came off, I was looking at the water and where I wanted to cross and concentrating on when to pop the front wheel and by the time I looked up it was too late to go to the open side of the tree. With nowhere to go I tried to pop the front wheel over it but failed and the down I went.
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