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  • #207191

    Mick Pilgrim
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    Well guys it was a top 3 days of riding. :woohoo:

    Thanks Nick for your effort in putting the ride together and putting us up at your place, its much appreciated. :cheer: :cheer:

    You cant control the weather but it all turned out good in the end, B)
    Its all been said pretty well in the previous reports and I didn’t take many photos, but here are a couple

    Along the road into Tabulum
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    TB admiring the 690 along Rocky River Rd :)
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    Some photos at Dalmorton lunch stop
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    Hope Marlo heals up quickly, would be good to see him on more ADV rides

    Mickp

    #207192

    simon burke
    Member

    Nice report guys :)
    Spewin i wasn’t there :(
    Bol :woohoo:

    #207193

    Mick Pilgrim
    Member

    Just washed the bike so I could take some photos of the rack mods and found a huge dent in the front of my bash plate that was not there before the ride :(

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    Its supposed to be flat across that section – its pushed in about 30mm
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    Mick

    #207194

    simon burke
    Member

    Mick….i think you might have ran over Nicks Can of Beans :P

    #207195

    terryjhaynes
    Member

    Well once again,I’m reading someone els’s adventure:( But it sure sounds like you guyes had a great ride.There sure is some nice country up that way.:cheer: ;)
    Nice report n pics there Nick;)

    #207573

    Nick Jackson
    Member

    Wonder how that happened Mick ?? Are you sure you didn’t ride over one of those rally cars !!!

    Glad you enjoyed the reports Teza , you’ll have to get up this way next time we do a ride ;) not all roads lead somewhere but it’s fun exploring!!

    Amazing how easy it is once your back to look at the route and see all the possibilities. Shonky maps is a good place to start plotting but a lot of their mapping is so old it can’t be guaranteed you’d get your commodore up their. Oh hang on we’re on adventure bikes so the rougher the better ;)

    #207575

    Mick Pilgrim
    Member
    Nickj wrote:
    Wonder how that happened Mick ?? Are you sure you didn’t ride over one of those rally cars !!!quote]

    May have happened on the hill to no where with all the erosion humps as I was using ALL the suspension travel jumping the humps. :ohmy:
    When I took it off to straighten it back out, I found that it was KTM 3mm plastercein? aluminium, so I would not have noticed it. If I was looking for a bash plate for the 690, I definitely would not get the KTM product, :sick: I would get an after market B&B (or similar) unit made from high strength alloy.

    Mickp

    #207576

    Mark Bunting
    Member

    Great report and pics gentlemen.

    I’m very disappointed I couldn’t make this ride especially after seeing the pics and reading the reports.

    Well done Nick and TB for putting together what looked like another cracker of an ADV ride. I’m off to the shed to work on the Quinn ;)

    Kram B)

    #207621

    Greg
    Member

    Sorry my report has taken so long but I have been very very busy :(

    Ok so I left the Kings with Moose, we stopped and got essential ADV ride supplies, yup piss and a pie. Fueled the bikes and rolled into Nicks, we sat around waited for the others and talked shit and checked and rechecked our loads etc. Oh Moose didn’t, nothing stresses Moose check his rear tyre pre ride
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    Soon Lotsa and Mickp fronted, Lotsa is a nutter in his car, we watched him drive up Nicks rough arse driveway faster then we ride our bikes we just stood and watched the bikes in the trailer jump higher than when they ride them
    Beers, and then a curry cooked by Nick was awesome, back down the shed we finished up and Mr Magoo below and Lotsa stayed to sleep we went up and spent way too much time trying to fix Nicks route and get it loaded on the GPSs which sort of didn’t work but did if that makes sense
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    We had bacon and egg rolls early and left, we rode some sweet forest tracks and trails, a quick break nearly 100kms
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    Walking around I noticed a helipad site
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    Still talking shit, waiting waiting lets go
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    Still waiting I am bored lets go
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    We fueled at the worlds slowest servo and left for Drake. Rocky River road is one of my top 5 rides and I jumped back into the lead and was having a ball, the road was damp and was offering a tone of traction.
    We stopped and checked out an old hut
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    From there we ventured off onto upper Rocky River road and started going through gates and gates and heaps of gates. At this stage both my GPSs were on track and all was looking mighty fine. Great riding but it was getting harder to follow the track, oh the GPSs were still going strong but the grass was getting longer and the track fading faster than standard Tenere suspension. Then we came to a uncross able river, we looked at all our options, and checked a few places but no joy. We stopped for a break in ol mates paddock for a think
    Moose made friends quickly
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    We decided we would have to head back and no sooner had we turned around we a land cruiser ute followed by a heap of dogs came over the hill.
    This situation can go either way when a farmer finds about 6 bikers in his paddock.
    As it turned out he was a top bloke and couldn’t help enough, he told us that the last flood had taken all the river crossings with it but he knew of a set of rapids that may be passable.
    We followed him down to the river and I bought forth the Tenere, Moose on one side me on the other and Nick at the back we ventured into the water. The river bottom here was just one huge rock slab covered in green algae. There was no chance, we were only ankle deep and everyone was starting to slide. The middle of the river was knee deep so we would have drowned a bike for sure, and even if we had made it their was 50meters of boulders to navigate the other side. With the weather starting to close in we decided to head back the way we came and find another road to Glen Innes.
    Some pimped cribs in the bush
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    From there we went back out to Rocky River road, onto Scrub rd and a wrong turn untold farmers paddocks, creek crossings and two locked gates we made it into Deep Water for fuel in the rain.
    We thought we may venture west of Deep Water but the lady at the servo mentioned that snow was predicted that evening
    We thought bugger camping and slabbed it straight into Glen Innes found a cheap but nice motel showered and went next door to the pub for a few beers and a great feed.

    Day 2 later

    #207196

    Wayne
    Member

    Day one
    After great bacon and egg rolls we left Nicks place and it struck me that some of the road names were pretty accurate. There was Long Gully Road that twisted down a long gully, Rocky Creek Road that ran along a rocky creek and North Rock Creek Road, which was north of that. Then Scrub Road, which was in very closed in with scrub and a few bog hole. I got a bit worried when I saw Snake Valley Road but thankfully there was only the biggest bull I have ever seen guarding the road. But I have to tell you, if Nick lead us down a road called Broke Back Mountain Road, I was out a there.

    The river crossing. We didn’t want to see submerining ADV bikes
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    A road into the mountains. Always a good sign
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    Day two
    Glen Innes departure. A damp start to the day
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    It was twenty minutes of overcast sky and Nick pointed us to the only piece of blue sky and apart from a bit of hail over Ebor (I think) it was fine for the rest of the day.

    Regroup time
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    Day three
    We left Bellbrook minus Moose and found ourselves having lunch at the Amble Inn. From there we went north along the coast over great rocky and boggy trails.

    I remember seeing MickP’s bike hit something on one of the rocky uphills and thinking, well I won’t take that line. That’s where you probably got the ding in your bash plate Mick.

    A breath freshener back at Nick’s to finish off the ride and we were packed up and on our way.

    Thanks to everyone for the great company and Nick for putting me up and leading duties.

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