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Randoms I love from the trip
Crash on the extra hard run (far left next to the hard run on big red)
Praying to the sand gods?
Pete’s version of paying homage to the sand gods I think?
Pete saying “up you sand gods I did the hard option”
Pete sing “are your mcleans showing”
Words fail me
TB
Bump, and keep reading the first post on page one
Trailboss wrote:The overnight stay on the Saturday night will be at Orange.Because of the large number of riders we cant all fit in the one establishment and will need to spread around town a little as such.
Important tip: To have your maps for Sunday loaded you will need to come to the Hotel Orange at the cnr of Summer and Peisley Streets (324 Summer street) on Saturday evening between 6 and 9pm. Amy, Pete and I will be loading GPSs during that time, you will be able to grab yourself dinner and a drink and share some stories of your days adventure with the other riders. You will also be able to get the hints and riddles to locate the start for the next morning! All will be explained at the riders briefing on Friday night at the Commercial Hotel Motel Lithgow at 9pm
A few accommodation place I found are below
For the cabin seekers and the campers ;
Colour City Caravan Park
Address: 203 Margaret St, Bowen NSW 2800
Phone:(02) 6362 7254Canobolas Caravan Park
166 – 172 Bathurst Road, Orange NSW 2800
Phone 02 6362 7279
http://www.caravanpark.canobolasmarine.com.auFor the Pub accommodation seekers;
[strike]Hotel Orange 63621786
http://www.thehotelorange.com.au[/strike%5D Booked outGreat Western Hotel
Opposite the Railway Station. Corner of Kite Street
137 Peisley Street, Orange
63624055The Robin Hood
30 Burrendong Way, Orange NSW 2800
TELEPHONE: 02 6363 1999Hotel Canobolas
248 Summer Street,
Orange 63622444Metropolitan Hotel Motel
107 Byng Street,
Orange 02 63621353TB
shane_vor wrote:Trailboss wrote:Hey Shane how are you mate? Still in the same house? Must be a bundy catch up time :whistle:Hey I have reset your old Sign in “shane_vor”, check your PMs here for the new password and go back to using that mate, who could have forget that avatar :laugh:
Good luck on the bike cobber
Its as easy as riding a bike I hear 
TB
Mate, wouldn’t dare complain! Still in the same place, if you’re up for a rum or two let me know where and when and I’ll have some in the fridge in the back of the car just for the occassion!
Twobanger, the bike has been hanging up on a rope in the shed all this time. I brought it down to try and sell but she’s still here. I’ll take some photos of her before she gets dirty and I imagine there’ll be pics and maybe the odd little movie of our ‘adventure’.
A weekend away on the bike…I won’t be able to move on the Monday! :dry:
Will be in touch Shane and be up for a rum or two, maybe next week. Can have a laugh at you trying to walk :laugh:
Good luck have fun and ride safe
TB
We left CC early, yeah got Strucky and Ace moving early and off we went. Now remember the bull dust hole on the top of the dune I mentioned earlier? Yes well it was about 15 to 20 m long and was bull dust proper. It had three for want of a better word triple jumps in it and Pete nailed to dead square. This same hole claimed a few on ADV rider, serious crashes!. Pete rode it out, I was beside him and I just clipped the edge of it but witnessed the whole thing. Pete’s rear wheel was at least a metre in the air at one stage he handled it well. Now for a bloke that doesn’t shut up on the blue tooth he couldn’t say a word, he may have actually shit himself (I only watched it and I nearly did!!!!) I tried to stop and turn around and race back up the road to warn Crash but was to slow, with shock I think. Crash hit it the same as Pete and got through. I waved Strucky and Ace down and we just stared at it!. I firmly believe the only thing that saved the guys was their quick reactions and the fact they both have had their suspension done by Nick at Tekniks.
We continued on and found the short cut track, no yellow bus but? Rememebr I mentioned it before? Well it seems the dead shit arseholes of the world have done it again (thanks scum!) They successfully left enough rubbish around and kept camping on the private proptery even though signs say not to, enough that the station owners dragged the bus away and dug a hole. The bus got put in and filled over, thanks again &^$$%^s!
We stopped on the Strez for a cuppa soup (ADV riders breakfast on this trip, missed our eggs FF) From there to the Montecollma Bore. Pete was dead keen to see it and swim but sorry girls no Pete swimming photos
From there we bolted down the Strez and found the track to Arkaroola just before Mt Hopeless. What a track, open fast, tight corners, dry creek beds, channels it rocked. We stopped in a dry creek bed and cooked up a dry meal for lunch.
Random shots of the Gammon Ranges coming up
We turned hard left and headed the last 30kms into Akaroola. We found a faint track to a hill and rode up, was a little steep and maybe not then smartest move but we made it
We sent Pete up to a lookout while Crash and I checked on Strucky and Ace taking pictures it turned up. Pete has photos of us riding up to the lookout (could have warned about the lack of run off !!)
From the lockout towards Arkaroola
The view from our camp that night
We had some beers, and setup camp at Arkaroola that night, a place worth visiting
More later
TB
Hey Shane how are you mate? Still in the same house? Must be a bundy catch up time :whistle:
Hey I have reset your old Sign in “shane_vor”, check your PMs here for the new password and go back to using that mate, who could have forget that avatar :laugh:
Good luck on the bike cobber
Its as easy as riding a bike I hear TB
EAGLE`02 wrote::laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
The Tenere Triplets !!!Nice bit of editing so far,, it has been a while since your last indtalment from Rum Soaked actually ???
Cheers
Trailboss wrote:Until I get time to make the proper movie, a trailerWatch it in HD720 for best results
TB
Eagle its actually a “Rumsoaked studios and Faster than Scott Production”. Faster than Scott Productions is a small film maker that Rumsoaked has taken on board to nurture and help as such
Watch for the new start to the combined videos
TB
The overnight stay on the Saturday night will be at Orange.
Because of the large number of riders we cant all fit in the one establishment and will need to spread around town a little as such.
Important tip: To have your maps for Sunday loaded you will need to come to the Hotel Orange at the cnr of Summer and Peisley Streets (324 Summer street) on Saturday evening between 6 and 9pm. Amy, Pete and I will be loading GPSs during that time, you will be able to grab yourself dinner and a drink and share some stories of your days adventure with the other riders. You will also be able to get the hints and riddles to locate the start for the next morning! All will be explained at the riders briefing on Friday night at the Commercial Hotel Motel Lithgow at 9pm
A few accommodation place I found are below
For the cabin seekers and the campers ;
Colour City Caravan Park
Address: 203 Margaret St, Bowen NSW 2800
Phone:(02) 6362 7254Canobolas Caravan Park
166 – 172 Bathurst Road, Orange NSW 2800
Phone 02 6362 7279
http://www.caravanpark.canobolasmarine.com.auFor the Pub accommodation seekers;
[strike]Hotel Orange 63621786
http://www.thehotelorange.com.au
[/strike] Booked outGreat Western Hotel
Opposite the Railway Station. Corner of Kite Street
137 Peisley Street, Orange
63624055The Robin Hood
30 Burrendong Way, Orange NSW 2800
TELEPHONE: 02 6363 1999Hotel Canobolas
248 Summer Street,
Orange 63622444Metropolitan Hotel Motel
107 Byng Street,
Orange 02 63621353TB
