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Mossman for a counter lunch :woohoo:
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Scotty wrote:Flash new ride Snowy. You will need to go to the gym now for your weight lifting.With all these CRF250X’s popping up I can see a tutorial thread from TB in the near future on how to replace valves on a CRF250X. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Nah no time Scotty to busy doing husky repair videos
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Ate like kings last night
Lobster, prawns, crab, oysters bloody awesome
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Day 7
We awoke after a far sized evening I was chasing a welder as my head light / screen / tower bracket was cracked. I had lined a welder up the evening before so I stripped the front off removed the bracket and tore down to bamaga on Moose’s bike only to find ol mate had left town for another job WTF! Queensland I was told hurry hurry wait!
So I put the bike back together and led the boys out to Punsands bay. One more phone call and I located a mobile welder who was having a day off but said come around and he would fix it, HAPPY DAYS!
I left the boys to setup camp and rode the 30 k back to Bamaga and found the welders farm. He and his mate had a pile of cans around a fire and I thought here we go. I stripped the bike again and welded it up, made a gusset painted it and feed me xxxx! HAPPY DAYS AGAIN!
I sooted back, nick had setup my tent as well HAPPY DAYS AGAIN!
Moose had invested in a new cameltoe for the sandy conditions it wasn’t a genuine cameltoe but it was a Kirk’s
Kram was sober which considering it was after 11 was surprising!
We decided to rip to the tip, we took the beach track which was phat i have some helmet cam footage of it I will post when i get back to Mackay. Sandy deep ruts and seedy croc looking creek crossings that your eyes hanging out of your head. We all listed it as the highlight.
Once at the tip we rode onto the beach out to the water for a few photos which are on my camera and I will download later. We started the long steep walk over the headland to the tip
the views were amazing
We finally made the tip
More pics from that later
Jacko wanted a blue steel pic umm
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Day 6 cont
We headed to Bramwell junction to fuel this is the start of the old telegraph track and the horror stories and advice there was coming thick and fast. The first crossing was the carnage place apparently so we headed there. Thick sand on a 240 kilo adventure bike is no fun and hard work but we all got through without a problem. Not far from the crossing we came upon a line up of about 20 four wheel drives and the pan heads that drive them. We squeezed past to the crossing to see dickheads trying to cut the banks out with axes (yes axes) and them throwing logs in the mud. Unfortunately all my pictures of this are on my camera and I can’t get to them until I get to my laptop or iPad on the way home. We watched a couple of knuckle heads destroy the crossing and their cars before we rode back to Bramwell Junction. We then went 42 kilometres up the delvopment rd to the gunshot entrance that travels past the rangers head quarters. It looked like a good ride so off we went, well everyone had a moment (at least one) on this section in the deep sand but again everyone got through upright. We stopped at the north south intersection
Track travelled
Track about to be travelled
I was at this intersection we watched the ranger do his best Toby Price impersonation on his unregistered CRF450 we had seen him at Bramwell Junction as well seems as they are allowed to ride unregistered bikes on the rego required tracks and roads in the national park!
We continued to the old tele track and onto cockatoo creek to again be confronted with a line up of 4w4s and the track destroying type of clown that drive them. We watched and then walked the crossing deciding we would get the bikes through but it would take us all to get every bike across. Again I have photos taken by a young lady who used my camera oh and some helmet cam. We all ended up wet but happy we had got them through. I will load the pictures when we get to my iPad. Up the tele track further I hit a water rut hard so after I noticed my screen dash assembly was flopping around and found that the tower bracket had broken a weld so quick cable tie job was in order. The corrogations are something else at times which wouldnt have helped.
We flew to the Jardine ferry only to get a lecture from a tourist regarding how to pass them which may have been fair enough considering Nick and I barreled past at about 130 on the dirt. We paid our $33 to cross the ferry which is owned by the native title holders $33 seemed a little steep for the 100m crossing but they have the market cornered ehJardine River roadhouse with petrol and diesel @ $3.00/L!!!
Jardine River crossing
Jardine River
The ferry driver who was a funny bugger “HEY IT’S THE OLD BULLS!”
Onward to Seisa we went taking a side track which I got some helmet cam footage off I decided to have a red hot crack until I ran wide and scared myself
We went to check out the water, organised a camp site, had a feed, found out where we could go tonight, got some beers and settled in.
Thursday island ferry jetty
So down to the fishing club this evening for beers and burgers over looking the ocean
The tip walk tomorrow
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Day 6 Weipa 2 Seisa
We left the van park at 6.30 to go out towards the mine to the biggest suspension bridge in the southern hemisphere We stopped in the passing bay halfway along
. A haul train came along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnShCKYg0CM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
We left and headed out short cutting at the 66 km mark through a station to the development road
I was parked on the Wenlock river bridge telling Nick how Chicken had floated his car across here on a home made barge before the bridge was in use and he started yelling road train we got is of the bridge quick smart
Kram snuck through before the truck who had to stop for us in the end proceeded
We went into Morten station
Is this the raft Chicken?
More soon
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