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:woohoo:

Ahhhhhhh……… yep book me in!
Will do accom. tonight.
Cheers,
Jeremy

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yeah it was advised to take camping gear in case you do not make it to the nightly accom but that was done easily by all.

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Day 2 began well, double nescafe43 motel coffee with UHT milk and a ciggie and I was fit and ready to rumble with the mud! 👿
It was +5 degrees at the old Ibis Styles Orange (no affiliation but a great motel) when boarding the pig, that is 6 degrees above yesterday I was sweatin up a storm!
Off to lake Conobalas car park when we see guys riding back the other way, thoughts did cross my mind but I put all my trust in TB’s directions :huh: and continue on to a smiling wolfie handing out big paper envelopes with more TR, TL GSO’s and the like, so into the bag it goes and follow the purple line we do. Nice uphill climb then a nice downhill, then slippery shit…. down goes a DR in front running on a trailwing rear! (how he did the next couple of k’s I do not know but all credit to him!)
Picking lines was the understatement of the day but we did it with no major mishaps, come to a corner and see a sign saying Goat Hill Track, anything with goat and hill in the same name cannot be good me thinks! But hey it was actually a nice bit of fire trail leading to nearly 1200 metres altitude on the gps.
When we got to the 2 fat ladies, none of them fat by the way and seeing the amount of bikes coming in behind us I was glad we got away early as some of the mount Conobalas track would have been chewed up and not easy to pass by then, even after riding through heavy rain for 2 hours back to Sydney a lot of that mud was still stuck to the bike (oh and still is!).
Leaving 2 fat ladies we headed up to the single, was gunna give it a miss with all of the gear on the bikes but we pulled up on the start of the track, ridedayjunkie and I looked at each other shrugged our shoulders as you do and went for it, only to be passed by a 640 adventure going gang busters up the hill. I did manage to pass him on the singles but only because he had got off the bike to wait for someone but hey it was a pass….. hi Lefty!
Then down into the Ophir (?) gold mine area with lots of nice open flowing corners and crests to have some fun on, down over the river crossing and 30-40 cadets are walking out of the bush either side of the road and lo and behold some of them chuck their fingers out for a hitchhike, so I do my best Stephen Gall impersonation skidding right up beside them and say get on before realising they are all 15-16 year old girls and notice a teacher/leader looking at me in a funny way…. Oops, twist the wrist and get out of there before any charges are laid! :blink:
Continuing on towards Mt Horrible, the rain started to hit and temp dropped, thoughts of riding though this to Lithgow and then on to Sydney got the better of us as we had both done that loop a few times before we shot off to Bathurst BP fuelled up and headed for home passing many dirty ADV bikes on the way. Rained from Lithgow all the way to my door in lilyfield, my expensive’ waterproof’ boots um ….nup, my expensive ‘waterproof’ gloves um… nup my cheap ass jacket and pants… you guessed it did no leak go figure!
Anyway was an awesome 2 days thanks again all involved for making it another addiction I will have to feed frequently!
Jeremy

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jtb2879 wrote:

Couple of good write ups there boys!

YZ tell us what you took and (really) what you will take on the next one? I’m new to this game and would like to know those little details… might help me out.

haha well I had tent, stove, sleeping bag, food for 1 dinner 2 breakfasts, coffee of course, my spares, the fuel container (not used but cost $5 so not throwing it away!!! I do ride a DR) metho for stove and a night cap….. :sick: that was the panniers and top rack bag, on my back there was jeans extra jumper, socks, jocks, and odds and sods. now that is embarrassing…. :blush:
On the next one it will be spares in top rack bag, back pack with 3 litre bladder, jeans, spare socks jocks. That will be all.

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jtb2879 wrote:

yz80h-thebeginning wrote:

me too! :woohoo:

There’s a line fella… get in it! :whistle:

ok me too :whistle: :woohoo:

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All packed and ready to go……. Maybe a little overpacked but I know for next time, change of sox and undies and away I go!

Just a tad nipply before the sun rose in Lithgow!

Got the room next to Clubby, Lance and wolfie was a tad star struck but kept it cool, sort of!

The view from the first river crossing, creek crossing ok it was a puddle!

Quite a traffic jam at the puddle but just had to get a photo of the hottest tenere, Factory ever thinking of selling let me know!

The old pig in it’s element!

This is what bought our day undone, the exhaust has been rubbing on this oil line for a while and created a pinhead hole just enough for it to look like the Exxon Valdez oil spill

2 hours later back on the road and loving it!

This old jersey girl stood in the middle of the road mooing at us until we were about 10 feet away then slowly moved off looking at us begrudgingly

The catchup ended in wellington as we hit there at 4 so slabbed it back to orange at legal speeds of course…..

Chasing the SUPER moon!

No photos from day 2, too busy holding on to flaying handlebars!

Thanks again OBT I am already approved by minister for finance to join in August, cannot wait!

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jtb2879 wrote:

Trailboss wrote:

Date for the August ride will be announced very soon (next few days) Also think it will be a mid north coast start and finish, say around Port / Wauchope

TB

Waiting for these dates eagerly

me too! :woohoo:

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hey TB for my first gps ride it was awesome, shame the oil leak on arrons bike slowed us down on day 1 as we were loving it and really wanted to do the last track but hit wellington just on 4 so took the highway.
I really would like to thank you, Amy and the others for organising it as it cannot have been easy but am sure it was fun 😆
I will be on the next one for sure.

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EAGLE`02 wrote:

A decision was made yesterday to keep info on Wayne`s incident quiet until further details became known.
I have spoken to MickP on this again this arvo and think it should be left at that for now please guys ,,

His wife was staying at the Hospital with him throughout the coming days and more will be updated as it develops.

Cheers

sorry was not aware of this

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yeah mark, he king hit a sheep went down on his left side was smiling when I got there but that could have been the 2 cute ambulance girls or the green whistle not sure!
They put him in an ambulance drove him into a paddock where he was helicoptered to Orange base hospital intensive care, he will be in there for 2 weeks Gavb was saying, gav went and saw him last night.
Cheers,
Jeremy

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leaving Dundas around 1.30 and tarring it the whole way via bells , could not get out of a meeting in the morning, should see us getting there around 4pm hopefully, thaw out then off to pub for a lesson in gps loading! :woohoo:

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here is my spot, and looking at the ride list it will be close to the rear! :blink:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0Y8qPv4SZ9hRmX9HWc5B2ozhb98iKR9xG

This will also cover ridedayjunkie.

p.s how do I change my stoopid screen name?? too many rums and reminiscing creates a stoopid screen name! :whistle:

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hey TB could you ad me (Jeremy) and mate (arron) to the list, both on DR’s got garmin ready to follow that purple line!!!

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