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21-06-2005, 03:06pm
Gday all.
Thanks for a top trip, the weather may not have been kind to us but the roads and the company more than made up for it.
A bit of a run down of the trip for Shredder and myself over the last 4 days, for those that are interested.
We left Friday Morning from Yatala and headed out through Beaudesert, Rathdowney, Kyogle, Casino, on to Grafton and eventually pulling up in Ebor when it was too cold to go no further. We stayed the night in the EBOR Hotel/Motel that we both highly recommend. The publican give us a bit of stir about how cold it got in those parts, not quite what we were expecting coming from sunny Queensland.
Sure enough it got down to -6 during the night and our bikes were covered in ice. We waited for the roads to clear and eventually set off by 9.00am to stop a short while down the road to thaw out our bodies as it felt like they had frozen stiff.
We finally got to Armidale, checked out our accommodation, put a new tyre on the bike, as I had destroyed it the day before, a miss calculation on my behalf. Apparently it happens a lot around there, with people coming in with strips hanging out, so the Bike Shop told us. They also told us riding should be kept between 10am and 3pm which later proved itself to be right, way to cold outside these hours around Armidale.
Afterwards we decided to head out to Gloucester along Thunderbolts Way, crossing paths with Busgo and Simmo heading out. For most of the ride we had no feeling in our bodies which wasn’t very pleasant, prompting us to step up the pace so we could get in before dark. Thinking we would be the last to arrive it was a surprise to find out that the rest of the Queensland boys were still to come!
Caught up with everyone and had dinner at the Local Bowls club and talked bikes with all the fellahs. A great night!!
Sunday Morning woke up to an overcast day which eventually turned into rain, thankfully we decided to go as planned to the Oxley as the day cleared not far out of Walcha.
The roads out from Walcha were great, definate Busa country and a must for those that have never been.
After an hour or so of high speed cruising we got to the twisties were we had another hour of tight winding roads to challenge us, beautiful stuff, some moss and wet patches but well sign posted giving us plenty of time to get ready for it.
Rode through to Wauchope, Port Macquarie, Coffs and went in land to discover a great little route that we could hold resonable pace that was way more interesting than the Pacific Highway to finally settle in Grafton.
From Grafton come back along the same route as we came with a little detour along the Lions Road. It was wet and no fun at all, a lot of work on the Bus. The whole area between Rathdowney and Beaudesert was covered in fog and that was Midday.
Got in at 1.30, travelled a total of 1800 or so klms in 4 days. Awesome trip will be doing it again but will be waiting for it to get warmer, a lot warmer. Didn’t see much in the way of Police so hopefully we should be ok as far as tickets go, but you never know.
Hope all arrived home safely and wish Andrew a speedy recovery.
Thanks again and till next time.
Shayne
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Thanks for a top trip, the weather may not have been kind to us but the roads and the company more than made up for it.
A bit of a run down of the trip for Shredder and myself over the last 4 days, for those that are interested.
We left Friday Morning from Yatala and headed out through Beaudesert, Rathdowney, Kyogle, Casino, on to Grafton and eventually pulling up in Ebor when it was too cold to go no further. We stayed the night in the EBOR Hotel/Motel that we both highly recommend. The publican give us a bit of stir about how cold it got in those parts, not quite what we were expecting coming from sunny Queensland.
Sure enough it got down to -6 during the night and our bikes were covered in ice. We waited for the roads to clear and eventually set off by 9.00am to stop a short while down the road to thaw out our bodies as it felt like they had frozen stiff.
We finally got to Armidale, checked out our accommodation, put a new tyre on the bike, as I had destroyed it the day before, a miss calculation on my behalf. Apparently it happens a lot around there, with people coming in with strips hanging out, so the Bike Shop told us. They also told us riding should be kept between 10am and 3pm which later proved itself to be right, way to cold outside these hours around Armidale.
Afterwards we decided to head out to Gloucester along Thunderbolts Way, crossing paths with Busgo and Simmo heading out. For most of the ride we had no feeling in our bodies which wasn’t very pleasant, prompting us to step up the pace so we could get in before dark. Thinking we would be the last to arrive it was a surprise to find out that the rest of the Queensland boys were still to come!
Caught up with everyone and had dinner at the Local Bowls club and talked bikes with all the fellahs. A great night!!
Sunday Morning woke up to an overcast day which eventually turned into rain, thankfully we decided to go as planned to the Oxley as the day cleared not far out of Walcha.
The roads out from Walcha were great, definate Busa country and a must for those that have never been.
After an hour or so of high speed cruising we got to the twisties were we had another hour of tight winding roads to challenge us, beautiful stuff, some moss and wet patches but well sign posted giving us plenty of time to get ready for it.
Rode through to Wauchope, Port Macquarie, Coffs and went in land to discover a great little route that we could hold resonable pace that was way more interesting than the Pacific Highway to finally settle in Grafton.
From Grafton come back along the same route as we came with a little detour along the Lions Road. It was wet and no fun at all, a lot of work on the Bus. The whole area between Rathdowney and Beaudesert was covered in fog and that was Midday.
Got in at 1.30, travelled a total of 1800 or so klms in 4 days. Awesome trip will be doing it again but will be waiting for it to get warmer, a lot warmer. Didn’t see much in the way of Police so hopefully we should be ok as far as tickets go, but you never know.
Hope all arrived home safely and wish Andrew a speedy recovery.
Thanks again and till next time.
Shayne
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