Image Versys Ride Day
Image Motorcycles held a very widely advertised ride, predominately for Versys riders, down the usual route to the Grey Gum Cafe and some riders even made it back to Jerries.
Mohawk and Nige went along to fly the flag of Kawasakis that were not Versys and to assemble at the wrong Maccas just to confuse people.
There was a good showing of Versys by the time Mohawk and I caught up with the ride.
Murray from Image was sorta the sole representative. Where do you fit in Cookie?
The numbers had dwindled by the time we sat down for lunch at the Cafe.
Cookie, Shane and Mohawk back at Jerries. Mohawk told me that I was going so slowly that Shane was doing wheelies behind me on the Putty.
As they say in the classics, ‘Plenty of room on the outside’ 😎
A larger than usual Versys.
N.R.M.A
Ninja Recovery Maintenance Assistance
Had a great 1700k ride down the South Coast and return back through the Central West only to get a puncture 27k from home. (NRMA will only take you 20k as part of your classic membership and then it is $4.40 each kilometre after that)
Must upgrade to the Premium Membership again ……
Easter Holiday Ride – Far Cairn
UPDATE: Lucky will still be away and so the ride will go ahead without him.
Proposed ride is to the ‘Far Cairn’ near Tottenham NSW and will leave Monday or Tuesday 18th/19th April.
Contact Mohawk for more information.
There will be a ride in the second week of the school holidays, not sure (as usual) of the route but will be the usual 2 night, 3 day affair.
Lucky is the ride proposer and he is in Swaziland at the moment but will post more info as it becomes available.
Cape York
Plans and discussions have begun for a trek to Cape York, a destination everyone must tick off their ‘Bucket List’.
You will, of course, require a bike capable of making this type of sojourn (KLR650, DR650, GS650, GS800 etc) and probably at least a month of your holidays or long service leave.
Departure will be in May/June to avoid the wet season (dates will be worked out specifically to best suit participants) and will, by necessity, involve a mixture of Pub/Motels and camping.
Could not get Google to map to Cape York as it will only go where there are designated roads but be assured that the final point will be the very tip of Australia.
Let me know if you are interested in this trip.
Brettski Legless
The artist formerly known as ‘CC’ has had his leg cut off and and a new hip fitted.
Resting in hospital but, as you can see from the photo, is still in excruciating pain 😀
Big sook
Nuh, just joshin’
Recycling .....
The Great South Land [Mexico]
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- Ready to leave from Hungry Jacks, our new preferred departure lounge.
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- Rode through a lot of rain and water across the road to end up at Temora.
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- Having a coffee after finding somewhere to stay the night and putting all our gear in the drier.
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- Temora is the home of Paleface Adios.
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- He is always in the gutter somewhere 🙂
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- Main drag of Temora, a place neither of us had visited before.
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- Held up for roadworks again.
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- Mohawk’s muffler modifications had an undesired side effect.
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- The most expensive place we have stayed.
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- Outside our motel room in Yea.
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- Kamikaze bugs.
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- We rode through quite a lot of locusts, most hit Mohawk in the head.
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- Just prior to the computer winning him $61.20 with no human skill at all.
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- Standard fare, beer and a feed at the pub in Tumut after setting all our gear out to dry.
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- The owner here wanted to know if I thought he was lying to me about raisin toast. WTF
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- I zigged when I shoulda zagged and we ended up here.
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- Slapping on the back all ’round.
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- Slipway has not seen action for a long time.
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- A hole in the wall for petrol after an awesome ride to Marysville.
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- Actually turned around and went back to this signposted ‘lookout’.
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- The best thing to look at was the mighty KLunkeRs that had not missed a beat.
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- Decisions, decisions.
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- Myrtleford was not looking its best on this morning.
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- Quite a good room off the top verandah at the Myrtleford Hotel.
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- My bike stayed on the street with saddlebags on all night. Too wet and so route was changed.
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- Saturated at Walwa, still the best name for a town ever 🙂
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- Nice warming coffee and burglar at the general store after battling for fuel.
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- Shot down the main street with the sun shining (somewhere 😀 ).
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- Waiting for a break in the dry so that we could ride off in the rain.
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- What’s this, another pub and another inappropriate feed?
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- Return to the Royal Hotel at Tumut where we were drying out our gear yet again.
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- Climbing out of Tumut on our way to 65ks of dirt to Wee Jasper.
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- The famous (Cycle Torque Feb 2011) bridge crossing to Wee Jasper.
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- Stopped near Abercrombie Caves for some personal relief.
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- Came around the corner to find this had just happened on our final leg from Wisemans Ferry.
The Return to Grey Gum
A brave group of Niges met at Hungry Jacks and, despite an ordinary looking sky, headed off in search of the elusive Grey Gum Cafe.
