Wild Hogs annual roadtrip is in effect. Booked the boat melbourne to devonport today.
We're looking at usual Boxing day departure for something like 13th Jan return.

(you may recall did gippsland and G.O.R last year etc) this year the WolfPack is hoping to do south coast VIC, spirit of tas, tasmania, NYE Hobart, tasmania, then VIC & Great Alpine Way on way back.

Any comments tips welcomed, preferrably useful ones.
I'm thinking with twistie roads and tassie weather to bank on only 250-300klms per day.   (?)

Would love any tips on accomodation, am thinking Hobart is the happenning place for NYE? hearing Salamanca Place is good etc.
Also we will be doing a spot of o'night camping along the way. Cheers!

Last year
 

 

This year!....

AND we have some changes to the WolfPack line-up too...

Wolf 1 has a new ride....

Wolf 2 has new paint job....

Wolf 3 has a brand new street bob with a 103" kit and one of those shiny new SuperChargers hanging off the side!

 

 

Might join you for the first leg.

Coast or Hume? 

the Coast route Simo c'mon mate you know we're all about the scenic (twisty) path.
We will do 600klms on the first day. You can stay with us that 1st night and head back or peel off along the way woteva.

c u Monday @ my joint. chat then.

How do you circumsize a Tasmanian?
Kick his sister in the Jaw

 Sounds like a great trip, wish I could join ya's, but have to go to Thailand with the Missus and kid! Ah well!

Spent 2 years in Tassie, everything they say, (and I mean everything!) about Tassie is true! Best ridin roads in Oz, no question.

Lookin at your planned route, your gonna take in a lot of dirt roads, I'm thinkin that's maybe just Google maps suggested route!

Check out another thread goin at the moment-http://www.hdforums.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=71&forumid=28&postid=256850&view=topic for more ideas.

 

What a great trip!!! When you get to the great Alpine Road make sure you stay in Bright for a night & do the full loop around, as in Bright, Mt Hotham, The Blue Duck Inn, Falls Creek, Mt Beauty & back to Bright - more twisties than you ever would have thought in a day.

Nice one boys, yeah can't wait.

The map posted was just for me to get a feel for total KLM's required when booking days for ferry etc.

Had a good look at that other thread will note down some of those ones as we do the itinery. Queenstown/99 Bends looks sick.

Speaking of sick.... Scallop pies!!??? Awesome will hav a go.

Just bought nice little Motorbike swag, 48cm x 24cm x 24cm 5kg for $169 so looking forward to some nights under the stars in the remoter areas.

NYE research is coming along nicely too, ol' hobart town sounds like place 2 be! No swag those nights!
(oh and there SYD-hobart race is drawn on 31st etc so should be big party times!)

Yeah for Gr8 Alpine we'd like to do that over 2 days with luck as have passed by it several times and want to enjoy it.
 

Mate I did 4000ks around Tassie last November,it was great.    250-300ks a day, you pushing the bikes?.  From D on your map (Marrawatt) to Zeehan is all dirt, not for Harley's. Around the Great Lakes is dirt on the west but on the east of the lake it is a great ride up the Mountain over to Poatina, Flintstone and on to Hobart. You can't get to E on a harley but from Bridport down to St Helens via Scottsdale is a good ride. Make sure you do the Elephant Pass between St Helens and Bicheno. Going to Southport is a waste of time, take a left at Huonviolle and come back to Hobart via Channel Hwy. It is worth the time to do the B33 to Opossum Bay.   I went around and through the centre of Tassie a couple of times and I am sure you will have a good a time as I did, enjoy. The Great Alpine Way home is an excelent choise

Hey mate, send me a PM before you come, and I will try and hook up with you guy's for a few kilometeres and a few ale's.

Cheers
Rans

Once again guys, have noted down these little pearls of wisdom and the ride map is now complete. And yes don't worry we have everything for The Pub in The Paddock to Opossum Bay to 99 Bends. Looking bloody fantastic! Wish it was tomorrow!

Have booked all our stuff up until 3rd of january and then the bike swags will come into play and we will just cruise however/wherever we like until the 7th Jan.
Also we have indeed doing the Great Alpine way on the way there and the way back, 2 x different ways to include all the loops and Mitta Mitta etc, also got lodgings at Blue Duck Inn and all that. So yeah, this years Wild hogs is locked and loaded.

Would be cool if anyone wants to join us from Sydney down to Merimbula, perhaps have a beer and lunch at say Ulladulla and the Sydnersiders turn back.
ONLY thing to remember if you thinking abou this is it's day after XMAS day and we will be leaving at sparrows fart.
Will be going to Rushcutters Bay and get some pics with the Hobart boats and hopefully introduce ourselves to a few people, that will be crack of dawn, and then we can meet fellow riders at about 6:30 or 7am I guess.

(Going to race the boats down the coast and then party on in Hobart for the new year)

Well well well, not long to go now!! Stoked!
Loving the going away rig I've setup on the Bob. Will put a pic up as it's kinda funny - pretty big bunch of gear.

Did great shakedown run to Scarb pub / nasho park on the weekend. Pack sits tight, all looking good.
One of the team has his ProCharger all installed and whistling away, quite a beast.

Superglide,

Give me a call when you get near Hobart, I am on holidays, so will try to catch ya for a few coldies, a feed and a few miles.

Cheers

Rans
0409964457

 Went over to tasmania last year, wife & i absolutely loved the place. So much to see. Friendly people, will be going back ourselves. Plus taking two sons this time, have to do it in a car, because I'm the only one that rides. It will be a top holiday for you.

awesome guys. Rans noted ur number we are in Hobart for 2 nights for NYE then back out into the swags!
So can't remember if I've updated but yes last year we did all Gippsland, Bairnsdale, back down to Yarram, Mornington Pen etc.

This year going coast to Merimbula, then fllick straight down onto Gr8 Alpine and up to Omeo, Dinner plain etc.
on The way BACK home then we are doing other parts, of Gr8 Alpine mitta mitta and staying Blue Duck and so on. Still going to drop down onto NSW coast for ride home.

One question??.... on the way down we pull out of GR8 ALP after Myrtleford around Oxley (just south of Wangaratta).
If time permitting to get to car ferry in MEL - would like to take the scenic route, 3
should we do the B300 Midland hgwy to Mel or anyone done the C521 Mansfield-Whit Rd south and then pop back onto b300??
What would you say riding time is from BRIGHT to MELBOURNE via above??

Might meet up with you guys somewhere along the trek...we (Surly & Bt) will be there at about the same time, from 3-4th Jan on...Hope to do some of Vic as well....Wouldn't take much notice of Daz, he's pissed off cos he's not invited...

Bt

Sweet. Sweet. Yeah so will have an easy night and then up crack o' dawn and do teh Mans/Whit rd onto B300 then. Shoud be party night that night on the ferry!
Lkg frwd 2 that 1. Plus next day is easy ride to our accomodation (ride ferry to Pub in Paddock - only few hours?)

Bike update; All 3 bikes are FINALLY all luggage racked u and good to go. Had to stuff around with mates sissy bay (fatboy) a fair bit but we're all geared up now. Start packing end of this week! STRUTH!
Supercharger boy is off getting a quick service and dump his first lot of oil etc. Fatboy Stevo has new pads / tires etc.
And I will do one more oil dump and top up tomorrow, plus will need to take a few quarts the CVO seems to like spitting!

Yeeha' getting close. My favourite time of year.

BobTail - PM me ur number if you like and we can try to meet up along the way's no worries.

Anyone know if the Bogong High Plains road from Falls Creek through to Anglers Rest is sealed??

 

Pizzlin - yeah think i will do Mel/Wangarat/brigh/mt beauty/falls creek/anglers rest on way back, stay that night BLue duck inn
then back up to Corryong via Mitta Mitta and then camp somewhere around Jindabyne or more likely Cooma

saw a road there called Snowball Road cooma to Braidwood that looks intersting and will be a topical tip after NYE

 

The dirt on the Bogong High Plains road is sealed with bitumen & the bitumen was sealed with snow on the weekend but it should be melted by now. A few mates of mine went up there for a ride but cut it short cos of the crap weather.

I went over there last summer in the middle of January for a nice day long cruise & it had snowed the day before, the temperature on the high plains was 8deg up on the mountain but was nice down in the valley's, Keiwa - Mt Beauty, Omeo & Ovens - Bright.

If u stay the night in the Blue Duck & want to go straight to Mitta Mitta?  that road is not sealed. To get back to Corryong without going on the dirt u will have to go back up to the Bogong High Plains Rd, up (North)  the Kiewa valley then head to-wards Tallangatta & on to Corryong.

A tip here would be to go up to the Hume Dam wall then cross the bridge to Bellbridge & up to Corryong via Walwa. As the Hume weir is full for the first time in 10 or more years It is a really scenic ride along the lake for 30 or so kms of it.

ur saying Talgamo road / murray river rd along the weir?

re dirt yeah thats what i was going to do go up Omeo highway to Mitta from blu duck, then along murray valley hgwy or woteva.

I'll take ur advice and track a few klms further north and then alon the weir back to corryong way.

 

The trip was bloody AMAZING, really good, no stacks or injuries,

over 4,000klms completed, some great stories and the BEST riding I've ever done.

I did ride the CVO into the ground but that's another story and will post up a bit of a ride report and pics - prob should do that as a seperate thread??

In the meantime, here is a bit of poetic license i knocked up this arvo;