Serviced and washed Tigger yesterday. Nearly ready for this trip.
This arvo mounted gps on tank filler cap (easy as). Now to check tyre pressures. What a C__t of a job. The easiest thing to do normally turns into an insurmountable task on a tourer with standard wheels. Why they don't have 90 degree valve stems standard i don't know. Anyway persistence pays off and then i drop my digital tyre pressure gauge and broke it. Bummer. See yas all soon. Woo Hoo.........

Yes I'm watching and im home your at my cousins pub say g'day to hanny (Colin) he should be there tell him to Losen up his wallet and buy Ya a beer
What's wrong with my ride
Geeeezzzzz I'm jealous of the for coming ride
Ohhh well maybe next year hey
Enjoy boys talk soon

Ready and rearing to go !!!! See you guys comming from the north at 10am in Cooma , tomorrow ... Looks like its going to be approx 10 - 11 degrees going over the mountains,, so put a jumper, etc in you luggage ... You will be taking it off after about 100ks ,, then sunny and mid 20s !!!! Ride safe lads !!!

Dont tell me this is going to be Vic's and SA , Verses NSW is it ???? Any way ,, looks like the first bullet has been shot !!!! This has not got anything to do with the strange game of football you play in Mexico and Crow eating land, is it .... ?????

Me hutch and wayno dragging our sorry asses outa bed. meet up with fatbat and mark this morning, see yas soon.

I have plenty of flatulence china. Anyone can say it how they want. Its a word in a word.

The Saffastrayan contingent left Tailem Bend on Saturday accompanied by a couple of delinquent Mexicans who snuck over the border on Friday.

We had GT (who managed to completely dodge the cameras), Mickle (who also proved to be elusive), China, Spook, Bert, Tim and Steelo. Steelo, Spook and Bert returned home the same day after ensuring that the reprobates and imports left the state.

 

Timmy ready to roll.........................or else what?

 

Bert and his trusty Trumpy

 

Bloody China posing AGAIN!

 

Outside the Murrayville Hostelry for a lunch stop.

 

Steelo and Bert waiting..........................................or could be posing!

 

And of course the best is left till last.........................Spook and Steelo at Murrayville.

Enjoy the ride guys, and ride safe.  Wishing that I was able to join you but current circumstances & finances prevent me otherwise.  Oh well, maybe another time, hopefully in the next couple years.

Keep the pics coming, for those of us who can only wish we were there.

Any pics yet of the Lascelles overnighter?

Did anybody take a camera?

Good to hear he's OK, George. How's the bike? Is he still on the run?

Forgive the intrusion into this thread, but I was directed over here from the general discussion after posting an enquiry about tips for Snowy Mtn routes. You guys seem to have done the Mtns a few times, so if anyone has time to offer some tips about the following I'd be very appreciative.

I'm riding Melbourne to Wollongong in the second week of February. I'm hoping to route through as many Snowy Mtn roads on the way there and back as I can (some time on M31 and A1 will happen for time-constraint reasons!). But I cannot ride everything in one trip ...

- Going from the A1 over to Jindabyne, what's the better run to connect with the Snowy River Way, the Snowy Mtns Hwy (from Bega) or Mt Darragh Rd (Pambula through Bombala)? 

- If you could only ride one, Bonang Hwy Delegate to Orbost or Great Alpine Rd (either southward or northward)?

- Kings Hwy (B52) Canberra to Batemans Bay and A1 to Wollongong, or is the Nerriga Rd I see connecting Braidwood to Nowra a decent ride?

- From B400 Alpine Way to B72 Snowy Mtn Hwy, is it a better ride the short way through Cabramurra (Tooma rd and Link rd) or the long way through Tumbarumba (via Jingellic, and Elliot Way etc)? That is, if coming from Albury-Wondonga way (probably taking the Kiewa Valley Hwy from Bright to B400) and heading toward Cooma and on to Canberra.

Sorry for all the detail! Just trying to route out something interesting and trying to gather as much info as I can.

Chinashop Bull, my bad, I should have listed my road preferences etc (was conscious of not writing a novel!).

For long rides I prefer more long sweepers over hairpins, just to keep the fatigue factor in check, though I enjoy the twisties and like to mix the two if I can. I always try to avoid dirt where possible and, if not, would choose alternate routes where dirt is more than a 10km stretch. I am an experienced rider, having ridden lots of Alpine routes around the globe (Thailand, Vietnam, USA east coast, the alpine areas in and bordering the Swiss Alps). I think my skill level is reasonably good, and I always err on the side of caution over extravagant risk. My ride is an FXR, so good ground clearance and made for twisties.

Hope the extra info helps.

PS: was just reading that the Omeo Hwy is now sealed. I might take that from Omeo to Tallangatta and aim to do (on return leg) the Kiewa Valley Hwy north to south and Towonga Gap Rd east to west Mt Beaauty to  Bright. An elevation chart suggests running the Towonga Gap rd east to west (Mt Beauty to Bright) is better. Anyone offer an opinion?

Hey lads. Yep bit of a bugger for Wayno, but he's a fighter and he's riding in the missuses chair on Tigger and loving it, while I'm doing all the hard work. We are at Jindabyne ATM. Heaps of top countryside to see and great roads we have been on.
Special thanks to Chriso and Gnoo for all there help yesterday. Top blokes.

leaving Orbost this morning

 

As said before, Great bunch of blokes on a great ride. We all had fun on some of the best roads in Oz.

Tigger and Waynos bike on the way to Chriso's hut.

 

 

Chriso, Wayno, Mark and fatbat and myself at one of the lookouts

 

Stayed here at Yack.

 

Out the back of the Yack pub. As you can see, it was a bagger fest.

 

Me, Chriso, Mark, Gnoo, china, dinner time.

 

Mark, me, Gnoo, Timmy, Mickle and a couple of blowins.

 

On the way to Omeo, Wayno had a slight offie. His bike in the ditch a bit bent and twisted. 

 

He ended having a fractured left collar bone, shoulder blade and 3 ribs.

Although you would never know. This was taken at the hospital on wednesday. Here pain, take this Wayno says.

Tough mother fugger.

 

Omeo Omeo, where art thou Omeo!, on the way to Orbost me says. Tigger is just looking around at the Golden age. It was on telly this arvo.

 

Orbost pub. Plenty of room and a chinese cuisine to boot.

 

Cann River for breaky on the way to Jindabyne

 

Buckley's crossing. Mickle and Timmy scratching there head cause the pub was closed. They had Buckley's chance it would open just for us.

 

Tim still scratching. Must have fleas.

 

The Snowgoose at Adaminaby. Great home made pizza beleive it or not! Had lunch here after coming back from hospital with Wayno.

 

Hallze brought this coldy holder he won to give to Beaglebasher but he never showed. Oh well next time!

Great pics , thanks Hutch .

Well done Hutch ... Fuck ,, I'm going from one thread to the other !!!! How did Wayno handle the ride home ???

Yeah good Mark, Keeping it still in the jacket, in the sling worked best on the bike We made good time and he was home by 3.30pm,

This is outside the Adaminaby museum with a old machine next to a rockdrill. haa.

 

Covered about 3,600 kms, riding some great roads with some great blokes. Thanks to all that turned up, even if only for part of the ride. Catch ya next time.