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10-08-2012, 09:31 PM
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I'll be in the shop!
Joined: Jul 2008
Location: Eastern WA
Oddometer: 18
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Ouch!
Your ride report reminds me why I love riding, and hate the rain. You have many great pics with your bike(s) as it should be, and some crappy weather. It all adds up to adventure that's for sure. When you scripted the Roo to get run over and your lying in the rain, was it like "Hey get the camera...hurry before I stop bleeding."
Glad your okay in your last fall, but hell dude be careful and don't die from hypothermia! Great report!
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10-08-2012, 10:40 PM
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Joined: Sep 2011
Location: Holland
Oddometer: 86
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Damn, I was hoping for a heroic escape. You do make things "interesting"
 Keep 'm coming 
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10-09-2012, 05:30 AM
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Pretty Dogged
Joined: Apr 2010
Location: entering middle Saskatchewan
Oddometer: 442
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I have been with you on this one! Glad to see you are still posting! I've been trying to send some of my remaining luck your way! I have yet to be convinced it is a "renewable resource" thou, but it sounds like you will be doing (or have done) some testing of the limits on this theory.
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10-10-2012, 02:46 AM
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Huh?
Joined: Jul 2009
Location: South East South Oz
Oddometer: 700
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yeah kinda  i rememba givin Whitta orders... get a few shots of the bike from different angles... oh and go see if you can find the roo and get a shot of that... and maybe one of it with me or the bike in the background.... gotta think about the ride report in these instances  . . |
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10-10-2012, 04:12 AM
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Huh?
Joined: Jul 2009
Location: South East South Oz
Oddometer: 700
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so, i've been debating for a few months what to do with this next part of the trip... should i just skip over the finer
detail and move on... thats easy.. and was appealing for a long time... then i figured naa.. i'd go into minute detail... and i did just start typeing the detail... but in the end i just want to get on with the next bit of the story... so.. i ended up getting a small bit of charge in phone... which was pretty quickly used up with phone telling me about missed calls and messages... i ended up talking to a bloke in the State Emergency Service... I told him i wasnt injured or in dire trouble... but if it snowed i would be since there was now half an inch of water in the base of my tent...and i'd rather have a chat to him now than when/if this blow out to an emergency he said he'd give me a call back in a few mins... in the meantime i got a call from inmate Philmeup (who you all know from earlier rides in this thread) he said he'd get some stuff together and head up to Licola... (dont forget the beer Phil!) spoke to the SES guy again and he said some Forrestry guys were coming out near here to check some stuff at an emergency airstrip nearby... and they would pick me up from the main track 6 km up ahead... they said there was no way they were coming down my track in their 4wd... i'd have to walk out.. so bike was left sideways across the track on her side... panniers 50m further up the track... helmet at the next landing.. i pulled out 2 drybags from the panniers... put a pair of dry jeans, socks, runners and t-shirts etc in one, sleepingbag, some nuts, tuna, phone, gps etc in the other.. i took off my soaked riding pants, put on some dry thermal long-johns and waterproof overpants grabbed my half full waterbottle and limped off up the hill in the rain.. the 6km took i dunno... prob 1.5 hours... it rained the whole way... but timing was perfect.. the forrestry guys rocked up exactly the same time as me... they did the proper medical checks for hypothermia etc... i got out of my wet gear and into my spare dry stuff... and with a thermos of warm tea i got in the back of the 4wd for a nice dry warm trip back to Licola... top blokes those 2! i wasnt back in Licola long... just enough time to pay for the cabin again, do some paperwork with the forrestry guys and get the boots in front of the heater when Phil rocked up..  awww that beer was good...  so was the hot shower... i couldnt sit on a toilet thou.. next day we did a run into Heywood to get some supplies... and lined up a few guys to come out the next day for a bike rescue mission.... so the next day 5 of us headed off out into the forrest.... in a 4wd with a trailer carrying a dirtbike... forget what it was... suzuki i think... anyway we got to the start of my track, unloaded the bike, unhitched the trailer and the guy who's bike it was (who'd placed fairly high in a few APC rallys etc),geared up and buggered off down the track to check out the situation while we drove in at a slower pace... over the radio we heard he'd got there... and asked where my keys were... pocket of bike pants in the tent was my reply... hmm he said... there's an inch of water in your tent... we got to my camp and jumped out... to the sound of a bike comin up the hill.... didnt sound like mine.... Phil swore it was... and sure enough over the hill came my bike.... (funny how your bike sounds different when your not on it) i packed up wet tent etc... and was a little concerned about how bike was getting out the rest of the way... when i asked this question... of course everyone looked at me with blank looks and said without any thought that anything else was an option and said..' your riding it out'.. hmm.. confidence had taken a beating... but didnt really have a choice... and i spose it would perhaps give me just a tiny bit of credibility...  so i pulled on the cold wet helmet that had spent 2 nights out in the rain...  and rode out the last 6kms without stopping.... we loaded both bikes onto the trailer for the last 70-odd km back to Licola.. Again the beer was good... i still couldnt sit on a toilet...  Phil stayed again that night.... and we spent the evening re-attaching indicators, straightening barkbusters and fixing other bits n pieces... the next day we were off as it was saturday and tonight we had to get up to central Victoria for Whitta's birthday bash.... Phil left about an hour earlier than me and headed back thru Melbourne to pick up his missus... i headed off along a decent dirt road towards Jamieson (without any plans to take short-cuts).. 
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10-10-2012, 04:51 AM
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Ulysses
Joined: Apr 2007
Location: adelaide South Australia
Oddometer: 1,208
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Good one GA, what an adventure
Cheers Terry
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10-10-2012, 05:17 AM
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Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Dec 2005
Oddometer: 2,073
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Shit Happens!
It's time for a new tent. 
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10-10-2012, 05:21 AM
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Huh?
Joined: Jul 2009
Location: South East South Oz
Oddometer: 700
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it was a fairly slow ride for a while till i got back into a bit of a rhythm...
the road climbed up into the fog...  bike seemed fine...  the fog got thicker...  until i popped out thru the top of it..  the sun and fog/cloud made for a pretty special ride..  .  '  i came out at Jamieson... beautiful little town, hit the bakery for a warming pie and coffee... then tagged along with 3 fella's on loaded up orange bikes around lake eildon... until they buggered off up a track into the hills... then on thru Seymour, across to bendigo and onto Whitta's place for a feed, beerrs...and of course a good fire...  next day was just ridin home... i got home and checked out my butt... big black bruise the size of a dinner plate on me bum and leg... foot was still black too... slept like a baby that night...
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10-10-2012, 05:36 AM
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Ulysses
Joined: Apr 2007
Location: adelaide South Australia
Oddometer: 1,208
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At least your home safe & in one piece
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10-10-2012, 05:49 AM
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Pretty Dogged
Joined: Apr 2010
Location: entering middle Saskatchewan
Oddometer: 442
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 I hope I did not jinx ya with my tale earlier..............................I am glad to hear all worked out ......but I've been feeling for ya.Good that you got back on the bike and rode it out........necessary psychological therapy......your mates had it right! You look after yourself now, eh (Canadian eh)! 
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10-10-2012, 05:55 AM
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Huh?
Joined: Jul 2009
Location: South East South Oz
Oddometer: 700
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so before that week long trip a few South Australian inmates, lead by Sundowner were tossing around the
idea of heading upto Finke in Central Australia in 4 weeks time for the Finke Desert Race... a 2 day 500km blast down an abandoned railway line thru the desert... i'd semi comitted to going before this last trip.. but after my last little trip i wasn't that keen anymore.. i new it would be a great trip thou.... so i lined Sundowner up to have a bit of a map session one evening... Sundowner chose the dodgiest pub in Adelaide for this meeting... inmate TonyRDR came along too.. it was a good session but i was still having doubts.. i'd also been and got the results of a nerve conductivity test i'd had and the doc wanted to opperate on both wrists to relieve my carpal tunnel syndrome that had really been playing up the last few months.. in the end i decided to at least get bike ready... she needed a few things done regardless... new indicator...done... new heat guard... done...  new mirror... done... bash plate  bashed back into shape and cracks re-welded... done.. did a bit of research on tyres and it seemed that pirelli was about to release the scorpion rally in australia.... so i ordered one.. all this happened in adelaide... i had some old tyres etc at my house 400-odd km out of adelaide so i planned to go down there for 5 or so days and finish my tool tube, fit some more worn out tyres that i could do the first 1000kms of bitumen on then throw away and spoon on new dirt tyres... oh and also empty a few cans or waterproofer onto the tent.... so i think i'd kinda decided that i would goto Finke... and tomorrow i was heading off to my house to get set-up... then the phone rang.... . |
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10-10-2012, 03:27 PM
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Adventurer
Joined: Sep 2011
Location: Holland
Oddometer: 86
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In my book you're an ADV- all star !
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10-10-2012, 07:21 PM
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FNG
Joined: Jan 2012
Location: The Big Easy
Oddometer: 59
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I have been enjoying your report! Keep it coming!
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10-20-2012, 01:01 AM
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so little time
Joined: May 2008
Location: south australia,ceduna
Oddometer: 1,824
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been out bush for 36days ,thanks for the update .....more to come?
cheers aub.
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10-23-2012, 09:14 AM
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Joined: Feb 2010
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec
Oddometer: 24
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Me thinks he's out for "repairs" for his carpal tunnel.
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