Need to know distance between fuel supplies Tennant Creek NT to Halls creek WA, Travelmate can't help, NRMA no help, anyone done this road ? -- Michael Chester Baileyana Embroidery 182 Parker Street Cootamundra NSW 2590 Australia www.baileyana.com.au
http://www.exploroz.com.au/Splash.asp You might find something on this site, or a pointer to somewhere else. Otherwise try googling for trip reports both here and on the net in general, someone is bound to have posted something sometime on these subjects and often you don't find things you were looking for but are still interesting. I think you need to be able to do max 350k between stops to get around oz, there are a couple of longish treks in WA. Stuart T
I'm assuming your on bitumen, there is no dirt road between Tennant Creek and Halls Creek. You might be thinking of the Tanami Track between Alice Springs and Halls Creek. Anyway, sticking to the highway is easy, you'll never run out of fuel in the NT, there are road houses every 150-200K's. The longest stretch from memory around Australia is 302K's from Sandfire Roadhouse to Broome. Also the most boring stretch of road in Australia. However if your coming from Mt Isa I think 260K's is the longest, Camoweal to Barkley Roadhouse (recommended accommodation there). If your coming from Adelaide, then I think the longest is around 250k's between Glendambo and Coober Pedy. Make sure you take a walkman and plenty of music selection, you'll have serious mental issues if you don't. For insurance you could carry a 5 litre gerry can unobtrusively. Have fun, might see you out there. I've done the lap clockwise, now I'm planning anticlockwise to see what I missed in my mirrors. Cheers
According to an old trip diary, 293kms from Sandfire Flat to Roebuck. (Turnoff to Broome) FWIW, The Softail only took 12.3 litres to fill at Roebuck... : ) 67mpg in the old money... Doug Cox. Work to ride, Ride to work...
Hmmm, I didn't take a walkman and I didn't find it boring - I must have been doing something wrong... Ahah! There's the difference! ;-) http://members.optusnet.com.au/za2bb/odyssey/ BTH
Looks like batteries for walkman will be a bigger issue than fuel, Thanks all, looks as if the ZX12 will do the job with a 5 or 10 litre jerry on the rack for back up. Thanks again Michael Chester ZX12 IT490 (I dare you)
Wire up a cigarette lighter plug to the bike battery. You can buy a battery charger for AA batteries which will charge 4 batteries in about 2 hours off a cigarette lighter socket. Buy a couple of rechargeable batteries and Bob's your uncle. My camera uses 4 AAs, the GPS uses 2 and the minidisk player uses 1 AA battery which saves me carrying around multiple charging methods, and also means I can hijack batteries from one of the other units when one set runs flat so I don't have to carry around more than the 7 rechargeable batteries to power all of the above. Nev.. '03 ZX12R '02 CBR1100XX
Once you get about 5,000km from home even the slightest rattle is cause for worry! (Geez your a fuckwit Nev!) BTH
I think the handlebars coming adrift from the triple clamp 700kms from Broome was the most memorable (cable ties fixed that), or was it stupid *&^%ing me breaking the valve stem on the front wheel at our campsite 500kms from the nearest place that would have a replacement tube. The wonders of sidecars. Al