Wintersun ride report

10/06/2004
A cold start, and a long day. Stayed at "The Area" pub in Griffith,
which had good food but was a bit pricey for the quality of room
($35).

Tarago 07:30 28,078
Goulburn 08:50 28,134 3.5l*
Bowning 10:30 28,230 2.5l
Wallendbeen 11:55 28,306
Temora 14:00 28,372 3.5l
Griffith 17:10 28,530 4.5l


11/06/2004
A little bit of trouble starting the bike in the morning, met up with
the crowd just past Euston. Marty and Nev caught me by surprise and
blatted past at a brisk pace, if I'd seen them coming I would have
wound on the throttle & held pace with them. ;-)

By the time I reached Mildura the bike was stalling at traffic lights
and such, it later turned out to be the exhaust valve clearance
closing up.

Griffith 17:10 28,530
Hay 10:45 28,700 4.3l
Balranald 13:30 28,839 3.7l
Euston 15:15 28,922 2.2l
Mildura 17:00 29,011


12/06/2004
Spent the morning sorting out what was wrong with the bike. Spent the
evening drunk.


13/06/2004
Still drunk.


14/06/2004
Most of the gang were still packing up when I left. I filled up on
the way out of town, then kep going. The Happy Drunk passed me
between Euston and Balranald. I still had an hour of daylight when I
arrived at Griffith so I kept going to Barellan and saved myself an
hour of travel time on the second day. The pub at Barellan is a
pretty nice and quite affordable ($43 for a room, a steak dinner, and
two drinks).

Mildura 07:45 29,076
Euston 09:10 29,158
Balranald 10:30 29,240 4.2l
Hay 13:00 29,378 3.4l
Griffith 16:10 29,544 4.3l
Barellan 17:10 29,595



15/06/2004
The exhaust valve was playing up again, and I had to push the bike
started in the morning. When I found some hills just after Temora I
finally gave up, pulled over on the side of the road, unpacked all my
gear to get to the tools, and fixed it. It's really only a 5-minute
job, but I always pack th heaviest stuff down the bottom of the esky.
For some reason the locknut on the rocker was 9mm, what's with that?
I had to tighten it with a 10" shifter, which only barely fitted.
Once that was fixed, the 55kph/3rd gear hills were doable at 65kph in
4th.

Yass was fearfully cold and windy. I met a young lass there who was
very tough. She was riding pillion on a TT600, heading back to
Victoria. She was wearing jeans, with no overpants. She was wearing
a 60l backpack with all of the gear in it. Wow. ;-)

The final 50km from Goulburn to Tarago were the worst, because that
was the point at which my tailwind became a 50kph crosswind. With the
tailwind I was able to run at 80kph up the Hume. :-D

Barellan 17:10 29,595
Temora 09:10 29,704 4.1l
Yass 12:10 29,852 4.2l
Goulburn 13:50 29,944
Tarago 15:00 29,999.8


Then this morning I rode The Jackal in to work. What a difference!
The size! The weight! The power! The suspension that actually
suspenses! GPX250 touring rocks! ;-)



BTH
* Includes the previous night's 80km from Canberra.

 

I thought about slip streaming for a moment
__


Cheers
The Happy Drunk
K100RT

 

the givi people reckon that the pannier are only good to
160kmh...pfftttttt!!!

cant remember that!


did the tail wind help??

mh

 

The area's the worst pub in town in my op, new owners just brought it and
threw out the pool table, which has improved it 100% otherwise yo uprobably
would have been assaulted for being in their..

oh and that blood trail from the gents has a story behind it - which does
not involve violence more of too much alcohol which ate the stomach causing
somebody to loose half there blood through there arse..

You should have stayed at the Vic up the road, much better food and much
better rooms.. although every 2nd person is a cop

and ya could have said hello to me

 

Sounds like a wonderful person to me!

Cheers
Goaty

 

I was doing ~65kph across most of the Hay plain, when I turned NE onto
the Mid Western it was an almost-crosswind though.

The 100km up the Hume from Yass to Goulburn was great fun though - a
50kph tailwind let me do it all at 80! :-D


BTH

 

Really? Mate, you need to travel and see more of the country! ;-)

Yairs, and in another of the meaningless coincidences that plague my
life when I wandered in and asked the barman about a room he said
"You're from Canberra and I know you." It turns out that he's the new
owner, and he was also the AMP agent who handled my income protection
insurance a few months ago.

I had a look, and it was very nice, but $75 a night was just a tad too
steep.

There's no pleasing some people! I said a week ago that I'd be
staying overnight in Griffith, but you never mentioned that you lived
there! ;-)


BTH

 

I like the way BT remains completely oblivious to the bloke
or blokette she was presumably pillioning behind ...

-----sharks

 

a rack, with a rack that you can ****



--
smack

people think I know **** nothing...

showing my biggus side

 

The area's the worst pub in town in my op,

Yes im sure there are much worse pubs i prefer caravan parks

Yeah Peter Miller i believe? i go riding with hsi son...

Cant say ive stayed there good food though steep that part too..

Ah probably missed it :-( or was when my newsgroups were down on DumDo

MAD
ps my peugeot 405mi16 blew up, anybody got a fuel pump/relay for one?

 

Hey, you're lucky I noticed the *bike* ;-)


BTH

 

The rack with the rack could pack a whack back in your sack, Smack!

 

Bah, you're slack


Mike.S