Melb. to Syd. the long way round. Pt 2

Post by **DJ Downunder** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:56 pm

Ok Guys...here's the next two days (day 3 and 4) of my trip.

Sorry I don't seem to be able to make my pictures appear without using a link to them.

Starting with an early start to the day with a view of the sun coming up viewed from the balcony of the pub in Tumit.

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We were five minutes into our ride looking for some little back road and we came across a dead-end and going round in circles before finding the right road.

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A farmer looking after cows on the road showed us the right way to go...the cows looked like they didn't know what was going on with all these bikes passing them.

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Bugger!...the nice little road turned to dirt..a bit dusty but nice and smooth.

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Waa-Hoo!...back on the black stuff...that dirt wasn't so bad...look at that perfect weather.

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The nice smooth black stuff didn't last long before we were back on the dirt..and I tried to keep out of Twigs dust.

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Guy was way ahead on the GS and Twig waved me past..and maybe felt he was slowing me down..or felt bad to be making me eat his dust.

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One lesson learned here...don't use a handle bar mounted camera when it's dusty..the lens was stuck half in half out...I missed some great pics...we finally got to the end of the dirt road..stopped here for cold drink..I got my toothbrush out and tried to fix my camera...it worked..it still sounds rough when the lens goes in and out but it works...and look at my nice clean bike.

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While having our drinks this tractor rolled up..looking like it was ready to race in 'Death race 2000'..anyone remember that movie..I think it's used to pick up hay bails.

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Just up the road we crossed this little bridge.

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Not much water flowing under it is there.

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Back on the road again...and heading for a town called Yass.

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We stopped the stretch the legs and use the toilet.

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While we were stopped in this little country town look what whizzed past.

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We had a short section of main Hwy from Yass to Goulburn...the home of the big Merino.

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Yes a merino is a type of sheep....you've gotta laugh..but it is a biggie isn't it.

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Next was to stop for lunch..we found this great pie shop in town...here's the menu for it's pies.

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My pie seemed to have it's top missing but it was still good...and coke in a glass bottle..nice.

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Guy gets stuck into his...I even went back for seconds...definatly the best pies that I've ever had..and I've had heaps.

Sorry Guy..this pic is too funny to not post it.

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We headed north from Goulburn..and found another small section of dirt..well more gravel than dirt.

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More cows on the road side.

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We stopped at this roadside pub..and the weather was starting to look nasty.

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Our next stop was a trip highlight..a town called Bathhurst..and a place called Mt Pamorama.

America has it's holy ground for raceing..the brickyard at Indi..and Bonniville....we have this place...the most famous race trace down under..and home of the Bathurst 1000 each year.

First we stopped in at the track side museum.

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There's a nice old bike at the museum...they used to race bikes here also.

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Check out that fish-tail exhaust.

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Now to the track..as famous as this track is..it's public road when there's no race on..so we did a lap..it was starting to rain but that was not going to stop us.

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The starting grid.

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Australia's most famous car racer..'Brockie' (Peter Brock) died last month..a great loss...all around the track is thousands of messages to him from fans.

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The others headed for a motel..I went to the camping ground to put up my tent..I stopped at this place in town..the court house I think.

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One last pic for day three...(I'll be back with day four soon)

DJ

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Post by **GypsyRR** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:44 pm

One lesson learned here...don't use a handle bar mounted camera when it's dusty..the lens was stuck half in half out...I missed some great pics...we finally got to the end of the dirt road..stopped here for cold drink..I got my toothbrush out and tried to fix my camera...it worked..it still sounds rough when the lens goes in and out but it works...and look at my nice clean bike.

DJ!!!

Your TOOTHBRUSH???

What do your teeth look like now?

Post by **wncbmw** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:59 pm

Gypsy - A man's got to have priorities! DJ's priority was providing us an excellent ride report!

Post by **DJ Downunder** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:31 am

Gypsy...I figured I had more dirt in my teeth anyway after that dusty ride...grinning all the way....well it did fix my camera..

I'm having a hard time transferring my pics here for some odd reason.

The rest of my ride pictures can be viewed here..just click on the Ride Day and watch the slide show....click here..and then click on 'Photos' on the left.

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DJ

darcym · Post by **darcym** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:39 pm

DJ - love your ride pics and reports!

PS: I'm looking into a longish holiday around Easter time 2009, in Australia and NZ. I will probably be picking your brain sometime in the future on ideas for possibly renting a bike in Sydney and exploring a bit of Oz's west coast by 2 wheels in between surfing ...

Post by **DJ Downunder** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:46 am

No probs darcym...but...I don't know much about the west coast of Oz...why the west coast?

Re Nz..you should check out this dvd.

DJ

johno · Post by **johno** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:04 am

darcym, if you are going to surf the West Coast, you had better bring your Shark repellant with you.

Been a few lads loose a leg or too lately over there. Sharks are jeleous
types, they dont like people surfing better than them.

darcym · Post by **darcym** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:04 pm

oops, I meant the East Coast of OZ. I'd love to go to the west coast as well, lots of great surfing out there, but that will have to be another trip. Will probably base in Sydney with possible forays to the Gold Coast and maybe down into Victoria. Late March, early April. Maybe do some caravan/camping. Still a long way off and plenty of pennies to save between now and then. Got to go while I'm still able, though!

Jonny_L · Post by **Jonny_L** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:50 am

Hey DJ, Just wanted to say thanks for posting all these pics up. I've looked at a few of your pics before, seems you know your way round a camera pretty well!

Great for whiling away an otherwise boring afternoon!

Just-Beeming · Post by **Just-Beeming** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:11 pm

Three words...

BIG BIG SHEEP!