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OzSTOC Ride Reports, Pictures & Videos => RIDE REPORTS => Topic started by: Kev Murphy on November 19, 2016, 01:50:06 PM
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ready to rumble
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The adventure begins
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Wassa matter?.. the Hardleys need fuel already? :grin
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(I know, I know.. it's a training ride for new Long Distance riders...) :thumb
There was a time when we ALL thought a long ride was to Maccas in the next suburb.
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Turned west at Kew, heading for Kendall ... I know that road well...
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What is the purpose or IBA classification of the ride that Biggles is doing? :popcorn
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Its a 24 hour training ride for new long distance riders, as far as I can figure, Pete
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This is one of my favourite stops at Kew... Legends servo, with the Far - Kew souvenir shop... :grin
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The Big Axe is half a block south of the servo
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Now passing Kendall, I have a friend who used to live on Railway Street, opposite the oval/sports ground. He has since moved to Port Macquarie.
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Moving right along... heading maybe towards Port Mac, or probably west to Wauchhope windy roads towards Walcha?
Photobucket is slow at loading my pics, will update when possible.
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Still continuing north towards Kempsey
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Hmmm... I was last in this area for a mates wedding at South West Rocks Surf life savers club in May 2013
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Will be a short break, I have visitors.
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All these images can be enlarged by clicking on the pic for finer detail.
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Total progress so far this afternoon...
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Good time, around 260Km by my reckoning, and on the way to Coffs.
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Me wrong again... "Left turn Clyde!" ...now heading for Dorrigo, and maybe on to Armidale?
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Waterfall Way is a great ride. I once traveled north of there to Tuckers Nob, (single lane narrow gutted track) but someone had added a short piece of black insulation tape horizontally to the middle of the 'T' on the direction sign...
Made me laugh for many further miles that day. :grin
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is he doing a ss1600?
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Unsure what the go is, but they are working towards 24 hours.
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I was wrong again with forecast... NOT going to Armidale... right turn.... heading north east towards Grafton on the twisties..
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On the move again, refreshment break?.. fuel?
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Hey Matty!... Each picture in the thread can be enlarged by clicking on the pic
( got a mate visiting the thread ) :grin
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Looks like a break,/fuel or rest stop. I am going to get some shuteye, will continue later. ++
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Up bright and early for a run to Redcliffe
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Only ten minutes out of Grafton, now. Roughly half-way back to Taree.
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....And a diversion towards the coast.
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...and back to point of origin. Now we wait for Bill to give us a rundown on the ride. :thumb
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Just sat down to post today's excerpt. Thanks for the postings, Kev- if you move the page quickly it looks like a movie (you remember those little booklets you could flick the pages and see the character move?)
It was a 24 hour Rally, with the Saturday morning spent in training to improve and educate us. We had the combined wisdom of 4 Ironbutt Rally Finishers and one Buttlite Finisher.
The minimum score to be declared a Finisher was 20,000 and I cobbled together 25,300 points. When I left at 16:00 DST the final scores hadn't been announced, but at least I ranked somewhere- a "DNF" is definitely undesirable. This was my fourth rally. I won the third, but certainly won't be far up the rungs this time- the competition against some of the hardcore guys was fierce. The riding was hard and continuous- basically the stuff we all love. Details after I've had a few winks.
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Must've been difficult riding that section backwards from Kew to Kendall
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:rofl :thumb
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Must've been difficult riding that section backwards from Kew to Kendall
I got a cricked neck out of it, but it was the only way I could get there in the time available.
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What is the purpose or IBA classification of the ride that Biggles is doing? :popcorn
Sorry I missed this Pete. It was a Training Rally, more information may be gained from here http://forum.ironbutt.org/index.php?threads/so-you-want-to-do-a-rally-but-you-dont-know-how-read-on.712/ (http://forum.ironbutt.org/index.php?threads/so-you-want-to-do-a-rally-but-you-dont-know-how-read-on.712/)
Hope that helps :beer