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Title: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: alans1100 on June 10, 2013, 06:12:14 PM

Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013

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Destination: http://goo.gl/maps/qvdtO (http://goo.gl/maps/qvdtO)

Gilbert Valley Hotel,
35 Burra Road,
Saddleworth, 5413

08 8847 4030

Meeting time: 11:30 to Midday

Rough Distance and time to the Gilbert Valley Hotel

Adelaide: 105km 1 hour 30 mins
Peterborough: 150km 1 hour 40 mins
Roberstown: 58km 40 mins
Whyalla: 300kms 3 hours 30 mins
Berri: 210kms 2 hours 20 mins
Sherlock: 215km 2 hours 45 mins

It's now 12 months since the SA guys had their first RTE so I've put this one up again. We had four bikes and 6 people turn up. The challenge is to better that.

Please advise below of your attendance

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: richo on June 11, 2013, 06:30:35 PM

Hi Allan
I will put it in the diary.
Cheers
Richo

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: Pete on June 12, 2013, 06:20:49 PM

Alan, you better put Mel & I in for the annual reunion.
:thumb

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: 1300PANMAGIC on June 14, 2013, 09:33:56 PM

Hi Alan,

You can put Kathy and myself down for the ride, looking forward to meeting some local ST riders.

Cheers
Don

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: alans1100 on June 14, 2013, 10:30:38 PM

Those interested in attending are:

Alan & Heather (wildfireangel)
Pete & Mel (Pete)
Richo
Don & Kathy (1300PANMAGIC)

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: 1300PANMAGIC on June 16, 2013, 11:51:54 AM

Alan,

If anyone is interested Kathy and I will be leaving from Caltex Bolivar at 9.30am via Greenock, Kapunda for coffee and then to Saddleworth for lunch.

Cheers

Don

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: richo on June 20, 2013, 07:51:23 PM

Hi Don,

Happy to join you for the ride up.

Cheers

RICHO. And (Donna)

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: StinkyPete on June 21, 2013, 08:06:31 PM

Hi SA OzSTOCers.
I have a fair bit of stuff going on at the moment and won't be able to make Saddleworth. I'd love to catch up with everyone and not getting any decent rides in is killing me. :well As I've stated previously, I have the SA Flag, so if someone wants to collect it for the RTE, send me a PM and we'll make a suitable time.

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: alans1100 on June 23, 2013, 10:05:32 AM

Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013

Adelaide Meeting Place: Caltex Bolivar, Port Wakefield Road. 9:30 am

Destination: http://goo.gl/maps/qvdtO (http://goo.gl/maps/qvdtO)

Gilbert Valley Hotel,
35 Burra Road,
Saddleworth, 5413

08 8847 4030

Meeting time: 11:30 to Midday

Those interested in attending are:

Alan & Heather (wildfireangel)
Pete & Mel (Pete)
Richo
Don & Kathy (1300PANMAGIC)

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: mikep on June 23, 2013, 09:09:17 PM

While i'd like to join you, 230km each way might be a bit much for me. Is anyone from up north here going to take part? With a bit of company it would be more tempting.

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: alans1100 on June 24, 2013, 06:00:35 PM

Quote from: mikep on June 23, 2013, 09:09:17 PM

While i'd like to join you, 230km each way might be a bit much for me. Is anyone from up north here going to take part? With a bit of company it would be more tempting.

I'm the furthest one north at the moment who is going and I'm at Peterborough and we'll leave home about 10 am as it's only a 150 kms.

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: StinkyPete on June 24, 2013, 06:02:46 PM

Quote from: mikep on June 23, 2013, 09:09:17 PM

While i'd like to join you, 230km each way might be a bit much for me. Is anyone from up north here going to take part? With a bit of company it would be more tempting.

Come on Mikep!. I've ridden to both Port Augusta for lunch, and back home to Adelaide in the same day.

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: Pete on June 25, 2013, 08:15:42 AM

Hi Don,
Mel & I would love the company up to Saddleworth too.
Will see yourself, Richo & your good ladies at the Bolivar!

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: StinkyPete on June 25, 2013, 09:30:52 AM

Pete and Mel now have the SA flag. :hatwave

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: TouriSTs on June 25, 2013, 02:24:25 PM

I will also be at the Caltex Bolivar at 0930 on Sunday, for the ride to Saddleworth.

Marty

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: alans1100 on June 25, 2013, 05:10:11 PM

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: mikep on June 25, 2013, 09:59:30 PM

Quote from: StinkyPete on June 24, 2013, 06:02:46 PM

Quote from: mikep on June 23, 2013, 09:09:17 PM
While i'd like to join you, 230km each way might be a bit much for me. Is anyone from up north here going to take part? With a bit of company it would be more tempting.

Come on Mikep!. I've ridden to both Port Augusta for lunch, and back home to Adelaide in the same day.

I bet your bum/knees/hips/neck/back were sore by the end of the drive! Well, 230km with a decent lunch break should be a breeze then. I'll try to make it as long as its not raining, i have no wet weather gear. See you around 11.30!http://ozstoc.com/Smileys/default/beer.gif :beer

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: alans1100 on June 25, 2013, 10:36:00 PM

Hope to see you there Mikep

If your not used to riding the longer distances take a 10 minute break to stretch the legs etc at about half distance.

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: alans1100 on July 01, 2013, 02:42:48 PM

We had a foggy start to a ride down to Saddleworth for our lunch and there was a chance of rain as well. Just we left town the fog cleared and we even had some warmth from the sun but it wasn’t to last for long.

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About 10 kms north of Hallet we were back in the fog again with about 500 metres visibility but getting thicker the further south we went. By the time we left Hallet anything after a 100 metres was a guess. As luck would have it a 25 kph speed limit was in place due to road works, no one was working so I kept it at 40. A little later the limit was up to 80 for about 5 kms and then down to 40 (kept at 60). Road works seemed to have gone on forever, maybe it was the fog, may be the slow speed as it’s normally 110 k/h. At one point in the fog it did seem like we did have a light shower of rain but it was hard to tell for sure.

I had four cars behind me so I pulled off the road at Mount Bryan and let them pass and a few kms down the road just after the Crystal Brook turn off the fog cleared leaving a clear run to Burra where we usually take the truck by-pass route unless we need food etc. At 11.20 am we pulled up in the hotel car park.

I took the photo of Heather standing in the hotel car park.

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About a minute later I spotted the lights of four bikes coming towards us. All four 1300s all arriving together from places down south. So, we beat last years turn up by an extra ST and three people. Just we were about to go inside the hotel a green 1100 (Mikep) arrives from Port Augusta making 6 ST’s and 10 people.

I had a senior’s moment and forgot to get a photo inside the hotel but I managed a few shots of the bikes and a short video taken on my still camera. We were the last to leave at 2:30 pm and from what I can see is that we all had a good day and we thank everyone for turning up.

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Mike (MikeP) far left, Pete, Richo and Donna (Richo), Heather, Kathy and Don (1300PANMAGIC), Mel and Marty (TouriSTs) far right

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Camera tryout https://youtu.be/l_3VV_0_91M

South Australia OzStoc RTE Saddleworth 30th June 2013

The group that met down in the city took photos as well so maybe more to come.

The return trip for us was incident free other than a sudden drop in speed as a white car (about 1 km away) we were following and slowly catching was turned out to be a local police car. In the 40 kph road works section, he did a u turn and stopped on the side of the road. No doubt doing speed checks in the lower limit. He waved at us as we passed him.

The end result for us was a round trip of 266 kms over 3.5 hours with an average speed of 77 kph and 15.5 litres based on my average fuel usage.

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: 1300PANMAGIC on July 02, 2013, 08:28:24 PM

Hi All,
It was great to meet a few SA ST Riders. Kathy I both enjoyed the company and lunch last Sunday. The weather could have been better, but once the Fog and Mist lifted…………. it was a good day on the bike.
I gave the new Go-Pro Hero3 its first test run on the way back so please check out the YouTube link attached, with a bit more practise on the set up I hope to post some more from future rides.
Regards
Don & Kathy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boNy1wF6o6w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boNy1wF6o6w)

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: alans1100 on July 03, 2013, 02:07:45 AM

Not bad video for first time.

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: richo on July 03, 2013, 06:12:56 PM

It was a good day despite the limited vision due to the fog. Thanks for the company during the ride and the meal. Donna and I are looking forward to the next ride

RICHO

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: TouriSTs on July 05, 2013, 12:34:34 PM

The other folk on the ride have covered the RTE nicely. Just a few more pics below:

Those of us that came from the Adelaide environs appeared out the fog and met at the Caltex station on Port Wakefield Rd, Bolivar.

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Thanks to Pete and Mel we were able to unfurl the flag just prior to setting off for Saddleworth.

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First stop after riding through the fog and rain (who was it that said before we started that it doesn't rain when there is fog around? :crackup) was Kapunda. Ably led by Don and Kathy we found a nice café for a coffee and a bike line-up.

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Arrived at the Gilbert Valley Hotel at the designated time to meet Alan and Heather who had travelled from Peterborough, with Mike arriving all the way from Port Augusta about ten minutes later. We wandered inside and had a very enjoyable lunch and a yarn, and a wonderful display of Donna's sewing skills with Richo's OzSTOC badge proudly on display on his jacket.

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Replete, we ventured outside (where there were fleeting glimpses of the sun :runyay), suited up and headed our various ways. Don has some great video of some of the ride back in his post.

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Thanks again to Alan for organising the trip, and we look forward with much anticipation to the next one.

Marty

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: alans1100 on July 05, 2013, 03:31:35 PM

Good write up Marty.

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: Streak on July 05, 2013, 04:59:46 PM

Quote from: alans1100 on July 05, 2013, 03:31:35 PM

Good write up Marty.

Agreed Alan, i will add those photos to our facebook page!

Title: Re: Saddleworth RTE 30th June 2013
Post by: Pete on July 10, 2013, 12:08:15 PM

1st chance to add brief message about the RTE to Saddleworth, left home approximately 7.30, very foggy & cold, meet up with other ST owners & partners for the very 1st time at Caltex Bolivar at around 9.30am, Don took the lead on a very nice ride to Kapunda for Coffee & banter. Richo then guided us nicey into Gilbert Valley Hotel where we caught up worth Alan & Heather were waiting. It wasn't long after that Mike arrived from Port August, A lovely meal and conversation, a few pictures then back home on a lovely day arriving back at around 5ish

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