on my way home from the IBA ride I was chasing town names for one of the OzSTOC Names, and I may have taken a wrong turn....
I headed up East Dorrigo way, some amazing road that I was having a blast on, could not work out why on a Saturday it was so quiet......
Go through to a town called Ulong (the town in the valley the sign said)
had a look around was feeling pretty pleased with myself, saw a sign that said "13km Gravel" looked at the gravel thought it looked ok so I headed on through, thinking that it was bitumen on the other side.....oh how wrong I was, how very wrong...
30km worth of gravel took me over an hour to get through, it all thinned down to single lane steep edges, and no where to turn around, so forward was where I went, with every rock, corrugation, pot hole, logs and branches all teasing to throw me from my STead....
Google Map:
https://goo.gl/maps/0vmQWThe Map might say 35 mins....they lied
I took photos as I kept stopping as I was riding in first gear most of the way...unfortunately the photos do not do the road justice...
but in the middle, I found the most amazing views, and got waves from the farmers as I road past on the 500m of really nice gravel!
Of course when I made it out the other end, I looked back and there was a sign that if at the other end I would have avoided the road....
all in all, an experience, and I proved that you can use an ST1300 as an adventure bike....badly....