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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2015, 11:58:25 AM »
OK... back from my shopping, and to the task in hand... Gary left Grafton around 50 mins ago,
and is climbing towards Glen Innes. Great road through there. Should arrive Glen Innes around 1.00pm

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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2015, 12:18:48 PM »
12.15 pm

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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #27 on: September 10, 2015, 12:49:06 PM »
12.49pm. In Glen Innes now. Only a 60k run to Guyra from Glen Innes... I guess he will take a break there.

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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #28 on: September 10, 2015, 12:52:43 PM »
425k completed

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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #29 on: September 10, 2015, 01:05:53 PM »
Hmmm.... can anyone see a pattern emerging here? Maybe he is just refuelling at the servo that the bike obscures?



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« Reply #30 on: September 10, 2015, 01:44:23 PM »
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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #31 on: September 10, 2015, 01:59:33 PM »
On the road again after an hours rest stop.

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« Reply #37 on: September 10, 2015, 03:40:49 PM »
about 700 km today

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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #39 on: September 10, 2015, 04:30:01 PM »
725km for the day and it looks like he's overnight at the Tamworth Ashby House Motor Inn.   No camping for this traveller.   :thumbsup
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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #40 on: September 10, 2015, 05:05:32 PM »
Looks like you are right, Pete
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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #41 on: September 10, 2015, 05:15:41 PM »
Nope,  not this time of year.

I'm also traveling with Sean and a large group of bikes as far as Canberra.
The mysterious stop before Grafton was a refuel stop. The other stops were Harley stops. :grin

The run up the range was good, would have been better if a Harley wasn't in front.

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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #42 on: September 10, 2015, 05:16:26 PM »
Assembly point panorama.




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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #43 on: September 10, 2015, 05:17:51 PM »
A brief stop for the "Farqarwe Tribe"


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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #44 on: September 10, 2015, 05:20:25 PM »
Glen Innes architecture.


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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #45 on: September 10, 2015, 05:30:50 PM »
:runyay :runyay
For a second there I thought you were riding the Hayabusa and wearing a Police helmet :rofl
Keep the pics coming :thumbsup
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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #46 on: September 10, 2015, 05:34:19 PM »
Riding through Guyra with about thirty bikes and :think this is ST2UP's Home and lo and behold I get a call from Chris. He'd been at an intersection waiting to enter when a particular ST caught his eye. :grin

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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #47 on: September 10, 2015, 05:49:15 PM »
:runyay :runyay
For a second there I thought you were riding the Hayabusa and wearing a Police helmet :rofl
Keep the pics coming :thumbsup
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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #48 on: September 10, 2015, 09:18:21 PM »
Shiney, we are letting him tag along, but playing with toys?  Come on now!!!!!!!!

He is getting a number of good comments about the lights.  Off to Dungog and into Sydney tomorrow afternnoon.
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Re: Gadget's Big Ride
« Reply #49 on: September 10, 2015, 09:27:25 PM »
Looks like playtime now... or... the hazards of group riding, lol (also known as headless chicken syndrome...)  :grin



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