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From: bikerbetty on 3 Aug 2007 04:54 "BT Humble" <bt_humble(a)bigpond.com> wrote in message news:1186128640.652442.244190(a)e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > bikerbetty wrote: >> "Tex" <tropi...(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message >> >>> ALPINE WAY >> >>> Day 1: Canberra - Cooma - Jindabyne - Thredbo - Khancoban (overnight >> >>> stop) >> >>> Day 2: Khancoban - Cabramurra - Adaminaby - Cooma - Canberra >> >> Yeah, but don't you reckon the Canberra-Cooma bit is too boring to do >> twice >> in one short trip?? > > Let's do that loop in a couple of months time Betty, but we'll swap > one of the Canberra-Cooma legs for a Canberra-Tharwa-Adaminaby one. > Rumour has it that you like dirt roads now? ;-) > > > BTH Yeah, right...... I'm a HUGE fan of dirt roads..... bwahahahaha! Re a run to Khancoban when the weather's warmer, though - I think I'd be a lot less nervous next time round on some of those alpine twisties - they terrified me back in January, but I think I'm over a lot of that fear now. Ooh, an ausmoto ride??? Bring it on!!! Just let's not plan it for the same weekend that the Ducati Club does its annual Khancoban Ride!!! betty
From: Nev.. on 3 Aug 2007 07:27 Tex wrote: > Yup. But I don't mind Can/Cooma that much. There are much worse roads IMHO. > Bairndale - Sale for example (shudder) About 1km after you cross the railway lines at the Melbourne end of Bairnsdale there is at turnoff to the left which is signponsted to the local airfield... marked as C106. If you take that road it hooks around, through Bengwarden, then a few km before Stratford there's a intersection and the C106 goes off to the left signposted to Sale... too easy. On a bad day there might be half a dozen other vehicles using that 70km stretch of road. Nev.. '04 CBR1100XX
From: Nev.. on 3 Aug 2007 07:37 bikerbetty wrote: >> Let's do that loop in a couple of months time Betty, but we'll swap >> one of the Canberra-Cooma legs for a Canberra-Tharwa-Adaminaby one. >> Rumour has it that you like dirt roads now? ;-) >> > > Yeah, right...... I'm a HUGE fan of dirt roads..... bwahahahaha! > > Re a run to Khancoban when the weather's warmer, though - I think I'd be a > lot less nervous next time round on some of those alpine twisties - they > terrified me back in January, but I think I'm over a lot of that fear now. > > Ooh, an ausmoto ride??? Bring it on!!! Just let's not plan it for the same > weekend that the Ducati Club does its annual Khancoban Ride!!! Ahh.. a weekend ride to Khancoban. Sounds like a nice 2 day round trip from Melbourne.. but I'm sure I can turn it into a 3.5 day trip like I did last Nov :) Parted company with Marty, Glitch & co after breakfast in Khancoban, they headed west, we headed east. The following afternoon we passed them about 50km east Of Melbourne on the Healesville-Woori Yallock Road... they were heading south.. we were heading north.. Those bloody V-Strom riders have no sense of direction !! Nev.. '04 CBR1100XX
From: boyds on 3 Aug 2007 08:00 On Aug 2, 10:12 am, "Theo Bekkers" <tbekk...(a)bekkers.com.au> wrote: > Shaun Van Poecke wrote: > > Let's have it then. > > > What's your favourite two day ride starting from anywhere in aus? > > Perth to Adelaide, or Adelaide to Perth. > > Theo That sounds like a Guzzi man talking. Real rides have corners or sweeping bends, and lots of them. SteveB
From: Moike on 3 Aug 2007 08:21
bikerbetty wrote: > Ooh, an ausmoto ride??? Bring it on!!! Just let's not plan it for the same > weekend that the Ducati Club does its annual Khancoban Ride!!! Absolutely. I still have a clear mental image of meeting the Ducati support semi-trailer on a bend near Cabramurra during one of their "tours" a couple of years back. Not good fun. Moike |