Lunches + Flats...Longwood Sat. 9/4

John & Johnny said:

I doubt those gas canisters still work after 20 years anyway.

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You might be surprised.
Try one on the wheelbarrow...but stand back a bit.

Had a few old ones of those laying around the garage forever...then took them last minute for the Posties-to-Cape-York trip some years back.
Blew the tyre right off the rim, I nearly pooped meself.

Not much from this corner....

About halfway between the Goulburn River and Caveat











It sure is pretty country!








Near Ruffy



Tim SF with Ant following






A crashing, clonking and howling Yammie at 150 knots...







Picking her lines wisely...







The new AT on its maiden voyage leading the Strom








"Now, whadda we gonna use for an axle-tool?"

I know, I know!!! BEER!!






A BIG THANKS to Big Rob for TEC'ing through the dust clouds of the afternoon

stevethi said:

Thought that was what you did,....
Time to get a new front tyre before I end up on my arse.

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Sounds like a good idea...maybe jump onto that tyre-thread for some other opinions, we've all got our own preferences/ opinions.

Nearly got stuck with a car on that Captains Creek some years ago....then took the bikes through one summer, west to east and mainly downhill.
It's irked me ever since to do it the other way around but it's too close to home to go to Kinglake just for that... and on the longer rides it's usually too late in the day, short on juice, wrong direction etc. Lots of yellow and white clay, fairly little rain makes it impossible to get through.

Williamson said:

Smarter!

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Hytram said:

....I am definitely going to have to get up there and explore some more, its great ADV territory.

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Oh, is it ever!
Great photo country, too...and creeks and waterholes....and stumper views from Mt. Wombat FireTower....and vineyards and wildlife and plane wrecks and and and...about 5 mins after we split we nearly nailed over one of the fattest echidnas I've ever seen...right in the middle of the track after a blind lefthander.
There are also a few "crucial" roads that are NOT on Gmaps but tie the whole thing together really neatly.
And one of those days we'll go after some real "spurs"...there are some bewdies around

Hytram said:

Sorry to Ant for leading you up the garden path..

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That was some garden path brother

John & Johnny said:

After Yea the dusties hit the dirt tracks while us roadies went to Yarck, turned left and up to Gobur then Ruffy.
(If the dirt riders are 'dusties' then what does that make us bitumen riders?)

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Bitches? as in bitumen?

I can hear it now at a coffee stop "which one of you bitches ordered the skim latte?"

Paul n Dixie said:

Bitches? as in bitumen?

I can hear it now at a coffee stop "which one of you bitches ordered the skim latte?"

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Boom boom! mmpa:

Hi John, I posed your question to Dixie this morning, and before I had finished the sentance she said "Bitches" and laughed!! so I guess its unofficially official !

Paul n Dixie said:

Hi John, I posed your question to Dixie this morning, and before I had finished the sentance she said "Bitches" and laughed!! so I guess its unofficially official !

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Just to be a pendant, I think the correct spelling has always been "BITCHIES" then again.....

Sir Francis said:

Just to be a pendant....

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Hmmmm...

Sir Francis said:

Just to be a pendant, I think the correct spelling has always been "BITCHIES" then again.....

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Now you're just being Bitchie

I'd actually not heard the term Bitchie before - other than one female describing anothers behaviour Dusty and Bitchie are great terms!
I,m glad to be both or is that one of each?
It is certainly more socially acceptable to be a Dusty-Bitchie after a ride than a dirty bit-h! (unless Hugh Grant or Colin Firth says it ) I only know this because Dixie MAKES me watch Bridget Jones Diary everytime it is on tv