The CoVid Wobbler..."speccy recce"

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
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Coming out of the prolonged CoVid coma of nearly 2 years or so and trying to revive some of the old mojo, enthusiasm, riding+navigating skills and gravel-legs for the upcoming weekend while being curious about conditions of roads, tracks and places in a "post"-CoVid-rattled world, this one was rather "trying to learn to walk again" all over.

Screw the busted back, the killing lethargy oif the last 2 years, the wonky knee and a bike I'll never get to really trust like any of our Stroms.

Grab some Rooftop maps for comfort...but run on memory for distances, turn-offs, timing, fuel stops.... and the rest of it, it'll be fine.
Bugger the nagging doubts, we've done this before...many 'o times.


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familiar grounds



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Another week or 2 and things will be "ON FIRE" here...


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The way things go...the size shrinks as the years kick in, but the fun stays the same!! :clap:
250 big smiles...


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...with autumn in full swing at Connallys Creek



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A spruced up Grannies Lane (graded and gravelled from its clay+grass past) still offers the same sweet views



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Williamson

Part of the furniture
Geez, it's been a long 12 months if it already feels like 2 years...

:bs

It was a difficult 12 months, seemed like more when we were in lockdowns, but now it seems like 12 months that didn't exist. A couple of recent reminisces, "That was last year, no it was 2019". Yeah, 2020 is a year to forget, in many ways.
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
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True that...it's all a blur.

Somehow the last ride I can pin calenderwise was the Wairarapa late 2019...or was that 2018? W-)
 

Williamson

Part of the furniture
True that...it's all a blur.

Somehow the last ride I can pin calenderwise was the Wairarapa late 2019...or was that 2018? W-)

NZ north island for us was around this time 2019, a reminder re. this popped-up in Facebook just last week, it's dated 1 April 2019, I think you went through a day or three after us.

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glitch

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.....had a longish stretch of new asphalt and a really confusing array of new tracks going everywhere right on top of that shallow ridge across to Barjarg.

Skipped on Samaria...not a place to go solo.

Checked out a map-found crosscut from the Blue Range to Tolmie from the Tolmie end...paydirt!

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Woodchoppers HQ at Tolmie Park


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Balloons up near Merrijig


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...and all watching the show


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The little XT whizzing up the Buller-bends



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The Paps in the haze...about 40km away




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glitch

Mapping the next ride...
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Picking up from nearly 2 weeks ago...


Corn Hill Rd. ( the cross-cut to the Circuit loop at Mt. Stirling/ Craig s Hut etc.)


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The stunning Delatite Flats



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...while the balloons were out at the Yarra Valley Railway later that afternoon.
https://www.yvr.org.au/timetable/


Healesville Station



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Of course word wasn't out yet on the massive weather front was going to hit the High Country with lots of rain and snow-up-high only a few days later and changing the "Targa '21" quite a bit...


check out here: http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?p=79790
 
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