The Fourth SydRide (25/26feb95)

• The inital post
• The Plan
• Who's coming?
• Pictures

The Plan

We will depart Sydney Friday evening (24feb95) and ride north to Bulladelah. This will let us do a twilight run of the Pacific Highway on our way north.

Saturday morning we will cruise to Port Macquarie and then do the Oxley, stopping for lunch at Ginger's Creek. From there we will proceed to Apsley Falls, to check it out. Tres tres bootiful, I'm told. This leaves us with Saturday afternoon to cruise (tho' Peter Howard and possibly Thomas will be heading home Saturday afternoon), probably to Nundle where Steve Chey assures us there's a great pub.

Sunday will be the return leg, south from wherever we spent Saturday night, down to Gloucester, down the Bucket Way, south-west to Dungog, thence to Singleton and home via the Putty Road.

Participants

	Cameron Simpson		GPX600R		<cs@zip.com.au>
	Daniel Thomson (probably) CBR1000
	Geoff Graves		BMW R80		<BMGG@MUSICA.MACARTHUR.UWS.EDU.AU>
	Jonathon Tidswell			<t-jont@microsoft.com>
	John Turner		GPX600R		<u9238026@uow.edu.au>
	Mark Hall		XV1000		<MARK@crsvax.gas.unsw.edu.au>
	Peter Bestel		GF250?		<peterb@uniq.com.au>
	Peter Howard				<pjh@iassf.easams.com.au>
	Rob Grandcourt (maybe)			<rgrand@ozemail.com.au>
		and possibly his friend Mike (VFR750)
	Steven James Brown	ZZR1100		<steven@macqbl.com.au>
		and Daniel Tomo
	Thomas Cohen		SS900 (Jungle Bike) <thos@nms.otc.com.au>

From_: cameron@dap.CSIRO.AU  Wed Jan 25 17:20:11 1995
From: Cameron Simpson <cameron@dap.CSIRO.AU>
To: SydRide
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 17:03:02 +1100
Organization: Division of Applied Physics, CSIRO, Sydney, Oz
Subject: who's in for... SydRide4: the Oxley Highway ...
Newsgroups: aus.motorcycles
Message-ID: <19950125170255-cameron-1-08877@swifty.dap.CSIRO.AU>


Some interest has been expressed in an assault on the Oxley Highway. I, for
one, am burning to do it again. Where else on NSW will you find a sign saying
"30km winding road". Uphill, through rainforest. Oh frabjous day!

Therefore, let us ride the Oxley some weekend soon.

The Oxley runs east-west from Port Macquarie to Walcha. It is best done in
that direction, too, as that gets you the uphill direction. That direction
requires it to be done in the morning or at least before midafternoon, too.

We have three choices before us:
A one day iron-butt blast.
	

	This will truly knacker most of us,
	and worse, we'll be tired by the time we get to the Oxley.
	No fun.
    
A two day run.
	

	That would still leave us tired when we got to the
	Oxley but allow a leisurely run home, with some other nice roads
	tossed in.
    
Three days.
	

	This would allow a nice run to Port (Putty Road, across to Stroud
	Road via Dungog (route courtesy of Phil Burg; it worked really
	nicely thanks) and up the Bucket Way to Port).
	The following day we could do the Oxley and sightsee around the
	area (Barrington Tops, etc).
	The next day a return run, perhaps via the Blue Mountains.


The problem with the third is getting enough people who can all take a day
off on the same weekend.
Tom Cohen has suggested a good solution: ride up to
Port Friday evening.
This sounds really good.


I am thinking 2 to 6 weeks from now, thus the weekends of:
	4/5feb95, 11/12feb95, 18/19feb95, 25/26feb95


Could anyone who'd like to come please get back to me with preferences or
I-can't-make-its for those dates? We'll then settle on one and go with that.

As usual, we will be accomodating all rider temperaments and bike capacities,
so don't be put off if you're on your Ps, have a smaller bike or don't scream
through the twisties. We will regroup on a regular basis.

Come one, come all, tell your friends...
Cameron Simpson
	
cs@zip.com.au, DoD#743
	
http://www.dap.csiro.au/~cameron/

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