Canberra & Region Riders - Bombala Lunch

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Folks,
The plan is to have lunch at a pub in Bombala (seems to be a choice of 2), around 12.30pm. After lunch, ride over to Candelo, via Wyndham and Myrtle Mt, then Bemboka and finally, up the Brown and back to Canberra after lunch. Date planned is Saturday 17 September but some flexibility to adjust to suit circumstances. Plan would be to leave Williamsdale servo at 10.00am, stop for coffee at (say) Bredbo. Should be back in Canberra at ~5.00pm or a bit earlier. Post lunch route from Bombala to Bemboka is a beauty. Route is shown via this link.
Just let me know via reply post here if you're planning to participate.

Regards,
Ewok

Route

Yeah sorry 2WA. This would've been the Bandits first real trip. The cars rear main seal has now turned into a seek and destroy mission for oil leaks - add a pwr strg pump to the shopping list
If you would be so kind as to double back and pass the road side tax collector at a reasonably brisk pace (just to make it worth while ) that would be great! Oh, and dont forget to salute

sb1250 wrote:Yeah sorry 2WA. This would've been the Bandits first real trip. The cars rear main seal has now turned into a seek and destroy mission for oil leaks - add a pwr strg pump to the shopping list
If you would be so kind as to double back and pass the road side tax collector at a reasonably brisk pace (just to make it worth while ) that would be great! Oh, and dont forget to salute

Mate I get a cramp in my middle finger every time I go past one. On the bike its my left middle finger and in the car its my right middle finger. Must be stress related

Sorry guys im out. I have my mates engagement party on

Folks - just something to think about before the weekend - fuel. It's about 160kms to Bombala from Williamsdale so that won't be a problem if we're all full at Williamsdale (which has a servo but maybe not the cheapest petrol). After lunch, it is roughly 270kms back to the Caltex at Calwell via our route through Wyndham, Candelo, Bemboka, Nimitabel and Cooma. That's no problem on my bike and it's fuel consumption - don't know how others would go but remember you can always fill up again at Williamsdale which is only ~ 250kms from Bombala via our post-lunch route.

More problematic would be a decision NOT to refuel at Bombala at lunch time and go from Williamsdale to Bombala and back to Cooma. That would be 333 kms (according to Google Maps), including going up Brown Mountain - getting a bit tight for some I'd reckon. There is no fuel at Bemboka or Nimitabel. There is fuel at Wyndham and Candelo but I wouldn't swear they'd be open on Saturday arvo.

Bottom line - I reckon we fill up in Bombala on the way to lunch.

I won't be riding with you after lunch but if early I will continue on and join up the road somewhere.
333km would see me pushing or calling for a trailer in that territory.

No worries 2WA (except if we flash past and don't see you - gulp ). We'll keep the eyes peeled. There shouldn't be toom many bikes on the Bombala - Nimitabel road so shouldn't be any issues. If you're not early, we'll see you at the Imperial. The weather is looking better and better.

2wheelsagain wrote:I won't be riding with you after lunch but if early I will continue on and join up the road somewhere.
333km would see me pushing or calling for a trailer in that territory.

Strap the mower tin to the back.

Re-Cycled wrote:

2wheelsagain wrote:I won't be riding with you after lunch but if early I will continue on and join up the road somewhere.
333km would see me pushing or calling for a trailer in that territory.

Strap the mower tin to the back.

Actually I could strap the mower on and use the extra 4.5hp

Four40 wrote:I'll put up a tentative hand up plus 1 at this stage. Things haven't been crash hot around home lately and a good ride might be the ticket. Just need to see if my little brother wants to come along.

Hop eyou can make it 440. Will the little brother be on the mighty 1400?

My brother and I are a GO for tomorrow. I'll most likely be hooning it up on the 1400

Great stuff - looks like we have me, Grover, Thylacine, Four40 + 1 going down the Monaro and 2WA coming up from Gippy.

Rolls, Boatz & K-nine still to be confirmed.

I'm in , Ewok i hve sent you a PM.

Keen as mustard. See you at Willimsdale at 10:00.

Just so you know who I am I'll wear a red carnation, and I'll be on a bandit.

Is that Mr B? Sorry, I read that in a book about 40 years ago! See ya tomorrow.

Yep see you all tomorrow.
I'm off to bed soon for my beauty sleep

Right you lot I'm leaving in less than an hour
You cant miss me

See ya at the pub. Now to polish the bike.......

T Bone Egg n Chips with the group at the pub. A good day so far!

Was thinkin about what I was missing today - especially when that vital layer of skin gets ground off my knuckle as the spanner slips
....hope the ride went well today lads.

T Bone Egg n Chips with the group at the pub. A play with a SV1000 between Cann & Orbost. A good day so far!

Home again home again.

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Rocked up at Willaimsdale to see triple. Three Blue FA's. Also watched as 100k worth or more of Ducatis rolled out. A quick blat to Bredbo for a slightly longer than anticipated stop (sorry bout that) and off to Bombala. Traffic was light but those damn average greed cameras are a PITA. The shortcut to avoid Cooma proper was tops, I'll have to remember that one. As well as avoiding town, petrol was 5 cents cheaper

Lunch at Bombala was blood good for the price, the bar owner was a great guy with a good sense of humour. Can't remember his name though

The road through Mt Darragh It just kept going and going. Some bloody good potholes too.

Heading back up Mt Brown had a clown in a cage sitting up my arse Even when the road opened up and we overtook a group of cars, a few minutes later, here is the same clown. The last group of cars we overtook, mr clown took a bit longer to catch up, both the 1250fa and 1400 were in fine form

Good to meet new faces, some of you guys had already put in a decent ride just to meet up.

Was great to meet you all today.
I think the publican was Steve?

Did you blokes get many bugs?
I could barely see by the time I got home
My Pix https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1978964040305.2097264.1429272983&l=bdc35dbf56&type=1

Not as many bugs as you had, but I did have to clean my visor several times yesterday. The late run back from Cooma didn't help. Bloody muppets who slow down to 60km when there's a cop with someone pulled over

Sorry I had to get home so fast, and there was certainly no warm welcome when I did get home.

Sitting on 100kph I was overtaken by a few tinlids, and some were moving at a good clip, between the point to point cameras. I caught them up past Bredbo but luckily didn't spot any cops all the way home.

rolls wrote:Sorry I had to get home so fast, and there was certainly no warm welcome when I did get home.

Sitting on 100kph I was overtaken by a few tinlids, and some were moving at a good clip, between the point to point cameras. I caught them up past Bredbo but luckily didn't spot any cops all the way home.

That only puts you in the mid 90's unless you have a speedo healer.