Phillip Island WSBKs (2016 National Meet)

First topic message reminder :

Who's planning on doing the WSBK's in February, and who is interested in getting a house on the island?

There are plenty of options but we'd need to know who wants to join in to get a idea of what size place we'd need?

Going


Hammy + Mate
Ewok & Bev
madmax
Chook
reddog and Mrs reddog
Barry & Axle

http://www.stayz.com.au/accommodation/vic/phillip-island-gippsland/phillip-island-surrounds/113513

16 Manly Pl 


16 Manly Place
Surf Beach

reddog wrote:Has everyone got there wsbk tickets?  Ì was expecting ours to show up in the post, but they haven't

How long ago did you buy them?

September from memory

Id definitely be calling them. I got mine about 6 weeks after i bought them.

Ours were sent by email and we had to print them out.

Ewok1958 wrote:Ours were sent by email and we had to print them out.

Ditto

I just checked the email, I received it 16/11/15, it was titled "Your ezyTicket(s) are attached - MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship - GA"

Yeah mine was email too, check your spam filter. Or you may need to get another one sent.

I remember when I ordered mine you could e-ticket, or register mail for the same price - I was going to get them sent out just so they would have to shell out some of their profit on the postage, but knowing my luck they would have got lost, so went with the print-out version.

I don't remember getting a choice

My wife ordered the program as well so maybe they are all taking the photos

Will call them tomorrow

Mine was mail by default - arrived in December.

My wife sorted it out today. Got tickets and super keen to get on the jet plane. Just got to figure out how to drive through Melbourne from the airport.

reddog wrote:My wife sorted it out today. Got tickets and super keen to get on the jet plane. Just got to figure out how to drive through Melbourne from the airport.

You are going to need to use Toll roads, Google Maps says it should take you less than 2 hours

I opened a Melbourne Pass account for the time I'm there, rental cars have other options as well

https://www.citylink.com.au/files/Travel_options_for_renting_a_vehicle.pdf

http://www.eastlink.com.au/rental

Apart from the tolls it's really easy - expressway straight out of the airport almost all the way to the Island.

M2 out of the airport to the city, onto the M1, onto the South Gippsland Freeway (or Koo Wee Rup Rd C422) which turns into the Bass Hwy straight to Mecca.

Don't stress about paying the tolls. They're well worth it to keep out of stop start traffic.

reddog wrote:My wife sorted it out today. Got tickets and super keen to get on the jet plane. Just got to figure out how to drive through Melbourne from the airport.

What time are you landing?

Cheers guys. Just the info I was hoping for. I have been to Melbourne before so I understand these weird hook turns etc we don't have any such thing in little old WA. Actually the town I live in has 1set of lights and about 5 roundabouts. We also have 5 pubs

reddog wrote:Cheers guys. Just the info I was hoping for. I have been to Melbourne before so I understand these weird hook turns etc we don't have any such thing in little old WA. Actually the town I live in has 1 set of lights and about 5 roundabouts. We also have 5 pubs

That'd make it a city in SA

reddog wrote:Cheers guys. Just the info I was hoping for. I have been to Melbourne before so I understand these weird hook turns etc we don't have any such thing in little old WA. Actually the town I live in has 1set of lights and about 5 roundabouts. We also have 5 pubs

Those weird hook turns are only there because of the trams. Because of that they make perfect sense

Chook wrote:

reddog wrote:Cheers guys. Just the info I was hoping for. I have been to Melbourne before so I understand these weird hook turns etc we don't have any such thing in little old WA. Actually the town I live in has 1 set of lights and about 5 roundabouts. We also have 5 pubs

That'd make it a city in SA

Haha. I know what you are saying. There is one house between my family and reasonable size cattle farm. They occasionally fly gliders out of there too. My mate and I have landed his ultra light there before as well. The landing was far better than the take off through the cow pats.

reddog, are you getting into Melbourne on Thursday 25th or earlier?

Yes @chook lunch time to be precise

I've been looking at route option to get me from home in suburban Adelaide to Warrnambool on day 1 (next Monday) of my trip to Philip Island.

The 1st 1/2 day is easy, 2 choices: 

Adelaide to Tailem Bend, then follow the Coorong and onto Mt Gambier (I'm ruling that out, there's too many roos along the Coorong)

Adelaide to Naracoorte, 340km, boring as hell but it'll get me on the way to where I need to be - this will be my first 4 hours, hoping to be there by 10 or 11:00 am

The rest is my dilemma, there are way too many choices, I know the main highways are in pretty good shape but I have no idea about some of the other roads, particularly in Victoria, nor do I have much of a idea of good scenery etc.

Does anyone know anything about road condition, services, scenery, even a few nice bends etc on any of the routes?

Option 1 - 282 km, Google Maps time 3:13



Option 2 - 275 km, 3:19


Option 3 - 296 km, 3:30


Option 4 - 269 km, 3:22


Option 5 - 270 km, 3:25



Option 6 - 278 km, 3:20, I'll probably avoid this one on the trip over as I'll be doing most of it on the way home

Western Victoria can be very boring if you are just riding to gain distance (as we all sometimes have to do).  But for a bit of scenery, I'd go this way (slower and longer but much more  scenic):

https://goo.gl/maps/RkQmRjKSRsx

On the way to Edenhope Mike and I stopped at Warrnambool and headed up to Hamilton for the night.
The next day we headed to Naracoorte. Must have been something like Option 4 because I don't recall going through Penola.

I don't recall the roads being too much of a problem. One stretch was had a narrow bitumen piece in the centre but not much traffic to worry you. Traffic you did meet moved right over and let us stay on the bitumen.
Some parts the scenery was spectacular .

Either way you choose you shouldn't have too much trouble. Roadworks of course are an unknown issue.