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Wondering if there are any rides similar to this one last year?

I remember Paul, Alex and Phil were on that ride...they're the only names I remember but I can recall most of the faces.

Obviously Abbeyard is gone for now but are there any planned rides coming in this area of a similar distance, spanning 2 days?

That was one kickass ride, well organized like the caravan park accommodation  for the first night etc.

Totally hanging out to do something like that again.

I'm planing to do the normal family cup weekend at the block thing.

I'll more than likely do the Abbeyard-Licola-Abbeyard day ride.

I'm even thinking of a Abbeyard-Dargo-Licola-Abbeyard loop in a day.

Sounds good Tim.

Would this be a full weekend thing...ie 2 days riding camp overnight?

I'd prefer to make a weekend of it.

Cheer.s

I take the family up to Abbeyard and camp there for Cup weekend in November. Taking the Monday off gives a  break of four days.
On one of those days a few of us will get out and do one big day.
I think from memory Abbeyard-Licola-Abbeyard is 317km round trip, over the Great Dividing Range.
Not a bad day out!

317kms in a day thats one hell of a ride up there, desert i can understand...

Steve,   As you are probably aware Tim has recently taken delivery of his new blackhawk.  Explains the time frame.
On the Dargo ride in question, we arrived in Dargo from Abbeyard well after dark on the first day.
Yes!, it was a great trip and we should do it again, before we forget where the place is.
Phil R.

Phil, i was thinking more like an apache....

Tim does does not does not own a helicopter. I scooped this photo of his latest bike recently. I suspect that even the Berg will struggle to catch this one. Not to sure how it will go on the erosion jumps though

:shock:

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I nominate Phil to arrange the trip and Paul to do the map work  :P

Steve,   They only had the feathers on their heads, not the whole eagle. with talons around their shoulder blades.
Phil R.

Happy to , if we can have a few takers,  last trip was an overnighter with back up vehicles.  But not before November as I will be away for a while.  Have to relearn how to ride an early 50's Royal Enfield (with gear lever on the  wrong side, I suspect).  A show of interest please.??
Phil R.

Ill be up for the ride
just let me know when its on

I went on the Abbeyyard -> Dargo ride last year, almost hit a couple of animals in the dark, valves gave it up at the Dargo Pub and had an 8 hour ride back on Sunday in a transport  :shock:

But I'd do it again  :D

I need a good few weeks notice so I can arrange my wife not to be working across the weekend ... keep us up to date !!!


Otherwise, I'd be up for a day loop back to abbeyyard, but it takes me 3 hours to drive there so I'd have to stay Friday night as to get a good start on the Saturday morning.

I'll be up for giving it a bash.

Seams to be a bit of interest in a BIG ride.

I'll say that I'll do one on the Sunday (4th Nov) of Cup Weekend.

Starting from Abbeyard and returning back in one day to either Licola  or Dargo

I've been to Licola and back in a day twice before. One trip we got to Licola at 4pm for lunch and fuel, all part of the fun!

Haven't done the Dargo and back in a day and I am keen to give it a go. I've been looking at maps already and think it's a fairly straight forward trip.

A fuel range of a bit better than 160km would be required.

Just posting my expression of interest even though I started the topic  :P

Re: Abbeyard to Dargo and back in one day.
Tim when I did this ride last year, the ride took place over 2 days.
We left Abbeyard at roughly 10am and didnt arrive in Dargo until well after dark.  I think it was nearly 8pm???  And that was literally riding straight to the pub so we could eat some tea.
From memory there was 25 - 30 riders and we all maintained a pretty decent pace.  There was one crash but didnt hold us up for any more than 10 or so minutes while the chap regained his breath.
We did take a fair detour thanks to an unforeseen seasonal road closure (and the ranger sitting at the gate watching us) and from memory this added about 70kms to the overall trip.  Day 1 was about 250kms.

Day 2 was cut down to about the 160kms you mentioned thanks to a slightly different planned route by Paul and Alex...there were no unforeseen detours and everything went really smoothly on the second day so best to judge from this one.
I think it took about 7 hours to get to Abbeyard?

I think Abbeyard to Dargo and back in a day would need to allow 14 hours  and fuel for 200kms if you plan filling at Dargo.  Wouldnt this be a bit big for one day?

And what with you guys wanting to ride in the darn heat?  :wink:  :P

With the two trips to Licola we had about eight riders on each trip.

We'd do 25-30km before a regroup and keep the stops short, well long enough for the last rider to catch their breath. Knowing that they've got to cover a lot of k's keeps everyone moving to. I wouldn't want to do a day trip like this with any more than about 10 riders.

We tried to leave at 8:30am but it was closer to 9 on the first trip and I think we were back just before 10pm. We did do a little in the dark but it was familiar country close to home. 13 hours round trip, 317 High country km. You said in your post that you did 250 k's to get to Dargo. by having a more direct route and adding 70k's we could do there and back in a day. Also we wouldn't need gear to be transported there for an overnight stay.

Knowing that we would be back home from where we started we travelled just with the normal gear you would for a 120km day.
 

We still had time to do a little exploring and found some interesting stuff.
 
We did have some have to do some running repairs to one of the bikes after one of the riders took on a rock and lost, that epoxy will stop oil leaks and if you ask nicely the 4X4ers will give you oil!

"Would it be a bit big for one day" just depends on how big your sense of adventure is! :shock:

And as for riding in the heat, We did do the first run over the 05-06 Xmas break, the river crossings were refreshing but most or the time your up in the hills so it is cooler. The next time was the Monday after the 06 HCR, April, not so hot!

Cup weekend is the first weekend that the tracks open, so it's the first opportunity we have looking to the future, and it's not normally to hot then.

It's back.....

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Yep me too!