LAMEROO CAMP 20-21/5/06
After a cold night around the campfire the 5 riders were joined by 3 more in the morning for a cool day’s ride. Straight in to the whoops soon had us warmed up. Lots of mostly roadside tracks with plenty of sticks attesting to the little use they get & some old railway routes saw us lunch at the border after 100k’s with various gourmet delights coming out. After lunch we headed down the sandy & whoopy border track with Jim going through the sand riding learning curve at a rate of knots on the new blue 450 with noisy pipe. We came across the legendry Klaus Mueller leading a tour group of 10 & amazingly after a brief chat he took off instead of waiting for both groups to get there to avoid any head ons. We were not impressed by this from someone who should know better. Luckily there were no direct hits, but plenty of near misses. Eventually we hit Pinnaroo for fuel with Mat getting in on lay over.
We then headed back towards camp on more back road sidetracks until wire which we had seen plenty of claimed the life of Mat’s rear brake line. Mat & Jim then roaded back while we trailed to get back as Mat was leaving & then stoked up the fire (on the way Mark G found the limits of the Gasser’s rebound damping but didn’t get hurt in the endo). I didn’t ride next day as I had to get home to tag cows but no doubt the remaining 6 had another good ride – plenty of tracks in this area. Thanks to Mike for organising including driving 700k’s the previous Saturday sussing things out.
Mark Jarvis
Tailman