Tenere Tragics ride (Lets start again)

Six months passes by and nothing?? Well it turns out that on the Thursday before we were due to leave on the Tragics run the weather caught up with the whole thing. It had been raining heavily for about a week, and while most of the participants were desperately wishing it was going to suddenly stop and dry up the opposite happened. Numerous rivers throughout New South Wales and northern Victoria burst their banks and there was flooding everywhere, and more importantly everywhere where we were going!!


This was the state of some of the roads!!

Rather than put anyone’s life at risk and cause more grief for the SES volunteers the organisers took the brave decision on the Thursday lunch time to postpone the run for six months until October. So having said all that, Mike Haysom and I will now depart on Saturday the 13th for the run up to Bathhurst. I’m not going to take the computer with me. It’s virtually all “off road” and I want to be a light as possible. I’ll give a full report of the run when I get back.

Of course over the winter I haven’t been idle (well just a bit). The Wombat has had a full service and the Yamaha has been serviced and new chain and sprockets fitted along with some foam rally grips that might make hanging on in the rough stuff a little easier. A friend also made a rack to stop the panniers getting anywhere near the exhaust and burning holes in it again as happened on the Birdsville run.


Service time


Not so much room in the new garage


That should keep the bags off the exhaust!


Less vibration, more grip??


All good to go again.