Just thought some of you may like to see where I took my Tiger yesterday, along with a mate on his KLE 500.
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We met at Wiseman's Ferry at 9:00am, and to start with the weather was very ordinary. I'd ridden through 20km of thick fog and the clouds were darkening. We crossed the ferry, and turned left on to Settlers Rd heading for St Albans, which is a very small village that has a nice old (1836) pub and had a quick coffee then headed north along Mogo Ck rd to Bucketty. We had planned to turn left on to Boree Rd, but the gate appeared locked, so we ended up on the Great North Rd
After deliberating and checking with GPS maps, we turned left again on to the Yango Creek Rd near Laguna and headed west. This took us up Knights Rd, the Finchley Track and then on to Yango Track and finally Howes Valley Trail which spills out on to the Putty Rd just north of the Halfway House about 115km north of Windsor.
John is a member of this forum, but doesn't frequent all that often except in the Classics forum, as he has a 71 Tiger as well as his KLE. He's new to adventure touring, and although I've done plenty of off roading, it's always been on my XR200, not the Tiger.
It would have been a much easier day if the rain had stopped, but it really just got worse the further we went, and didn't let up until we got out on to the Putty Rd, which meant we had to take it very slow and be very precise, especially on the down hill sections after reaching the Finchley look out. There were times when I thought my face was heading for the mud, but luck prevailed. The coffee at the Half Way house was a welcome treat, as we still had 150 odd km to get home, quite cold and wet, which made the heated grips worth the effort!
The off road sections would have totalled about 120 km out of the 400km round trip, but that took most of the time as sometimes we were feathering clutches up hills to prevent wheelspin and trying to keep the line straight in what became very greasy slimy clay. There were a couple of treacherouse downhill turns as well, which called for a bit of a pucker, but in all we got through without any mishaps.
Along the way we got to see some aboriginal rock carvings, a wallaby bounding out of our way and some breathtaking scenery from the Finchley Lookout, which I didn't photograph because a) I ran out of batteries in the camera and b) John tried, but it was too misty and rainy.
We'll be back in there another day, next time with less mud and hopefully more time to explore.
Mick
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