Post by Uralee on Apr 11, 2022 13:44:51 GMT 10
Four Urals and a couple of ‘ring ins’ took the long way round from Melbourne to the Outfit Rally on the Murray at Strathmerton. I left home at 8:34am Thursday to meet the crew and we arrived at our overnight stop at the Dargo Pub at 5:02pm. Yes it was an adventure. I have done the 300km in roughly 4.5 hours on the URAL previously so taking 8.5 hours was fun.
We travelled to Sale on mainly C roads of bitumen, gravel and mud with some forest fire trails thrown in for good measure.
This waterfall is south of Traralgon somewhere…..between the Princes highway and the Grand Ridge road.
We stopped just out of Sale for a Squizzy at the manually operated swing bridge…….they hand crank the bridge aside like a big door.
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We left Sale with fuel in the tanks and food in our bellies. Just out of Stratford we were soon ducking and weaving amongst the trees, slipping and sliding on one of Pete’s short cuts as we made our way past Briagalong and on to Freestone creek road. I never knew you could do Stratford to Briag on 99% dirt.
From Freestone we made our way to Letterbox track and on to Insolvent track.
Letterbox proved interesting…….🤣🤣
Half way up a slippery hill I encountered a large hole in the middle of the track. It looked innocuous enough but I had good pace given the 2wd grip but it proved difficult to dodge and I put the sidecar wheel into it…….resulting in the chair becoming air borne and me as well, being thrown off the seat and to the right. I hung on and fired up to the top unscathed. Danny following me saw what happened to me so he put the bike through the hole at a lower speed and just managed to get through. Dean being the third to get there and having been slowed by Danny, sank the sidecar into the hole and was stuck with the chassis in the mud.
Danny and I had stopped on the top of the next hill and when all went quiet we started to wonder. Just then we had noise again and Pete charged up the hill on his DR. With a big grin he said “we need you, your URAL and THE WINCH” 🤣🤣
So I ventured back down and stopped short of Dean’s bike where I could anchor to a tree and we got to work with the winch.
I will add the video when I get it……
After getting Dean’s bike out, we had to help him get going up the hill with 3 of us pushing. I just selected reverse and backed all the way up……..hello 2wd. 👍👍😂
So that pretty much was day one except for a couple of the crew missing a turn on Insolvent Track where they would have disappeared into the high country Bermuda Triangle and joined all the other unaccounted missing persons in the area if it were not that Pete is super quick on the DR and managed to catch them.
Dinner at the Pub was excellent. 👍😇
As the sun rises…..so shall day two, when I get to it. 😂
We travelled to Sale on mainly C roads of bitumen, gravel and mud with some forest fire trails thrown in for good measure.
This waterfall is south of Traralgon somewhere…..between the Princes highway and the Grand Ridge road.
We stopped just out of Sale for a Squizzy at the manually operated swing bridge…….they hand crank the bridge aside like a big door.
l
We left Sale with fuel in the tanks and food in our bellies. Just out of Stratford we were soon ducking and weaving amongst the trees, slipping and sliding on one of Pete’s short cuts as we made our way past Briagalong and on to Freestone creek road. I never knew you could do Stratford to Briag on 99% dirt.
From Freestone we made our way to Letterbox track and on to Insolvent track.
Letterbox proved interesting…….🤣🤣
Half way up a slippery hill I encountered a large hole in the middle of the track. It looked innocuous enough but I had good pace given the 2wd grip but it proved difficult to dodge and I put the sidecar wheel into it…….resulting in the chair becoming air borne and me as well, being thrown off the seat and to the right. I hung on and fired up to the top unscathed. Danny following me saw what happened to me so he put the bike through the hole at a lower speed and just managed to get through. Dean being the third to get there and having been slowed by Danny, sank the sidecar into the hole and was stuck with the chassis in the mud.
Danny and I had stopped on the top of the next hill and when all went quiet we started to wonder. Just then we had noise again and Pete charged up the hill on his DR. With a big grin he said “we need you, your URAL and THE WINCH” 🤣🤣
So I ventured back down and stopped short of Dean’s bike where I could anchor to a tree and we got to work with the winch.
I will add the video when I get it……
After getting Dean’s bike out, we had to help him get going up the hill with 3 of us pushing. I just selected reverse and backed all the way up……..hello 2wd. 👍👍😂
So that pretty much was day one except for a couple of the crew missing a turn on Insolvent Track where they would have disappeared into the high country Bermuda Triangle and joined all the other unaccounted missing persons in the area if it were not that Pete is super quick on the DR and managed to catch them.
Dinner at the Pub was excellent. 👍😇
As the sun rises…..so shall day two, when I get to it. 😂
