Thanks for the heads up Frank. I've been planning on riding a lot of the back roads inland this time instead of the newell or New England Hwy's. I've done them more times than I can count but I will check road conditions before I go.Â
I've decided I'll be riding regardless of the weather and even if all of NSW is pouring with rain I'll just take it easier and stop earlier, meaning when I leave today fortnight, if it takes me 4 days to get up there then so be it. I find whilst riding in the rain isn't as ideal as riding in the good weather, I love getting on Ferdie regardless. Sort of gets the adrenalin flowing more which equates to a certain amount of excitement. I really want to ride these back roads though but I can change plans on the run depending on whatevers going on at the time. Can't wait.Â
(i wrote this today at work and copied if before goingon a call) I'm actually sitting in front of Ferdie now where I have it parked in the engine bay at work. Turns out it was fine this morning so I was able to ride to work instead of drive like I thought. Now whilst it's only 3 klm's to the fire stn from where I live, it was still long enough to test out the new carb settings and as predicted, blo#dy beautiful mate. You've gotta get a shim on each of those needles . No popping at all.
Back home now and the end of the day and saw the news about Toowoomba. I lived there for six years and that flash flooding must have been insane as my daughter puts it.
Anyway. fingers crossed this rain that has gone on for months stops. We'll see soon enough I guess.
Apologies to all our overseas members but Northern Aus has had historically high flooding which comes not long after ten years of drought.
Really tragic stuff.
