To enlighten our overseas brothers. In Australia we have a number of roads favoured by Motorcycles.
1/ The Putty Road: runs from Windsor to Singleton NSW(about 170k)
2/ Bell line of Roads, Kurrajong to Lithgow NSW
3/ Old Pacific Highway; Cowan to Gosford NSW
4/ Royal National Park; Sutherland to Wollongong NSW
5/ Tasmania; pick any road
6/ The Ocean Road; Melbourne to Sydney NSW/ Victoria
7/ The Northern Road; Penrith to Camden NSW
8/ Razor Back; Camden to Wollongong
9/ Mulgoa Rd & Silverdale Rd: Penrith to Warragamba NSW
10/ New England Highway; Newcastle to Brisbane Nsw/ Queensland

There are many more. Aussies riders please add your favourite road to the list

larrikin wrote:To enlighten our overseas brothers. In Australia we have a number of roads favoured by Motorcycles.
1/ The Putty Road: runs from Windsor to Singleton NSW(about 170k)
2/ Bell line of Roads, Kurrajong to Lithgow NSW
3/ Old Pacific Highway; Cowan to Gosford NSW
(over-policed, low speed limit, waste of time)
4/ Royal National Park; Sutherland to Wollongong NSW
5/ Tasmania; pick any road
6/ The Ocean Road; Melbourne to Sydney NSW/ Victoria
7/ The Northern Road; Penrith to Camden NSW
8/ Razor Back; Camden to Wollongong
9/ Mulgoa Rd & Silverdale Rd: Penrith to Warragamba NSW
10/ New England Highway; Newcastle to Brisbane Nsw/ Queensland

There are many more. Aussies riders please add your favourite road to the list

11: Oxley Highway, Wauchope in to Tamworth-ish NSW
12: Hawkesbury River: Wisemans ferry to Mangove Mtn NSW
13: Cowra to Grenfell: fast flowing road always catches me out. NSW
14: Agnes Banks to Springwood NSW
15: Barrengary Mountain. NSW
16: Macquarie Pass NSW

Some of my local favs around the Northern Rivers Region...

17. Burringbah Range to Murwillumbah. Some really nice fast sweepers.
18. Numinbah Valley into QLD and back.
19. Casino to Tenterfield if you like endless hair-pins (better going up than coming down)
20. Gwyder Hwy Grafton to Glen Innes. one of the nicest rides I've had lately. A good mix of undulating coastal river country, rain forest escarpment hair-pins and flat plateau country with nice sweepers.

Be careful anywhere in Victoria. They allow a leeway of only 1 or 2km/h above the speed limit before they book you. 

When I'm there, I spend much more time watching the speedo than in NSW, so I'm obviously not driving/riding as safely. Makes a bit of a joke of their idea that savage enforcement = safer!

Bill

Agree with your Captain's picks (now where have I heard that term before) but  the Lions Road needs to be on the list because while it has not got a wonderful surface (on our side) and isn't fast, it has an amazing composition.
For those who haven't been down:

In the 1920's/30s Depression workers were marooned out there in tent camps to build the rail line and there are old abandoned houses lining the road. Apparently it was a bit like Dodge City. The road then stopped at Cougal and it was in the 1970s that the Kyogle Lions club got the idea of extending the a road over the top of the range which would then link up with the Qld road. The guys slaved away on the weekends with "donation' dozers' (Hurleys) and scrounged materials but the terrain was too much for them and finally the Kyogle Shire council stepped in and completed it.
Just before the Tick gate (cameras take photos of cattle trucks crossing illegally) there is a rest stop were you can see the SYD - Brisbane train climbing a 360 degree spiral ( built in order to try and get enough height so that tunnel could be shorter).
Over the range on the Qld side, the road is like a roller coaster, before it flattens out beside the most idyllic little creek. (great camping area). Then its cows all over the unfenced road. Then the fast blat into Rathdowney.
A great package.

As I posted last week, a bridge is down (sort of) at the moment so you need to check the road status.

21. Snowy highway ....Cooma to Tumit  ..................................................................southern nsw
22. Araluen road ........Braidwood to Araluen  ...........................................................southern nsw  (last 10 ks anyhow )
23. Kings highway ......Braidwood to Batemans Bay ................................ ..................southern nsw
24. Dorrigo to Nymboida...some unreal twistys for many kilometres  ........... ..................north coast nsw
25. Thunderbolts way.....although potholey  some good curvs and hill climbs .................central coast nsw
26. Summerland way...Kyogle over the border to rathdowny via mt Lindsay ...................Far north coast nsw
27. Lions road.............same again different route through subtropical forest ..................Far north coast nsw
28. Mudgereeba to Springbrook ...awesome twistys then join back onto numinbar valley .....se queensland
29. Mount Tamborine ...any way is good ........................................................................Se queensland
30. Mount Nebo then onto Glorious and over the hill ...either way is great...........................Se queensland
31. Mount Mee -Woodford-Melaney....back down the hill and down or up peachester range....Se queensland
32. Esk to Crowsnest ...awesome road for a country ride ...end up ontop of the hill in the cool.Se queensland
33. Boonah to queen mary falls...narrow track but good climb (closed at the moment ) ...........Se queensland
34. Heifer creek ... gatton to top of the hill ...shitty road but good test for suspension mods ....Se queensland
35. Buckets way to Dungog  ....short twisty sections good to hack..........................................central coast nsw
36. Singleton to Dungog via cresford ...nice mixed road ,,,then falls into disrepair at cresford.....Central coast nsw 
37. Kyogle to murwillumbar ...nice forested road into the valley..............................................Far north coast nsw
38. Cunungra to Oriellies ...woohoo twistys galore...  narrow road ..........................................Se queensland
39. secret overhills around tumblegum ..several ..awesome rides just east of murbar ................Se queensland - nsw
40. Cairns to Mareeba ...great climb onto the great dividing range ...........................................far north queensland
41. Cairns to Atherton ,,,Gillies range road ...another mountain climb .......................................far north queensland
42. Mareeba to Mossman ...inland road then down to the coast ...descent is awesome views........ far north queensland

Oh Born again. I do believe you've started a pissing contest. 
Words are meaningless. We need pics!

I believe it is time to produce maps and photos for those from the north to show what this little island can produce....sorry islands including Tassie.

Comberjohn wrote:Oh Born again. I do believe you've started a pissing contest. 
Words are meaningless. We need pics!

Law of unintended consequences!
While this is a new thread, it fits perfectly with your original thread title "What have I done (Again)"

43/ Lakes Way; Bulahadela to Forster NSW
44/ Bulli Pass; Bulli Tops to Bulli NSW

Comberjohn wrote:Oh Born again. I do believe you've started a pissing contest. 
Words are meaningless. We need pics!

Too busy enjoying the ride to take photos -o:

Born Again Eccentric wrote:

Comberjohn wrote:Oh Born again. I do believe you've started a pissing contest. 
Words are meaningless. We need pics!

Law of unintended consequences!
While this is a new thread, it fits perfectly with your original thread title "What have I done (Again)"

if that's the case ...we bit well eh ?

but seriously some good roads out there to be enjoyed

ill be guessing many have their own favourite places to explore ...yes ?!!
mine just seem to be spread out a long ways .....and I do have some pics .

You can always tell a BMW rider, bugs in his teeth
--o:

45. Balinup to Nannup  S West WA, hardly a straight bit of road in sight.
46. Ferguson Valley to Burekup  S West WA, Great in winter as lush and green, not like WA at all.
47. Yallingup to Augusta good road great wineries
48. O Brien Rd on the way to Toodyay, very twisty 
49. Gnanga road from Dwellingup, perfect.

Cheers
Mike

This could get interesting if we start doing same up here in the Northern Territory. We have our own Wales, a very nice Lismore, Antrim and many many more that have little traffic.

In Eastern Canada we actually only have one road.... It's called "The road of hell"
If you follow it, you will discover pristine white dunes, free skating rings and off road riding on the road. The good thing is that cops don't bother setting up speed traps.
Look at this beautiful 8HP motorcycle. t seems that the engine is running lean as the exhaust is very white.



Spring is around the corner!

Crazy you sprung that one on us.

ainsjac wrote:Crazy you sprung that one on us.

:bball: :bball: :bball: :bball:

Me thinks he has cabin fever.

Methinks he has been sniffing that white stuff.......

Me thinks he is crazy

Is that a collapsed monoshock brick?

This is getting better and better......just to quote an old rock band....just another brick in the wall.

ainsjac wrote:This is getting better and better......just to quote an old rock band....just another brick in the wall.

Like this one?
Notice that I am going through a white wall.... I should try that on snow too

The men in the white coats will be there shortly

larrikin wrote:The men in the white coats will be there shortly

Don't care. I won't see them, they will melt with the environment..

You wont have snowball chance in hell of getting away.

The 7/11 and back from Kate's placce.....

Did anyone say:-

Mt Nebo / Mt Glorious for a quickie from Brisbane...?

Not today, thanks Mark.  I am getting over a bout of the flu that has just hit Brisbane. 

Not sure which is the best medication though.  Flu tablets or whisky?

Oxley Highway:



A friend of mine had to get off her bike and throw up due to motion sickness on her own bike after riding this.  And she's a Tasmanian so there's no excuse.

Al

Here's another slickly produced video in the Roads We Ride series, this time, no prizes for guessing, on the Oxley Highway.

Roads We Ride

The highways starts in the small town of Nevertire and ends on the picturesque coast in Port Macquarie NSW.

Don't forget the great ocean road in Victoria..just watch out for idiots .....had a car pass 6 other cars on the wrong side of the road on a blind 90 degree left hand bend....
https://youtu.be/L881h1TJsPk

Two Wheels Better wrote:starts in the small town of Nevertire

for the terrible pun. Or maybe it was just accidental?

Nevertire is a very busy rural town, so busy it never sleeps. the pub is the cultural centre of the place.

Don't blink.

Good photo TWB,except there is water on the road. This year the total rainfall has been 41mm. and no clouds.

Stan wrote:Good photo TWB,except there is water on the road. This year the total rainfall has been 41mm. and no clouds.

That's not water. It's the mark left after the blokes walked home from the only pub in town.

Currently listening to the chiming of bellbirds and whip birds at Border Loop Lookout on the NSW side of the Lion's Road. The Queensland side road is fairly smooth with some bridge repair on. The NSW side has craters in places. It's about 25c with just a few fine clouds overhead in a blue sky heaven. There's not much compares with the Aussie bush.

Some things just do not suck very much at all.

Coming down the NSW side the road surface improved markedly. It seems the bridges are in pretty good nick, too, with a fair few still timber surface. The oncoming traffic, tho' the lane only a car and a half wide, tended to sit smack in the middle. Dunno what goes through a driver's head as they come round a corner on a winding road in dense bush then suddenly have to react to another - no prizes for guessing - vehicle coming at them. Silly buggers, tee hee. I got used to it, but it's no give it some stick sporting road even in the middle of a Wednesday. It is school holiday week in these parts. I managed a good pace and am now enjoying a hot cuppa in Kyogle with the Uki and Murwillumbah roads still to enjoy ahead.

yep a nice loop indeed

have fun mate

Two Wheels Better wrote: I managed a good pace and am now enjoying a hot cuppa in Kyogle with the Uki and Murwillumbah roads still to enjoy ahead.

Uki and Murwillumbah roads have the potential to be great fun, but that depends on the maintenance state which can vary over time. Out of Uki is where my dad grew up, and family still live there. Great area. 

Enjoy. 😊

Bill

Just home as the sun sets. Rode through Uki, past Wollumbin (Mt Warning) up to the sugar cane fields of Mur'bah, then over towards the narrow cut of the Numinbah Valley, past Natural Bridge NP (home of Germaine Greer), then Hinze Dam on mostly empty, mid-week roads. Stopped off for a pot of Iron Jack at the Canungra Hotel. 305kms of pure joy. The RS got better with the miles. Burnt off all of that stale, two year old petrol, and regularly added Liqui-Moly fuel cleaner to help clear out the 'varnish'. The new Progressive rear shock was superb over the rough stuff, as were the Michelin Pilot Road tyres - no chicken strips today.

Mt Warning (Wollumbin)

Canungra Hotel

Waiting on this much-needed rain to fall over the weekend in the Gold Coast hinterland. This place is tinder dry. The weather maps show it has fallen over some more remote parts of Queensland, as well as Vic & NSW, but it seems to be trending southward rather than east over us.

That said, my RS is fully serviced and ready for the 1450-odd kilometres to Geehi Hut on the Alpine Way for ACT's annual Kozzie rally (Kosziousko - can't ever spell that American revolution-era Polish general's name properly). I'll leave Tuesday, making it a Thursday arrival with many a country road explored along the way. Anyone up for a meet or a ride-along? I'll be riding mainly inland rather along the coast.

Next stop, the Warrambungles observatory.

Two Wheels Better wrote:That said, my RS is fully serviced and ready for the 1450-odd kilometres to Geehi Hut on the Alpine Way for ACT's annual Kozzie rally (Kosziousko - can't ever spell that American revolution-era Polish general's name properly).

Kosciuszko

That was the original spelling of the Polish guy's name but for many years the official name was Mount Kosciusko (without the z). Someone then decided that if it was named after a person, they should at least spell his name correctly, even if it makes it harder to remember how to spell it. I usually have to check. 

Bill

The weather gods really dished it out today, from a pleasant, sunny morning, a hailstorm and driving rain mid-day, and a hurricane-like arvo. Stopped in Young for the night. I think a bottle of red is in order.

It's been a bloody long time since I passed through this town in New South Wales.

Had a pretty good lunch at a small cafe in Binalong recently on my way through.

Two Wheels Better wrote: The new Progressive rear shock was superb over the rough stuff,
Mt Warning (Wollumbin)

Do tell more.....what did you fit?