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Miss Behave |
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I'm getting very conflicting opinions on the condition of the road and the availability of fuel. Anyone been along there recently?
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Aussiedav |
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You will get people who are basing their opinions on very old information. The road was crap, its now excellent all the way. I would have to check at home but
fuel isn't a problem either although last April when I did it I was on my 1000GTR with 40 litres of fuel on board.
What range will you have ? This is your dirt bike trip around oz I imagine. |
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Miss Behave |
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Thanks Davo, that is good news.
Yeah, it's for the upcoming Lap. Although now it'll be roadbikes, not dirtbikes. The old fella can't do it on his DR, and his legs are too short for a fully laden Beemer Adventurer - LOL! So it looks like he'll be taking his Futura and me, well, dunno yet. Chris has chucked me the keys to his Blackbird and I'm also looking at a couple of Sprints at the moment. The Blade's a good bike but can't fit hard luggage to it, and I do miss my Triumphs. Then again, they're chucking out ZX14's for some stupidly low price at the moment. Far too many options :D So, range can be anywhere from, worst case scenario, 250k to best just over 400 I reckon. Okay: next question: Cloncurry north to Karumba then east to Cairns - I would imagine it's sealed? |
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Aussiedav |
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1210klms and shows as sealed to me but I have not been to Karumba.
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varadero |
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Hi Miss Behave, this is roughly 3 year old info, I haven't done the road from Karumba to Cairns but I had been planning a trip through there and asked
advice from a rider who had just returned.
His comment was all tar but quite narrow and bumpy, didn't actually say single lane but that was how I interpreted his comments.
Ray
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David |
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G'day from sunny Adel.
Hope these sites will help you. David Adelaide http://www.racq.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/racq_cms_production/hs.xsl/Motoring_Road_Cond_Report_Foun_ENA_HTML.htm http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au/drive-queensland/highways/australias-country-way/map/map_home.cfm David Adelaide. |
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Miss Behave |
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Excellent! Thanks for your wealth of info!
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MossBerg Graphics |
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Miss Behave, no problems from 3 ways to isa as Davo's says. piece of cake, off the top of my head, 3 ways to barkly is about 180ish, barkly to cammo 270ish
and about 180 to isa. no fuel between barkly-cammo, even tho there is a cop shop halfwayish! and same for cammo to isa.
From the curry to burke an wills and onto normanton, no worries at all, only your usual stuff road trains and various other cattle trucks and ringers. stop in at the purple pub in normanton for a drink, and then wander over to karumba. now it depends on which way your going to cairns, thru croydon, gerogetown? all sealed no problems. or if you feeling adverntureris, and i DO MEAN adventureris, take the the burke developmental road but you'ill need decently kitted out chookies... If you don't mind dirt, instead of heading thru to the curry, turn at cammo and head up to gregory downs and onto burketown before crossing over to normanton. only other thing i can add, is watch your gear, things tend to go walkabout easily...
FarRider #3
Welcome to Qeensland Roads, please wind you watch back 20 years. |
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