cusso ken
Living Legend
What about the 24 hour pancake van. Used to have a big trucky's meal at the Shell truck stop on the northern side of Dubbo after the first days ride. About 900klm buy a carton ride about 15klm out of Duddo toward Wellington to a rest area on the side of the road. Light a fire, drink a carton between every 4 or 5 of us, then sleep in the dirt. 2 hours to Bathurst the next morning. Stay there 4 nights living on pancakes, beer and a bit of smoko. Leave Monday when everyone was capable of getting on their bike. Usually by about 10, ride to 600 Klm to Moree half way home. First meal for 5 days at The Ned Kelly Bar and top up with alcohol. Head north out the road about 10 Klm camp on the river about 100m off the road to the left just before a big bridge over the river. Next day beers in a pub in Warwick and us NSW blokes would leave the pack and head over the border. Great memories 35 to 40 bikes cruising on 140 to 150 all day. Fuel stops used to take about an hour. If they had bike race's at Bathurst again I would be going and I recon I could round up most of the old boys to do it again.[/QUOTE]
I used to come into Bathurst from the Central Coast in those days and rode regularly with the same 8 or 10 blokes every year out past Richmond then over the Bells line of Road and always stopped at Lithgow near the school for a sausage sanger and coffee to thaw out then onto the old concrete road out to Bathurst ,once you left Lithgow it was wall to wall bikes coming from Sydney via Katoomba ,I remember going to the Gods Squad hall in Bathurst for something to do and fell in love (again) with on of the girls from the Church and meet her a few times at their prayer meetings after at Hornsby, but alas she couldn't save me so I got the flick(again) I would go again if they had the Easter bike Races as before on a trumpy just a bigger one ,now that I have been saved from sin I may behave myself a bit more, maybe not