Moto Flanerie

Left Adelaide midday friday  in the ute headed for Plantation camp ground. Plan was to head to camp Friday night, scoot to Portland for the night, back to Plantation and home Sunday. The crew. Here's the route link that I took, there and back again. https://goo.gl/maps/pGrXCCrGsrT2 Hit a few ales with the team at a top little campsite. Early start, unloaded the DRZ from the ute and took it for a punt up a 4WD track to a local vantage point. View towards SE Something to climb up. Alwasys need to climb up things.  Rhetro enjoying the view South to Dunkeld and then through Penshurst to Portland. Were planning on hitting a volcano for a looksee about Macarthur but the rain came through so we all rugged up and hammered to Portland. Random couple of blokes rolling old bangers through Dunkeld Had a few ales at Richo's house. Had a few more after that at his local. Had some nightcaps at Richo's house. Richo's cottage ambience Portland

https://goo.gl/maps/WzriuXVzut72 Stage 1 - Littlehampton to Cromer, taking a couple of favourites, Sandy Waterhole Road and Hoad Quarry road. Mostly dirt!

Met tomtom at the ususal location Read a plaque while I waited for him Saw a tractor Good run through Blockers road and up to Mawson Road for the scoot past Fox Creek. Wings at lobethal Route snapshot. Here's the linkylinky. Took Langley Road but instead of turning toward Kenton Valley golf course as I've done many times, this time I took a left at Odea road, good little back run into Gumeracha. Watts gully road run was good but I missed a turnoff and ended up on the Williamstown road, so we had a 16km leg back around the South Para reservoir, towards Springton, to hit Wirrawirra road/Trial hill road. Next time I want to get that turn off from Watts Gully straight across to Wirra Wirra cracking view from Trial Hill Hotfooted across to Greenock, met the boys, watched the 24 and had some mad postie races.

This trip identified a couple of roads that I want to check out another day. Next time, I reckon we'll cut through the back of Hahndorf to Nairne, pick up what looks to be dirt around the back of Brukunga and out towards the Bremer Valley again.   I want to check out Range Road and Bondleigh Road, this also chucks in Mt Beaver fire track, which was padlocked, so unlikely to be a viable option.... If not, we can always detour back around Black heath road to Pym Road. Route Link https://goo.gl/maps/1qhuBQMHZL12     Convoluted but hopefully fun. A couple of loopbacks and end up in Palmer, from where I reckon we can definitely head further north around Springton and Eden Valley towards Keyneton and ultimately back home around the top of Para Reservoir. Leave that one to chance....

Charlie's purchase of a WR250R prompted a couple discussions about a weekend rides. With nary more than a meeting time and a barely amenable weather forecast, we hit a variation of this ride . Essentially, we left my place and followed what is my go-to route to Mt Barker to meet Dean. From Mt Barker, along Back Callington rd, past the mine and then out to the NE toward Mannum. This time we crossed the Bremer Valley road and kept heading NE. Link for route: https://goo.gl/maps/AFn7nX9MrXA2 Preammina Rd/Panican Hill road were narrow and reasonably kept dirt, nicely windy but still quick. Good visibility. I could see we were approaching the edge of the river flats and the Bitumen of Reedy Creek Road and turned back to the NW, along Talbot road, until we hit Black Heath Road. Black Heath road was dirt, but a much wider and much more well groomed road, albeit some spectacular views. It's hilly country, with a lot of rocky outcrops. Winter rains have filled the creeks an

Fixed the idle on the DRZ, needed to pull the carby out to do so. Throttle shaft floats a little and the cable reel didn't contact the idle screw. I've worked out how to get the carb outof the bike out easily enough (firm grip, foot against frame and yank) but getting it back was a pain in the arse today. Went for a solid ride with Jimmy on Sunday, cracking clear and sunny day. I had planned to try this ride that I plotted a couple of weeks ago , but it was a little more freeform Google maps is a pain with limited route mods so I had to split the route. Section 1  - https://goo.gl/maps/XFdkGEBJaZQ2 Started at Aldgate about 1pm. Jimmy took a few little back roads he knew and we ended up at the top of Mt Barker. Cut around to the Back Callington road and scooted up to the Kanmantoo copper mine. Really nice thick loose gravel on the roads, good slippery fun. Stopped for a moment at the top of Mt Barker after coming down a couple of firetracks from Paechtown.