Moto Flanerie

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...

Keen to head out to Razorback Ridge and look at the spine of magnetite before the iron ore industry picks back up and they tear this one out. Pics from the Magnetite Mines project gallery . Pretty interesting looking spot, something about the black jagged rock in the middle of nowhere seems appealing. Pretty rugged and empty country given the close proximity to Adelaide. Here's a rough two-three day loop to cut past it. Probably tie this in with a trip through Mt Bruce and Caroona Creek CP. Haven't mapped them because google doesn't want to play ball with locating the roads etc. https://goo.gl/maps/fgsvPT5mekk

  Wouldn't mind doing a trip to the DLRA races in Lake Gairdner for speed week. Stay a night at the Lake Gilles site from the postie trip, head to the salt lake the next day for a good look, maybe 2 nights perhaps. Head up to Kingoonya and home.   Could also look at heading up to the Breakaways  maybe out to tarcoola and up to Coober Pedy or something along those lines.      

This is a pretty cool spot to check out, might have to plan a lap around on a Lake Gairdner trip 2018. https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/Find_a_Park/Browse_by_region/flinders-ranges-outback/kanku-breakaways-conservation-park

Some pretty interesting country from the film 'The Rover' up near Hammond and Carrieton. Lots of bleak open nothing with rugged escarpments. Pretty keen to go for a blast up and around this place. Maybe stay a couple of nights up at Horseshoe Rim. http://horseshoerim.com.au/4wd-tracks

https://goo.gl/maps/DoGFWNr5e6J2 Trip to phillip island... Hopefully all on dirt bikes! Might have to see whether we can hit more dirt between Tailem and Warracknabeal. Stay at Hepburn springs for rejuvenative properties of the fizzy water. Circumnavigate Melbourne on Day 2.

https://goo.gl/maps/fcggmSJq4z52 Here's a loop I've put together for a big morning ride. Basically take the dirt backtrack from Aldgate (previous post) to Hahndorf, intermittent dirt to Nairne, then almost all dirt to Charleston. Hit some wings at Lobethal and bitumen home.