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Qld overnight ride advise and sugestions - ROD - 14-12-2008
looking at going away over xmas or new year any sugestions for a good overnight ride just a easy 600ks round trip or there about from Brisbane
RE: Qld overnight ride advise and sugestions - TimF - 14-12-2008
Perhaps a circuit including Mount Lindesay?
I do the below circuit semi-regularly myself. Normally stay in Killarney or Woodenbong hotel.
From Killarney you can visit Queen Mary Falls. Or you even stay in the pricey but incredible cabins near Queen Mary Falls. The view up there is unbelievable.
I don't recommend stopping in at Warwick on this loop... the Freestone/Yangan roads back to Aratula are great and free of
. Just watch out for Jack Smith Gully Rd... a lot of riders have crashed and burned there...http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=brisbane&daddr=-27.994401,153.340302+to:Mount+Lindesay+Hwy+to:mount+lindesay+to:woodenbong+to:killarney+to:Cunningham%27s+Gap+to:aratula+to:brisbane&hl=en&geocode=%3B%3BFdQhUf4dQ2ccCQ%3B%3B%3B%3BFYEjVP4dAyoWCSF-WSUT-3sG9Q%3B%3B&mra=ls&via=1,2&sll=-27.964082,152.677002&sspn=0.810244,1.40625&ie=UTF8&ll=-28.343065,152.048035&spn=1.614734,2.8125&z=9
RE: Qld overnight ride advise and sugestions - ROD - 14-12-2008
Thanks Tim not looking for a race just a nice cruise get away
RE: Qld overnight ride advise and sugestions - Pommie - 14-12-2008
I'm sorta plannin to go down and do the Waterfall Way over New Year, bit in the air still at the minute tho, had shitloads of expense in the last couple of weeks. Hoping to go down through Tenterfield to Glen Innes, Gyra Hwy through the range to Grafton, cut actross towards Armidale, probably stop at Dorrigo area, on to Armidale, Uralla back down hills to Wauchop, then make way back up towards home through Bellingen, Dorrigo, Armidale, stop over at Glen Innes and then Gold Coast next day. Not a fang, just pull up and have a brew and chill as the mood takes me. If I dont get all the way round then dont matter. Just a change from the usual roads round here. Every road and run seems to head to Boonah and Mt Lindsey from here. Bit over it
RE: Qld overnight ride advise and sugestions - Missy_Moo - 15-12-2008
luv Dorrigo! & Bellingin
RE: Qld overnight ride advise and sugestions - Louwai - 15-12-2008
Rod,
What about a run west to Dalby & then north to the mountains. There are some nice places to stay in the ranges up there.....
RE: Qld overnight ride advise and sugestions - TimF - 15-12-2008
I was at Bunya Mountains in November it is nice and green up there compared to what is has been over the last 9~10 years.
The roads are average though.
RE: Qld overnight ride advise and sugestions - GCBusa - 15-12-2008
Pommie Wrote:I'm sorta plannin to go down and do the Waterfall Way over New Year, bit in the air still at the minute tho, had shitloads of expense in the last couple of weeks. Hoping to go down through Tenterfield to Glen Innes, Gyra Hwy through the range to Grafton, cut actross towards Armidale, probably stop at Dorrigo area, on to Armidale, Uralla back down hills to Wauchop, then make way back up towards home through Bellingen, Dorrigo, Armidale, stop over at Glen Innes and then Gold Coast next day. Not a fang, just pull up and have a brew and chill as the mood takes me. If I dont get all the way round then dont matter. Just a change from the usual roads round here. Every road and run seems to head to Boonah and Mt Lindsey from here. Bit over it
The Gwyder and the Oxley Hwys are brilliant rides. The stretch from Grafton to Ebor is a lot of hard work but pretty countryside (stay aware of oncoming logging trucks and gen traffic) All the others around here are great when you keep clear of the New England and the Pacific.
Have a good time Chris.
You ARE looking at more than 600 round trip to do these from Bris Rod.
RE: Qld overnight ride advise and sugestions - Pommie - 15-12-2008
GCBusa Wrote:Pommie Wrote:I'm sorta plannin to go down and do the Waterfall Way over New Year, bit in the air still at the minute tho, had shitloads of expense in the last couple of weeks. Hoping to go down through Tenterfield to Glen Innes, Gyra Hwy through the range to Grafton, cut actross towards Armidale, probably stop at Dorrigo area, on to Armidale, Uralla back down hills to Wauchop, then make way back up towards home through Bellingen, Dorrigo, Armidale, stop over at Glen Innes and then Gold Coast next day. Not a fang, just pull up and have a brew and chill as the mood takes me. If I dont get all the way round then dont matter. Just a change from the usual roads round here. Every road and run seems to head to Boonah and Mt Lindsey from here. Bit over it
The Gwyder and the Oxley Hwys are brilliant rides. The stretch from Grafton to Ebor is a lot of hard work but pretty countryside (stay aware of oncoming logging trucks and gen traffic) All the others around here are great when you keep clear of the New England and the Pacific.
Have a good time Chris.
You ARE looking at more than 600 round trip to do these from Bris Rod.
It'll be around 1500 over three days so its pretty easy going. As I said, it's still a bit up in the air, wont know for definate till a day or two before I go