Bly and I filled up our tanks in Lithgow.<\/p>\n
It was the third day I had been there. Thursday it was visiting the sick, Friday it was burying the dead, and Saturday it was filling the V-twins. The place wasn\u2019t growing on me.<\/p>\n
We rode the Tarana road down to O\u2019Connell and cut across through The Lagoon, a small settlement that lacks many things, including, it appears, a lagoon. We went pretty hard at times. The Michelin Anakee 3 adventure tyres on the V-Strom are very good road tyres, despite being named after a political system under which no-one would manufacture adventure tyres.<\/p>\n
What a stupid name.<\/p>\n
I should go into motorcycle tyre marketing. I would make an adventure tyre called \u201cFree Market Capitalism\u201d but get a five year old to spell it, and sell millions of them.<\/p>\n
We lunched at the Kelso Hotel, and drank beer, but not as much as I would have if I worked as a motorcycle tyre marketing consultant.<\/p>\n
We took the Turondale road north, because it winds and is lonely and unpoliced. Bly headed for Sofala on the winding and newly paved Hill End Road. I took the Crudine road, because I keep going past it and wondering where it goes.<\/p>\n
Surprisingly, it goes to Crudine. The road is dirt and well graded, and the Anakee 3 tyres work well on it. There is nothing at Crudine.<\/p>\n
The surface on the Aarons Pass road was hard packed, but it looked like it was made of white clay and would be real slippery when wet. A shingleback crossed my path, so I stopped and took its photo. I stayed the night at Bens. It rained.<\/p>\n
The next morning I had some toast and coffee and shot a kangaroo in the front paddock for dog meat. The rain stopped. I left. Ben followed me in the Toyota to the tar at Sallys Flat, because he thought I would crash.<\/p>\n
It was pretty bad. There were patches of wet clay, and a suicidal rabbit, and a suicidal kangaroo, and a few more kangaroos by the road. There were plenty of slides. On one stretch of wet clay both wheels slid for a few metres, and if it had been any longer I would have crashed.<\/p>\n
I decided on the way home that I need better dirt tyres on the Strom.<\/p>\n
Those Metzeler Karoos look the bomb.<\/p>\n
What a stupid name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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