When i was a youngen, I used to help my Uncle catch his stock horse. He wouldn't tie it up or put it in then yeard. He would let it roam about the padlock by using a gadget called Hobbles. They're similar to handcuff but go around the front legs of horses, they let the horse walk, eat grass and drink but not gallop away when you try and catch them. There is a point to this story. I usually zip my waterproof jacket to my non-waterproof pants and wear waterproof overpants that don't go higher than that zip. Again there is a point to this tosh. So the end of day one we arrive at the pub and I am 2nd last to arrive. Everybody else is loading bikes into the shed as I stop. It's a bit abrupt and I am really stuffed, the fork bounces back and the bike leans a bit right. I try and get my leg down but for some ODD reason, I cannot get my right leg out and down enough to hold the bike, It's going over and all I can do is shoulder roll away so it doesn't land on me. Bloody embarrassing thing to do with 19 other riders watching on. Anyway no damage to me or more importantly the bike. I couldn't understand why it happened, there was no hole, gravel for my foot to slip, no reason that I could see, and then it hit me. The wet weather pants had slid down to my knees and HOBBLED me when I needed to get that leg out and down. Lesson learned, I stopped zipping the jacket to the pants and that allowed the wet weather pants to get pulled up much higher. Never stop learning or at least I don't. The other thing I learned was just how impressive modern rubber is in the wet, 4 days trying hard to be stupid and only 1 slide, crossing double yellow lines and finding alpine road paint is very slippery. I also fixed my scarily poor front brakes in the rain issue. I hit the disc holes with a rat-tail file and got half an egg cup of fine brown powder out of them the rubbed up the discs with 320 wet and dry and cleaned the discs with brake cleaner and got a fair bit of black crap off them, and now there is a tiny bit non-braking for a second or 2 and then just as good as the dry. Makes long downhills in the rain much safer not having to rely on engine braking.
2021 Snowy Rally, Club Laverda NSW
- Thread starter martymoose
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What a heap of fun that was!
Outstanding work Marty in organising that
I sent a message to Marty on Wednesday showing him the synoptics for the coming weekend and they did not look good.
His reply
just wear your underpants on the outside, will be fine
Certainly was.
Lots of good belly laughs, heap of great roads and all bikes and riders returned home safely.
Best road... The Imlay, even in the wet that is a beautiful rd
Best food... without doubt the Union in Tumbarumba, what a change to last year, and a Publican who could not do enough to make our stay awesome.
Best barmaid... Angelina at the Union.
Most Kms traveled.... the support vehicle
An old sailors saying,
No such thing as bad weather... just poor preparation.
Still grinning
Tom
Outstanding work Marty in organising that
I sent a message to Marty on Wednesday showing him the synoptics for the coming weekend and they did not look good.
His reply
just wear your underpants on the outside, will be fine
Certainly was.
Lots of good belly laughs, heap of great roads and all bikes and riders returned home safely.
Best road... The Imlay, even in the wet that is a beautiful rd
Best food... without doubt the Union in Tumbarumba, what a change to last year, and a Publican who could not do enough to make our stay awesome.
Best barmaid... Angelina at the Union.
Most Kms traveled.... the support vehicle
An old sailors saying,
No such thing as bad weather... just poor preparation.
Still grinning
Tom
breganzane
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Great ride and a most enjoyable two evenings yarning with mates! Uli and I had a wet but uneventful trundle home on Saturday. No such thing as poor weather indeed, it was only my feet that didn't get that memo. I stayed warm and dry other than wet feet within 25km, goretex boots my arse! Bin bags and duct tape next time! 
Highlight on the bike was the Imlay Rd in the dry on Thursday, and the sprint towards Dalgety with ChrisP - two RGS's on song! We were watching the wall of water approaching but we beat it to the bar. Good times.
Highlight on the bike was the Imlay Rd in the dry on Thursday, and the sprint towards Dalgety with ChrisP - two RGS's on song! We were watching the wall of water approaching but we beat it to the bar. Good times.
Reunited Chris
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Not so sure about the most kms traveled Tom considering the short cut to Bathurst the 3 Amigos made on their way home 
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Great sprint to Dalgety Steve, made the weekend.
.Great sprint to Dalgety Steve, made the weekend.
martymoose
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The road from Boorowa to Crookwell has deteriorated badly, some of the pot holes had their own postcodes! Don't think we will be going that way again soon.
martymoose
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I hear they do great french fries.......
martymoose
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My best feed was the lunch at nest in Tumbarumba, always the best food.
chrisk
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Sound like a great ride. I’ve been out of the loop, upstate from cairns. No phone connectivity, no internet….. zip. Used a public phone box to contact work and home… like stepping back in time
Some great pictures too guys.
Some great pictures too guys.
hooksey
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Mexicans home safe n sound! Great w/end fellas, was great to be out amongst it, even tho the weather gods dumped on us most of the time... Great to share some banter over a sherbert or two 
Me n Rocket had a great scratch on dry rds once we crossed the border from Jingellic along the flats to Granya Gap rd.
Thanks for sorting out a cot
for us Moose Man and apologies to my room mates for running a tank full of juice thru the chainsaw at Dalgety, I was tired and emotional
Hooksey.
Me n Rocket had a great scratch on dry rds once we crossed the border from Jingellic along the flats to Granya Gap rd.
Thanks for sorting out a cot
for us Moose Man and apologies to my room mates for running a tank full of juice thru the chainsaw at Dalgety, I was tired and emotionalHooksey.
mauricejota7604
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Thanks to Marty and the organisers of the mighty Snowy run, there are some of the greatest Aussie biking roads available.
Rod Dave and I caught up at the Victoria Hotel Tallangata Thursday and shared a night together although Rod was pissed when Shezza wouldn't let us play darts or pool some covid issue FFS.
Rod was pre-planning a lazy couple of days in Tallangata as he believed the weather was going to be real bad, fortunately the break in the clouds that barely lasted an hour was enough to kick him into gear and we had a blast along Murray Valley Highway before turning north to start the climb into the snowys, this is when the weather turned on us and it didnt stop, we tried to get shelter in Jindabyne but I dont think three noisy Laverda's were exciting the owners of the under shop carpark.
It was still pissing down at Dalgety and even after a night where the boys got on the sauce it was still pissing down the next day, not getting completely dry as my panniers and tank bag leaked like a sieve.
My Jota had sucked some rain into the number 3 pod on the back of the Mikuni and was misfiring a bit, so drained the water out of the float chamber and she was off again running on all three.
The two Toms Brett and I took off to Adaminiby on soaked roads and pissing rain and then down past the power station and on to Tumbarumba by this stage I now had nothing dry apart from a small area under my jacket, I decided to fly lone wolf toward somewhere dry and warm, but heading further south the weather continued to get worse and by the time I was back into Tallangata it was even worse, I fueled and thought it must be at least dryer around the Moyhu area and failed again with my hope full forecast and now the rain was running off my helmet and down my neck!!
I now turned south west and rode home soaked and freezing in the dark, it was a big day but still great and it was fantastic to catch up with my mates from the ACT and NSW.
Rod Dave and I caught up at the Victoria Hotel Tallangata Thursday and shared a night together although Rod was pissed when Shezza wouldn't let us play darts or pool some covid issue FFS.
Rod was pre-planning a lazy couple of days in Tallangata as he believed the weather was going to be real bad, fortunately the break in the clouds that barely lasted an hour was enough to kick him into gear and we had a blast along Murray Valley Highway before turning north to start the climb into the snowys, this is when the weather turned on us and it didnt stop, we tried to get shelter in Jindabyne but I dont think three noisy Laverda's were exciting the owners of the under shop carpark.
It was still pissing down at Dalgety and even after a night where the boys got on the sauce it was still pissing down the next day, not getting completely dry as my panniers and tank bag leaked like a sieve.
My Jota had sucked some rain into the number 3 pod on the back of the Mikuni and was misfiring a bit, so drained the water out of the float chamber and she was off again running on all three.
The two Toms Brett and I took off to Adaminiby on soaked roads and pissing rain and then down past the power station and on to Tumbarumba by this stage I now had nothing dry apart from a small area under my jacket, I decided to fly lone wolf toward somewhere dry and warm, but heading further south the weather continued to get worse and by the time I was back into Tallangata it was even worse, I fueled and thought it must be at least dryer around the Moyhu area and failed again with my hope full forecast and now the rain was running off my helmet and down my neck!!
I now turned south west and rode home soaked and freezing in the dark, it was a big day but still great and it was fantastic to catch up with my mates from the ACT and NSW.
