2008 Unaugural - 4 week warning!

The date will be May 3, 2008. Please mark your calendars, if you
haven't already done so.

Given the number of aus.motorcycles people who have colonised
aus.bicycle (Zebee, Theo, Me, Lemmiwinks, Tex, Moike, Tim + anyone
else I've forgotten), and the fact that I've done about the same
number of km
aboard a bicycle this year as on a motorcycle, it seems only fair to
invite the aus.bicycle people along as well.

In short, the Unaugural is an annual gathering of aus.moto people in a
paddock on my farmlet near Tarago, NSW. Weather permitting, we have a
bonfire of sufficient size to provide a reasonable simulation of
Armageddon. There is overnight camping, awards for various
achievements (such as longest distance travelled to attend), and much
drinking of alcohol and telling of lies.

Think of it as the best parts of fishing, once one gets rid of all the
useless folderol of lines, hooks, boats, bait and water. (And fish).

Here are some photos from the most recent event (the 5th Unaugural),
in May 2007:

http://www.humbletown.org/unaugural2007/
http://hok.smugmug.com/gallery/2806294#149827229
http://Peter-T.smugmug.com

There's even a FAQ, here:
http://tinyurl.com/2mlbzo

Here's a sneak look at this year's bonfire:
http://www.humbletown.org/unaugural2008/

Hoping to see some familiar faces, and some new ones, in 2008!


BTH
(I'm moving from http://www.smallsolar.org to http://www.humbletown.org,
so expect some glitches)

 

Fixed, I did the upload last night and a few files were missing for
some reason.

Yes, the combination of your lovely wife's injuries and my own glaring
lack of Public Liability Insurance[1] have both contributed to my
strong "no dickheads" policy.

....even though we know he'll never pay up. ;-)


BTH
[1] Also known as "Dickhead Insurance".

 

Glad I don't know what a Stones Bomb is - sounds awful! - and looks bloody
dangerous...... Is a Stones Beanie allowed? (I got a freebie for buying some
Stones and sending in a coupon once, and it's nice and warm, and IIRC the
Unaugural can be a tad chilly!!!)

betty (so Madeyes, are you
and Mrs Madeyes going to
put in an appearance? I met
Mrs M briefly at Wintersun
last year - would be nice to
renew the acquaintance!)

 

That should keep us toasty

Well done have a pussy drink on me
http://tinyurl.com/2kec87

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Cheers
The Happy Drunk
K100RT

 

Can I drive the Volvo?

Tomasso.

 

Sure; we'll even help you get it onto the bonfire!

 

I like stones bombs at rallys, they add ambience.

Theo

 

Gary Woodman showed up in a Volvo a few years ago, to I'm afraid the
notoriety is all used up!


BTH

 

Just a quick note to Mr Andrew Price: I replied to your e-mail, but
it's bouncing. It looks like you've got forwarding set up from your
bigpond account to a non-existent tpg one.

If all else fails, you can give me a call on 0429 907 329.


BTH

 

Jeezus krist what numpty managed to acheive that with a stones bomb ffs?!

Theyre the easiest thing in the world to do properly,

Which of course makes them the easiest thing in the world to **** up if you
dont know what youre doing....

For the uninitiated -
Take one empty bottle of Stones Dry Ginger wine - (part of the ritual, even
though it tastes like chlorinated moose piss, you can always find some
stodgy old person who claims an affinity for this horrid beverage) the
reason being the metal screw top cap and the physical shape of the bottle
making it an ideal vessel for this endeavour.

Fill the bottle with Petrol - IMPORTANT, you fill the bottle ONLY as high as
the BACK LABEL, this is critical, studies have shown (admittedly the studies
were subject to some variance as most people doing them are 4 parts pissed
by that stage) that any higher levels of petrol insert far too much
unpredictability into the equation.

Seal the bottle, this is the single most important aspect of a stones bomb,
screw the lid all the way to tight, then back the lid off by 1/4 turn, this
allows something of a pressure release.

WIPE THE DAMNED BOTTLE YOU RETARD, nothing worse than a premature ignition
as you place it in the fire.

Place the bottle, standing upright in a medium intensity fire, it is
critical that it be pointing straight up.
(Ive usually found a couple of bricks placed suitably to hold the bottle
upright works a treat.)

Ensure said suitable fire is a suitable distance from anyone, and make sure
no one is standing near it looking for that extra speshal ambience.

Wait for the kaboom.

There you have it, the correct way to make a stones bomb.

Shadow
Yes i know im a pyromaniac.....

 

I've wondered what the formula was actually . . .

Sounds something like my days in army cadets in the 70s. Part of our
ration kit was a can of concentrated butter. Tasted fucking awful. But
at a bonfire at night there was a tradition of chucking in a small can
of Vegemite that would explode nicely. But that can would only have
been probably 100ml. The butter can was a sealed 500ml or so can. On
one camp at Buckland someone threw one of those into a big bonfire.
Thankfully he told people to get the **** away from the fire, because
the bloody thing went of like a mortar and the burning oil burned
holes in a nearby tent.

 

http://www.thisstupidurl.com/stones_bomb.avi

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

That's an evil cackle you've got there, Nev.


BTH

 

Calendar duly marked.
I'm at work on the Friday morning.. get away about 11 am. I'm planning
on heading up to (say) Tintaldra on the friday (via some interesting
route that will probably involve a Granya Gap and the Tolmie Rd. An
early starton Saturday should see me at the Ranch mid afternoon. Last
time I went via Thredbo. Depending on the weather it could be
Cabramurra. If the weather in the Alps looks really shitty, then it
could be Cann River or somewhere then on via Bombala.
I'll be returning straight to Melb on the Sunday.

If anyone wants to tag along I'm open to suggestions that don't include
the Hume.

Moike

 

TimC wrote:

Don't worry, apparently the world will suffer nuclear war on Thursday,
so whats the point. Yer, I'm still studying for my exams on Friday.

Sadly, it is probably all contracted out; aka will be collected,
processed and sold to landscapers and for awful firewood (last lot was
termite infested and fungi laden).

Did you happen to see what they replaced them with?

 

Concrete.
Moike (drove past a lot of it on the way backfrom the zoo.)

 

ROFLMPO. let me guess, you've never put a railway sleeper on your shoulder?

I was stupid enough to do it a few times when I purchased a four tonne
truck load, about 50, but I only carrried them along a level concrete
pathway from front to back yard, but that was only the light ones.

Yes, they are exceedingly good. hot firewood and most loads have been
just that. Unfortunately, the last lot I purchased from statewide
sleepers wasn't. I think it had been bottom of their stash for a few
years and sunk into a depression, so when they relocated recently, they
became top of the pile and in my load. Didn't realise until after i got
them home. thankfully they go into the free "thanks for looking after
me" present we received.

So, if you split a block and the colour is dull, it will be fungi
infested. The termites are easier to spot.

 

Heh! There's a few piles of them around Tarago too (they replaced all
the sleepers between the village and the Sydney-garbage-train
terminus).

I was under the impression that they put a lot of creosote on them?


BTH

 

Well hello, rhodite.

 

All railway sleepers are preservative treated with something, but if
they were made after 1970, chances are it would be
copper-chrome-arsenate (CCA). You don't want to be within 5 kilometres
of someone burning CCA treated timber.

Coal tar creosote is a probable human carcinogen (according to the EPA
in the United States) but burning creosote treated timber in a bike
rally bonfire ought to be safe enough, since the creosote will vaporise
in a hot fire and be blown away. Not so good for your neighbour's sheep
may be.