best weekend rides in aus?

Let's have it then.

What's your favourite two day ride starting from anywhere in aus?

 

I have three that I couldn't pick a favourite from in terms of enjoyment:

ALPINE WAY
Day 1: Canberra - Cooma - Jindabyne - Thredbo - Khancoban (overnight stop)
Day 2: Khancoban - Cabramurra - Adaminaby - Cooma - Canberra

....and this one...

TATHRA
Day 1: Canberra - Cooma - Nimmitabel - Brown Mountain - Bega - Tathra
Day 2: Reverse of the above

....and this one...

MALLACOOTA
Day 1: Canberra - Cooma - Nimmitabel - Bombala - Cann River (via Cann Valley
Highway) - Mallacoota
Day 2: Mallacoota - Bombala (via Imlay Rd.) - Nimmitabel - Cooma - Canberra

I guess Tathra would be the favourite in the sense that it's the
shortest/easiest trip and can be done all year round.

Bugger the rest of Aus, this region is where it's at!

 

Start Townsville, finish two days away.

 

Bloody hell Tex,

How does the Alpine Way become a two day ride unless you don't leave
home until after lunch?

Try this plan:
Day 1 South Coast (Canb - Batemans - Bermagui - Tathra - Bega - Cooma
- Jindabyne)
Day 2 Mountains (Jindabyne - Thredbo - Khancoban - Cabramurra -
Kiandra - Adaminaby - Cooma - Canb)

Then you only have to do the Monaro Hwy once.

And a pub crawl around Jindabyne, while nothing really great, beats a
pub crawl around Khancoban


BF.

 

Simple: you stop somewhere on day one, and start again on day two

unless you don't leave

Pub crawls while riding tend to be counter-productive

 

Hmmm... how do I put this without it sounding too demeaning...? Ah,
bugger it... what are you, some kind of softcock?

That's barely 600km, and Jindabyne and Khancoban are the first two
fuel stops (out of a total of five) on the first day of a two-day trip
from Canberra to Phillip Island.

Which brings me to...

Day 1: Canberra - Cooma - Jindabyne (fuel) - Thredbo - Kahncoban
(fuel) - Walva - Granya - Tallangatta (fuel) - Tangambalanga - Mt
Beauty (fuel) - Falls Creek - Mt Beauty - Harrietville (fuel) - Mt
Hotham - Omeo (steak).
Day 2: Omeo - Mt Hotham - Bright(fuel) - Mt Buffalo - Myrtleford -
Oxley (fuel) - Whitfield - Mansfield (fuel) - Alexandra - Marysville -
Healesville - Launching Place - Marysville - Healesville (fuel) -
Woori Yallock - Cockatoo - Pakenham - Koo Wee Rup - Cowes (pizza).

 

Perth to Adelaide, or Adelaide to Perth.

Theo

 

Good point - unless you have an open face helmet it can also be rather
inconvenient.

My usual methodology is to get to your overnight stop, park the bike,
go pub crawling, and then sober up enough to ride off the following
day.

Unless you're into breakfast pub crawls, I'd have thought that was
obvious.



BF

 

Nope. I'm not doing the Iron Arse rally. I'm out to have a fun
weekend, and that trip is a great distance to have a blast of a ride
and still a great weekend.

Besides, I do Canberra - PI in *one* day........

 

Not that there's anything wrong with that....

Is that putting the XLV together again? or putting the XLV together still?
http://users.bigpond.net.au/mike-oconnor/moto/Wintersun04/SharkySeeksHelp.JPG

Moike

 

Well, a bacon/sausage/egg pub brekky is great after a night on the
turps

 

I like the cut of your jib Theo. I'm doing a Kalgoorlie run weekend after
next. Should be a laugh and I might get to meet another hot skimpy.

Fraser

 

Yeah, but don't you reckon the Canberra-Cooma bit is too boring to do twice
in one short trip??

On Day 2 I'd head up the coast and go back to Canberra via the Clyde, to
avoid the dreaded Cooma-Canberra run again... even the Kangaroo Valley ride
would be ok if it wasn't a Sunday and if you could stand the boring traffic
through Nowra....

You'd go Tathra - Bega - Batemans Bay - Ulladulla - Nowra (yuk) - Kangaroo
Valley - Moss Vale - Bundanoon - Marulan - Bungonia - Goulburn - Tarago -
Canberra.... or if you were sick of it by Marulan and the light was fading,
you might want to take the highway back from there...

Mallacoota's one of my favourite places! Have just booked a week there in
November...

a nice variation of your ride on the way home, just for fun, is to do the
Imlay Road to Bombala, keep going to Pambula via Cathcart and Wyndham (is it
the Darragh Mtn Road???) - up the coast to Batemans Bay and home via the
Clyde It's definitely the Long Way, hee hee, but it's lovely!

Yep, some great roads - but the really good roads to the nice places always
seem to start with boring bits - Canberra - Cooma, Bungendore - Braidwood,
Canberra - Yass..... know what I mean?

betty

 

10 runs per day up over Mt Glorious and back! (on Tuesday and Wednesdays
only).
MikeH

 

Starting wherever I am and finishing wherever I am two days later.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

Ride past his house on my pushbike occasionally. Haven't seen him.
Haven't had anyone throwing half-bricks at me in the neighbourhood so I
guess he hasn't seen me either.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

It seems very quick for me. I find the Kings Highway much worse

I actually did most of those those places on a day ride last year, but cut
back through Bega/brown mntn instead of going theough Batemans. Took a day
off work. Zero traffic. No cops. Bloody marvellous.

I can't stand the Clyde/batemans run anymore. It's usually slow traffic and
crap all over the road for me.

Yup. But I don't mind Can/Cooma that much. There are much worse roads IMHO.
Bairndale - Sale for example (shudder)

 

Yeah, the weekends can be pretty dreadful - I try to come back as early as
possible to avoid the "family traffic" on some of those roads.

The surface is a bit chopped up in places, especially since we've had some
reasonable rain, but it's generally not too bad. Brown Mountain's a far
nicer road, and I like the rhythm of it better than the Clyde. It doesn't
seem to have the same traffic load either. I got caught behind a Murray's
bus one Saturday, all the way down the Clyde - I don't think it went over
15kmh all the way down (but not as bad as the ride through Kangaroo Valley
one Sunday a couple of months ago - what kind of idiot drives a bloody great
truck full of giant water tanks on THAT road?) I swore off Kangaroo Valley
on weekends after doing kilometre after kilometre at about 10kmh....
aaaaaaaaaaargh!

betty

 

For a trip like that I usually load the bike onto the ute. Too many straight
bits. And screw carrying gear, book into a motel (like Mildura)


beer mate?

 

It'd take me 2 days to get to anywhere, starting from nowhere.