Circumnavigation of Oz

Tippie said:
From memory my SF2 now gets close to 250km before reserve, and I have done 40km on reserve (sweating it) before making a garage. It has my pensioned 10.5:1 race pistons and std Dells.
I remember our customers with Ā“81 Jotas all reporting that they got far better fuel economy riding at 120 to 150 than they did if forced to sit on 100, on those motors 130 or so is probably 1/8 throttle.
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Cooo.
I'm on reserve at 230 on my SF2 on normal roads with plenty of gear changes and throttle blipping.
Paul
 
Pwww, not a patch on Upper Queenstown Tassie. That temp and pissing rain and wind with deep Snow on the roadside. THAT was a gear test.
 
Latest version of the Circumnavigation adventure, after much consultation and beers........

Day 1 sunday July 18

Port Macquarie

Day 2

Murwillumbah 780

Day 3

Natural bridge 50
Canungra 48
Tambourine
Jimboomba 40
Camira 33
181



Day 4
Toowoomba 106
Dalby 82
Miles 129
Roma 142
459

Day 5
Morven 177
Tambo 211
Blackall 101
489

Day 6
Barcaldine 108
Longreach 108
Qantas museum
216
Oil change 2125

Day 7
Winton 179
Kynuna 164
Cloncurry 183
526

Day 8 sunday July 25
Mt Isa 121

Day 9
Camooweal 190
Barkly homestead
Tablelands 260
450

Day 10
Warumungu 185
Elliot 231
Daly waters 153
569

Day 11
Katherine 276

Day 12
Rest day
Katherine Gorge

Day 13
Katherine to Jabiru 303
Kakadu

Day 14 july 31
Boat trip Kakadu in morning
Darwin 253

Day 15 sunday august 1
Hidden Valley BEARS racing

Day 16
Litchfield National Park

Day 17
Oil charge before leaving Darwin 4623km
Katherine 317

Day 18
Timber creek 289
Lake Argyle 226
515

Day 19
Ord river 140
Bungle Bungle National Park
321

Day 20
Halls creek 113
Mueller Ranges 107 no fuel.
Fitzroy crossing 183
Geikie gorge - dirt rd
403

Day 21
Willare 229 fuel
Derby 36
265

Day 22 sunday 8th August
Broome 220.

Day 23
Roebuck Plains Roadhouse 35
Sandfire Roadhouse 287
Pardoo 139
Port Hedland 148
Oil change 7273km

Day 24
Whim Creek Hotel lunch
Karratha 233

Day 25
Fortesque River roadhouse 109
Nanutarra roadhouse 163
Exmouth 278
Cape range National Park
615

Day 26
Rest day
Ningaloo

Day 27
Minilya 225
Carnarvon 139
364

Day 28
Wooramel Roadhouse 123
Overlander roadhouse 76
Binnu 191
Geraldton 88
479

Day 29 sunday 15th
Dwellingup 512

Day 30 august 16
Dwellingup Service, tyres 9476km

Day 31
Margaret River
213

Day 32
Walpole 247

Day 33
Walpole rest day

Day 34
Albany 120
Wellstead 126
Ravensthorpe 194
Esperance 187
594

Day 35
Norseman 203
Balladonia 219
Cocklebiddy 220
642

Day 36 sunday august 22 nd
Madura 91
Eucla 181
Nullarbor Roadhouse 196
Yalata 92
564

Day 37
Ceduna 205
Wudinna 211
Port Augusta 260
674 oil change 12410km

Day 38
Flinders Ranges
173

Day 39
Peterborough 211
Yunta 86
Broken hill 197
493

Day 40
Wilcannia 198
Cobar 261
459

Day 41
Nyngan 132
Gilgandra 165
Mudgee 170
467

Day 42 saturday 28th august
Home
250


14251 km
 
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Blimey, that's organised. It'll be interesting to see if you stick to the plan. I presume you'll be keeping us updated as you go.

When I went around Australia, I had no plan at all - just pointed the bike in the general direction and headed off. Overnight stops were figured out along the way. Mostly camping in the middle of nowhere. Occasional caravan park or hotel stops to do laundry etc.
 
I agree, Cam. I'd be surprised if you stick to some of those (relatively) short days where you are basically travelling across empty plains. If you start at 7am you'd have done 650km by 1 o'clock! Unless you want to hang around a local watering hole (ie pub) or roadhouse. I'd be opting for more time in the more interesting spots and covering a lot more ground on the 'transition' stages. Just my two centavos worth. (BTW, where is Hidden Valley fitting in?). You could probably travel south to Katherine with Brett, if he does the big ride up again?
 
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