Taking the quick way down. Cant blame them in these conditions. Must be shit out there. Hope the boys have goggles.
Yep it would be hard work, was hard just watching them push them out the gate. The test is just around the corner...... THE DUNES OF DEATH!!!! This is gonna be tough. I hope they stop at the corner and tackle them early in the morning. Was gonna fly some fuel out to them but its just far to dngerous in this wind.
They seem to be making steady progress. We are waiting in Alice but may head down to Mt Dare tomorrow.
Sounded like a BIG night at the Tennant Creek pub last night!wonder how the heads are this morning heading north again, how long will they stay on the tar?
What's with the late starts philth's spot ESN : 0-7483261 Type : Track Progress:sore head big night Sun Aug 26 2012 08:54:12 GMT+1000 (E. Australia Standard Time)
I spoke with Phillip last night he said he was a bit concerned about how well those territorians handle their grog!! Something about a bloke necking a bottle and then asking whose shout it was! I have some photoso on my phone il try and get them up tommorrow
sitting in airport waiting for flight home, i smell bad and pity the poor fool who has to sit beside me
just got home after an awesome red eye flight back from darwin and have to say the bikes did great we got them late in the day from the freight depot after they were shipped back fresh from finishing their second apc rally lentil might have a pic of them in the crates took off on dark and pulled up in the dingoes shed for the night in dalby next day we made it birdsville, i think about 1400 ks? and had a bit of a late start the next morning fitting fresh tyres it was bloody hot with a westerly driving a sand storm and we were only going to head out to big red then return and loop around via the plenty as we thought it was too risky on big bikes in the heat but they handled the sand so good, we did another dune, and then another and blow me down if we werent out past poeppels by dark we ran mitchy deserts on the front and i reckon they did a great job of keeping the bikes on track did the dunes of death as crusty calls them , the next morn from poepells to knolls the next morn while it was cool and they surprised us again how well they went, considering how loose the sand was and made mnt dare that night for a big one awesome steaks and awesome people at mnt dare did the finke track the next morning and met up with podge and jav in alice and they guided us thru the territory up to darwin over the next couple of days saw some awesome country and met some awesome people and travelled at some awesome speeds chasing jav on the big 990 and podge on his tiger the locals think its great fun to turn the signposts around and send us tourists off in the wrong direction and we had a bit of a navigational error ending up in elkedra stattion but they were top folk and gave us some lunch and showed us around their property, even invited us to stay another night! lorella springs was another highlight and in the end we ran out of time and slabbed it into darwin last night loving the tiger and tugboat was sad to say goodbye to his as well the new safaritank turns em into a real long distance weapon not sure how many ks we did but think it was 5 or 6 thousand thanks podge and jav for some awesome northern territory hospitality! will try to download some vid later on
