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April 2022 Exhaust Notes - Edition No 312 

Pyrenees Peregrination

The next morning was a casual start, with breakfast provided and Stewart dishing out
bacon and eggs on nice toasted turkish bread all round.
We headed off by 9.30, after I gave one of our 3 Phil’s a heads up that he left his bike cover
hanging on the fence in the back yard.
Mmmmm … was it Dr. Phil, Lucky Phil or the other Phil…??

To take in more of the Pyrenees Ranges, we headed out North through Barkly, Navarre and
then South via Landsborough, Glenloftie, Elmhurst, Raglan to Beaufort. I must say, and
many of the crew agreed, that the 30km section of Elmurst-Raglan Rd was fantastic. Newly
widened and resealed, it had hills and gullies, lots of big sweeping bends and was just a
delight to ride.
Beaufort was a rest and fuel stop, but because we’d all had a cooked breakfast, nobody was
hungry. Although we did take the chance to get some good coffees. From Beaufort we
headed past Mt Emu, Carngham, Snake Valley, Happy Valley, Cape Clear for a loo stop,
then Dereel towards Mt Mercer.
Now instead of taking the well-known Shelford-Mt Mercer drag strip… errrr sorry… I meant
Road, we took the alternate drag-st… sorry Gumly Rd where some riders reported going

“quite quick” …
(What happens on the ride.. etc..etc.)

We finished up at Inverleigh with
everything done by 2 o’clock.
A nice early finish after a great 2 days
riding and a big night…

Barking Owl Silo art work at Avoca

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