Page 51 - Get On Your Bike to the Great Adventure!

I hope you all might find this of assistance and maybe it will encourage some
who are a little doubtful to tackle what is really one of the great rides in
Australia. It is different for sure; however, it is well worth the effort.
The sense of satisfaction after meeting the challenge, of what is considered a
long haul run, and succeeding is wonderful. One of life’s big achievements.

THE BIKE

It is essential that the bike be in tip top
condition and all those little jobs that
you have been putting off must be
done.
I have made a list of items to check and
while some people may consider some
of them a little pedantic they are all
included because I have heard of
people having the problems at one time or another.

It cannot be stated often enough that you cannot just jump on the faithful beast
that has taken you to the coffee shop every week for the last five years and point
it West and hope for the best. Well you can of course but good luck to you if you
do!
1. Tyres need to be of good quality, new or near new. The run is long with few
curves and the road surface over to the West tends to be coarser than in the
East.

This combined with the possible high temperatures and heavy loading with all
your gear and maybe pillion as well will have your tyres working at full rating.
Make sure you have them well inflated and check them EVERY morning! It goes
without saying that a good puncture outfit and some method of reinflating a
tyre is essential.

Those little bottles of gas are fine to reset the beads of the tyre if needed but
with the size of some of the new tyres you would need quite a few to get the
pressure back up.

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