Who Rode Today?

[Tony Nitrous]

Are those critters much of a bother when out riding?

Not so much during the day time, they just chill out somewhere most of the time, and less seen in suburbia.

Late evening to just after sun rise, huge problem in rural areas. I hit one hard in my ute last year and have had several near misses with my cars and bikes.

On my block I have several potentially fatal venomous snakes, as well as scorpions, red back spiders and other entertaining wildlife, but none in 20 years here scares me like meeting a Roo when I’m on my bike.

In my previous jobs I’ve seen cars wrecked, written off, lots of incidents, I often joke that if any wildlife here finishes me off my money is on it being a Roo.

A large male deciding to jump out of the scrub and cross the road, then changing his mind when he gets to the other side gets your attention.

Of everything here from sharks to crocs to blue ring octopus it’s Roo’s I fear.

 

[Tony Nitrous]

Are those critters much of a bother when out riding?

 

[CBXRider]

There’s not much activity with deer around here much like your roos during bright sunlight but early mornings and evenings and especially after dark, deer can be a real threat. I won’t risk crashing by swerving for anything that would fit on a dinner plate. Some locales have elk, bear, moose and mountain lions to deal with. I’ve seen bobcats too. There’s also raccoons, coyotes, rattle snakes and skunks and the ever present squirrel who I’m convinced are playing with us as we pass. It’s a shame that evolution didn’t accommodate them (and us) by having their hooves/feet haulazz as soon as they sense pavement under them. In the late70s I hit a full grown buck dead center. It was after midnight and I was driving a 48 GMC pickup that I’d rebuilt a year before. Part of the animal pushed the huge grill thru the radiator and slammed the fan back into the water pump which stopped the motor. The rest flew over the roof. I slid under the steering column down by the pedals! Luckily there was no traffic and I was able to pull myself back onto the seat, push in the clutch and coast to a stop. Another reason for having comprehensive insurance.

 

[Oz22]

Late evening to just after sun rise, huge problem in rural areas. I hit one hard in my ute last year and have had several near misses with my cars and bikes.

I was out getting some exercise the other night, 2am, not a car in sight out here of course. I stopped at my ususal spot under streetlights at a big T-junction and was just finishing my watter bottle when 2 offroad bikes slowed down and stopped up opposite me. They were like 30m away, traffic islands in between, and with the glare of the street lights I couldn't make out a lot of detail but they both looked 'odd' and one bike had a huge spotlight mounted up top. They checked me out for a full minute then asked "You ok mate" I was sitting on the curb. "Yeah I said, just finishing my water bott" Then I stood up and walked back up to the bike and they promptly took off. Cops I was sure! Out looking for young criminals the local locksmith told me the next day, they have been targeting the rural properties increasingly because "No one can hear them scream" lol. I wouldn't wanna be tooling through the night like they were. I've seen Roos at all hours, if the concentrations are high enough you get them all day long. Especially the young ones.

 

[Oz22]

Similar.

We had a 5 bed / 3 bath old timber house in inner Brisbane on about 700m2, a brand new 4 bed / 3 bath brick house in the middle of 20 acres was just over half the price as it’s 2 1/2 hours West.

I never understood why people would pay so much for those old hotboxes. Once you've lived in cavity brick you simply can't go back I found. And the prices were almost the same. Real estate marketing naturally
I was in construction back in my 20's. The cottage industry as well as commercial and then multistory. You get a feel for what's what and when I look around now at what's being built I just shake my head, absolute Garbage! While I was never a fan of VJ weatherboard I do believe that they are superior to what's replacing them in the inner city now. poxy blueboard cardboard boxes that need airconditioners the size of small cars. Just as well too since the slabs are so thin they'd never support a real home! I have two massive BHP I-beams running the full length of my home and supporting all the hardwood framing and floors up top. God only knows how they got them out here? Most of downstairs is built in rooms but in the garage area I have a carrier on one, you can lift the engine out of a car with it no problems, and it's always cool down there too. Bugger, look at the time 11:50pm, best get kitted up for the pushbike ride.

 

[LC4CARL]

Not so much during the day time, they just chill out somewhere most of the time, and less seen in suburbia.

Late evening to just after sun rise, huge problem in rural areas. I hit one hard in my ute last year and have had several near misses with my cars and bikes.

On my block I have several potentially fatal venomous snakes, as well as scorpions, red back spiders and other entertaining wildlife, but none in 20 years here scares me like meeting a Roo when I’m on my bike.

In my previous jobs I’ve seen cars wrecked, written off, lots of incidents, I often joke that if any wildlife here finishes me off my money is on it being a Roo.

A large male deciding to jump out of the scrub and cross the road, then changing his mind when he gets to the other side gets your attention.

Of everything here from sharks to crocs to blue ring octopus it’s Roo’s I fear.

Holy moly!

 

[LC4CARL]

There’s not much activity with deer around here much like your roos during bright sunlight but early mornings and evenings and especially after dark, deer can be a real threat. I won’t risk crashing by swerving for anything that would fit on a dinner plate. Some locales have elk, bear, moose and mountain lions to deal with. I’ve seen bobcats too. There’s also raccoons, coyotes, rattle snakes and skunks and the ever present squirrel who I’m convinced are playing with us as we pass. It’s a shame that evolution didn’t accommodate them (and us) by having their hooves/feet haulazz as soon as they sense pavement under them. In the late70s I hit a full grown buck dead center. It was after midnight and I was driving a 48 GMC pickup that I’d rebuilt a year before. Part of the animal pushed the huge grill thru the radiator and slammed the fan back into the water pump which stopped the motor. The rest flew over the roof. I slid under the steering column down by the pedals! Luckily there was no traffic and I was able to pull myself back onto the seat, push in the clutch and coast to a stop. Another reason for having comprehensive insurance.

Yikes!

 

[Dai.]

Not so much during the day time, they just chill out somewhere most of the time, and less seen in suburbia.

Late evening to just after sun rise, huge problem in rural areas. I hit one hard in my ute last year and have had several near misses with my cars and bikes.

On my block I have several potentially fatal venomous snakes, as well as scorpions, red back spiders and other entertaining wildlife, but none in 20 years here scares me like meeting a Roo when I’m on my bike.

In my previous jobs I’ve seen cars wrecked, written off, lots of incidents, I often joke that if any wildlife here finishes me off my money is on it being a Roo.

A large male deciding to jump out of the scrub and cross the road, then changing his mind when he gets to the other side gets your attention.

Of everything here from sharks to crocs to blue ring octopus it’s Roo’s I fear.

Sounds you’re out west like me, I ride from past Warwick to Eagle Farm every morning at 2am and haven’t seen many Roos feeding near the side of the road.

We kill countless scorpions every day and the spiders haven’t been that bad as of late, wait til it dries out.

Massive root nearly wrote my Ranger off and obliterated the ARB bull bar up front, $26k later and it’s fixed.

 

[Mythos]

There’s not much activity with deer around here much like your roos during bright sunlight but early mornings and evenings and especially after dark, deer can be a real threat.

The deer right in town here are absolutely absurd year round and pretty much any time I'm out. I'm usually driving right after dark or shortly before sunrise but I see the deer on my days off when I'm out in the daylight. I think it's the time of year with the cold weather because they just slowly stroll across the road as I'm approaching. They might get a move on if I come closer or if I hit the horn.

Obviously I didn't ride today, I didn't even get out and shovel the snow yet.

 

[CBXRider]

It’s really a shame. We cut a blacktop swath thru their neighborhood and expect them to stay off our roads. All critters, not just deadly ones big enough to cause a crash, seem to be both stupid and daring. Members of their species don't ever seem to learn. When I lived on the northern California coast right in the middle of the redwoods I would drive up and down 101 fairly often. One morning over 200 miles or so I counted 16 deer carcasses.

 

[Oz22]

Sounds you’re out west like me, I ride from past Warwick to Eagle Farm every morning at 2am and haven’t seen many Roos feeding near the side of the road.

Up and down the cunningham gap, now there's as lovely a piece of road as you can find. I like to get up there @ 6Am before the highway patrol. I'm down near Aratula. With all the wet the roos are in the paddoks but in places they hop across the road oblivious of anything. I've seen some biguns on my nightly P-bike rides. More dead hares on the road that anything now.

 

[Dai.]

Up and down the cunningham gap, now there's as lovely a piece of road as you can find. I like to get up there @ 6Am before the highway patrol. I'm down near Aratula. With all the wet the roos are in the paddoks but in places they hop across the road oblivious of anything. I've seen some biguns on my nightly P-bike rides. More dead hares on the road that anything now.

It’s a perfect bit of road all hours in the morning as there’s no one around except b doubles.

Wait til Aratula gets those housing estates built and they’ll be pushed back into the road. Thankfully we have 500 acres and not much around.

I see more dead dingoes and foxes up here.

 

[Oz22]

It’s a perfect bit of road all hours in the morning as there’s no one around except b doubles.

Wait til Aratula gets those housing estates built and they’ll be pushed back into the road.

lol. I didn't hear about that! It's happening at most of the little towns though, the new business model. I'm not in Aratula, but within a 20km radius of it. There's nothing there but that road that runs out the back, not too bad a road... If you have nowhere better to go. Do you do the new stretch of the Mt Lindsay, from legume to Woodenbong? Bloody GP track now, It's a bit of ride from here but I've been down it a few times recently. I just wish the run from the border through Rathdowny and back west was as good.

aND FROM wOODENBONG TO THE BORDER

 

[Dai.]

Yeah we rode it in varies stages of completion but now we head south via the inland. That Rathdowney road is beyond a joke, worst condition of road on the planet I’d say, crap repairs and tar snakes.

Too many houses and the infrastructure is lacking to support it but they don’t think of that til it’s too late.

The solar farm is forever killing dingoes that kill the sheep.

 

[Oz22]

Yeah we rode it in varies stages of completion but now we head south via the inland.

Down the New England, or the Summerland way? I've been meaning to take a ride to Texas for a while now, camp on the river, do a little fishing perhaps. I thought I'd take the Bruxner across rather than the shorter more northern roads.
So how does the solar kill dingoes? Are they chewing through the cables or something.

 

[Dai.]

Down the New England, or the Summerland way? I've been meaning to take a ride to Texas for a while now, camp on the river, do a little fishing perhaps. I thought I'd take the Bruxner across rather than the shorter more northern roads.
So how does the solar kill dingoes? Are they chewing through the cables or something.

Via the New England mostly. It’s a shame the roads are mostly straight but worth it compared to city living.

I meant they are forever shooting dingoes in there. Last haul was 30 or so.

 

[Oz22]

I meant they are forever shooting dingoes in there. Last haul was 30 or so.

Send those blokes up to Frazer island for a Holiday, I'll chip in, just out of principle

 

[Oz22]

I took a run up over the hills yesterday on the 7, after riding for a bit I just couldn't get into the zone. I stopped for a break after 1/2 an hour to *reset* but it didn't do it, so when I hit the blacktop I just headed back home rather than push it up another gravel road to the border. I think it was all the exercise I did on Friday, including a big gym workout downstairs. Arms were sore as buggery.
These roads haven't seen a lot of maintenance since the last rains and there were some nasty washouts, long ruts! They're not an issue if you slow down but it takes a lot of the fun out of it. Plus the gravel piles up in placed and makes the ride "very interesting"

With a thick gravel layer it's like riding on marbles. They only do it in the hilly sections, to prevent erosion, it sort of works
You can tell I'm not a dedicated dirtbike rider I'd never talk like this on the DB forums, be laughed out the door. They're not happy unless their axle deep in mud and bashing into trees.

 

[ottafish]

I took a run up over the hills yesterday on the 7, after riding for a bit I just couldn't get into the zone. I stopped for a break after 1/2 an hour to *reset* but it didn't do it, so when I hit the blacktop I just headed back home rather than push it up another gravel road to the border. I think it was all the exercise I did on Friday, including a big gym workout downstairs. Arms were sore as buggery.
These roads haven't seen a lot of maintenance since the last rains and there were some nasty washouts, long ruts! They're not an issue if you slow down but it takes a lot of the fun out of it. Plus the gravel piles up in placed and makes the ride "very interesting"

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With a thick gravel layer it's like riding on marbles. They only do it in the hilly sections, to prevent erosion, it sort of works
You can tell I'm not a dedicated dirtbike rider I'd never talk like this on the DB forums, be laughed out the door. They're not happy unless their axle deep in mud and bashing into trees.

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Being able to admit to ourselves when we're not in the "groove" to slow down or just call it and head home is what makes the next ride more enjoyable. Finding the groove is the best

 

[sixpack577]

I havn't heard anyone talk about turning around and going home when the ride didn't feel right, in a long time, and I completely agree.
That was a hard thing to learn years ago, wanting to ride whenever I had the time, but if it wasn't working, it wasn't worth it.
There were days that were just...off...