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Bathurst And Parkes Weekend

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This entry is part 4 of 19 in the series Adventure Rider Issue #55

There was word on the grapevine of a ride to Bathurst and Parkes in the middle of winter. Hopper managed to jag an invite.

Bruce decided to bypass an easy section of mud and ended up with his 690 buried to the swingarm.

With morning temperatures predicted to be minus-four, it was with some foreboding I set off from Newcastle at six degrees on a July morning, scheduled to meet up with ex-Cobar legend Gary – ‘Eyebrows’ – who’d only been set free the previous evening after nine days’ isolation due to flooding.

Leaving our rendezvous just outside Kurri Kurri at 7.00am, we hit the New England Highway and Golden Highway. Normally the temperature rises as the day progresses, but not on this day.

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