Weekend Escape To Ebor

Adventure Rider Issue #51

• Fit out
• Checkout
• It’s Time with Karen Ramsay
• Secret Adventure Business with Andy Strapz
• The Finer Points Of Traction with Miles Davis
• Kimberley Kapers
• MAP KTM 890 Adventure R Rally
• Cup Day, Keppel And Whisky Creek Hut
• Shop Bike 02
• Heffo
• Weekend Escape To Ebor
• Twins
• Walcha Motorcycle Rally
• Destination Tora Bora
• Southern Circuits
• Big Red
• Kawasaki KLR650 Adventure
• Triumph’s New 1200s
• Spinifex Express
• It’s what we do

Hopper breaks free for a weekend blast through the NSW hills.

After three months of lockdown the invisible prison doors confining us to our LGA were lifted.

“Great,” she said. “We’ll be able to visit relatives and I need stuff from Spotlight.”An emergency plea-bargaining call to her manager and a slab of Bundy-and-Coke saw her mysteriously rostered on for the weekend. I’d been planning a jaunt to Ebor in the New England region of NSW just prior to confinement, so that was the destination.

Kosekai Lookout has awesome, crystal-clear views over the Nambucca Valley towards the coast.

Extra

I left Newcastle at 6.50am knowing I was in for a long day. Both me and the 890 were keen for a run, and despite heavy rain Bucketts Way and the backroads to Dungog and Monkerai were in top shape. After fuelling at Gloucester I headed for Bundook, just catching sight of a small sign which warned ‘Tri Road closed at Manning River due to bridge work’.