whats the most fun way to get from Canberra to Melbourne?

MrStompy · Post by **MrStompy** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:34 pm

Hello all
Im taking some days off and going on a last minute ride this week from sydney to probably melbourne. (3 days)

Gotta meet a mate in canberra so figured would do the freeway till there then take off early the next morning for where ever.

i was figuring we would go through thredbo and along the alpine way to where ever we end up but the stretch from Canberra to jindabye is as boring as the freeway...

has anyone got and reccomendations on which roads to use once we get to canberra?

thanks heaps

Nanna10r · Post by **Nanna10r** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:57 am

You have a PM.
Cheers Brett

MickLC · Post by **MickLC** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:50 am

Brett will have sent you some good recommendations for roads through the Snowies, but as for Canberra to Cooma there aren't a lot of alternatives unless you want a big detour via the coast.

MrStompy · Post by **MrStompy** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:54 pm

thanks Ponti and Mick

Im about to leave right now.
i will let you know what i find and I will definately check out that pub ponti

Apparantly it might snow down there. that will be interesting

see yas later
Jayc

I-K · Post by **I-K** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:20 pm

Serving suggestion for a 2-day Canberra-Melbourne route:

Day 1:
Stint 1: Canberra-Cooma-Jindabyne (~195km)
Stint 2: Jindabyne-Thredbo-Khancoban (~140km)
Stint 3: Khancoban-Tintaldra-Walwa-Granya-Tallangatta (~150km)
Stint 4: Tallangatta-Mitta Mitta-Omeo (~160km)

Day 2:
Stint 1: Omeo-Mt Hotham-Bright (~150km)
Stint 2: Bright-Milawa-Whitfield-Mansfield (~160km)
Stint 3: Mansfield-Alexandra-Healesville via Black Spur (~???km)

Never a dull moment there.

The Mitta Mitta to Omeo stretch is a bit of an adventure; ~40km of fairly rocky dirt road (it's where I got a flat tyre on the way to the GP), split into two sections; the first's about 9km, the second about 30km. The roughly 20km of non-stop 1st gear hairpins in between the two stretches of dirt, and the 45km to Omeo from the end of the second stretch of dirt make it worth it; if the dirt was actually broken glass, it'd still be worth it.

The drop down Mt Hotham is similarly ridiculous; 56 million hairpins, one after the other after the other after the other...

The 60km section between Whitfield and Mansfield is probably the highlight of the trip; more open and varied than the mountain stuff.

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:32 pm

I-K wrote:Serving suggestion for a 2-day Canberra-Melbourne route:......

Can I get fries with that ???

Nice road selection there Sir.

Nanna10r · Post by **Nanna10r** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:44 pm

Most of the common good bits un therem but no lap of Mount Buffalo, for shame

couple others left out too IK but they be secret squireel bits

Cheers Brett

I-K · Post by **I-K** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:02 pm

Gosling1 wrote:
I-K wrote:Serving suggestion for a 2-day Canberra-Melbourne route:......
Can I get fries with that ???

Omeo pub does a pretty decent steak and chips... they definitely seem that way after the effort of the last 120km there.

Brett's right, though... there's room to pad out both days' riding; the only reason we got to Omeo at 9pm on the way to the GP is because I was marooned for an hour with that flat tyre, then had to limp the rest of the way, and, even with 30 minutes' faffing around at Omeo getting the tyre properly patched, then a further 90 minutes at Bright sourcing, then fitting a new tyre, we still got to Melbourne at, like, 5pm.

MrStompy · Post by **MrStompy** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:39 pm

Just walked in the door.

Had an awesome time - too many good points to list them all.

drove to canberra monday night in the pouring rain.
tuesday - drove canberra to Thredbo (in the rain)
wednesday - drove thredbo - khancoban - mt hotham - lakes entrance via the windiest looking roads on the maps.
today drove back to sydney.

there is too many roads and not enough time.
I cant believe how great that whole area is.

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:56 pm

mmmm, it is nice, and is just *down the road* so to speak.......

the entire SE corner of Oz is littered with some of the *best* roads in Oz.......a few years ago, Two Wheels did a *selection* of the best roads in Oz, and I think every single one of them involved *mountains* in some shape or form.....

Now all you need to do is do them all on 2 wheels