The best road in NSW?

chris2608 · Post by **chris2608** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:48 pm

1,750ks, 4 days, 4 bacon rolls, almost 1 roo and discovering the 'Thunderbolt Way'....

After just getting my license back, what better weekend to go away and rebond with my baby 6 than double cash grabbing bastar*s weekend. So i leave Sydney with 3 changes of pants and no idea where i'm heading, just me the sparkling new ZX6-R and the open road. So open it takes an hour to get out of Sydney on Friday morning.

To keep this short...

Day1 - Sydney, through the Hunter, inland north to Taree to stay with family

Day2 - Taree, Gloucester (Barrington Tops) - up the 'Thunderbolt Way' - OH MY GOD WHAT A GREAT ROAD. There is a sign at the beggining that says 'Motorcyclists - This is not Eastern Creek'. Bollocks to that - 100ks of nothing but bends and mountains. Absolutely rocks. Must do. Even did 8ks on unsealed to shave 50ks off the trip. Ended up in Tamworth somehow, big guitar (??) and then south and stayed in Scone.

Day3 - Round the back of the bluies to Mudgee. Early start, nearly hit a Roo at 130ks. Wouldn't have been pretty. Near death experience overtaking a coach load of oldies in the middle of nowhere - the roads were that bad that while overtaking, i hit a patch of bumps that made the front wheel come up and the back wheel start bouncing, looking down i was at 180 in 3rd. Pooed my pants. Into Lithgow and over the top into Windsor. Something then possessed me to ride to Jarvis Bay as i had a few mates on the piss in the Husky Pub. Onto the juice.

Day4 - Kangaroo Valley uphill always a pleasure. Back to Sydney through 5 speed traps.

Trip highlight: THE THUNDERBOLT (And while abiding the speed limit, getting overtaken by a Britz campervan driven by an elderly couple).

Shame no pics - amazing scenery - i love this country and my 6. Although my right wrist is now battered courtesy of country roads - there goes the sex life....

javaman · Post by **javaman** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:03 pm

4 days of riding

damn nice report too

Plaz · Post by **Plaz** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:36 pm

Damn that sounds good, next trip after Vic will have to be NSW....all good members should make the pilgramige to the ancestoral home of KSRC

Zedz · Post by **Zedz** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:41 pm

Ive just been up in the Bulladelah Mountains for easter camping. This use to be a significant black spot of the hwy until the Bulladelah bypass (doesn't actually bypass the town Bulladelah, just the mtns btw Taree and Bulla) was completed. I think this road is severely forgotten and untapped. Its now called Wooton Way/Rd and is the most exciting, undulating and cornering rd that is absolutely picturesq with its tall straight white gumtree forest, wide roads and surprisingly reasonable tarmac with no one in sight. The road surface hasn't perished at all and is still quite smooth and intack, absolutely no cars or cops.
This is a fantastic rd for riding and camping and as soon as i get enough people who wanna go ride it im up for it. I reckon most people don't even remember its there, and I bet most riders have never been on the road since the mountains were bypassed. It is an untapped rider utopia that we're all missing out on.

Post by **Wattie** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:46 pm

my old man has told me of the Thunderbolt way numerous times, and he rides a hardly hehe

actually, the 1st time he did it he had a buell..

Post by **MadKaw** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:53 pm

Sounds like fun.... I'm still yet to get up there.. bloody kids.!!

and Plas, your welcome anytime, I'm always looking for an excuse to crank up the BBQ and sink a few beers.....

ttc · Post by **ttc** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:57 pm

Pity you didn't make it to the Oxley, ten times better road

ZZRCHIKKY · Post by **ZZRCHIKKY** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:02 pm

Wattie wrote:my old man has told me of the Thunderbolt way numerous times, and he rides a hardly hehe
actually, the 1st time he did it he had a buell..

buell is a harly

DUH

chris2608 · Post by **chris2608** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:10 pm

spot the welshman who still doesn't know where the Oxley is - does someone want to educate me? what did i miss out on?

ttc · Post by **ttc** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:29 pm

oxley runs from Walcha to port Macquarie, pretty much next to the thunderbolts way.

Awesome road, not bumpy and in bad state of repair like thunderbolts way

45km of 25/35kmh corners, perfectly cambered and smooth as

Or the flowing curves through the farmland, or the section up to Walcha that are fast and flowing

Shits all over Thunderbots way

Make sure you do it next time and you'll see

Draven · Post by **Draven** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:11 pm

Sounds like you had a great ride, pity you didnt get any pics, next time you do it, drop into Swansea and say Hello

chameleon · Post by **chameleon** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:07 pm

here's a pic..

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Phil · Post by **Phil** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:07 pm

chris2608 wrote:spot the welshman who still doesn't know where the Oxley is - does someone want to educate me? what did i miss out on?

maaaaaate, i told ya - we need to sit down with my trusty book of maps

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:15 pm

Plasma Blue 636 wrote:Damn that sounds good, next trip after Vic will have to be NSW....all good members should make the pilgramige to the ancestoral home of KSRC

well GP is in sept this year, so dunno if ill be doing the back to nsw b4 the GP thing this year....
If i do it will be to see my mum & sibblings..less running around now after the passing of my nan a few weeks back, so dont have to go back to moss vegas...

plas..u wanna do another road trip??

hoffy · Post by **hoffy** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:07 pm

with that sorta sign you just know its gonna be good.
Where on what rd was that taken?