Grafton to Brisbane
After a couple of phone calls last night, we managed to arrange a day ride with Les, a BMW enthusiast and Brisbane local. The plan was that he would meet us in Grafton at 9AM and show us some good scenic roads between there and Brisbane.
We thought he was a bit keen saying he would make the trek from Brisbane to Grafton by 9. Needless to say, when he pulled up at the servo at 8 as I was buying milk for breakfast, I was rather surprised.
He followed me back to camp and then prepared a coffee while Tim and I had breakfast and packed up camp. We managed to depart at around 9:05
The morning was a foggy and dewy one. It took a while for the tent to dry off and it is probably still a bit damp. A band of small spiders had been to work between my tent and my bike, and also on the nearby fence. The photos of dew on the webs were captured with my iPhone.
We had a fairly straightforward run through to Casino for coffee, and then on to a whole lot of twisties all the way towards Brisbane. We ended at Les' house around 4:30.
Before we went our separate ways for the evening, we stopped for a while to look at the collection of BMWs among other things at Les' house.
An update on the fluid leak mentioned yesterday: it looks like I have blown a seal on my front shock and hence the oil is shock oil. At this point it is only very slow, but when the oil gets too low, the bike will start to handle badly. This needs to get fixed. Looks like first thing tomorrow I will be on the phone to suspension dealers / BMW / wreckers to try to get it resolved, and still make the music festival later in the week!
Tonight I caught up with Angus, a mate of mine I used to work with, and Tim caught up with his younger brother.
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