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my computer is playing up . I will post some more tomorrow

Open ground like you say Martyn what a contrast long gravel tracks sweeping bends the only thing the same as Devon looks like the Dust. summer's coming lanes with hanging brambles ripping at your neck grass an weeds 3 foot high so you cant see the rut's or line in the lane "bring it on" the fun you can have in a lane 200 meters long. would you give that up to ride roads like that............ them pic's make you wish you could have a go keep the pic's coming of the open lanes and I will post some up later in the summer of some over grown Devon lanes where you cant see 5 feet in front. and it get's you wishing you had a Machette to hack you way out. I can see the look on Mr plod's face now if you had one strapped on the bike

Pug

-- Edited by pug on Sunday 19th of April 2015 05:17:33 PM

Im having computer trouble so I apologise for the lack of continuity

At the Rally itself, there were prizes for the furthest travelled tiddler and best kept tiddler, a raffle (I won a great little book about small bore japenese motorcycles - Tittled the Tiddler invasion).

The Pudding was there to be auctioned by (another) BMsteve.



If I may digress.....

The story of the pudding is an interesting one; steeped in Australian Motorcycle rally folklore, according to one prominent character in the Australian Motorbike Rally scene for many years; it began life as a Big Sister brand self saucing pudding in the older style, conical shaped tins, back in the mid 1970s.
It was packed away in a pannier intending to be eaten for dessert at a rally, but for whatever reason, it never got eaten, but continued to be carried around just in case.
Over a period of time, it began to acquire a reputation/legend, as it began to cover some serious kilometres, always in or on a motorcycle, except for one occasion, when it was in a pannier attached to a bike that was run over by a bus. It was transported still in its pannier, on the bike in the back of the bus, and thus was deemed to have complied with one of the conditions of carrying the pudding: it must always travel in or on a motorbike.
It has been to most rallies, Border Runs (held each August on the border of South Australia and Western Australia), OCRs (Off Centre Rally, bi annual event held in Outback) etc, including every extremity of Oz, and has travelled almost every outback road. -

In the last few years the privelidge of carrying this hallowed object to a rally is auctioned at motorcycle rallys all over Australia. The proceeds of the auction go to the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RDFS) the RDFS has assissted many motorcyclists who have come to greif in remote inland Australia.

Here is a link to the event from ADV http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1009438&page=38

Looks a great trip. Nice rally report on the adv website there. Thats alot of instrumentation on that ttr's handlebar!