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SEPTEMBER 2020
BACK2BUSH 16
By: Duncan Bennett, Member #4171
husband Nic from the adventure riders’ pack to cut the cable tie from the pants, but only after we’d hen you’re on a good thing, stick with it. The located a priest to over-see the ceremony. origin of that saying was actually from the Mortein advertising team in the 1940’s and they were talking about DDT but it could equally apply to the GS Lite route taken for the Christmas in July event to Kingaroy. The B2B numero 16 was in the northwest at Mundubbera, so why on earth wouldn’t we take the western branch of the Brisbane River once again? Same old, same old. Meet at CJ’s in Woodford, spruik the ride to completely random people whilst sporting a mouth full of party pie, and hit the road. Father O’Reilly laying on a hand while reciting the To its credit, Woodford did produce a crisis of the pants cable tie removal Psalm 107:16 type which brings forth the true adventure riders A cheap chastity lock was fitted to the pants, – Margreth’s riding pants clasp failed. Cable ties, and with only occasional panicky outbursts that the tape, staples, glue - indeed nothing that could rejoin key was irretrievably lost, we headed north to Ban things that needed to come apart again in the future Ban Springs and around the corner to Gayndah. A were not thrown up as options. Lack of imagination discreet inappropriate touching of Gay Dan at the had a cable tie in place before we decided that giant orange and I led on to Mundubbera via the we’d better get to Mundubbera before dark. The Burnett River road, only to discover that half the D’Aguilar highway was swarming with Ekka weekend following party decided to take the highway, only traffic, although not quite as bad as the carpark a.k.a Nic followed. The feminines would later learn that M1 heading up from North Lakes, so Neurum Rd it they’d missed one of Queensland’s road gems – the was. High 5-ing as we passed through the finally Mundubbera Gayndah Road has sweeping bends, completed Kilcoy roadworks, we soldiered on to river views, and major scenery from the high points. the turn-off to Linville for the 4th time this year. Don’t miss it if you get the chance. Deciding that an early lunch is the worst motivator for adventure riders, we committed to Goo-mary where surely we’d deserve a pie if we managed to smash through the suicidal swarms of cattle.
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Starting to think about steak for some reason As always the steak and kidney units were just sold out when we arrived in Goomeri after the sheer joy of riding the smooth farm roads, but never mind a “left field” corned beef and white sauce pie was still available. Tools were handed to Margreth’s
Team Sunnie at the Billabong Into Mundubbera and some wild gesturing from Nic caused a stop. Apparently there was a squealing noise coming from the bike. The piglet I’d brought along in case the Billabong Motor Inn ran out of bacon was quiet and just enjoying the ride, so the source was traced to the chain which was very loose. We still beat the other half of the party into
