After reading Andys RxR and being all but house bound :aaarrgjh i kicked myselfup the arse and dragged the Black Pig out, the sun had been out all day and now a 3pm it felt fine so , in work boots , jeans and bike jacket i set off towards Rocamdour



The first few kms were fine but i little cold in the shade, but i was out and nothing ached ......result

Maybe i should fill folk in will my mini dilemma

Bloody Thyroid has gone tits up :aaarrgjh this being ill is really new to me , maybe i've been lucky but i'm payng now!!! anyway doc says it'll all get sorted and to stopworking for 3 months :wtf i have to work and there aint know way a bloody gland is going to boss me ............................he says :blah :blah :blah :blah

Result !!!!! ...............yes thats where i was , riding is easy and the old ticker stayed nice and calm ,but i can't go out without going off road :dirtsmile
Turned down a lane i knew that has a ford but found this



Thats at least a metre deep and fast flowing ops: but there's a bridge



This nearly proved fatal !!!! you can see i've got my Giant Loop luggage (yellow bag) strapped to the Pig (testing if it stays on)
I rolled onto the bridge and thought good photo op !!! stopped the bike threw my leg backward catching the bag and nearlly falling in the river :tosser

I chose this route because i know it's fairly light going knowing full well if the Pig went down i'd never pick it up on my own



If i'd still been smoking i'd of have a tab here



Good job i know where i'm going , bloody GPS has the wrong card in it



Civilisation ...................the back end of Rockie



The Pig



Time to leave it was getting chilly

But me being me saw another trail , should i :hmmm: i'm getting tired it going cold :hmmm:

What the hell.....................

I didn't stop untill here !!!! bloody rut was a good foot deep and the climb was steep and loose



I had a choice

Left OR right



i went left and saw the right route from high :dirtsmile i'll be back :dirtsmile






Time for bed said Zebidee..................the road home



Hope you enjoyed my little bimble , not quite an Andy saga buy i had one hellof a couple of hours and kicked the fook out of those demons !!!! "What if i can't ride anymore"

Cheers all

Phil

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I did enjoy your ride, nice pics and glad you can still get out there!
Matt

Cheers Matt
What i'd give to ride the Simpson desert

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G'Day, Phil. Nice photos.
Can I ask about your garmin, what are the wires around it. I thought that type of outdoor garmin only operated on batteries and also, how have you mounted your gps?

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Cheers AA
The 60CSx can be use with both , it has 3 ports on the back
One for an extra anttena

and these two the left hand one is what i use , its really for transffering data but works , the right hand one is the real mains power point but i think this is for the touretech type cradles



The mount is a RAM





And a 12v


Its a great little GPS, tough and quite easy to use , even for a Ludit like me !!!

Phil

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Thanks, Phil. Great detail!

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Nice report Phil! Look at those blue skies!

I've got the same Garmin and use one of these to power it on longer trips. It uses the 4 pin connector and is bang on.

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Hi Al
Spooky !!! i was looking for the info about the rack and going to get you to post it to FR
Phil

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Money sent Al ..............thanks

Phil

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Nice photos. Looks like an enjoyable bimble Phil. Jealous. I haven't seen a blue sky for months!

Hope you thyroid plays ball and you get back up to full strength soon.

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