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drikko · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:20 pm Post subject: A ride in the rain :)

Bucketing down with rain here so I went for a ride Smile

I've been wanting to see what the road to Jimna was like. poured all the way over Mt Mee, then cleared up at Jimna itself. The thriving metropolis of Jimna consists of a hall and a toilet which came in handy:-

A bit of ADVing:-

you get to this fire tower. The locals are trying to save it from demolition. http://www.jimnafiretower.com/ Those 3 supports are 47 metres long and made from single trees each. Nice big trees!

You used to be able to climb the tower and I remember doing so years ago but it's in disrepair now. There was evidence of repairs being made including strengthening splits in the main support:-

More rain sigh, but what a great ride, good to get back in the saddle after the last 4 months of knee rebuilding. Time to get bike fit again Smile

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garynali · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:38 pm Post subject:

Great pics thanks Drikko.It's a great ride all the way through to Goomeri from there. Hadn't realised that the state wanted to demolish the old tower. Can they ever get anything right?? When my dad was a kid in the early thirties he spent school holidays with family who lived in the old township there. Was a 15 hour trip from Bulimba , tram to town, train to Caboolture, change to the Kilcoy line and then a horse and buggy up the hill. Bet you did it a bit quicker on the Laverda.
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drikko · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:02 am Post subject:

Probably slightly quicker Smile

Not sure there is a Kilcoy line left either!

Jimna used to be a busy town with 2 sawmills, a pub and shops. Not now, just single mums on the dole according to the old bloke I had a chat to.

15 hours isn't too bad. My recently departed grandmother who died at 101 used to tell me tales of when she was a school kid. Her first year at school was in Sydney, trouble is her parents lived on a mine in the middle of Northern territory. It was 1917 the first year she 'commuted' to school, first of all a Cobb and Co coach to Darwin which took 2 days, then a steamship around to Sydney which took nearly 2 weeks. A few years later the train line went out to Mt Isa so she used to get the coach to there and the train to Brisbane which was less than a week. But as a 6 or 7 year old the steamship must have been a scary thing! And she would go in late January and not go home till December. Fortunately there were older kids doing the same trip so they looked after her.

And my kids moan about getting the bus half an hour to skool.....HTFU!
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K1100RS '97
Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

SugarHillCTD · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:30 am Post subject:

A ride in the rain.....on the ever-reliable Laverda Rolling Eyes

That was an adventure ride.

Hope you brought your tool kit a.k.a. THE hammer.

Seriously....a rainy MC ride is way better than a day in the office.
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