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crossplane

My Rainbow Beach ride, summarised in one photo.

Can you imagine the smile on my face? We even camped right on the beach, and hit up Cooloola way to get there. Left via the inland sand trails. One of which 20km took us two hours. Intense fun. Absolutely loved it. Can't recommend it enough to anyone interested.

edit: Wow, I forgot to embed the image. Whoops! I'll add a few photos in now then.

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/279097_10151230761550733_1257951015_o.jpg

http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/267218_10151230762145733_338065358_n.jpg

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Posted Oct 4, 2012, 9:24 AM UTC · edited

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Dirt_Bike_Zero•

Oregon? Looks like awesome fun.

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crossplaneOPF800GS•

If Oregon is like this, I am visiting some time!

This was from a camping trip near Fraser Island in Queensland, Australia. Already want to go again and for longer.

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Dirt_Bike_Zero•

Yes, Oregon has dunes and beaches you can ride on. Too bad I'm 3000 miles away on the opposite side of the country.

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crossplaneOPF800GS•

Oh also, thanks for fixing up my spelling error in the title. As soon as I hit submit, I noticed it and groaned.

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RMITAUS: 1150GS, WR250•

Nice! Do you live in QLD? I have always wanted to do Rainbow beach on a bike. Are they TKC80's? How did they go in the sand?

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crossplaneOPF800GS•

Sure do! Live in Brisbane, so it's not too far of a ride for an overnighter. We made it a decent trip to get there though, trying to go offroad where we could and completely avoided major roads.

Tyres are a Pirelli Scorpion Rally on the front and a Metzeler Karoo Traveller on the rear. love the front tyre, rear I never really fell in love with - it just simply spins up too easy and doesn't want to hook up. Bit disappointing really. That and it wore out really fast. It's okay but I want to try some other tyres next. The front is good on the street for an aggressive knobby but it does weave a bit at speed.

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Jpetrov0•

I was incredibly disappointed to find that this is halfway across the world from me. But hey, looks like you had fun! What tires were you using?

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crossplaneOPF800GS•

Pirelli Scorpion Rally on the front, and a Metzeler Karoo T on the rear

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