202 On Tour

Day 20, Thursday 21st August – The day the sidecar tried to leave the chat

On the road from Bramwell Tourist Park to Bamaga by

Bolt had backed out of the front ball type coupling. Happened right before Fruit Bat Falls turnoff. Awesome place to get covered in dust with all the activity. Spot the problem…

At least we had all the bits. One bloke was asking if anyone had seen his caravan door!🙅 20 kays back was the answer we heard. In the direction we were going

Fair old lean in going on
Me, just at that ready to act but head scratching phase
Lizzie being helpful
Saved by Craig from
NQ Dirt Bike Tours!
Ready to cross
We are the queue!
Jardine River Ferry, all to ourselves
Twas a long day. But the pub had slabs of Great Northern Zero for $85, a bargain in the circumstances! And after this i found out we were the farthest room in the motel/ lodge. Dark moment…
This Jimny had just finished the OTT

While we were mobile, having addressed the ball clamp, we has made some compromises on the front cross member, 45 mm of compromise to be precise.

This is enormous in sidecar terms and the bike wasn’t in its sweet spot, to say the very least.

Dropped it at one of the mechanics in town, hoping they might get to it while we sailed to Thursday Island on the ferry tomorrow, Friday.

Saw the 3 fellas on Royal Enfield Himalayans. They were beat – the good road after the ferry was closed and there was 20?kms of oretty ordinary sand to contend with. At least the sidecar makes sand tolerable.

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