Author Topic: ONCE BITTEN RALLY (Read 5611 times)

aussiebandit · « **on:** February 01, 2006, 05:38:56 AM »

The Redback Tourers - Wagga Wagga (the group the Treasurer and I ride with) are holding their annual Once Bitten Rally on the 17-18-19 of March 2006.

I was thinking that we could use this as a get together for the Aussies on the East Coast.

It's held at the Humula Citizen and Sports Club Humula NSW. Humula is about 25km's South of Tarcutta off the Hume hwy. The turnoff is just outside Tarcutta on the Albury side or if you're coming from Melbourne you can take the Tumarrumba turnoff and the Humula turnoff is around 22km up the road.

The club sells, among other things, cold beer and will be providing the catering for the weekend along with plenty of beer.

We have the usual Rally events as well as beer, lots of fun and unusal 'characters' and beer.

Cost is $15.00 which includes a Rally Badge.

Once the catering has been sorted I'll let you know.

The Humula Club can be contact on 02 6928 9204 if you want to organise to have your camping gear road freighted there.

Honestly it's a pretty good rally, B6Mick went last year and is organising a return visit.

Oh, B6mick and myself will probably/definately do a run up 'Gods Road' on the Saturday Arvo.

And did I mention there's beer. And for those who don't drink beer, they also have various Scotches, Bourbans etc and beer.

B6mick · « **Reply #1 on:** February 04, 2006, 05:54:46 AM »

Here Here, to everything Aussie said! Come on guys, ya gotta try out God's road, it's really is a blast, And Aussie as a guide, ya carn't have that much fun in 80k's. And at the very worst you can only be no more than 80k's from beer.

And you forgot to mention the 6x12 pool table.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2006, 07:30:38 AM »

You're right I did, crap, and the juke box - or maybe a band this year - we've got to wait and see what the club (bike club not Humula club) finances are like....

B6mick · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2006, 05:28:03 AM »

So if Beer, gods road, jukebox, pool table, good people all having fun and maybe a band, ain't enough to entertain you, there is PAKI, he keeps most people entertained all night. Hope he don't win the autosol this year, then again I hope he does, I missed the look on his face, last year when he woke up.

We are going to head off from Melb, Thursday after work.
Heading east to Bairnsdale, Hotel it for the night. Early start Friday and head to Cann River, North to Cooma, and then down the Snowy Mountains Hwy to Tumut. So hopefully we will get an extra run at Gods Road, if we can find it on the way in.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2006, 06:19:31 AM »

Send me a PM with you're email address and I'll send you a map with the route from Tumut to Humula via Gods Road highlighted.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #5 on:** February 06, 2006, 06:07:51 AM »

Mick,

I'm glad you got the map and hope it stops you from getting geographically embarrased.

For those who want to have a look, I'm sorry you'll have to come to the Once Bitten Rally and experience it yourself.

You see, in the interests of all concerned, particularly mine, I'm not going to give out much more infomation about Gods Road. At the moment the NSW Polite Farce generally ignore this wonderful stretch of road and I'd like to keep it that way.

But if you're clever enough, and have a half decent map, I'm sure you can work it out for yourself.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2006, 05:49:46 AM »

OK, well hopefully our friends in Humula are alright. They are currently under threat by bush fires, apparantly they have 1 fire truck for each home so they should be good.

That may sound like a lot of fire trucks, but Humula is only a small town, if it wasn't for the nasty little corners at each end you could go through the place and miss it if you blinked....that is ofcourse except when the Once Bitten is on and we tripple the population.

Anyway, hopefully they will come through unscathed and we can help the local farmers by putting lots of money over the bar

B6mick · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2006, 06:28:56 AM »

Yes I seen on the news last night, But I didn't realize, it, the fire was, right at their door step, fingers crossed, that all is well for our friends at Humula.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2006, 06:34:02 AM »

I'll give you an update tomorrow night - they (the firies) are hoping for calm conditions so they can get control.

The other side of the fire, Pulletop, is right on another of my favourite back roads, so it looks like I might have to find somewhere else to play...

With any luck, we (the redbacks), will be taking a ride to Adaminaby on Sunday coming back via Elliots Way and Tumbarumba, assuming the Tumba-Wagga Road is open.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #9 on:** February 08, 2006, 05:13:56 AM »

Good news, the fires are just about under control and Humula is safe.

Reports say that the fire was caused by a tractor.....

B6mick · « **Reply #10 on:** February 09, 2006, 06:06:33 AM »

What? A back firing, hardly dangerous

But good news, about our friends at Humula.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #11 on:** February 09, 2006, 06:11:44 AM »

aussiebandit · « **Reply #12 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:36:04 AM »

Apparantly the Club (Humula) are going to drop the prices of the food from what it was last year. The down side is that there won't be the same selection. I think they over catered anyway.....

Also, we're looking at having a DJ on Saturday night, and a CD playing stereo for Friday Night and Saturday before and after the DJ.

If money and time permit, I'm planning on doing a trip up Gods before the Rally, just to make sure it's alright, no road works etc, I'd hate for someone to have an accident...the sacrifices I make for my fellow motorcyclists

B6mick · « **Reply #13 on:** February 24, 2006, 07:45:39 AM »

Shyte Mick ya stole me thunder on that one,
Of course thats why I was gonna come in from the snowy mountain hwy.

Must be the Irish side of us, to be sure to be sure

aussiebandit · « **Reply #14 on:** February 25, 2006, 07:31:25 AM »

So true.......