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That's ridiculous!!!! In Australia I prefer the winter months because it's not so darn hot. I have good riding gear and heated grips. It does get cool here, especially in the region where Ural Australia is based. They're in a town called Uralla...quite coincidental. Two years ago I rode back late from a recce and the temperature dipped to -4 BUT -34 is a whole other thing!

Hi Sergei, you are absolutely correct. We have a great bunch of people in the Ural community in Australia. They are good people, forever smiling and in good spirits. When I pass people on the side of the road, they look at the bike, smile and wave, I can tell they want to be where I am. We are a lucky group of people.

@@gregjansen9080 надеюсь, что когда-нибудь смогу покататься вместе с вами.

@@user-cq5yj8ty3j Hi Sergei, that would be great, you would be welcomed by the Ural community here.

Pleasure.

Hi Jim, it was a great ride this year, as are all our adventure rides. Such a great bunch of people. I wish Ural had a couple of demo bikes they could hire out so people could join us from overseas and experience how fun it is…maybe one day!!

Greetings. The tunnel is on the Old Grafton Road, fun ride but can get a little busy on the weekends. If you get in contact with me (go onto the Rocky Creek Designs website, find the email address and address it to greg. I will send you the GPX files of the ride. Greg

@@gregjansen9080 Cheers, mate. I'm lucky in that I can have my weekends between Monday and Saturday.

На всех современных мотоциклах кроме наверное кроссовых и совсем малокубатурных, нет никакого кикстартера лет 40 наверное, как то же они обходятся))

Да, у нас здесь хорошая группа гонщиков. Мы совершаем эту приключенческую поездку каждый год, и с каждым годом их становится все больше и больше. Кажется, что по мере взросления любители приключений пересаживаются на коляску, а потом удивляются, почему они не сделали этого много лет назад!!! Жаль, что им пришлось переместить производство, НО, по крайней мере, мы все еще можем купить Урал.

I'm sure your Harley would go great off road. A friend in the states took a vintage Harley across the TAT which is mostly odff-road. There's a writeup on ADVrider here www.advrider.com/f/threads/just-another-tat-ride-report-on-a-harley-dirtbag.910213/page-6

They are. Give Ural Australia a ring and find out when their next ride day is. Pop over to Uralla and give it a crack.

G'day Marty, that's great, you'll really enjoy it. Hope to see you on the adventure ride next year.

That's a lot of riding!! I'm off on a ride in a couple of weeks, but will trailer down to the start point. I tend to fall asleep on the long boring highway bits. If you do make it down here please look us up.

Hi Jim, working on it

@@gregjansen9080 Looking forward to seeing it, and hearing from them!

Hi Marty, sorry for late reply, I've just got home from MotoGP. I've had 3 Urals. Started with the CT, then the Ranger and now the 2WD. All bikes have been great, I love the 2WD. Just bear in mind that these bikes first came out in 1939 and whilst they've change a lot, there are still pretty agricultural. They will take a beating BUT there is a limit. Check and change the oils regularly, go over them and check for loose nuts and bolts after any long or rough ride and they'll last a long time. I love them and spend more time on the Ural than any other bike. I ride off-road 90% of the time, ride slowly, see a lot more, don't start screaming when I come up to loose sand and am enjoying my riding very much. You can load whatever you want when you go away, including a 12V fridge to hold the cold beers. A good day off-road is a 170-240km ride, any longer and I'm starting to ask a little much of the old body!!!! Probably the best thing I did was a course with Jon Taylor at Ural of OZ. An excellent course and worth every penny. Do the course, it will save you A LOT of puckering moments. Side cars are NOTHING like riding 2 wheelers, when things go wrong it happens fast and the correction is normally exactly the opposite of what you'd expect!!! Ural Australia run ride days where you can test ride the bikes, call Mat of Clare at Ural Australia and they'll book you in. You'll probably notice from the video the average Ural owner is a little on the old side and not very attractive...don't let them I said that! They are an amazing group of people and most importantly they are out there enjoying themselves and not sitting at home grizzling about the world. I get as much of a thrill riding my Ural off road as I do on my adventure bike. Do a test ride with Ural, do the course and get out there and enjoy yourself. Hope this helps.

@@gregjansen9080 thanks for the reply mate 👍👍👍👍

Hi Greg I ended up getting a bike off mat & Clare hopefully I will get it on about the 6th outback orange cheers Marty,

Hi Marty, I spoke to Mat this afternoon and he mentioned that they just sold out and "the orange bike is gone". Congrats, you've brought a great bike. Hope you can make the adventure ride next year.

@@gregjansen9080 hi Greg if I can get details on rides that would be great I don’t do FB so it’s just you tube that I do but i can take phone or message cheers Marty

Thanks for being part of the group. I really enjoyed this year, was a lot of work leading up to it, but well worth it. Looking forward to being both you and Jeff next year.

Hi Patrick, Glenn sent me the sand ride videos and some pictures. The rest of them I got off my GoPros and phone.

Many thanks. This group of riders are always a pleasure to be around. In the 4 years I have been involved, I have never had a problem, just smiling faces and happy people. Naturally nobody believes to a bloody thing I say BUT I promise, Gordon Ramsay was going to be there to make lunch for us on Saturday! Must have got lost!

@@gregjansen9080 I shudder to think what he might cook. Perhaps SANDwich's

@@haitch1980 You mean f...g sandwiches!!!

Nothing available on Google maps.

Greetings, I can send you a GPX file with the track. If you want another format let me know the extension and I'll see what I can do.

Hopefully next year we'll see you on a Ural.

@@gregjansen9080 🤣

Mate postie bike love you for just bringing that up but they look like a whole heap of fun

@@gregjansen9080 Naa, got a Himalayan too, no longer have full licence, let it expire many years ago.

Thank you. Was great fun being there.

Was a great ride...always is. Really good group of people, relaxed and NEVER in a hurry.

Greetings, there will be a GPX file available. I have sent them off to Matt at Ural. I'm going to run the route again very shortly and will have a final file available then. Please check with Matt at Ural Australia mid/end next week, he'll have them available for you. Look forward to seeing you in September, 3 great days of riding coming up. Greg

@@gregjansen9080 Thanks mate. Looking forward to it.

Hi Steve, I would replace the strings after 5 years. I have seen similar strings where they say 7 years so to be on the safe side 5. What destroys them is dust and dirt. I keep mine in a zip lock bag. Hope this answers your question.

Cheers Greg

G'day Bryan, I'll have you know it's damn hard to find music as bad as that!!! I agree, music is terrible BUT free. I have subscribed to a music service so that will improve. Thanks for watching and apologies for the "oral feast".

Good question. I haven't tried it myself but I have had customers who have used 2 and 3 strings. I will give it a crack when I'm back in the office on Monday and let you know. I did want to be able to load two strings at once but the gap in the end of the insertion tool is not big enough...yet. I have it down for future development, but we need to finish our current stocks.

Will do. We start the recce in March and hopefully will have a full route done and locked in by end April.

@@gregjansen9080 Thanks! :)

Hi Jeroen, your outfit would have been great on a ride like ours. Many of the outfits had road tires and managed to get through without an issue. Love the Guzzi's and will own one one day!! Just tried to build a sub-frame from my Tenere but there are no decent front fixing pints so have had to concede. I will probably sell it now and by a Triumph Street Scrambler and put a chair on that.

@@gregjansen9080 This is how we ride them th-cam.com/video/9kRK9_JHPLE/w-d-xo.html at 014 sec that's my combination we have a meeting in the east of the Netherlands every year in September

@@jeroenkoeleman4348 That looks fun! I never expected there to be much off roading in Holland...obviously I was wrong! I fear I have to get the street scrambler out of my system before I go to a Guzzi. Great to see what is basically a road bike, off in the bush. Thanks for sharing the video.

Hi BoBa, Спасибо за ваши добрые слова. Взгляните на людей в видео, пожилых людей, улыбающихся и смеющихся, и, самое главное, катающихся и наслаждающихся жизнью, какой она должна быть

Большое спасибо. Это была отличная поездка, уже с нетерпением жду следующего года.

Good afternoon John, Thank you for your kind words. Last year I pulled the coffee out because the harvester was sold to a gentleman in FNQ and we were left without a harvester in the district. I sold my processing equipment to the same person who had actually come over from PNG. Our coffee was to small scale for it to be commercially successful and it was a constant struggle selling to retail and cafes. We grew the coffee, picked, processed, roasted and packed it all here on the property...100% Australian grown, owned and operated. Sadly it made little difference to the the buyers who were really only interested in paying as little as possible for your product and in getting as many freebies as they can out of you. Had we setup the business as a "Coffee destination" I think it may well have succeeded. We now manufacture and sell motorcycle accessories which has proved to be far more successful and we have willing and positive clients all over the world. That said, if you are down at the northern rivers I would be only too happy to chat with you. There is no coffee on our property anymore but you may want to contact Zentvelds coffee in Newrybar, they have a good setup and do the whole process as we used to do here. Rebecca and John and both good operators. Greg