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20 June, 2010
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Touring Steve |
Windorah to Toompine. We filled up in Windorah - the service station attendent was blind and appeared to operate the business by himself. I felt I was stuck in a movie. We left Windorah after stopping to check out the solar collectors at the edge of town. Road to Quilpie was a narrow one lane road and we spent plenty of time dodging grey nomads and road trains.
Our plan for today was to get to Glentuckie Station which is 80km south of Eulo and should have been an easy run.
Luke's tyre was holding up OK but my bike had developed a vibration which became more noticable when cornering.
At Quilpie we had lunch and I checked the spokes on my bike. The bikes had taken a real pounding over the last few days so this sort of problem would not have been a surprise..
We left Quilpie and headed south.70km out my rear tyre blew, worn out by being out of balance after loosing a wheelweight. This process was alarmingly quick.
Luke checked his phone and by a stroke of luck we had service. A few phone calls and a tyre was found at Quilpie.
As I had no way of carrying the weighty wheel a roadside tyre change was the order of the day. Back to Quilpie on Luke's bike to pick the tyre up and ride back. About 2 1/2hours since the blow out by the time I get back.
Removed the Avon rear and put on new tyre and repacked just as the sun went down.
I had found out that there was a pub 5km from where we had the flat so we headed there.
Toompine (known as the Pub without a town) was dimmly lit and I was feeling I was in that movie again. The bar as empty and eventually the barmaid turned up - she was a backpacker.
Thankfully that's where my movie ended and we went on to sink a few beers, get a cabin, have a HUGE meal and the barmaid, who was a hairdresser, gave me a haircut. What a top place!!!
The showers were straight from the bore and the cold water is cooled in tanks to get the temperature to a useable level.
Best shower of the trip. A difficult day ended well....
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