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Old 10-08-2009, 06:14 PM
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Hello Again Duncan,

Seeing as this thread has become a list of the best roads in Australia, I feel compelled to give a quick commentary of the absolute pinnacle of Australian roads. It's actually on your back doorstep.

Another motorcycling friend and I planned to ride from Bathurst (where we lived at the time) through Canberra, Cooma, Jindabyne, Thredbo and along the Alpine Pass into Victoria and onto a plethora of other Australian beauties including Black Spur. In Jindabyne I insisted that we go for a squirt up to Charlotte's Pass and back (it's a dead end road) due to nostalgic reasons; I used to be in the Charlotte's Pass ski squad as a tacker. I cheekily asked the ranger at the Natio Park entrance if any one was up the road ahead of us, he informed us that we were the first ones up on that lovely Autumn morning. Since it's a dead end, I knew that the fuzz weren't going to sell me tickets to their ball; we had an open run. We made the return trip in 40 minutes; I'm not prone to exaggeration on such topics. The orange snow poles which indicate where the road goes when it's covered in snow are so tall that you can pre-empt the line of the road over the crests: no need to cool off as you hit the crests of hills. By far the best ride on a public road ever!
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