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A ROAD BY ANY OTHER NAME

rode this road was before it was a road, really. Back in the early ‘80s it was a wheel track on the mountain in places where the locals were the only users with their utes. It got better wherever it served log trucks, admittedly. I was living in Melbourne and had a BMW R 80 G/S, which needed a run. I had an appointment for some reason or other in Sydney, so I thought I’d check out the capabilities of the bike. Not that I knew what this road was like then; if I had I might well have taken the Omeo Highway instead, rough as even

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