Day 16 - Beachport to Adelaide - 3400km Completed

Ulls: WARNING! This post contains some unnecessary course language.

The headwind would just not let up, all the way along the coast, then north, then west into Adelaide. All bloody day.

Sunrise over the water in Beachport (mosquitos still asleep)

Thawing out after a cold night

My bike was really doing it tough today. 70-80kph averages over the day and when you've got to battle crosswinds and the then the opposite forces when faced with a head on roadtrain, your hands take an absolute battering. I could see purple discoloration forming on my right palm this evening from gripping the throttle. The biggest problem for me is that 75-80kph is at about the end of the rev range for third gear, so whenever I dropped it into forth, she would stop whining and start grumbling and moaning. In fact she's been a whingy little bitch all day.

Packing up camp. Hard to believe it all sort of fits...

So, these sorts of issues inevitably led to Torsten and I throwing a few aggressive words toward each other. Nothing we couldn't laugh about this evening though. We're lucky that way in that we can call each other things and get angry, even throwing a light punch or two at each other before having a laugh about it later. I guess that's why we're doing this ride together and not with other people.

Racing the stormfront

South Australia is known for its good pickings...

We slogged our way through tiny town after tiny town watching the hour hand on my watch push later and later in the day, and to top off a killer of a ride we burnt our noses and probably our retina riding into Adelaide with the setting of the sun in the west ...

Progress so far

About 400km today.