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Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:00 pm
by Birdman
snorky wrote:I just rode to colo heights and the guy at the ampol confirmed that it did indeed burn down..He was also pretty happy to know that his little shop is going to get a lot busier...
hmmm motive ... maybe he did it
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:04 pm
by Gav
He's a pretty shifty looking character..
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:11 pm
by smithy5
snorky wrote:He's a pretty shifty looking character..
Don't know about shifty, but Claus has never been one to miss an oportunity....... He still owns the BP at North Wilberforce which he leases out, maybe he got a land only deal on the halfway house and he will have the Putty Rd all to himself...
No only joking, Claus is not the type of bloke to get involved in that stuff.........
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:47 pm
by robracer
mike-s wrote:Wowsers. Would suck if you got caught out there. I guess putty runs will now have a "backup" ute with a fuel barrel in the tray. Or just top up elsewhere and nanny it or go from the northern side instead..
Funny that as we never fuel up there, only at Broke & had plenty of fuel to go to Windsor & further
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:55 pm
by gpxpunk
snorky wrote:I just rode to colo heights and the guy at the ampol confirmed that it did indeed burn down..He was also pretty happy to know that his little shop is going to get a lot busier...
yep and i bet his furl goes up tp $2 a litre too.
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:02 pm
by Six Addict
thats a bummer, at least there is still somewhere to pull over and re group tho!!
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:15 pm
by MadKaw
I was asked if there was a KSRC ride up there when this happend...
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:18 pm
by ty
lol - I didn't expect that.
I should've - but I didn't
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:34 pm
by philbo
bugger cos i was there yesterday after lunch
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:43 pm
by Blurr
cool if they keep te fire going it can us warn while we wait for the regroup.
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:06 am
by mike-s
MadKaw wrote:I was asked if there was a KSRC ride up there when this happend...
*facepalm*
As to the never stopping there, well when i went up there i used to alternate between them depending on who was with us when we went up. Last i hard that bloke had problems with getting his tanks fixed due to a fuel leak or something. is this right?
Re: Halfway House Destroyed
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:12 am
by Naked Twin
Feel for the owners, I hope they have insurance.
Never fueled up there as it seemed to be out of fuel every other week, only stopped in for a drink and food if I was hungry. It was a good place to stop and check the blue light conditions with other riders. I always fuel up at the Caltex in Wilberforce, if you want to do laps of the putty just go 2 klms past the mibrodale turnoff and fill up at Bulga.
Nick