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Had a good run up to O'Reilly's yesterday. Left Mt Tamborine and headed down the 'Goat Track' to Canungra - along the way I had verbal altercation with a motorcyclist who thought it OK to pass around a hairpin corner, on a single white line, then proceed to go slow once in front of me just to show he could. He wasn't too impressed with the distance I left between him and me and said so when we stopped at the T intersection above Canungra. Even the wife got into him as he was well in the wrong but displayed the usual arrogance that weekend motorcyclists love to show. To top it off he had some ridiculous English accent (eeh by gum, that be a lovely bargin') - reminded me of the Goodies.
The run up the winding road to O'Reilly's was great as I passed slower cars down the bottom where there is ample opportunity to pass, leaving the rest of the run 'slow car free'. I left the gearbox in D and it did a great job of holding the right gear for the corners, leaving just enough revs for the boost to come on with a squirt of the accelerator once around the very tight corners. I caught up to a few other cars once up in the rain forest section - one pulled over in the small passing bays that dot the road up, but the other thought he'd just amble along and I was stuck behind him until the top.
One piece of advice having done many trips along this road - go up in the morning and come down in the afternoon. Most traffic goes up in the morning so the chances of coming up against oncoming traffic is slim. This road is very narrow in some places - so narrow you have to pull off to pass (watch out for the vines hanging on the side of the roads!). Most people have lunch then head home so the flow of traffic is reversed from about 2pm onwards. Avoid the coaches at all costs - they normally just sit and wait for the cars to reverse out of the way.
Saw a few other Tigs up there - one from Vic (gold 125TSI) and a black TDI with QLD plates. Anyone from here? I also saw a blue Tig on Mt Tamborine on Friday which looked very familiar...
Highly recommend this as a future VW weekend drive - great road that offers plenty of cruising and tight twisting hairpins with short straights in between - all within a 32km stretch. Good food and great views at the end.
The run up the winding road to O'Reilly's was great as I passed slower cars down the bottom where there is ample opportunity to pass, leaving the rest of the run 'slow car free'. I left the gearbox in D and it did a great job of holding the right gear for the corners, leaving just enough revs for the boost to come on with a squirt of the accelerator once around the very tight corners. I caught up to a few other cars once up in the rain forest section - one pulled over in the small passing bays that dot the road up, but the other thought he'd just amble along and I was stuck behind him until the top.
One piece of advice having done many trips along this road - go up in the morning and come down in the afternoon. Most traffic goes up in the morning so the chances of coming up against oncoming traffic is slim. This road is very narrow in some places - so narrow you have to pull off to pass (watch out for the vines hanging on the side of the roads!). Most people have lunch then head home so the flow of traffic is reversed from about 2pm onwards. Avoid the coaches at all costs - they normally just sit and wait for the cars to reverse out of the way.
Saw a few other Tigs up there - one from Vic (gold 125TSI) and a black TDI with QLD plates. Anyone from here? I also saw a blue Tig on Mt Tamborine on Friday which looked very familiar...
Highly recommend this as a future VW weekend drive - great road that offers plenty of cruising and tight twisting hairpins with short straights in between - all within a 32km stretch. Good food and great views at the end.
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