birdsville track

I would say yes, provided there wasn't any rain in the week prior to your trip or whilst you were there. The Birdsville track is currently a good gravel road all the way to Birdsville, if your Winnie can handle a dirt road for two days it won't have any issues, make sure you stop over at Mungerannie and say hi to Phil!
Vic

As Vic says, a good gravel road - just two points to add (not sure if you are into gravel road travel in the Bago) - some sections of the BV track are stony and smart drivers simply slow down there, but you still do need robust tyres to avoid punctures - the other issue is stone damage, in that even when you slow down, the underside of the Bago and the Suzuki, the front of the Suzuki and the rear of the Bago will all get peppered with stones, unless guarded. Great to see you have the distance comms gear - way to go.

My wife and I are also very interested in road conditions on the BV track as we are going to attend the races in late August, we have the right car for the road but will be towing a 23' caravan and have been enquiring if this would be safe, the van has off road suspesion but I hear it's not common to see this size van taken to Birdsville, has anyone out there got any good advise for our trip.

Craig

I noticed while at the Sydney Caravan and Camping Expo at Rosehill a couple of years ago that Winnebago was continuously playing a promotional DVD showing a convoy of large Winnies travelling up the Birdsville Track. From what I have seen of that road I think your only threat would be too much speed. Too much of it is far too easy to do on vast flat stretches of the type you will find out there. If you are going to hit anything hard, sharp, deep of sandy anywhere in the Outback then it is much better to do it slowly. If you forget about maintaining any kind of cruising speed and drive to the conditions, you should not have any problems.

Hi

Only three GPS units ? I thought I was bad !!

Have a good trip.

Cheers
Greg

Last August a whole heap of them went up for the races using the ferry. Their only problem was the attitude of some of the drivers.

We drove the rodeo south down the track in July last year (I know this may be slightly out of date). The North end was a little stony but the bottom 3/4 had all been resealed and clay capped, we passed 2 road crews who were resurfacing it. We found ourselves doing quite a few more K's/hr than we had planned just due to the conditions. At that point in time I would have rated it at better quality than the F3 freeway ( Sydney - Newcastle), Be careful at water courses that you don't bottom out the towing gear on the wini, however even these were in great condition when we passed through, most had been concreted.

Hope this helps.

Lachy

Thanks everyone from what we have been told seems like its the same as most other tracks we have done, take your time be careful and we should get there in one piece.
thank you
Craig

just thought i'd share a pic.
craig

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