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Originally Posted by Frank Warner
if they are coming your way .. pick a tree to park under upwind so you are out of the dust and out of the way ..
If you are going the same way .... when I come up on their dust cloud I pull over check the time .. have a drink .. check the bike .. have a pee .. in general wait 5 minutes (i time in on teh watch!). Then I proceed onwards .. if I come up on them again and I'm inclinde to pass then I'll pass .. but it is risky! I find the first 5 minute stop is usuall enough - they either pull off on to some other road .. or have a break themselves .. generally this removes about 60% of the overtaking problem.
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This is great advice. I got the hell out of the way when I'd see them coming up behind me. I keep a close eye on my mirror but once it busted I had to keep turning around. Empty roads so going straight wasn't a problem, but I was worried by road trains passing. That happened a few times, but most of the time I could see them coming up and I'd get well off the road. I was on an old 250 though. I saw heaps of busted windshields on the side of the road from cars that didn't think about the large rocks the trucks toss up.
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