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  • April 22, 2013 at 11:15 am #102640

    glenn
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    Took the family to the upper horton trail ride on the weekend. We had a bloody ball, there was a bit of dust, but hey who really needs to see what their gunna hit anyway. We camped out with a couple of the local families. The tin lids cut sick on the amature track whilst the adults thought they were a cross between chad reed and ben grabham out on the seniors track.
    There was around 300 riders and the trail sure did show some wear and tear by the time Matt and I done our sunday look.

    saturday night at the club house was hillarious, the boys were definetly on song and in for a big one..
    The night got even better when I won the honda they had up for the lucky door prize.

    i can not wait for the next trail ride at north star in a couple of months.

    Cheers to matt for the loan of the pro senior for my young bloke to ride for the weekend..

    Boony

    April 22, 2013 at 12:07 pm #240214

    Aaron Wilde
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    Good to see you have got yourself a better bike mate. See that’s the power of dreams right there. 👿 you won’t now yourself in the crf. :P great weekend dust was crap. Mates and beers even better. The guys at Thomas Lee and the local mob put on a great event. Well done! Also sorry Matt for drenching you pep style. :blush: It was boonys go pro that made me do it but turns out it was off. :( cant wait for North Star !!

    April 22, 2013 at 1:32 pm #240215

    craig evans
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    what size bike boony ,it def was your weekend by the sound of it :woohoo:

    April 22, 2013 at 6:57 pm #240234

    Aaron Wilde
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    He won a CRF50. It was a raffle prize that you got a a free ticket for every person that went on the ride. ;) it has a full sticker kit on it and it looks great. All you had to do was be there with your tickets at the pub on the Saturday night festivities. It was very hard work waiting for the draw at 730. 😆 I thought I would answer for boony as he works for the gubberment and won’t be out of bed for a few hours. :P

    April 22, 2013 at 9:08 pm #240235

    glenn
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    As Aaron said , I won the entry raffle, it is a CRF50 with the best graffic kit I have seen for a while,it has chilli 50 on it. Thomas lee motorcycles from moree sponsored the ride and they donated it for a prize. the young bloke is as happy as a pig in poo about winning it.

    I can fully suggest these style of rides for a family weekend out on the bikes. Might have to look at making one a old bulls outing, in saying that I was about 30 ks from camp out on the trail when our resident paramadic razzie come up and says g`day Boony,, I thought bloody hell these old bulls are everywhere. :cheer: i dont think he was to busy on the weekend which was good.

    Boony

    April 22, 2013 at 9:49 pm #240216

    craig evans
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    sounds like a good weekend, once im up and ridn again ill have to come and check them out

    April 23, 2013 at 12:06 am #240240

    Mick D
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    Good one Boony, they do sound like a great weekend. Maybe there is some sense in what you say and we organise an Old Bull outing to one!

    Winning a Honda has gotta be a bonus, that is the Honda Gods smiling on you, for helping us out on the Scrapheap ride!!

    Cheers to you Boony!

    April 23, 2013 at 1:49 am #240217

    simon burke
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    Awesome stuff Boonit :cheer:
    I bet the little fella is over the moon.
    Allways a good day at the Horton :)
    Bol :woohoo:

    April 23, 2013 at 9:20 am #240245

    Cris
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    This young feller was keen.

    I called in to see if Boony was coming for a ride, he said after the kids have had a ride.

    So my brother & I left, but who is following me.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQsFUtQFcrY&list=PLhbeJYa4S7riHMqWYSfGy4M075LVW8X5i

    Did you lose him for a bit Boony :)

    April 23, 2013 at 10:07 am #240218

    Scott
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    I only just saw him when I was backing out, and I hope that’s the vid of me for weekend. Don’t need anymore reminders of the weekend cracked ribs is enough

    April 25, 2013 at 6:22 am #240284

    Cris
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    Dam that’s not good. Hope ya heal quick and good.

    Chasing someone through the dust was not fun at all. Then you had those quick sharp gullies that came from no where. I’ll take it you found one of them.

    I found the riding different from what I’m used to (Nundle) but was fun. The hard loop tested me but I got around with no help, well someone from the bushes held me bike so I could get on the other side and try again on the dry creek hill climb. Dam it was cut up on day 2. No offs just dropped it on the hill climbs so for that I’m happy. Had one attempt at the hill with the log across the bottom and got 3/4 of the way up, next time I’ll try 1st gear. :laugh:

    Watching back through my vids I rode like about 1.5hrs with no break, no wounder I had sore arms on Monday.

    Boze

    April 25, 2013 at 10:21 am #240397

    Aaron Wilde
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    Boze wrote:
    Dam that’s not good. Hope ya heal quick and good.

    Chasing someone through the dust was not fun at all. Then you had those quick sharp gullies that came from no where. I’ll take it you found one of them.

    I found the riding different from what I’m used to (Nundle) but was fun. The hard loop tested me but I got around with no help, well someone from the bushes held me bike so I could get on the other side and try again on the dry creek hill climb. Dam it was cut up on day 2. No offs just dropped it on the hill climbs so for that I’m happy. Had one attempt at the hill with the log across the bottom and got 3/4 of the way up, next time I’ll try 1st gear. :laugh:

    Watching back through my vids I rode like about 1.5hrs with no break, no wounder I had sore arms on Monday.

    Boze

    Hey boze yes the dust was very bad and the track got much worse day 2. I tried the log hill climb in first and ended up with the bike on the uphill side of a tree upside down. :( nobody was around so I had to drag the bike side ways my YZ does not look so pretty anymore. The final technique was over the log in first click second and pin it. :woohoo: a little bit of clutch at the top to smooth out the roots. Having nobody around while attempting hill climbs is probably a bit silly but it does pressure you not to f it up. I am definitely getting myself a go pro or similar as I tried to film Charlie in the rocky creek with my iPhone but you get suck watching it and it makes crashes a bit too easy to perform. Lol

    May 6, 2013 at 7:01 am #240405

    Cris
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    Yeh Aaron I was putting around the hard loop on me own on day 1. So I only had 1 attempt as the crew that was there left so I thought the same thing, bad idea alone.

    But day 2 I had me mad brother (also Aaron) who gave it some but didn’t quite get there. It wore him out.

    We use the DRIFT camera on my helmet strap, sits closer to you then the GOPRO.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6WuwyFxdAc&list=PLhbeJYa4S7rgPevV5DGDCb9OdWvPQXnww

    Boze

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