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May 19, 2013 at 10:09 pm #102774
Great day in the Nundle forrests yesterday with a heap of newbies sacrificing their bikes and bodies to Boonys leadership. Best remodelling of a husky front end on record with plastic embedded in a pine tree as a permanent marker. Every one got home alive although a few with sore limbs after some spectacular get offs including an over the bars and off down the hill side effort by Luke being hard to beat for the best effort.
Sometimes though a non ride effort will stay in your memory for a while and none can beat houses style. He got a flat 10 km from the cars, we fixed it – no pinched the tube, new tube in – pinched it too, so house decides to call it a day, ride back to the cars and drive around to the Berry patch for lunch with us. We arrive and walk in to the building to find House lounging in front of the fire glass of port in hand and a few empties beside him, a very happy man indeed.Some great duelling evident during the day, always easy to tell someone wants you to go quicker when a wheel appears beside you on every corner. But as Boony found two can play at that game, but its only after you finish being idiots that you think about what happens if the leader goes down at those speeds in such tight stuff.
Hopefully Boony will work out how to post a video from the last super fast single of the day, if your coming to Nundle its in both fridays and saturdays loops (dif directions) and you will see from the video why we like it. Thanks to the normal mob for a great day out and welcome to the new blokes hopefully we didnt do you too much harm and we will see you again.
May 19, 2013 at 11:09 pm #242097Very good day out, bit sore this morning used a few muscles I have not used in a while. Enjoyed myself and learnt a thing or two also. Looking forward to the next one! Well its now off to the doctors to get some new indicators/clutch lever and so on… Cheers
snowy09 wrote:Great day in the Nundle forrests yesterday with a heap of newbies sacrificing their bikes and bodies to Boonys leadership. Best remodelling of a husky front end on record with plastic embedded in a pine tree as a permanent marker. Every one got home alive although a few with sore limbs after some spectacular get offs including an over the bars and off down the hill side effort by Luke being hard to beat for the best effort.
Sometimes though a non ride effort will stay in your memory for a while and none can beat houses style. He got a flat 10 km from the cars, we fixed it – no pinched the tube, new tube in – pinched it too, so house decides to call it a day, ride back to the cars and drive around to the Berry patch for lunch with us. We arrive and walk in to the building to find House lounging in front of the fire glass of port in hand and a few empties beside him, a very happy man indeed.Some great duelling evident during the day, always easy to tell someone wants you to go quicker when a wheel appears beside you on every corner. But as Boony found two can play at that game, but its only after you finish being idiots that you think about what happens if the leader goes down at those speeds in such tight stuff.
Hopefully Boony will work out how to post a video from the last super fast single of the day, if your coming to Nundle its in both fridays and saturdays loops (dif directions) and you will see from the video why we like it. Thanks to the normal mob for a great day out and welcome to the new blokes hopefully we didnt do you too much harm and we will see you again.
May 20, 2013 at 3:52 am #242098A bloody AWESOME day. Couldn’t think of a better first ride with some OBT. Great blokes and the best trails you could hope for. It’s always great to rock up and ride with a group who enjoy riding as much as they do taking the piss out of each other. The highlight of the day was from the meeting point to the ice cold VB at the pub and everything in between . Doesn’t get any better. I can’t wait for the next ride. Thanks to all the riders who made the day nothing short of a bloody ripper. Cheers.
May 20, 2013 at 6:12 am #242099Another great day in those Nundle hills. Heaps of unreal single trails, mouth watering hill climbs and ‘butt clenching’ down hills! :huh:
First OBT ride I have been on where I haven’t had a big get-off. I am stoked about that…..:whistle:
Thanks for having me along again, can’t wait for the next one.
May 20, 2013 at 6:48 am #242100Cracker of a Ride :cheer:
Many moments of madness that makes a good Old Bulls ride :cheer:
Really good to see the new guys in our area come along for a pedal,great bunch of fellas and you are welcome to come along any time
Thanks again to the Snowster and Boonit for leading the ride
Cheers Damos and House for sweeping
There seemed to be 500 blokes with helmet cams mounted on their melons,hopefully some one remembered to turn theirs on at some stage.Or is it just the “in look” :laugh: :laugh:
Absolute perfect riding conditions and it wasn’t too cold thanks to some unexpected cloud cover..5 deg i think when we kitted up :cheer:
Only a few bog holes to roost a few rootas..but alas..every time i parked in one,a new guy (eh Boze?) would come up behind me,don’t think its etiquete to roost a new chum on a ride :blush: ..but next time your history 👿 :laugh:
Plenty of laughs and the old bulls spirit was overflowing…with port from the Berry Patch :laugh:
A few pics
Luke on the Quaka
House cheering because he is about to get 2 flats and end his ride early
Snowy takes on “the steps”
Josh??? :unsure:
Josh’s husky was admired at the start of the ride for its pristine condition..10,000 km and not a scratch..1 Nundle ride later..completly rooted :woohoo: ..priceless..bits of Husky
:ohmy:
Good sport
Matt looking for Bunyips
One Husky with a broken nose cooling down in the creek
Polly and co look on with interest
Snowy does the blue steel pose..damius playing in the mud
OBT spirit
Aaron
Boze
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that Husky just keeps going :laugh:
Looking forward to the next one :cheer:Bol :woohoo:
May 20, 2013 at 7:23 am #242158As Snowy and Bollocks said, it was a great day in the forest around nundle, a tad cold morning but a great day.
We started of by going over some recently cut in singles and then we went and looked at the steps to make sure all was good. The boys have out done themselves this time, that new single is wicked,. We have deliberately put some transport stages into the loops to give riders and bikes a chance to de stress and cool down before they are plunged into the next awesome trail. :blink:
I led 14 other riders out towards Koolkuna berries at a, shall we say brisk pace, and all was going well right up until House who was sweeping remembered they sold port at the berry patch, so he pulled up and stuck a knife in his tire and then deliberately pinched the second tube so he could beat us out to Koolkuna berries and get on it.
The rest of the crew charged on in what could only be described as pristine conditions. The trails were grippy and the cold weather meant we weren’t getting too hot on the bikes. The run through the pines was relaxing until Snowy decided to get pay back from all the times I have ran into his back wheel and give him the hurry up. You could hear Snowy giggling behind me and then grunt when he buggered up an exit to a corner that gave me a bit of a lead and then I would stuff up and he was back on my tail. I had a ball doing this; I wish we had a stop watch on us as we were out of the single pretty bloody quick.
We headed across to the top of parachute and when we got there Snowflake took off to the start of the steep bit just to warn the newbies when the real decent was starting. All made it down safe. Aaron ( not rags)and I had a bit of a blast down there and I must say I don’t think I could have gone much quicker, gotta love the stopping ability of the Kato.The creek was very low so there was no need to slow down to cross them and they have graded the old trail so it is now 5th pinned to the next crossing then through the creek and flat again, the stuff dreams are made of. :side:
We took a different way out of the valley to what we normally use; the cool people that were on the very first nundle ride (2009) I think will know the way I mean. There was apparently some carnage on the hill coming out but once Luke realized he was not really superman all was all good. A quick blast across the top then into Koolkuna berries. I was noticing fresh tire marks on the corners and we had seen 6 other bikes earlier in the morning, you guys that lead rides know what I am on about when I say I was sticking my head around corners trying to see if anything was coming the other way, of course this didn’t slow me down. :huh:
Arriving at the berry patch only to find House kicked back in a chair next to a roaring fire on his umpteeth nip of port, was one of the funniest things I had seen for a while. :laugh: :laugh:
Lunch done bikes fueled port purchased and off we headed back into some of the best riding grounds known to man. I handed over the leaders vest at the top of fridge hill and dropped back into the pack for a relaxing ride back to the cars. The trip was at a nice pace and there was not many shananigans going on in the group. Well maybe there was this one peanut having a ball in the middle, back and front of the pack, sorry about the harassment Snowy. :whistle:
We hit the best trail in the forest and on went the helmet cam, I will try to upload the vid for your viewing pleasure. Snow and I had one hell of a race, and then the barstool put me on a corner,(that’s not how you play cricket). :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: 😆
All was going great, we were heading back to the cars and then all of a sudden I was arse up on a rock farm, trashed bark buster, dented header pipe and one hell of a stuffed up knee. A few coldies at the dungowen pub relieved some of the pain until I woke up this morning. :pinch::pinch:
Thank you to all the crew that made it a great day out on the bikes. The new guys performed the corner man system faultlessly and this lead to the ride flowing beautifully. Once they repair their bikes, bodies and think seriously about having us for ride buddies I am sure we will see them back out on the trails, they are more than welcome on our ride group.Till the next one
Some of the high lights of the day.
1. The look on Snowys face at Maccas when I asked him a certain question. 😆
2. The look on the ladies face that overheard me ask Snowy a certain question at maccas. :ohmy:
3. The frightened look on the new blokes faces during the riders brief. :woohoo:
4. Hearing about all the almost loses and the offs at the regroup breaks. :cheer:
5. Telling all the boys to stop racing the lead rider. This request was repeated several times. :unsure:
6. Looking down the trail whilst waiting to place a cornerman and seeing 10 angry Oldbulls hurtling up the trail towards me.
7. House at the berry patch, that was priceless.
8. Having some red hot tussles with Matt,Snowy,Aaron and anyone else interested. :whistle:
9. Watching Luke come out the other end of some snarly piece of trail unscaved. :pinch:
10. Belting along a trail and the bike just doing what it was told.
11. Watching King Bollocks pull the most phuley sikkest wheelies on the mighty 450 recluse fitted steed. :ohmy:Boony
May 20, 2013 at 9:44 am #242162Well what a ride. Think the boys have sumed this up all ready, bloody brillant. Me and my bike even seen eye to eye.
Highlights
1 Those super singles
2 seeing the Husky come out of those singles minus a front gaurd :cheer:
3 chasing Polly long the fast section :woohoo:
4 pulling up behind Bollocks for the 2nd time on a dam mud hole :silly:
5 playing silly buggers with Aaron up hill in back creek
6 NOT going over the hangers near the end ( dam put the wind up me :whistle: )
7 the whole dam day :laugh: :laugh:Yeh Bolls I know, dont know how I got away with it the 2nd time :whistle:
Vid to come. Computer crashed last night but all good.
Boze
May 20, 2013 at 9:52 am #242163Great reports , can’t wait to get up their again , love those singles :woohoo:
May 20, 2013 at 12:10 pm #242179Another great day in the Hills of GOLD .
Top marks Snowy & Boony.King you were right. the Go Pro was for me just a fashion accessory.
All I got out of it was a few pictures of trees & sky..
Back to sKool for me to learn how to drive the little smart box.Tell me Snowy & Boony who is the ghost writer doing the stories for you, & how much are you paying?
keep up the good work !
PS the strawberry port is really nice…
May 21, 2013 at 12:04 am #242101Looks like you blokes have done it again
But its hard to go wrong with the recipe the Tamworth chapter hasMay 21, 2013 at 11:52 am #242209May 22, 2013 at 12:44 am #242102Bloody funny vid Boze :laugh:
Next time your a goner 👿:laugh:
Bol :woohoo:May 22, 2013 at 8:33 am #242280Good Vids Boze
Just keep a close eye out for King Bol & mud holes
– He is not to be trusted :woohoo: :woohoo:
Pol :cheer: :cheer:
May 22, 2013 at 11:58 am #242286Yeh Polly I think I got that worked out now.
Hey Bols what’s with trying to run Luke off the track? It’ll go on the stacks & near misses later.
Until then enjoy
May 22, 2013 at 8:26 pm #242305Some of the run back to the cars
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