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Well I must say Ev knows how to put on a cracker ride, the weather leading up to this ride was pretty ordinary we had 372 ml of rain on Friday but sat an sun it was blue skys and it made for perfect conditions the ride was grade 4 but for an old fella like me it felt like grade 5 some of the time
but I still got through. The 6 of us kept a good pace all day. Ev lead the whole ride and we took turns at sweep. It was great to catch up with stm and nickj, haven’t see rob400 since coffs last year, good to meet dickie as well. Ev and I have been doing a bit of riding together of late and I swear he is trying to kill me. On ya Ev 
PS has any one got a set of rear brake pads evs seem to have fallin out 😆As always amazingly well put together ride by Ev ,thanks mate , some of the best trails on offer with a great mix of terrain.
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Nick
menace wrote:c’mon you blokes…youve had 24 hours to circle jerk about it, now put some bloody pics up :woohoo:
Ev doesn’t have circle jerks he has cluster f ucks
It was questionable that this ride could even take place after the rain we received in the day’s prior. The Coffs Coast measured its May average precipitation in 36 hours from midday on Thursday through Friday. Ev had faith that it would be good as long as Saturday was clear and he was right. The conditions were perfect and the crew assembled. Dickie had driven up from Choppy, Nickj and Rob400 were down from Yamba, Ev and myself from Coffs and Biggeral headed due west from the coast and met us out there.
The trail surface was absolutely primo and after gearing up we headed out at a good pace. Typically on an Ev ride there is no real settling in period, it is straight into a green blur.
We headed out into the forest on some buffed fire roads that had not seen much four-wheel traffic and had a groomed single line running along them.
Ev set a cracking pace and we all flowed through to the first tight section of the day.
We were soon descending into a creek bed that I remembered from a previous ride with EV.
I should have been worried about the amount of water in them but it was hard not to be distracted by Dickies backpack. He had no problem on the trails all day but I bet he had some dramas on Monday morning when his daughter discovered how filthy her school bag was. :laugh:
We dropped into the first creek and I was surprised that they were ridable.
The water had run off and the 370ml was well down the catchment by now and we were left with awesome creek runs
On an EV ride you are never on flat ground for long and we were soon climbing out of the creek and headed for higher ground.
No sooner had we reached the top of a ridgeline and we turned sharply and plunged back down a steep slope into our next lush gully.
When we climbed out of this one Ev gave us our first real test for the day. A steep rutted bank with roots worn through and large hanging vines that you had to dodge to keep momentum. The tow strap came out and once we were above the worst of it we took a rest. On an EV ride you don’t take a break in a shaded clearing, you simply lay down where you last fell off. :laugh:
To Be Continued
STM
Great pic.s scotty keep em coming
Cool pic’s Scott! Interested to know how you do them from the GoPro.
Do you have to click the Remote for stills shots for each one?
OR
Do you have it set to take them at regular intervals?
OR
Do you have it recording video and then rip the stills from the video?I don’t have a GoPro so I’m not sure of the capabilty here, but I do know I’m a really lazy picture taker if I have a normal camera with me on a ride, basically it never leaves my backpack so it’s a waste of time me even carrying it! But I kick myself after every ride that I don’t have any pics! :pinch:
Maybe it’s time for me to go GoPro?
Thx
RazzPS Those trails look sweet!!
razzle wrote:Cool pic’s Scott! Interested to know how you do them from the GoPro.Do you have to click the Remote for stills shots for each one?
OR
Do you have it set to take them at regular intervals?
OR
Do you have it recording video and then rip the stills from the video?I don’t have a GoPro so I’m not sure of the capabilty here, but I do know I’m a really lazy picture taker if I have a normal camera with me on a ride, basically it never leaves my backpack so it’s a waste of time me even carrying it! But I kick myself after every ride that I don’t have any pics! :pinch:
Maybe it’s time for me to go GoPro?
Thx
RazzPS Those trails look sweet!!
Hey Razz,
I set my GoPro on the medium lens width to eliminate the fish eye, set it at 8mb and program interval timer for 5 secs. Then I simple push the button once and let it roll. I mounted half the ride forward and half back. In total i took 895 shots for the day. Get home, crack a beer, delete the crud and keep the gold
Too easy!!
STM
razzle wrote:Cool pic’s Scott! Interested to know how you do them from the GoPro.Do you have to click the Remote for stills shots for each one?
OR
Do you have it set to take them at regular intervals?
OR
Do you have it recording video and then rip the stills from the video?I don’t have a GoPro so I’m not sure of the capabilty here, but I do know I’m a really lazy picture taker if I have a normal camera with me on a ride, basically it never leaves my backpack so it’s a waste of time me even carrying it! But I kick myself after every ride that I don’t have any pics! :pinch:
Maybe it’s time for me to go GoPro?
Thx
RazzPS Those trails look sweet!!
G,Day Razzle,
I have got a contour and use i movie, but any cam on i movie would work the same,just starting to muck around with this. You can remove a still pick and add into your clip or you can save it in a j peg file and upload it or whatever from their,should be able to get that all important bike flipping shot of the vid.Great pics STM 800+ pics must have some good ones,do you miss having vid action when your doing still mode the whole ride or switch it up?
Better add Macksville to my bucket list,buffed fire trails groomed single sounds tops.
cheers
twobanger wrote:razzle wrote:Cool pic’s Scott! Interested to know how you do them from the GoPro.Do you have to click the Remote for stills shots for each one?
OR
Do you have it set to take them at regular intervals?
OR
Do you have it recording video and then rip the stills from the video?I don’t have a GoPro so I’m not sure of the capabilty here, but I do know I’m a really lazy picture taker if I have a normal camera with me on a ride, basically it never leaves my backpack so it’s a waste of time me even carrying it! But I kick myself after every ride that I don’t have any pics! :pinch:
Maybe it’s time for me to go GoPro?
Thx
RazzPS Those trails look sweet!!
G,Day Razzle,
I have got a contour and use i movie, but any cam on i movie would work the same,just starting to muck around with this. You can remove a still pick and add into your clip or you can save it in a j peg file and upload it or whatever from their,should be able to get that all important bike flipping shot of the vid.Great pics STM 800+ pics must have some good ones,do you miss having vid action when your doing still mode the whole ride or switch it up?
Better add Macksville to my bucket list,buffed fire trails groomed single sounds tops.
cheers
The GoPro3 allows you to record 1080p vid and set your stills interval timer to work at the same time.
Easy to get good shots on trails this good!!STM
Thanks STM and TwoB … like the idea of Video AND Stills at the same time :woohoo: Prob run out of mem card quick that way though. Stills every five seconds is the go I reckon for me.
Macksville is on my “back in the saddle” list definitely … soon(ish)
:pinch:Sorry for highjacking the thread guys …
Razz
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