Bago Ride saturday Nov 1st

As per usual, Friday night in the shed was a drunken affair, although we had plenty of jobs to do in the shed.
First job was getting Taylah’s Pro Senior running sweet for Sundays races. After a carby clean and a new plug the little screamer was running sweet as. You should have seen the look on some Trick or treat kids as I screamed up the drive way on it in the dark!!! Frightened the crap out of them..LOL.
Next job was to sort out the Cat XR and see if it gets to live again, the tick in the top end had us worried,so I delved into it and found one of the valves way out of adjustment,sorted that out and bob’s your uncle she is running sweet as with no unusual noises, albiet she is still blowing a bit of smoke.Tripper might just have to carry some oil from now on. So we figure the Cat can’t have to many lives left!!!
To celebrate, Tripper and I continued to finish off the carton, which in the end bought him undone which is another story in itself…LOL
Saturday morning saw heavy cloud cover and a wee bit of drizzle,my favourite riding weather, trouble was I was a bit dusty from the night before (nothing unusal for a Saturday morning I hear you say). Two panadol,a coffee,two ciggies, a swim in the pool and a sick up and I was ready to ride.
RiderX arrived to see me looking better than I felt, I warned him I wasn’t 100% and wasn’t in the mood for any Erzberg capers and he agreed to go easy on me.
We headed off to get fuel at the servo, taking the long way as we couldn’t go past his Missus’ shop as he was sposed to be at home doing chores..Ha ha ha
At the servo we met up with, new OldBull member,Bunyip on his new WR450. As we headed off the drizzle got a bit heavier and it felt good on my face as I was still struggling a bit, being revived by the rain I started to settle in and was having a ball and peddling quite well, yet the BRP was starting to worry me, as it was missing every now and then, but I perservered with it for quite sometime, untill We stopped and I drained the carby and she ran sweet from then on.
At one stop RiderX decided he would drain the air from Bunyip’s forks for him and they had such a build up of pressure in one fork,it shot the bleeder screw out of his fingers and we had no idea where it had gone except it had hit the bike some where,so some frantic searching went on, which even had us with the bash plate off. We eventually found it behind the radiator and all was good.
RiderX didn’t disappoint us with the trails he lead us on and we found some sweet leafy /loamy trails that will be incorporated into the March ride for you all to enjoy.
I had a couple of minor incidents on the ride,I copped the end of a lantana stick in the arm pit and didn’t that hurt for a minute or two!! The other was when we were going up a snotty, rocky hill, I got a little off track and got tangled up in some vine that turned out to be about 10 meters long, it was around my neck and being on a hill I just kept gassing it as I didn’t want to stop all the while tentatively waiting for the slack to take up in the vine and snap me of the bike. As it turned out I ended up dragging the vine for several hundred meters up the hill untill I got to some flat ground. I am glad TB wasn’t following me as he would have deliberately ridden on the vine and taken up the slack, just for laughs!!!
Anyhow, we did 60km and had a blast, RiderX thought he best sneak home and mix some cement before his missus got home, so at 11.30 we called it quits and I headed back to my place for a few hair of the dogs,3 sausage sangers and a 2 hr Nanna nap. A great day out in any trail rider’s book. Now I am off to the MX races this morning, man I love weekends!!!