Batemans Bay Detour Ride report

Great Great Great report Bollocks, took it on you are my 12hr hero :laugh:

Get them vids up mate

TB

:woohoo: Awesome stuff there Bol, looks/sounds like a top ride. Bring on the vids

Oohh, hows the shoulder?

Like Boll said, a good time was had by all. I thought I had better fill in between a few of the lines Boll missed. Spoke to the boys on the way down. Singleton, just excited, Sydney, loud and excited, Braidwood, finding their own jokes extremely funny and excited, Batemans Bay, just finishing off the remains of a carton of beer and a carton of Bundy cans. I think Mal may of had two out of the lot, so Boll and Dig had had a fair session. I think the trip down took an extra 2 hours due to Boll having prostate issues.

Day one. Too much fire trail/dirt road for me but hey that’s just me. There was some good flowing single trail in the morning which was neat. I missed Boll’s incident as he was behind me at that stage. He’s a very lucky man. The stick totally destroyed his pants and hip pads but only grazed the skin. He was a sore man, not even severe peer pressure could get him on the piss that night.

Seemed to improve on day 2. Day 2 was some really great fire trail with a hill that went basically for 30km and then down the same height in 10. If some of those contour banks were around Narrabri they would have their own names like MT Boll. Not quite so much fun when you launch off one only to be faced with large jagged exposed rock in the landing area but no offs so all good.

I was first to go off after the lead on the final stage to the deep river crossing (not the shallow one above). Anyway after a bit Marty the lead took off and left me for dead which I thought was a bit odd. Wasn’t going to go any faster though as it was a bit steep and loose. Anyway I finally got to the river and it all became clear. Hears Marty perched up on the far side with camera in hand. I stopped and waited for the signal from him on which way to go. Nothing forthcoming, so had a quick scan. Crystal clear, no boulders, didn’t look too deep so straight in whilst only one spectator. Went about two metres and holly crap, thought it was going to come over the seat. Bike started to bog down so on with the power. No place to stop when the water is more than air box high. Got to the other side, amen. Told Marty I guessed that wasn’t the ideal run and he said if I had gone downstream a couple of metres, then footpeg deep, but don’t tell anyone. Secrets safe with me. Needless to say all parties followed in my footsteps except for Boll (felt sorry for the injured) and a couple of others who had experienced earlier misfortune. I tell you what, a drz 400 can push a bigger bow wave than the titanic.

I knew Boll had a big night when I heard him ask Marty the next morning “where do you put the oil in this thing” whilst pointing to his bike. Well the jury is still out but I’m hoping it just because of a thumping headache and not the fact that he had never done it before. I must admit though when we washed his air filter on day two I could swear there was mould growing on the second layer of dust and some dinosaur footprints in the first layer.

Day 3. Had some better tight single trail. Just before we landed at Pork Chop Heffo gave us the choice. Take the road to the Chop, or go with him and some of his local mates who had joined us for day 3 to some of his hidden single trail. Anyway, was surprised to see that after the main party had departed on the road there was only me, Blue and Smithy left from the group. Suddenly became a bit nervous as I figured from looking at heffo and his mates that the pace was about to pick up. Anyway off I went determined to give it a crack and not hold anyone up too much if possible. It was the best single track of the weekend. Tight, in and out of creeks, logs, ruts, hills, it had the lot. Pity it was only 20 minutes long. Even passed a couple of blokes so felt a bit better coming into the Chop.

Came over the ridge to see Pork Chop for the first time and near shit my pants. It was one of the few locations where you can actually see the whole thing. It is big and impressive from a distance. Had a bit of trouble with some of the off cambers just getting to the base so was fairly apprehensive by this stage.

Watched a couple of the boys have a go and the guides make it look easy so it was time for my turn. Not as steep up close as I had imagined and also looked a bit grippier than I expected so I was hoping I was in with a chance. Not to be. Had four goes and only got to the top of the bottom section, maybe a 1/4 of the way up. Boll had the best dismount of the day. Going up was fine, just got as far as he could and stopped no issues. Then the ride down started. Not really sure what happened but I looked up and here was Bolls WR doing a little cartwheel down the hill quickly followed by Boll doing one of those runs where the legs are going flat out to try and catch up with the descending upper body. Unfortunately this is a little hard to control when running down a cliff so like so many others it ended with the ungraceful face plant into loose shale at the end. It was bad enough that I didn’t laugh until after he got up.

There will be more, but that’s all I got for now and sorry no photos from me.

Nice work Bol.

If this weeks OBT was a magazine your report is the cover story. Great read and photos and I can’t wait to see some footage. You don’t have to post footage of you crashing though as I have seen it in the flesh in Wauchope :laugh:

STM

Great reports guys and great pics Boll. Release the Vids

Hatto wrote:

Marty’s not bad on the up hills either, or the flat for that matter. Pulled up outside Dave’s gate. Dave goes well too. Was a bit slow on Day 3 for some reason. I think he was getting pins and needles in his hands.

Whats with the look here Bundyroy? Bollocks said its a gimp look and well its very funny maybe even a caption comp worthy shot at another time in the Muc-off thread :laugh: