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  • March 19, 2011 at 10:14 pm #99686

    Brian
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    Don’t really know how much rain fell on the Sth Coast today, but it was heaps.
    Heaps & heaps & bloody heaps, never ridden in anything like it.

    Myself, Brains, KTMJono & SteveRicho headed out from Albatross at about 9am, within 30 seconds we were all soaked to the bone.
    Torrential rain interrupted by steady, heavy showers was the order of the day, goggles were ditched after a couple k’s so we could actually see where we going.

    This was supposed to a cruisy grade 2 ride from Nowra to Wandy….yeah right, this ride turned into a search mission for food & fuel.
    A search mission regularly interrupted by massively swollen creeks that were just simply impassable.

    I’ve been riding around this area for about 8yrs, and fairdinkum, I’ve never seen anything like the conditions we rode in today.

    Many tracks were just unrecognizable, top soil completely washed away, trees down, bog holes full, creeks that you normally wouldn’t get your feet wet were know 100meters across & waste deep….

    In the end, we had to back track because we just couldn’t get through the creeks.

    Thanks to Brains for sharing lead/sweep duties and letting me de-drown your bike a couple of times.

    Welcome to the Sth Coast Steve & Jono….

    Both these guys both had big grins on their dials all day in really trying conditions and dodgy directions from the lead which meant their grade2 ride quickly escalated to a gd3+

    Brains got some pics/vids if his phone dries out.

    cheers

    bj.

    March 19, 2011 at 10:22 pm #198480

    Steve Sparkes
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    Thanx BJ.
    I am sure it would have been fun anyway.
    Its the commute up and down the highway of death that baulked me in the end.
    We’ll catch up next time,
    Steve

    March 19, 2011 at 11:52 pm #198486

    Brian
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    some pics from Brains’ soaked phone.

    Wandy Creek
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    Gnatalia Creek Rd
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    Bottom of Monkey Gum
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    Testing the depth
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    Steve’s Honda deep in smelly black stuff.
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    bj.

    March 20, 2011 at 7:30 am #198481

    katrina ratcliff
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    Wow… I’m so glad I went soft and pulled out. Couldn’t imagine trying to swim down some of those tracks on my bike, soaked to the bone then doing the 3hr driving home to clean the bike. Good on you for giving it a go and I love the photo’s. Hope to catch up for another Grade 2 ride down that way.

    Kat

    March 20, 2011 at 8:22 am #198502

    Brian
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    Hi Kat, I’m pretty sure your 230 would’ve been submerged to at least the bars on some of the creeks that we did eventually get across :ohmy:

    We got across the creek at the bottom of Monkey Gum (3rd pic), Brains went through first, his bike ended up horizontal with the power of the water…..after that it was a 2/3 man effort to push each bike across.

    But still, it was one of those days that I’ll never forget….if it had been the middle of winter it could’ve been a different story.:unsure:

    cheers.

    bj.

    March 20, 2011 at 8:30 am #198504

    Mick D
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    You buggers are crazy…..there comes a time when, you think., “are we having fun or are we just riding to survive” . Great pics, thanks for sharing!!

    March 20, 2011 at 11:35 am #198505

    Greg
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    phone dead, 2nd phone in 4 months to die due to water ingress.

    Johnno and Steve did very well, thanks for org the ride BJS.

    March 20, 2011 at 11:45 am #198482

    Steve Sparkes
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    Bluddy Keen is what I say!

    March 20, 2011 at 12:55 pm #198483

    Alex
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    Nup that’s more water than my Kato would be able to handle. Lucky you guys didn’t get flooded in there or washed away.

    March 20, 2011 at 10:38 pm #198510

    Brian
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    couple of vids from Brains’ mobile.

    Gnatalia Creek, this was impassable….lucky or else we still would’ve been there stuck between this creek and Wandy Creek.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHZT9uOEyuM

    Bottom of Monkey Gum, usually a stroll in the park.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5VbfbrUxTQ
    bj.

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