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Home safe! Thanks to everyone involved had an absolute ball. :woohoo: Report to come later.
I Big thanks to all my “sponsors” for the Ride.
Chicken for the loan of the big XR600, and bags. (BTW she used no oil champ!) I used Motul 20w50 it seems to have done the trick. Needs re-jetting though.:dry:
TB for getting thr XR, mexican chicken meal, tent, mattress. :huh: I think I have about got it all.
Cheers,
Lefty
Lefty wrote:Home safe! Thanks to everyone involved had an absolute ball. :woohoo: Report to come later.
I Big thanks to all my “sponsors” for the Ride.
Chicken for the loan of the big XR600, and bags. (BTW she used no oil champ!) I used Motul 20w50 it seems to have done the trick. Needs re-jetting though.:dry:
TB for getting thr XR, mexican chicken meal, tent, mattress. :huh: I think I have about got it all.
Cheers,
Lefty
Leftone you are very welcome son, your antics on the big hunge were jaw dropping to watch at times bloody ripper. You do a good trail side tyre change and watching you get on and off the big girl make it all worth while :laugh: what’s doing on Moose’s causeway you didn’t mention that !!
Talk during the week mate
TB
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Oops! Ran out of talent eh! I bit slippery those causeways. :ohmy: And I really felt like a quick dip first up in the morning with about 400km to ride. :dry: Especially after we were all warned! :unsure: :unsure: No harm done just a little pride. Thanks to Boulder, Krusty and Gaz for your help too.
A motley crew :laugh:
Good read so far guys,,,
Where`s the rest of the pics/vids ?????
Busy busy busy is how life has been for the last couple of months so a ride was in order. Also Gaz and Deejay needed to test their ADV setups, camp, cook, get used to riding loaded bikes and test themselves :laugh:
I finished Gaz’s bike during the week, wheel bearings, chain, sprockets, seal etc Not the breather tubes for the carby as I was reminded 😆Once everyone arrived we set sail for Mt Vic the start of the dirt, but just before Mt Vic is Mt Boyce. There is a sweet little 2.5kms twin track to get you wet for the rest of the ride :laugh: I tell Deejay we are turning off on the blue tooth, he says ok, drop a gear or two around the back of the rail corp ute and away we go. All I hear is the sound of a bike sliding and someone with the air rapidly coming out of him :laugh: I look in the mirror and see Deejay and the brand new DR sliding under the trees :pinch: I ask over the blue tooth are you ok, he replies with a very embarrassed “yeah :blush: ” So I spin around laughing and shoot the shot :laugh:
Got the little guy up, and away we went, we took the twin trails via the service line tracks to Bell, then the same to the old railway line east of the Zig Zag. Tree down, so over the old line it was
I was going to film Deejay but I thought it was going to fall over and once there I helped everyone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRVhc3lR-ug
We had a quick breather, checked the bags etc
We sooted the Black Fellows Hand trail to Wolgan Rd. This included a section of the power lines track. Time was getting away and we rode into the Garden of Stone, down the wall which I will be honest had me shitting bricks :laugh: As DJ said not pretty but we got to the bottom, after which there were a couple of corners where Boulder appeared to be picking up his bike. He had more excuses than a drunk waking up with Julia Gillard as to how he hadn’t crashed but the proof was in the looking I reckon :laugh:
Again push push push, into a short single dark was coming and we needed to get to Hillend
Up the railway service track into Capertee, fueled the bikes and launched to the top of Cherry tree hill, we were supposed to do the service track to Running Stream but time was getting away, we weren’t making the time I wanted to. A quick left onto Razor Back Rd, its a slippery twisty track / road into the back of the Turon into Sofala. It has no guard rail etc towards the ends with the mother of all drops !! :ohmy: I was Telling DJ on the bluetooth that Nick with his fear of heights would be shitting the gear :laugh: :laugh: .
No time for stopping straight through Sofala, checked a camp site out west of Sofala but continued full noise for Hillend. Once in Hillend we ran into the pub for roadies :laugh:
I wanted to get to Long point, my brother Jack was down there waiting but it was getting dark and for reasons that are whatever I said we would go straight down to the Turon on the Bridle Trail. We got into camp just in time to pro form a quick smart setup
Wood was collected, Krusty used his SAS training :laugh: and made fire. We cooked
My Camp
Camp Owl
Camp Krusty, in the trees :huh: Does anyone hear a tree fall in the forest? Yeah when it lands on Krusty they will
Deejay cooking, oh he forgot his chair :laugh:
Krusty and Gaz cooking or doing something
The Left one a want a be Honda pilot
His weapon of choice
Boulder doing what it seems him or fish do every ride, fix their bikes
Camp fire surround
Boulder eating still more, he had a can of Chilli beans and a re hydrated meal :laugh:
Gaz had a lamb shank, yup :ohmy: A bloody lamb shank !!
We had a few, laughed carried on and went to bed for a 5.30 wake up and a 7am departure. 238kms covered which wasnt bad
more later
TB
Hey Gents!!!!! What a great ride eh! 700km in 2 days, starting at 1pm Saturday we did around 230km then restarting at around 7am Sunday and covering another 470km.
We started at TB’s meeting up with the Motley Crew! TB, Deejay, Krusty, Gaz, Boulder and Myself. We slabbed it up to Mt Victoria and then it all started :woohoo: Now you should have seen Deejay! Talk about adventure poor old mate was getting a little too close to nature, and took a little too much of my advice on board, when in doubt power out! But holy crap the DR went left, right then left again, just missing the back of a Rail Corp ute and finally came to rest in the scrub! :ohmy: I instantly thought shit i hope he is ok then when we found out that he was ok it was on then! Pick the DR up dust himself off and lets get on with it.
Along the railway service line to Bell then Clarence, through Sofala towards Hill End. TB is the master of directions and I am sure that he will fill us in on further details on the route. I do remember the sun being really low by the time we got to Hill End and the glare was horendous. Just a tip for anyone looking at getting yellow lenses for their goggles… If there is any sign of dust on them and the sun is in your face you cannot see! They are shithouse! I would prefer a clear lense if no tinted ones were available.
We stopped at the Pub at Hill End to get some refreshments then off to camp.More later!
Cheers Lefty
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