17th & 18th Mystery ADV ride report

[alanMember]

:sick: think you should have stopped at the pub for a feed to :whistle: looks like you had a top ride good stuff :woohoo:

[GregMember]

white rocket wrote:

:sick: think you should have stopped at the pub for a feed to :whistle: looks like you had a top ride good stuff :woohoo:

No time Rocket had to get to camp before dark :laugh: besides that would have meant staying at the pub and I am over carting my gear all over the country and staying at pubs everynight :angry:

Good feed there but

TB

[Brendon CarreMember]

It was all a bit of a rush getting the bike ready for the off!! I forgot a few things like Head Torch bolts on Safari tank,Camera etc but all was good. Top marks to Teknik for super fast turn around of my shock.
We covered a lot of ground on this ride and everyone pulled together and we all got home unscathed Except for some battle scars on a few bikes. :laugh: There were some great views and some really great tracks with a few snotty bits thrown in for good measure. Good testing ground for bikes gear and riders. As for TB’s report of my off!! NO WAY MY HANDLEBARS NEVER TOUCHED THE GROUND ONCE ALL WEEKEND.
Lefty man handled the big XR really well, even with legs that were short at one end and always found the high ground tree stump or rusty trailer to park next to for the old kicker.
It was really good to see Deejay on his new steed with all the Bling put to the test out in the field where it counts. Dont feel bad about your little off mate, it takes a while to get used to the power of a DR. :whistle:
Gaz put the workmanship on the DRZ to the test and apart from a little drink in the creek it passed with flying colours.
Krusty showed us how to light a fire in the great outdoors and kept a close eye on his mate, even taking a detour or two!
TB managed to get across the water before anyone with a camera arrived to take a pic and he was dry except for the Boots!! Thanks to all involved a great ride and some great scenery and so close to home. Great ride as always Trailboss. :cheer: 800k’s plus for me and enjoyed every one.

[Brendon CarreMember]

Give a man a go mate, I had’nt eaten all day

[alanMember]

what are those rehydrated feeds like boulder am not much into cooking when camping?

[Brendon CarreMember]

They are really good mate and no dishes.:woohoo:

[David FirmingerMember]

As TB has already said, we popped back on to the road and headed for Sofala. Got a quick look at Sofala, and it looks like a very nice old town! Didn’t have time to hang around as the sun was hanging low and we had a few k’s to cover to get to hillend.
The trip to hillend was an interesting one as Lefty said. The dust and bugs on the visor and the sun in the eyes was plenty of fun, hitting hills and backing off not being able to see the road. TB pulled up to swap glasses again so i kept into to get to Hillend.
A few roadies at hillend pub( and i got asked for I D cause i looked 12), and we got going to the bridal trail.
As had been the trend along the way, Lefty flew past me havin a ball and as much as i wanted to keep up, i let him go enjoyed the ride.
It was a very senic trip to the river, and the track had been smoothed out by a bull dozer, so it was plenty of fun.
I pulled up to wait for the guys to head down a track towards the river while TB found a camp site. Not long into the track we came across a bog hole and i watch the group fight there way through. I got most of the way through but had the legs out to push me through, when my left leg got caught on something and the bike went that way, and pinned it against the bank. As i watched Boulder ride off i thought to myself, as i tried to wrestle the bike of my leg, what the hell am i going to do here!!!! I stop the bike and some how got off the bike and pushed it off!! I continued on and pulled into camp!!

More to come, got to go to work

[GregMember]

So the camp fire died down and we wandered off to bed, was a big day planned for the next day

Everyone was up at 5.45 stoves boiled some had coffee and everyone was ready to ride at 6.40am. I walked down to the crossing and had a look at the river

And the crossing

Spotted some interesting chainsaw work, couldn’t have been Boulder even though he had been cutting wood in his sleep all night :laugh:

Everyone read it was time for the little man to fire up the BIG XR, the block of wood was bought out and the procedure started

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSAyIU3EiB8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

So a little push and away it went no worries. Once it was going Lefty launched it up the embankment behind the camp, bloody ripper effort on the big girl (Lefty can ride ) but the gods didn’t reward his effort as there was some number 8 fencing wire in the grass at the top of the embankment :ohmy:

Deejay stuck his head in to help

Soon it was all fixed, the XR fired up easy and we got the thumbs up from Deejay

More later including the Kowmung River crossing

TB

[David FirmingerMember]

Well the night went well except i forogt my chair! But that was the worst of it so i cant complain. Up at 5.30, and ready to ride at 6.40ish!
Crossed the river without any drama, with some coaching from TB, with makes the world of difference!
We hit the Bridal trail in fine form, nice and early and it was spectacular. :woohoo: :woohoo:
A nice flowing warm up pace was on, and when we were warm we got crackin, slowed only by the wild life!! Bloody sheep!!!
My first time on the trail and it did not dissappoint!! It was great and the bluff was pretty cool!!! (hope i get to see it again and they dont close it).
We snaked our way along the river, and crossed 3 times i think without to much drama from us up front, beside abit of a traction issue where lefty drop the XR at mooses crossing!!!!
TB’s Aldi bought GPS found a bloody ripper of a track, and the pace step up another notch, as it was a pearler and had to be enjoyed!! The track/road popped out just out of Sofala, which we were there early and nothing was open so we kept going to Sunny corner to grab brekkie!
Out of sofala, we joined up with a track that followed its way along the Turon and Palmers Oaky! We were spoilt with bloody good riding, this was another great run, and it got better and better, with some rocky hills and loads of fun offered by the washouts/windrows(watever u call them).
Between Palmers oaky and sunny corner was alot of fun, untill we found our way into the rally! Woops!!!! We tried our best to avoid the guys on the rally, but unfortunatley, everywhere we turned there they were!! So we waited for a gap and headed our way along the logging roads, but again they were using them! To TB’s credit, he took no risk’s, knew where to go and how to avoid them!! After a few quick singles we popped out on the road again, and made out way to camp Old bull at sunny corner, which was empty!! Boys were obviously out having fun so we kept on to Yetholme for fuel for bikes and boys!!

More to come, Bloody work again!!!

[Adrian GaleMember]

Yikes 800kms puts my 300kms at the rally in the shade.

Top effort and great report/pics and vids. More pls

[David FirmingerMember]

Well after a bite and some fuel and TB emptied his camelbak all over the floor in the servo, we hit the road to Oberon, via a section of dirt, which is always good! And found our way to the turn off to Kanangra national park!
A quick stop to regroup and we hit the dirt! It was a great road to ride on, slippery in spots but loads of fun none the less!! TB had warned me to be at the ready, as he had to find the entry to a track and may not give me much notice to turn, but he spotted it with enough room to stop!
We waited for lefty to front so we could head off down a fire trail, and as always he wasn’t too far behind!
The fire trail like all the trails we rode on during the day was awesome, a few down hill sections had us back to 1st gear but most if it flowed pretty good!
We wound our way down the track, passing a 4wheel drive ( that we would see again a few times), down to a river, before the river was kind of a billabong, with water blocking the track! TB hit the embankment and rode up and over with great success around the water! To paint a picture the embankment was about 1.5 to 2 meters high, and to be honest didn’t look too complicated, besides a log blocking a bit of the track. Well I hit it once and had to roll back to miss the log but kept going backwards to the point where i started! I tried again with more revs and aimed right to miss the log, but my aim was a stray and the bike and I went upside down, down the embankment! I jumped off the bike as u do, before it hit and landed in the billabong which was about forearm deap, at exactly the same time lefty rode across the water! It was a comedy of errors! Bloody hilarious, I yelled out to TB on the blue tooth, but all I got back was I’m in the middle of crossing the river hang on!
Lefty helped me right my bike, which took some doing, and crossed the next section of the river without any drama! I pulled up on the other side to assess the damage, which was minor, but herd Gaz, Krusty and Boulder coming! So I went down to the river to a look! After the 4 wheel drive that we passed went through the others turned up and had crack!
Gaz was doing good until he stopped 3/4 of the way and had trouble restarting, and after a minute or so he was underway, and a push up the hill saw him done, Krusty and Boulder had no dramas and after some minor adjustments we got going again!!
We headed up to the next crossing and over took the 4WD for the second time, the next part was a rocky hill climb, and some big ruts chucked in for good measure! This and the next section was the highlight of the trip, the pace was up another notch, and I could hear lefty into it so I wanted to watch the master at work! Unfortunately I didn’t get to see much because he took off after TB, so I nailed the DR and hung on.
We crossed the river again and waited for the others to turn up! There was abit of a
wait, and we found out when the boys arrived that there was a mishap. I’ll let Krusty tell what happened because I really don’t know, and he looked p’ed off so I sat on my bike and waited to go!
We got going again and there was another quick hill climb or two, and apparently TB saw lefty literally flying past me, with front wheel level with my helmet :laugh: :woohoo:
We reached the four wheel drive again and wasted no time passing it for the 3rd time! The track went on for a little longer and came to a T intersection, we waited for a bit but decided to go back because I was sure Lefty was chomping at the bit to get past me again but then I couldn’t hear him! Sure enough, we pulled up to the XR on a log with lefty pulling off the front wheel!

More to come, but not much more!

[Gary BloxsomeMember]

That’s it, I give up, No creek crossing video so I guess no one will ever know what happened.

[GregMember]

OWL 02 wrote:

That’s it, I give up, No creek crossing video so I guess no one will ever know what happened.

FARK OFF GAZ :laugh: !! I AM TYPING IT UP ON ANOTHER WINDOW RIGHT NOW!!!! BLOODY PM’S AND PHONE CALLS I SAID I WOULD DO IT TODAY AND TODAY FINISHES AT 12PM !!!!!!

NOW I WILL SHOW EVERYBODIES TONIGHT EXECPT YOURS !!!!

TB

[Gary BloxsomeMember]

Don’t bother, I’m over it now

[GregMember]

OWL 02 wrote:

Don’t bother, I’m over it now

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: 30mins mate still going

TB

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