August Naivgation Ride 2013 Wauchope to Bacca and Back

[Ossie RichardsMember]

Well it was one long windy trailride. The trails were flowing with most of the time spent in second gear. I loved the route. Was probably expecting something a bit more open more suited to adventure bikes but there was nothing an adventure bike couldn’t do (the GS guys proved that).

My special thanks has got to go to one of the OLd Bull riders who gave me back my wallet after dropping in the driveway of the Caltex in Kempsey. I had all my cash in it. I meant to find him on Saturday night to buy him a few beers but I didn’t make it to Nambucca. Let me know who you were and I’ll owe you next ride (please no impostors :silly: )

As far as not making it to Nambucca goes I managed to drop my bike while alighting a few times :blush: . Fitted a a side stand to the 640 which is of the self retracting kind. The first couple of times I caught it fine but when it fell on the ferry something cracked in my wrist. By the end of the day couldn’t use the front brake and coul only get a quarter throttle. So the short story, I’m goin soft :S .

Ohh and what was the deal with the detour Down Fiona Crescent south of Port. Did TB have someone he wanted buzzed by 50 bikes on a Saturday morning :woohoo:

Annoyed with myself that I didn’t make it to Nambucca but will catch up next time.

[JohnMember]

Where are your photo’s of Jay Leno, trackside, laying next to his Ten? :dry:

I wish I had a go pro with that footage on it! It was a big off and he hit hard… keep talking to him Massey, we’ll need him on the next one. :woohoo:

Impressed you know/remembered the the Kings street name! I was flat out remembering your name…

[GregMember]

Date for last one this year to be announced very soon, it will be the adv Christmas party as such will have camping and rooms options I reckon.

Last one under the current format before next year

TB

[ianMember]

Tractor wrote:

Well it was one long windy trailride. The trails were flowing with most of the time spent in second gear. I loved the route. Was probably expecting something a bit more open more suited to adventure bikes but there was nothing an adventure bike couldn’t do (the GS guys proved that).

My special thanks has got to go to one of the OLd Bull riders who gave me back my wallet after dropping in the driveway of the Caltex in Kempsey. I had all my cash in it. I meant to find him on Saturday night to buy him a few beers but I didn’t make it to Nambucca. Let me know who you were and I’ll owe you next ride (please no impostors :silly: )

As far as not making it to Nambucca goes I managed to drop my bike while alighting a few times :blush: . Fitted a a side stand to the 640 which is of the self retracting kind. The first couple of times I caught it fine but when it fell on the ferry something cracked in my wrist. By the end of the day couldn’t use the front brake and coul only get a quarter throttle. So the short story, I’m goin soft :S .

Ohh and what was the deal with the detour Down Fiona Crescent south of Port. Did TB have someone he wanted buzzed by 50 bikes on a Saturday morning :woohoo:

Annoyed with myself that I didn’t make it to Nambucca but will catch up next time.

yeah your right , your just getting soft

[AndrewMember]

OUCH! Have woken up a bit sore today.

My arms and legs are aching, my neck is stiff, my right eye is half closed from the bug I hit , a have a servere case of monkey butt, have had minimal sleep and the sweat from my riding gear has stunk the house out!!!!

What a weekend :woohoo:

Full report to come later but a massive thanks to TB, the crew and the sponsors for another brilliant (non-organized) nav ride.

As they say at the Olympics – that was the best ride ever!

Bring on the next one already.

[PuddlesMember]

Toughen up princess. I’ll swap spots with you. Finally go under the knife today. But it’s not all bad apparently there’s 3 bones in my foot I didn’t break.
Puddles

Ace wrote:

OUCH! Have woken up a bit sore today.

My arms and legs are aching, my neck is stiff, my right eye is half closed from the bug I hit , a have a servere case of monkey butt, have had minimal sleep and the sweat from my riding gear has stunk the house out!!!!

What a weekend :woohoo:

Full report to come later but a massive thanks to TB, the crew and the sponsors for another brilliant (non-organized) nav ride.

As they say at the Olympics – that was the best ride ever!

Bring on the next one already.

[Damien BonoraMember]

Wigster wrote:

The best one yet. Even though I only got half of it done. Well gutted about that.

Interesting ride home (mostly tar) with no ability to operate rear brake. But at least I’m not sharing a ward with Puddles (get well soon mate).

Showed the hole in my boot to the wife. Suitably horrified by my (admittedly exaggerated) story, and swollen ankle, she has insisted I get the best pair of MX boots on the market. Result!!!

Hope every one got home safely. Ride report coming up.

Thanks TB!

Wigster

Hey Wigster, glad you got home ok, I hope you are able to work on that foot today, you didn’t look very comfy yesterday morning.
New boots eh…… nice
Thanks for your help on Saturday, it was a nice ride, looking forward to catching up for a beer on the next one

[AndrewMember]

Puddles wrote:

Toughen up princess. I’ll swap spots with you. Finally go under the knife today. But it’s not all bad apparently there’s 3 bones in my foot I didn’t break.
Puddles

:laugh: :laugh:
Not good mate. Like I said when you were down the ravine…we should have just buried you and flogged the bike.

[MichaelMember]

What a great weekend

Some of the best terrain I have been on in a long time, as Bucky said it had ever thing that makes a great ADV ride.

Thanks to TB for putting it on and all the hard you have put in to it.

Thanks for ever one who turn up and I hope you had great time.

Big thanks to Steve Smith in the support vehicle for all his help.

Thanks to the sponsors for there support and gifts

Adventure Moto and Yamaha Australia

Get well soon Puddles

See you all at the next one

Cheers

King Strucky

[Mick DMember]

One thing I failed to mention and it was a highlight of the trip for me, was the run along Plommer road with PTW. It was on, from the get go and I had it in my head that the great Baja winning XR650R would trowl up a Tenere in the sand and whoops, wasn’t I soon to be seriously suprised! A well set up Tenere in the right hands are a more than capable bike! PTW and I had a great time trying to out do one and another and we were both knackered at the other end. Only wish I had some helmet camera footage of the shenanigans as I had more than one gumby moment!

[Dwayne OMember]

You haven`t mentioned your little friend at Kempsey Mick ??? :laugh:

I noticed Ace turn his head to have a look for him on Sunday as we went past,,,
I was ready to do the same actually and had a laugh to myself 😆

[BradMember]

Well I think Mr Squiggle said it all. But I would like thank all the organizers for a great weekend. Great trails & company. Bit sore around the shoulders from wrestling the big girl but all in all a great ride. Thanks again & hope to see you all again in the future.
Wookie
(I am trying to upload some footage to youtube but having trouble, will post link if successful.)

[Dave WigginMember]

Trailraider wrote:

Wigster wrote:

The best one yet. Even though I only got half of it done. Well gutted about that.

Interesting ride home (mostly tar) with no ability to operate rear brake. But at least I’m not sharing a ward with Puddles (get well soon mate).

Showed the hole in my boot to the wife. Suitably horrified by my (admittedly exaggerated) story, and swollen ankle, she has insisted I get the best pair of MX boots on the market. Result!!!

Hope every one got home safely. Ride report coming up.

Thanks TB!

Wigster

Hey Wigster, glad you got home ok, I hope you are able to work on that foot today, you didn’t look very comfy yesterday morning.
New boots eh…… nice
Thanks for your help on Saturday, it was a nice ride, looking forward to catching up for a beer on the next one

Hi Trailraider,

yep, pretty interesting day at work on one leg but loosening up a bit. Not unlike an attack of gout which I’m very familiar with.

See you on the next one. It was great riding with you especially the Saturday afternoon bit. We hooked in to those trails, did we not!

Wigster

[jim cadyMember]

Well another journey of epic proportions has come to an end. :woohoo: And with it memories of excitement fun and fear. This ride was by far the most difficult Nav ride I have been on in the sense that there were not too many places where you could switch off and cruise along taking in the scenery, like some of the other rides I have been on.
Day one and it was sand, sand, sand, in this little stretch alone I think I must have picked my bike up half a dozen times, :pinch: and it was a relief to be out of it and back on solid ground, a crossing of the Simpson is unlikely for me. 😆 Nice views of the ocean followed with faster more open stretch of track.
Along the route I was passed by numerous riders and I still can’t believe just how fast some of you pedal your bikes. I realise I am like a speed hump and an inconvenience to get around :blush: , but my speed isn’t there yet, sorry, hopefully soon. It was speed combined with a late start and a few short stops along the way that saw me pull the pin at 3:30 at Taylors Arm and slab it to the motel via the servo and bottle shop.
Day two and an earlier start time with yesterday’s DNF pissing me off, saw the Farrier and I kick-off at around 7:50, and once again it was a case of him waiting for me every so often at an intersection.
We had been told of a steep decent on the route but after conquering yesterday’s steep section without problems I was apprehensive yet confident on what may lay ahead. Well all I can say is that I am glad I didn’t see photos of it prior because I don’t know that I would have done it, they say ignorance is bliss and it sure helped me here as once heading down there wasn’t a thing you could do about it. :blink: :ohmy: I stalled my bike half way down and thank #@&! It was right in front of an erosion mound. Would have loved to have seen the expression on my face as I was $#@%% myself. :laugh: :laugh:
Made it to the Pub with no beer to see Wolfman on the balcony enjoying a schooner of old, but although tempting pushed on to make better time.
Not exactly sure where it was but ran into the Beer and Band-Aid convoy somewhere along the route, must have been a dozen bikes, one quad and half a dozen utes flying towards us on a narrow twisty bit of trail which could have ended badly.
Frodo’s pies saw me push on without stopping, and leave the Farrier to have his lunch and mow me down later, oh to be faster. :pinch: I had intentionally adopted the Tortoise and the Hare approach after my disappointing DNF the day before.
A tight little single track with a milk crate bridge was a good little test for me, firstly finding it with the GPS and then weaving my way through it, this ride did pose me a lot of challenges.
Not much later I found myself on a tar section and looked down to see the line had turned blue so I turned round and headed back down the hill only to see two bikes flying back up the hill past me. So turn around again head back up to where they had pulled over and waited. The two riders turned out to be TB and Lefty and judging by the look on TBs face I am not sure who was more surprised to see who, me them or them me . Loaded the next map on the list and the purple line came back and away I went.
Was glad to see the finish line on this ride and take a break it was a challenging ride for me, sand and steep in parts but great fun none the less. Definitely need to improve in some areas and if and when the instructional courses take place hope to attend as they are on my to do list, my bike may appreciate them also as I must have dropped it ten times on this ride :pinch: :whistle: .
Thanks to all concerned for yet another great weekends riding, sponsors Steve , Yamaha, riders Mick, Pete , Strucky , Lefty, Amy hope I haven’t missed anyone and of course TB well done on yet another successful nav ride.
Looking forward to the next ride and party

Cheers James

[usiMember]

Great weekend away! I have definitely found the limit of the gear im currently wearing and its time to get serious

I had 2 spills one low and then one high so the bars ended up pretty much straight for the leg home!
Any quicker and i think i would have been taking a ride home on the bus. Anyway the refresh has commenced on the DR so hopefully i wont be turning up to the next ride with a buckled bike

Cheers to everyone involved

Catch you all at the next one :cheer:

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