Badbowie’s Ben Bullen Comeback Ride

[ScottMember]

I was pretty bummed when I wasn’t able to attend Mals ride last weekend. Unfortunately I was still injured from an off back in late December. Got back to work this week after 7 weeks off and thought I need a ride.
sb_250y and myself joined up with Mal 5.1 to do a nice easy ride and do a bit of reconnaissance for future rides. Well the weather was not kind to us and it rained all day. The nice easy part of the ride went out the window very early in the day and it turned into one of the hardest rides I have ever done. I’m pretty sure all of us layed down for a rest at sometime through the day well i know I did a couple of times…….. We only did about 40km’s in around 7 hours so it was pretty slow going. A good day was had by all, it will be a cracker loop if we can piece it all together.

Badbowie early in the day

Mal 5.1

Mal on the gas

Same spot take 2

sb_250y in the fog

Mal with badbowie ready to offer assistance This hill was a bastard we considered turning around but the other way was no better

Badbowie a bit loose

Mal nailing it

badbowie, this was so slippery Mals bike is parked behind, it is now brown sorry Mal

Mal

Mal

[MalMember]

What a cracker of a day for riding. It started to rain just as we geared up. We told Badbowie that we just wanted to check some tracks we seen last weekend. Turns out we found a few more and I was told about a couple of new ones that are hard to find.

Parts of the ride turned in to a grade 5 with one track been about a 1.5 loop of what I think would be grade 5+ that went up and up and then almost straight down. It was the most concerned I’ve been going down a hill ever.

Once sb and Badbowie (and KTM_Rules) link it all up it will be around 100kms of punishing single track with very little fire trail. :woohoo:

I just need more fuel range now.

My bike after I parked it in the wrong spot. :laugh: :laugh:

[StuartMember]

For what was meant to be an easy day checking out a few trails, it turned into the an extremely tough ride. A few times I thought we’d gone past the point of no return.

A lot of time was spent dragging bikes & building trails, each time we thought we were at the top of a hill another steep snotty climb loomed. We didn’t cover a lot of distance but some of the trails were awesome.

We found a few more trails that need exploring & hopefully will make an extremely challenging loop with new & old trails.

[peteMember]

Those pics are incredible !!!! :woohoo: and as always the pics probabley dont do it justice, there must have been a deafening echo ring out when you reved your bikes while in and around those rocks :pinch: :laugh:
Awesome guys, its always hard to forget a ride like that.

PTW

[corey heatherMember]

That is some of the best ride pics i have seen for a while. Good on you guys looks like fun.

[murph the surfMember]

Definately the wrong place to park, Mal. :ohmy:
Good to see you are getting back to our roots of canyoning mate.
Would love to come for another play before they get trashed
Great stuff fella’s
Cheers
Murph

[Adrian GaleMember]

Those pics were just awesome. Maybe a couple for above the fireplace / shed?

classic shot of the swamp bike.

Love to do the ride in the dry lads.

Great work on piecing together more awesome riding tracks.

[GregMember]

Ripper report great read and the photos guys :woohoo: , glad to see you back BB Mal you are a legend

TB

[Chris DoddMember]

Looks good Mal. You will have to show me sometime, then we can link them all up!! 👿

[StuartMember]

KTM_Rules wrote:

Looks good Mal. You will have to show me sometime, then we can link them all up!! 👿

Even though we were challenged in places, I’m sure you’d make it look easy

[MalMember]

sb250y droping down into the hole.

[MalMember]

Murph the surf wrote:

Definately the wrong place to park, Mal. :ohmy:
Good to see you are getting back to our roots of canyoning mate.
Would love to come for another play before they get trashed
Great stuff fella’s
Cheers
Murph

Yeah I didn’t realise until I turned around to get on the bike. :ohmy: And sb was giggling like a 5 year old. 😆

I was telling the guys that we used to trek through that sort of stuff years ago. ah the memories.

[MalMember]

KTM_Rules wrote:

Looks good Mal. You will have to show me sometime, then we can link them all up!! 👿

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: yeah right, like I’ll remember where we rode. :laugh:

I’ll make sure sb comes along when I show you. I know some good fire trails out there.

[Dwayne OMember]

Awsome report
Those shots are the schniz,,,,, Looks like some of the stuff I saw from some of the KTM Tour guys a while back :whistle:

Nice work blokes

[AlexMember]

Cool shots. Fresh tracks, niiiice.

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