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Here is a pic from the weekend on our Bago Forest ride at Wauchope.I Will do a proper write up later.
Three days of breakdowns,flat tyres,bogged bikes,broken levers. Plenty of great single trail,a few big hills,fallen logs,plenty of mud,one monumental hangover and tons of laughs. Everyone had a great time.
Day 2
Wauchope to Comboyne and return.
The machines
3 x XR600R
KTM530
KTM525
KTM520
KTM300
CRF250X
YZ125
DRZ250After a big night on the turps,Mick wakes at 4am with a head that is throbbing like a “honeymooners old fella” and the overwhelming need to “dump the groceries”.
I remember thinking who else could lead the ride as I was crook enough to pull the pin at that stage. Have you ever tried to hurl with a crook rib? Holy mother of God, it effing hurts!!!!
Anyhow three cups of coffee, six ciggies and some toast and I was sort of running on 5 cylinders and prepared for a ride.
The boys start rolling in at 7.30am with the mandatory Redbulls and bacon and egg rolls ,the smell of which wasn’t real good ,with my guts spinning like a rotary engine. They start kitting up and out of the corner of my eye I spot the highway patrol casually cruise past my house, Twice!!! The copper then parks it at the police station 200 meters from my house, now the new challenge is, how to get 10 legal to not so legal bikes from my house to the bush, without upsetting the boys in blue. Bearing in mind one is a YZ125!!!
We sneak most of them out the driveway ,one at a time with the plan to meet at the servo.
The plan went well except the CRF250X wouldn’t start so it had to be clutch started up and down the road, which was making a raquet like you wouldn’t believe all the time I was keeping an eye on the cop shop.
Once we got all the bikes running, we met at the servo and we were on our way, which was by now about 9am.
Finally we are up and running, heading for our first stop, The Bluff on Bago mountain,
15 minutes saw us on top of the Bluff overlooking Wauchope,that’s when I spot the first flat tyre of the day, the front on my brothers XR, that is also the very moment I realise that, in all the excitement I had forgotten to put my Camelbak on!!!! The very same Camelbak with the spare tubes and other assorted goodies, like water!!!!
Thank God someone else had a spare tube!!!Here is the first flat repair going down
Once we got the XR going we set off for Comboyne and all is good through the first, section of single trail until we meet up at and intersection and we spot the next flat tyre on madmacs KTM, by this stage we are down to patches and we had only done 27 km!!!! We get mac underway again only to go another Km and macs tyre goes down again!!!!
Repair stop no 2
From there every thing was running sweet and the boys were getting some quality trail time for a while. We got to the top of a rocky hill, that you had to lay your bike over half way up, to get under a log that was across the trail. At the top we realize that we were missing a few boys and something had happened at the bottom,as it turned out one of the KTM’s had lost a chain link,,luckily we had a spare and we were on our way again. We rode for another half hour,when disaster struck again, Mac has done a clutch lever on the KTM, a spare is produced and we are on our way again. We had not gotten far and I don’t know how but mac does another clutch lever as well as having a flat front tyre again!!!!!!!! That was when the dummy spit of the trip occurred!!!!!!
Mac had a bit of a moment and to his credit ,came good in no time ,as any lesser of a man may have thrown his hands in the air and went home. Did I mention the spare levers were in my Camelbac, in the shed at home?.
A few bits of wire sort of had the clutch working a bit and we fixed the tube and when the boys went to put it in they you guessed it,they pinched the effing tube!!!!! A small dummy spit ensued and once that died down we got to work patching the tube,which was starting to resemble a patch work quilt.Puncture stop no 3, 40km into the ride.
Up and running again ,we head to Comboyne Rock, the destination for the trip.
Awesome views can be had from this peak and nature was good to us and provided, clear conditions.The crew at the Rock
From there it was off to Comboyne for lunch, only to find the only food shop in town shut!!!
That is when I hear a cheer from the local footy ground and realize there is a game on there and steak sangas could be had, so the boys all got to see a bit of footy during lunch..At the thriving metropolis of Comboyne (my home town)
From there we went to my uncles Avocado farm for a fuel top up, as the 2 strokers were getting a bit low on juice. It was at that stage I realized,we would have to cut out some of the intended trip as we were running out of light fast, so we indulged in a bit of motard for 12km down the road to Byabarra were we hit the bush again and finished off the ride with one of the best single trails around. The very last section has the deepest, slimmiest rut you have ever seen to get down to the last creek crossing.
From there it was back to my shed for beers, laughs and running repairs!!!
Once the repairs were done the boys decided to Hit Port Macquarie for dinner,I opted to stay at home as I was getting the vibe from the better half, after the night befores antics,I wasn’t the most popular bloke in town.
I stayed in the shed and replaced brake pads on my XR and had a few quiet ones.
How’s some of the boys efforts in Port Macquarie, they got tangled up with some sheila’s that had just come from a sex toy party and they still couldn’t get lucky!!!!
While I was in the shed I got mac’s bike ready for the next day, I strapped three tubes to his bike and invented clutch lever tear offs!!!!
The shed was pretty full over the weekend
Thus ends Day 2 as I saw it. Stay tuned for day 3.
What’s with all the flats, I would have been on the Rums long before your first dummy spit I hate flats although we have chicken along on the rides as he gets in and fixes them (he thinks we like his company but its to fix the flats and push crashes bike) Chicken, Crash and myself run mousse fronts as you CANT get flats and you also don’t get dented rims which is good. The tubes that Chris is talking about that I fitted to his bike are Michelin ultra heavy duty tubes that have a 4mm minimum thick wall and are the best I have seen, they are a little painful to fit but no flats.
Crash and Factory bought me a mousse tyre changer for my 40th on the weekend so I am going to run a rear mousse if I can fit a rear mousse, fronts are easy (see article in forum re BIB mousse)
Thought you would have the law in town sorted Mick you being the mayor up there ha ha, cant wait to hear about day three
Hey did a 6 finger local ride that clutch lever setup lol :woohoo: :laugh: :cheer: 😆
On those tubes if you click on the Battyes bikes icon on the top right side of the home page you will be linked to the details of Scotts shop, ring him up and tell him your from Old Bull Trailriders and you would like to be looked after and he will. He will do mail outs, but to get a discount you must quote that Fathead send you !
Day 3 Bago Bluff single trails.
Sunday, saw Mick in much better shape than the previous morning. I was bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready to ride.
The plan was to hang close to Wauchope and ride the single trails around The Broken Bago Bluff as the Sydney boys wanted to get away mid afternoon, so an 8am start was decided upon.
Two of the boys from Sydney called it quits and headed home early and two of the local guys couldn’t make it so that left us with 6 for the Sunday morning ride as far as I knew.
As we were kitting up I heard a 4 stroke bike coming up the street and I threw my brother an inquisitive glance. He replies to my glance “Oh, did I tell you Les was coming?”. “NO you effing didn’t” was my reply.
He then went on to say “He kinda invited himself along”
Don’t get me wrong Les is a nice guy, but I have ridden with him before and him and his DRZ400 set up for commuting, with road/trail tyres were so going to be out of their league on the ride I had planned.
“Oh well, we will see how he goes,could be good for a laugh”, was my response. We had about 2km of fire trails before we got to our first gnarly single trail and at every intersection we waited for Les. At the last intersection we waited and waited for him and two other guys, before I made the decision to go back and look for him.
I found him and the other guys standing on the fire trail near a really big puddle, that had actually swallowed the DRZ and it’s hapless rider.
We got the DRZ to go, thank God for E-Start, you should have seen the water spurt out of the exhaust!!! Les was wet to the core and didn’t look near as keen as he did at my place.
The DRZ popped and farted it’s way along for another couple of k’s before Les realised the day wasn’t going to get any better for him and he pulled the pin at the first main fire trail we came to and he went home with his tail between his legs.
Anyhow we wound our way around looking for anything that looked remotely like a single trail and attacked them all and had an absolute ball. Only one mechanical issue for the whole morning, when the rear master cylinder on one of the KTM’s fell off, we robbed a few bolts from here and there and she was good to go again.
I forgot to mention me bogging the XR in a creek crossing (see first pic of this thread) ,that happened about 5 minutes into the ride,The worried look on Les’ face was worth the effort I reakon as he thought he had to ride his DRZ through there!!! The reason I even got bogged was because some clown in a 4×4 had gotten bogged in the crossing and just chopped it to bits.
Anyhow all great weekends end eventually and we headed back to my place so the boys could pack up and leave.
I did have one more surprise for Old Mate BlackZippo before he left…. He had to take one more bike for a ride and here it is………..
To Duncan’s credit he manned up and had a go at riding it,as for the other guys who chickened out,their excuse was, it would be just their luck to have ridden several hundred km’s through the bush with out any injury and then get dusted up trying to ride that contraption.
Duncan might have some pics of him actually riding it to post, but I will tell you one thing, he handled the YZ125 heaps better than my penny farthing!!!
Hey Duncan, if you do have any good pics of the Penny Farthing ride post them here!!!
I am already looking forward to our next group trail ride.I think it will be in the Cell’s river region. We will stay at Gingers Creek and go from there.
Hands up who’s coming!!!!I will keep you up to date when we can arrange it.
Thanks for reading this far and see you on the trails.
Cheers
MickGreat story and photos Mick your wasting your time at your day job you should doing stories like that for a living, get some details for that ride if its not to soon I will be in, good job again
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