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Well maybe the ride route changed not long into it and the grade went with it :laugh: Yes it got tougher then planned in spots but everybody got through cheers guys, here is how I saw it.
I arrived at Chicken’s pen to pick him up, look up disorganised in the dictionary you will see this :laugh:
OK once we got loaded we left, it needs to be noted here Chicken was only given one task, directions :huh:
We motored via his directions to Maitland we went to the supermarket did a hunt and gather, fuelled and got ice and happy days. So we start the epic Chicken trek we went the long way to Dungog and yes chicken it was quality bonding time :blink: . Then not to be out done he sent us the long way from Dungog to the camp site, but we did get there thanks mate
We unloaded the bike and strung my big tarp up with help from “good as gold Boulder and MickG all the while sucking back some cold beverages of choice.
MickG then became the first Old Bull to earn a merit badge congratulations Mick on your fire lighters merit badge
So then we formed the ring of knowledge as Boony called it, I did a walk by and inspected the sleeping quarters
Eagle’s setup
Boulder’s
Mine
And not to be out done by anybody Kram’s caravan, who brings a caravan Kram the man!
So we cooked up a feed, Ollie some noodles then he lost the flavour satchel, the fork and burnt his finger, which isn’t easy he doesn’t have many :laugh: :laugh:
So the circle of wisdom :blink: kept growing
MickG and his bitch, and I mean Boony of to the left not the dog
Chicken’s 6 hunge, what’s with the rubber glove Chicken, did you make it cough :blush:
Soon the circle started to look like this
I retired to the swag around 11.30ish, I could hear Boony talking about rekulse clutches and bloody Ollie’s on going and going and going music :huh:
So finally they go to bed and bloody Chicken’s snoring starts, Christ I had had enough :angry: and got up and went up to the car to get something Eagle was up, and we could here Chicken from there. Holeshot turned up as I went back to bed, then just as I almost got back to sleep a piss wrecked Boony came down to the esky to get a beer to welcome Holeshot :ohmy:
So up in the morning, cereal listen to the story of Ollie throwing his pie hole up during the night, blames the Bundy I gave him not the cheap no name Aldi beer he was drinking
So we are almost ready suited up for the 8am start and Austblue drives in, I know by his own admission he takes forever to suit up. Chicken and I leave to go into Dungog to set the trip meters via the reference point and back to the intersection to wait for the others, we waited and waited,
Now I am not known for my patience so I took of to find out what was going on but it was all good and we all rode out to meet Wiked waiting at the agreed starting point
MickG did a head count 14 in all and took the sweep duties, thanks heaps Mick. My speedo drive had packed it in the ride before so I was using a GPS and Chicken as back up. Well that didn’t work, so I just decided to wing it, we quickly came across a track used on the recent two day enduro up there and man it was slippery, Chicken cross rutted and had a drop, Eagle tried to surf down the hill on his bike, picture the super commuter on its side sliding down the hill with Eagle kneeling on it. We searched some tracks, found some dead ends but had a good time.
We found a single that Diddel had been up in the dry but the wet was very different, we headed up. Diddel and Chicken went first, as I approached the bike hill I found Chicken stuck Diddel had gone up to the next level. Just as I went around Chicken I ran out of drive, MickG fronted but he to lucked out.Chicken using the diff steer to turn the tractor
So off we went to the next single and it was other mother uphill I came around a corner and it went straight up, the biggest ruts I jumped of the bank into a rut that Bollocks reckoned was bigger then my bike! Anyway Chicken fronted and ground to a halt as did AB down below me. Chicken walked up and helped me turn the fiddy around, cheers mate
We rode down to frying pan creek for a breather and to fix the exhaust on the TTR230. Boulder was then asked to front with me for the use of his speedo. We rode to the top of the hill and got onto a trail used in the two day enduro, it was slippery and had off camber corners slippery uphills ruts, and it had it all. I got to the end and turned around and waited Simon pulled up on his 300 kato and he to was impressed by the track. Boulder and I lead down a leaf covered twin to the creek on the valley floor, the track followed the creek and it was slippery. We turned and went through the creek and rode a phat track back up to the road we just happened to be needing
From there we headed down to the meeting point for lunch, we rode some tight wet slippery singles, it was that slippery on one hill I thought my front brake had the hose torn off at the brake didn’t seem to be working only to find the wheel was locked yet doing nothing. We soon found a quarry with a steep rocky uphill in the back of it, this hill saw some carnage it claimed a few scalps. I was having a ball racing around past the group, through whoever was stuck on the hill and back around the speedway corner to do it again and again and again and again etc. I had a couple of good duels with Wikd and MickG who raced me around. A bunch of 4 wheel drivers turned up and I asked if they had seen to gay guys in a commodore ute :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: (Ollie and Kram)
Once there we had a good lunch, not without excitement when the gas hose blew of the BBQ right next to the ute loaded with jerry cans while the Navys top safety officer watched on. Some half arsed repairs didn’t work but I produced a hose clamp and happy days the sausages got finished and we had a feed.
Waiting for lunch with the BBQ of death in the back ground
More later its late :laugh:
Well what can I say apart from the truth, TB turned up with the car chockers full of his gear and not much space for my gear, he walked straight into the office and delegated Becca to photo copy and laminate maps, finally got my bike and gear loaded and off we went on the “Chicken never never safari with TB” this was purely done to show TB that there is other ways than his way
. Arrived with TB howling about the lost minutes in his life that he will never get back :laugh: :laugh: . It was all quality time. Time for a few beers and catchup and a feed and of to bed, snoring ????/ never heard a thing :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: . more howling from TB . went into down town Dungog to zero the trip meter and waited for TB to round up the troops. The ride started well but soon a new wingit and see how we go method was adopted and it worked out quite well except I had a rear tyre that was perfect for a grade 2 ride just to run it out, this was my first ride since the xmas party and was looking forward to a casual ride, found out all about throttle control the hard way with several drops and the 24 liter tank being brim full I struggled to say the least on the steep slippery hills. It all worked out well though well done to TB and co for improvising routes and linking up with the two gay bbq workers of death with no matches . No one was going near that thing when the hose blew of next 6 or 7 jerry cans of fuel. had a good lunch then Ollie and Mick G worked out a ripper track back to camp. Well done. Great to catch up and meet some new old bulls and some old old bulls. :laugh:Awsome weekend this one !!!
It started for me on Friday arvo with the drive up to the camp area where I met the always smiling MickG, who had arrived nice & early & was already setup & ready for a session :laugh:As soon as my tarp was up & the Hotel Cruiser was comfy, I retired to the fire area with MickG & had a beer
It wasn`t long before Boulder, Kram (with his caravan) and the Tamworthians started to arrive. No sign of TB as yet which was a surprise cause he had rang me 2 hours prior & was already with Chicken & enroute to God Knows Where :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:The crew continued to show up intermittently throughout the evening & it was Party Central, plenty of brews, laughs & bullshit being thrown about
The ride was an eventful Grade 2 for sure :blink: Lots of slipping, sliding, lying down etc
Awsome country, sweet trails with some technical bits thrown in to catch you out,,,
Well Done Kram for driving down from up the coast to drive the support car for us & keep Ollie company with the BBQ lunch (apparently they had a latte or two on town, sort of fitting for a couple of gay guys in a ute ) But seriously, Kram didn`t even bring the Husky 310 as his ankle was still not 100% so he came all the way down to help out, drink a few brews & help us party on :woohoo: THANX AGAIN MATEAlso thanx to TB for the leading of the ride, as much as it changed from the original plan, it was still a fun day
Massive thanx to Ollie for hooking us up with the property to camp on, great spot, good times & I`m sure an awsome day 2 ride with some local Dungog Enduro Legends
Please pass on the same to Trent & Bob for the hospitality, I already did this morning but they deserve as many thanx as we can give.Forgot to thank the Sweeps MickG & Chicken too for their duties, Well Done Men
Cheers All involved
Edit: I almost forgot about the whole being late thing – like you lot would let that happen! Sincere apologies for holding up the start and thanks for not beating me up about it. I honestly thought I was getting there early enough to compensate for my old lady like prep but obviously I misread something somewhere. That brings me to a funny memory from the weekend. I was kicking the crap out of my bike after Beemer had joined us and all but Mick and one other had taken off to start the main ride and I cracked it and pushed the bike over to a power pole to lean it and get a better kick. As I leant the left side of the bars against the pole I noticed the kill switch was on
It used to be a button and I wasn’t used to having to switch it back but even then it still caught me out again for a kick or two over the weekend. I’ve now learnt to switch it off then back on again while I’m thinking of it.The ride was a lot of fun mixing between different grades and also different terrains. It’d be dry and dusty down one hill and then the next could literally be a waterfall. The beauty of the place is how well you can link up hills like those that ollie pointed us to after lunch! You’d ride down hill for a good kilometre and then it’d be off up another for a click or two but each was different and kept you on the toes! I missed Eagles low side slide but did catch Bollocks losing it down the same hill the next day
I only caught the ending of TB’s low side 180 20m from lunch but that was enough to have me in stitches, thanks for entertaining us :pI was getting comfortable on the 300 and thought I’d pop the front wheel up at what turned into a very inopportune moment as the group stopped in front of me and I had to test the brakes out and very nearly ended up sitting on the back of Holeshot’s drz and still sideswiped him a little with the front wheel. TB did some nice wheelies and had a nice oh shit moment overtaking me into a sharp right hander but made it look like he was all in control as he backed it in and made the corner.
Lifta was probably the most inspiring for me on Saturday. I had a ball watching you rip the front up and tearing around the place especially when you belted past me then overshot the corner and I putted back past you again :p You sure looked in sync with that kato mate well done.
You blokes did bloody well on those bananas too, I get tired throwing my 100kg 2 stroke around and you blokes keep those tractors at pace all day. Perhaps not all weekend but there was a valiant effort by all!
That was my first camping ride weekend and boy was it a cracker! Both days had great riding and great groups and the camp site was almost perfect including the crowd. I only say almost because I’m sitting here at my desk looking like a zombie with my legs covered in calamine lotion! When I was saying hooroo yesterday I didn’t have any aeroguard on and I think the marsh flies had a feast and now I’ve got about 5 golf ball size welts on my legs and a bloody rash down my arm! The boss freaked last night when I went to jump in the shower and she spotted a baby leech on the back of my leg – I would’ve expected he’d be pretty big after feeding on me for a few hours but I’m guessing he had one sip and the rum put him to sleep. If only it did that to me too!
The funny thing about these intraweb forums is you really can’t know a bloke based on their posts because their character only really shows when you meet them in the flesh. I mean, who would’ve thought Boon could be a nice bloke eh!? And who would’ve guessed that Boll had a fetish for young men in speedos!? It really was a great crowd to ride and camp with and I was blown away at how good a spot we had there with such great riding on the doorstep.
Thanks to Trent Lane and thanks Ollie for hooking it up and thanks to everyone for contributing to a great weekend that I’ll never forget
No doubt the “incident” will be raised in Sunday’s ride thread but in the mean time thanks again everyone for showing true concern and keeping on despite being knackered. It’s a free lesson for all I say.
Signed,
Tony.
a few piccies from the weekend
The honey purchase
The bottom of beagles surfing hill
running repairs at frying pan
TB praying to the suzuki gods
:woohoo:
The crew at frying pan
The lunch stop
Wikd giving the beema drink
peanut gallery waiting for a bang
Kram standing his ground,shaking like a leave lol
Boulder takes control
more peanut gallery assistance
Beema set like an olympic sprinter , ready to bolt
believe it or not this was plan B
you know some times them bead locks can be really hard to push in,apparently theres a trick to it ollie.
What a great weekend
Left work at gosford and arrived first at what is a great camp spot. Not long after Eagle arrived and set up his little resort.
Everyone else dribbled in after that with TB and Chicken last after taking the senic route. :laugh:We all settled around the fire (thanks for the fire lighters badge TB)and had a good night keeping TB awake
Next morning well geared up in record time except one not mentioning any names MR Abbot, :cheer:then got on our way.
As sweep i got to see a few incidents the first was Eagle sitting on his bike while going down the first big decent only problem was was his bike was on its side. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
Next was holeshot going right when the track went left and disapearing into the lush greenery :ohmy:
Before i new it we were meeting Kram and Ollie for lunch and repairing a gas leak, had a great feed and then got back on the trails.
After lunch i got promoted from sweep to no.2 :woohoo:
We left lunch and hit the first corner where TB put on a show for the crew with his 180. :laugh: :laugh: Little bit of fun up and down a good hill then back to camp.
Thanks to TB For putting this ride together and Kram and Ollie for coming to cook our lunch great effort guys.
Thanks to all involved.
Cracker of a weekend guys.
After much ginning around Boony and i finally hit the road,exept i had to head back cause i forgot my swag…Doh :huh: …pulled into the highway fruit vendor and bought Ollie some Lezo lubricant(you never know when they might pop up).Met up with Billy and Jase and we were off for our great southern adventure :cheer:
Stopped at the health food shop at Muswellbrook and got a supply of burgers and fries and some ice at Singleton for Boonys little handbag that held 4 beers.Turning off the highway towards Gresford/Dungog we noticed how beautifull the country side was,green rolling hills,creeks and bovine happily munching away.Fresh out of Enya cd’s we went for the Guns and Roses greatest hits instead :cheer: Boonys air guitar (seatbelt) while holding a beer was quite impressive,as was my effort,lead singer with torch as mike,tinny,smoke and steering wheel,navigating through some serious single track Tar
Found the camp site after about 20 piss stops(Boony you old man),unloaded and met a few Bulls we have not met before and re aquainted ourselves with a few that we had.The mood was good and the campsite was like something out of National Geographic.(top work Ollie :cheer: )The ring of knowledge was formed and the bullshit began :laugh: TB held the floor for most of the night and the wise cracks were flying left right and centre,and Ollie started talking German 😆 Eventually it was time to crash and i rolled out my swag and there was bloody nothing in it :ohmy: Thank God Boonys swag was set up for the Antartic and he lent me a few blankies…thanks M8 :)Slept like a log and apparently Hole shot arrived during the night and nearlly parked his trailor ontop of me and my swag,i slept through the whole thing :laugh:
Up and ready to go and this young bloke flys in late…AustBlue..more about you later :laugh: which suited me fine cause i’m usaully the last to get ready .
Waited at Dungog with a few of the lads,had a smoke,and watched TB going off his tits trying to get all his lambs together in one nice little flock 😆 Once the shepard had finally rounded up his sheep wee were on our way.Nothing beats a convoy off dirt bikes :cheer: …you can stick your Harleys up your arse Hells Angels
Hit the forrest and the fun began.The first tricky bit,Shall we call it eagles hill? was upon us and Eagle and i pulled up at the lip of it and sort looked at each other and thought…”this wasn’t in the brochure” :ohmy:
I went first and had an off in the exact same place i did the next day…no one saw me so i quickly got back on.Met the others at the bottom and MickG filled us in on what happened behind me…Good on ya Eages…you were lucky mate…i stacked it there twice in 2 days!!!!Went up some greasy track and watched TB calling chicken to get him a crane so he could pull his bike out of a bike eating rut…then diddle flys up the same line..and plop…into the same canyon…all good ,back down the hill we go .Had a bit of fun in the quarry allthough you had to keep your eye out for some mad bastard dressed like a Lady beetle tearing up the hill every 8 seconds :laugh:
Cheers for the bbq Ollie and Kram…thought we were going to have Sushi sausages there for a while boys..i was about to become a vegan,but with the OldBulls know how she all came good :cheer:
Lunch done and on our way,stuck at the back of a traffic jam after 30 seconds from take off,unfortunatly i couldn’t see what was going on up front,word soon passed down the line that the big man was down :laugh: after riding down “the hill of marbles rollercoaster”we popped out a gate and cruised home,overtaken by Lifter on his KTM and sat back and watched him cruise home on one wheel(hats of bro,you can ride).Beers and swim were the order of the day,austBlue strutted past in his speedo dickstickers,all oiled up looking for a photo shoot,from here on he became the celeb rider for the next day..The honorable Mr Tony Abbot,Leader of the opposition :laugh: Watched Shane,Diddle and Champo have a bit of fun on the mx track and while a few others belted off for another ride through the forrest.Settled down for the evening with a few beers and a few too many rumbos,knocked down a can of Stag chilly beef with beans which gave me a heap of backfire for the next day :laugh:
Thanks TB for a great ride and MickG for sweeping with a laugh .Cheers to Ollie for the great campsite and to the fella who owned it double thumbs up :cheer:
Pics and vids to follow,and Ollies ride report to follow on the other thread.Bol :woohoo:
Ok…..some of my pics and vids :cheer:
this is where we pulled up on the track road junction…2 old blokes rode up the road pedals pumping , in their skin tight tour de france gear..We were all gob smacked to see them…TB broke the ice by telling one of em that they had a “Fat arse” :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
The bbq that allmost wasn’t
Ollie and Kram about to killed us al…by food poisioning or 3rd degree burns
Wik reckons his fuel aint gonna blow up anyway
Tony Abbot strutting his stuff…sorry AB…but its gunna stick like shit to a blanket :laugh: :laugh:
Tony joins fellow members of parliment for a refreshing dip
MickG puts his two bobs worth in around the ring of knowledge
She was such a clever dog…and cute eh boony?
Shane,Ollies bro…going so quick he looks like a ghost!!!!!!!!
Diddle….going flat Bicky..You can ride son…good on ya :cheer:
vids next
Bol :woohoo:
Diddle….you go boy !!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3WJuSOHBd8champo…you too!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVO_Kp-1QhgMy Fav….keep an eye on the dog and turn up the vol…bloody funny…..no animals were hurt in the filming of this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSOFR8y3htQBol :woohoo:
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