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WTG Spidy
Be ready for Nundle then hey,,,,
Not long to go for that oneNice one guys. Looking forward the the pics and vids
Kram
I haven’t got anything to say really, just saw how many people are on line and with no-one posting, thought I would give you all something to click on
Jeffro wrote:
Quote:I haven’t got anything to say really, just saw how many people are on line and with no-one posting, thought I would give you all something to click on :cheer: :side: :silly:what a wicked weekend! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
firstly just for the record, my back is probably the least sorest part of me, the rest of my body is a joke. i feel like ive just gone 12 rounds with Tyson….except i still have both ears attached :laugh: :laugh:
saturday morning…
the Bulls arrived, introductions were made, (thanks Aido), Sammys magic lolly bags were handed out, coffees were gulped, bikes were warmed and we were off by 9am.
so, over the road we go, into the singles. it was weird being behind everyone, watching them hit the first track and blast off up the straight :laugh:
i tentatively crossed the road, onto the first track and with the first twist of the throttle……bang!!!
it was like my brain rebooted to bike mode. in a blink it all flooded back. i was up on the pegs and skipping the woops like id never stopped riding. every crack of band widened my eyes…..and my grin :laugh: :laugh:
by 4th band i was actually screaming inside my helmet. (i love 4th band, its when the trees start to blurr) :laugh: :laugh:but then my butt puckered :laugh:
as i backed off at the last second for the first corner (as you do :laugh: ) and went to hit the skids…
it suddenly hit me that i had new front and rear pads, this was their first go at bedding :dry:
and i had to pull up for a 90 degree corner :blink:
and quickly!!! :pinch:i had better take a second to thank TB here, i remember hearing him say once whilst in his drunken stupor to scrub the new pads on concrete to aid the bedding and remove the initial film off them. i did this and they pulled up great first go…thank God (ie; Kato).
i stuffed the corner right up still and gumbyed my way around it. it was ugly but i survived….
it reset my ability versus ambition meter at the same time too :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
i had to muscle the bike around the corner through deep sand. thats what i thought was going to hurt my back but it was ok. i only really feel pain if i turn my head fully with all my gear on. i think following what the physio says and doing all his excesises has helped me a lot. i wonder if i can get a disabled parking sticker for my bike??? :laugh:……the lake was way up after the rain weve had in the hills lately. we had to divert a bit to get around. its only about 1 metre off being full.
i knew i wouldnt….but i had fun trying
:laugh: :laugh:
it gave me the speed fix i needed,
man have i missed it. 👿 :laugh:choppa set a good pace all day leading and only managed to get us lost twice :laugh: :laugh:
he reckons he is map dyslexic :laugh: :laugh:
both times i knew we’d gone off course straight away, not because id been there before but because i have been staring at the friggin map of this route for weeks in anticipation!!!!. :laugh: :laugh:
so anyway…. i just HAD TO dice through the pack to try and catch him :laugh: :laugh: all caution to the wind like :woohoo:anyway, when he wasnt as lost as a toddler in Target, Chop was riding like a madman and go-go-go. just pointing corners out to the next rider like an evil school teacher and roosting off. i suspect he was loving it :laugh: :laugh:
i reckon i went for over an hour without a smoke. :laugh: :laugh:
we all ended up stopping and having a rest and sending ranga off to fetch him like a crazed jack russell. :laugh: :laugh:
id told him to stop at the next river when i gave him the map, he thought i said THE river, the one we were aiming the ride at :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: it doesnt matter, it was all part of the adventure and we got to see some hot chicks becuase of his first detour
we didnt hit any snow unfortunately. i did see some on top of Mt BawBaw through the trees. i tried to point it out to XY but he was too busy riding with his tongue hanging out in total concentration. :laugh:
it was the first time i have ever swept for a whole ride. i had a ball though, getting roosted by whoever was in front of me :laugh: :laugh:
i even copped a rock on the end of the old fella and just tried to laughed it off :S i was just sooo happy to be back on the pegs. i even let out a few woohoo’s :laugh: :laugh:there really is nothing in life i like better than riding in the bush
take that how ever you will :laugh: :laugh:….after talking it up that we will hit snow, i felt a little guilty after i overtook Aido and monoed a 10 foot puddle, drowning him, right down to his short and curlies, literally……and only 1/2 hour into the ride. :dry:
“it nearly knocked me off the bike” he said :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: a pearla!we got to “junction hut” and crossed the Aberfeldy river. it was a good 20 metre crossing and up to 500ish deep. we stopped for a smoke and this dude on a quad came down the track and crossed the river. my god, the roost was intense! sometimes you couldnt see quad or rider for water :laugh: i asked him if he was wearing a wetsuit. :laugh: :laugh:
we recrossed the river and crossed and recrossed Donnelly river trying to find our way out. :laugh:
Donnellys creek track was all id heared it would be, absolutely beautiful!
it was so nice i just wanted to cruise along and admire it. so i did.we stopped at another hut called Goonans, to fix Drews front puncture. bloody MX retreads i said :laugh: :laugh:
it became quickly obvious that the tyre changing lessons from Mal5.1 at the Kenda had fallen on deaf ears :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: with a team effort we got it sorted and took off again i waited at the river crossing and watched everyone get through as ranga got the big CR to fire.
then i hear…
F**K!!!
and i turn around to see bill getting up out of the river. i cracked up and i could hear him cursing. he was soaked. it woke him up and must have been very refreshing :laugh: :laugh: as it runs straight off the snow peaks :laugh: :laugh:there were a couple of shorter escape routes i had marked on the map called strangely enough…Flat track and Steep track. passing the entrance i saw Flat track starting at about a 45 degree incline and getting meaner by the metre. i started wondering what Steep track was gonna be like!!
guess what!!
you could nearly bloody abseil down it :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
it had to be 50 degrees plus and like a staircase of rock. thank god we didnt need to use either of them! :laugh:we finally hit Cheynes Bridge track, the last 5 kms before lunch. it drops about 1000m in about 3km and has some of the best jumps on it. i was feeling pretty invincible by now :laugh: and was getting some major hangtime :woohoo: on the way down.
Sammy was awaiting us at the river with lashings of choice foods.
roast beef, gravy, slaw, cheese, meat platters and drinks. she has outdone herself again :kiss: . we were starving and devoured it all in a flash.we refuelled and got ready. we were all rooted and decided to take an easier, more direct route home. as i got on my bike i looked down and my heart nearly thumped a hole through my chest :ohmy: :huh: :dry: and i froze…..
this is what i saw….
Holy Shit!
how long had it been loose?
i was having flashes of the jumps coming down to lunch and i started to feel a little :X
i had been standing up most of the day coz i was sweeping…and my arse was hurting, and didnt see it. i dont know how.i dont know how i didnt do them up enough in the first place? :blush: its my fault, i put the forks on and tightened them up….then realized id left the fork protectors off and took the forks back off…then probably had 3 beers and put them back on :blush:
man, what if???
it coulda been really ugly, it could have snapped, spun around and pole vaulted me like a HR holden with a broken front uni joint :laugh: :laugh:
that would have forked me up :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:i shoulda known as soon as i was feeling invincible that something was about to go terribly wrong :laugh: :laugh:
it seriously freaked me out. i told some of the boys im out and they took off into the bush. i couldnt even swap 1 bolt from the other side in the bottom as the clamp is bent and spread. i followed sammy home on the tar, poohing myself all the way…
we had a trailer, but i forgot to grab some emergency tiedowns :blush:we limped home ok eventually.
i had a burning hot shower and felt heaps better, munched some panadeine and just finished my first beer when the boys got back….all smiles
with talk of racing the last leg across the lake sand and through the singles. spewin i missed that….one of the boys will elaborate on that im sure :laugh: :laugh:except drew and ranga, who were still in the bush fixing drews puncture…well i think drew was fixing the puncture and ranga was doing a few tracks around him :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
we had a beer of two, woofed into some JACKS LINKS BEEF JERKY and talked shit for a while. everyone was telling stories of roosing and getting roosted, remennissing some of the days puckering moments :laugh:
it was getting on and everyone had to get home. the boys had said goodbyes and were just leaving when XY and ranga got back just shy of dark.we had a feed and watched a bit of telly…
i was nodding off at 7pm but battled it till 9…then gave up :laugh: :laugh:i slept till 8am, thats the longest ive slept since hurting my back. i woke up and expected the worst but felt good. bones are good, muscles are gone :laugh: :laugh:
im not looking forward to going to physio tomorrow, i will be sorer by then and he will hammer me when i tell him i went riding :dry: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
i didnt take any pics and i didnt get much footage as i was just too excited to think of it :laugh: :laugh:
i did get a bit of me and bill and johnny dicing the tracks and some of Donnellys creek. ill post em up tomorrow.
thanks to everyone for coming. you are all welcome anytime.
thanks to chop for leading and sammy for our delightful lunch.lets do it again soon!!!! :woohoo:
KatGirl wrote:
Quote:Hi menace… great to hear you’re sore and you survived. The photo’s should be a classic…. Bill submerged in 6inches… hope you got that on film…KatGirl.
No one seen it!
They only knew because I owned up to the fact that I got my first baptism :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:Well What a Weekend!!!
(i must save up and invest in a proper GPS)i left Deni at about 11:30 am friday, and after a few stops to fuel and fill the radiator i finally arrived at Menace and Sam’s van to find Ranga, we chewed the fat for about 4 min until Menace and Sam turned up at around 9ish. i had aimed to arrive around the 5pm mark :huh: (stupid phone GPS and going through Moe…….. twice :blink: )
i blew out my brake booster about an hour out from Glenmaggie :ohmy:
but arrive without incident.
Chop arrived to be met by a jester :silly: menace snapped a couple of pics of said jester on Chop’s Berg doing a superman. (they can’t have turned out real good as they’ve not been posted yet.)
Chop and i bunked in the same van, thanks Chop.
Chop was up at some unearthly hour (prob about 8am) and called out “Hey Drew, you need fuel or anything?, i’m off to the servo”.
got up, unloaded K8ii rode up to s&m’s van to be greeted with a coffee
, then the day trippers rolled in and introductions.we unloaded, geared up and set off.
out the c/p, across the road into some bush with berms and all, out to the lake shore, where i was the first to have an offsadaisy :blush: in the soft deep sand, but all in s…l….o…w Mo. all was good.
then blacktopped it to an access road through the cows to the forest tracks.
did about 20km and found another XY hill, there was an XW or XY sedan shell resting along side the track, i thought how the hell did they get that in here, but did not have time to pull up and snap a pic.
this track wound to a Rocky Steep decent down, with foot high rock steps, at one point i had the forks almost fully compressed with the frond brake creaking and groaning :unsure: , thinking to my self here we go over the bars, but survived.
made our way along some more Grouse terrain to a camp ground where Menace, Marty1 and John helped ( did all the hard work ) to change the front tube. the pump i bought and tested at home decided to go on strike
so Chop wondered over to the campers and asked if they had a 12v compressor. they let em pump up my tyre, refitted it and we set off to wind our way to the lunch spot.hoed into some fantastic roast beef and gravy, Sam was thanked with thumbs up through the sound of lip licking and noises associated with feeding livestock :laugh:
😆 :laugh:refueled our bikes and agreed on the shortest route back to the vans, but not via the bitumin, like some (all the soft ones)
wanted.
Menace was almost visibly disappointed at having to nurse his Kato home on the tar but happy he found out about the triple clamps being undone while stationary, as were the rest of us! just thinking what could have happened . we could have cared less that it was a minor oversight! we were far more concerned with Menace’s well being, i think Menace is doing enough of a job at kicking himself for any of us to point the finger!! how many rides have i done when i was way under prepared!! :S :dry: :unsure:i somehow punctured the rear :S i rode as far as i could manage, power sliding in a straight line :huh: i thought better of it that try and limp all the way back to the cows paddock with K8ii squirming all over the place.
so i pulled up on a flat bit on a crest and set about removing the rear wheel when Ranga came back to see what i wanted to do, use his can of ‘zoost’, i said i think i’ve been riding on it flat too long for it to inflate the tyre and stay up long enough to ride the 30 or so km back to the vans.
plus i thought with my pump not working i would use the zoost to pump it up once back together , which is what we ended up doing. meanwhile Ranga set off after the main group, After reassuring me emphatically that He Would Return! :laugh: :cheer: thanks Ranga!
by the time he made his way to the main group, informed them of the situation, and rode back to me, i was up to the point of refitting the tyre beads.
reassembled K8ii, and cruised back to the vans.
i Still Cannot Get Over HOW Much Roost you COP Off a Bald Tyre!!! :ohmy: :huh: :blink: 😆 😆
rolled into the c/p just in time to see Aido & Tim, Bill, Marty and John to head home.
we filled on the details and relived the highlights of the day.
having Menace recount how Bill’s Berg lobbing a rock up high up only to give Menace a Battered Sav :pinch: :laugh: 😆 :silly: :cheer:
had a feed and settled into some snoring and intermittent conversation until Menace politely kicked me out 😆
we slept like logs by all accounts
the next morning we coffeed while i chewed Menace’s ear off :blush: then thought it about time to make tracks by 2pm. i wondered home, stopping to fuel up and refill the radiator :dry:
made it home by 9pm, filled the folks in with the highlights.
then slept like a log once again all night..
Pics to come once i upload them..
THANKS to Menace as organiser, Sam as caterer, Pit crew, lollie and first aid kit provider, Chop for leading the ride and Ranga for sweeping
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