Mals Central West 2 day ride

[Adrian GaleMember]

Mal’s Central West Ride – Sunday Ride 70km

Part one

This was an awesome ride in which we rode a mix of terrain from fast flowing, twisty fire trails, rocky rutted hill climbs on fire trails to perfect pine forest single tracks. I even threw in a couple of tough hill climbs for the hard core to try their luck at.

We headed off into the logged pines with a hardy group of twelve riders being , Mal5.1 “Can Ride” (Heavily Blinged up Christophe Nambotin GASGAS 300) Marty 450 (KTM450) , KTM_Rules (KTM530),Holeshot(DRZ400) ,Pete(KTM400),Tim(KTM200) ,CJ( KTM200),Dude(KLX450), GOCMAN (KTM300), Murph (KTM500),AL (KTM450) and myself (KTM300) sweeping first.

The first hill was a slippery red clay bugger, no rocks but slippery. Pete lost drive and fell over causing Gocman to go off track to avoid him, only to fall himself. With a restart on the slope impossible a re-run was taken by the lads. Gocman did it easy with Pete having trouble again stopping in almost the same spot. I told him to walk up and I would ride his bike up. 3rd gear was the go then madly spinning in 2nd for the rest of the climb. Finding an easy section to park his 400, I went down for my bike and had the same fun again.

A short firetrail section led to another hill and more carnage. I am not sure what caused it but Dude, CJ, Tim and Al were all fighting for the same piece of forest.

KTM_Rules was given the task of leading us into the singles by Mal and he didn’t hold back, charging straight into some overgrown sections. After a bit of hard going we turned back only some of us found turning around a bit hard and Pete and I lost the main group. With a bit of Bear Grillis survival work we got going the right way, when the familiar sound of the mighty GASGAS came our way.

Skirting the extremes of the forest we peeled off into the nirvana that is the Sunny Corner pines with singles stretching out before us. Perfect conditions allowed the group to feel their way through at a steady pace. Murph was chopping at the throttle of the 500 looking for a bit of clear track.

We came out into a cleared section which was a little swampy, when Marty 450, thinking that I was behind him, unloaded the rear tyre with a spray of loamy dirt into the path of Pete. I laughed my head off. A fire trail stint led us the servo to refuel our bikes and bellies.

TBC

Galey

[john pavkovicMember]

Another great day out with OBT

Its’ been a while since I’ve been out with OBT and its great to see that things not much as changed all my expectations were meet and some
Great bunch of blokes, awesome trail and some bloody good peddlers. :ohmy:
Props to Mal for putting it together,the sweeps,the leaders and the cameraman that popped up out of nowhere like the bloody “Predator” :unsure:
Some of my highlights
– Mal’s property
-The awesome conditions :woohoo:
– Variety of trails
– the ease that the guys climbed the hills (Was told that some of the hills where grade 5+) :ohmy: :cheer: :cheer:
– The technical ability on display
– The mandatory soil and geology sampling :laugh:
– Most importantly that a good day was had by all and we all made it back to Mal’s in one peice

Thanks to all invovled
Mal, Galey,Gocman,KTM rules,Dude,Murf,Tim ,Cj ,Pete, Al , Marty

Looking forward to the next outing
HS

[john pavkovicMember]

micknmeld wrote:

Some great pics in this report! Well done guys, good to see Holeshot out and about too!

Its even better to be out with the lads!!

[Mike WyethMember]

Just reads the whole report and watched all the vids , looked like some great riding :woohoo: :woohoo: wonder how far it is from my place ? would like to tackle some of that stuff :cheer:

[jamieMember]

GaleyKTM300 wrote:

Mal’s Central West Ride – Sunday Ride 70km

Part one

This was an awesome ride in which we rode a mix of terrain from fast flowing, twisty fire trails, rocky rutted hill climbs on fire trails to perfect pine forest single tracks. I even threw in a couple of tough hill climbs for the hard core to try their luck at.

We headed off into the logged pines with a hardy group of twelve riders being , Mal5.1 “Can Ride” (Heavily Blinged up Christophe Nambotin GASGAS 300) Marty 450 (KTM450) , KTM_Rules (KTM530),Holeshot(DRZ400) ,Pete(KTM400),Tim(KTM200) ,CJ( KTM200),Dude(KLX450), GOCMAN (KTM300), Murph (KTM500),AL (KTM450) and myself (KTM300) sweeping first.

Galey,this ride reads like a Suttos KTM demo day!

[Adrian GaleMember]

Funny that. Sometimes we would pull up to regroup and there would be a gaggle of KTM’s waiting for the others.

[MalMember]

Saturday part 1. It’s a bit boring but you get the jist of the tracks we rode.

[StuartMember]

mal5.1 wrote:

Saturday part 1. It’s a bit boring but you get the jist of the tracks we rode.

The video makes the tracks look like a grade 2 ride.

[Nathan HeatherMember]

The video makes the tracks look like a grade 2 ride.[/quote]

I think its the wide view lense on the camera that does this? Apparently there is a range of lenses for the Gopro’s that gets it back to normal with no fisheye but in my opinion the pics off a normal camera still dont do any justice to a gnarly hill. Great vid mal.

[murph the surfMember]

Looking straight up or down a steep track will make it look like flat ground.
I try and get side on shots with the camera and try and keep the trees vertical in the frame
That gives you some perspective on how steep some of the tracks we ride really are. :sick: 👿
Cheers
Murph

BTW All of the Coast Dudes had an awesome weekend. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
We will be puting a weekend together soon to show case what we have at our door step. 👿 :silly:

[Chris DoddMember]

Day 2 Sunday – Sunny Corner Part 1

[Adrian GaleMember]

Nice work KTM.

That Bog section caught a few out.

I have the same camera as you and I thought you were getting videos, then the pics were released, now the vids. I am guessing you took the pics from the vids?

Looking forwards to the next vids.

[MalMember]

Saturday part 2.

[Bob DowsettMember]

Love your work Mal
didn’t even edit your flop over at 1:59 :laugh:

[MalMember]

Bob wrote:

Love your work Mal
didn’t even edit your flop over at 1:59 :laugh:

Gota keep it real mate. :laugh:

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