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Bad luck Mal and crew, A great effort you cant plan for bad luck just look forward to the next one guys!!
Bad luck mal
more time to drink beer now :woohoo: :woohoo:
Anonymousits not over yet mal just the presser is of got two days to go have fun in the final motocross the starts are fun :woohoo: good luck with the rest.(i am so jeolus of the riding you have in your back yard all the tests i saw looked so good
)Well , my timed event is officially over. TB and Mick have posted what happened. Thanks guys.
After we got it going this morning I had forgotten all about it and the bike was going well. The tracks were relativity easy but time to do them was short, so you had to set a fast pace to stay on your minute. I was coming in with about 6min to spare and feeling quite good.
Then when I got to time check 4 and TB filled the tank there was fuel running out the carbi overflow and we checked the throttle. It was sticking again and I hadn’t noticed. I dicked around with it under TBs instructions and we got it sort of working. Then after about 1km of single track through the cut down pines I come over some small cut down pines and give it a rev to lift the front over and throttle sticks wide open. Luckily I was in 2nd gear and out of the band, but it was heading for it rather quickly. I hit the kill switch and a mate (Rob) that DNFed yesterday that was following me pulled up and we started pulling the cabi out. We couldn’t find anything wrong and pulled the throttle mechanism apart and found nothing wrong there either. Time was getting away and Rob had to go before the sweeps turned up. I put the bike back together and it was still not working. I rang TB just as the sweeps turned up and said go and hand your card and get the bike fixed up for tomorrow. It was very disheartening handing my card in after all the work TB and I have put in.
I rang TB back and organised for them to come back to the control and so we could put the old cable back in. Well did I get treated like a rock star when they got there. I parked the bike in the shade and my excellent team went to work. Donna grabbed the chair out and said sit down and started feeding and watering me. TB (god love him) did what he does best and got straight into fixing the bike. He already had the spare cable out for the next control and in a matter of minutes had the tank off and the cable out. He wouldn’t let me do anything and it was nice to just sit and watch. When TB was finished the throttle worked like new.
Getting the Rockstar treatment
So we headed back to Parc Ferme where Donna sorted a restart for me and TB and I watched the guns come in did their service and change their tyres. I then changed my rear and run the spanner over the bike. Then put her to bed in the lock up and headed over to see how Medogrocket was going.
So I still get to ride with a time card tomorrow, just don’t get any points. Also get to ride a DNF final moto on Sunday morning so that is ok.
It’s been great to run into a heap of Old Bulls at the 4 day: MickP’s an official at Parc Ferme, Whiterocket stayed at home for a couple of nights while he was officially all over the course (thanks for the waves of motivation Whiterocket), Gotchya has been up here sweeping and waving me on with encouragement – thanks mate, SB250Y and Badbowie dropped to chat while I was getting the rockstar treatment today, BIG thankyou to Mike from Muckoff for giving me a hand at service on Thursday afternoon, another BIG thankyou to Daniel from Suttos for organising a set of Barkbusters for me on short notice, Fireman is here as part of the crew for the team “Dirt Doctor Racing” – thanks Brett (and the Dirt Doctor team) for all the advice, support and words of encouragement, Medogrocket is here and still doing well in the ride and keeping within his time – it was great to ride with him yesterday and will always be a great mate. TB caught up with RiderY today from Wauchope who is going very well.
On a side note – While I was getting the rock star treatment on the side of the road, the lead riders came into the time check and a KTM rider waved and yelled “HEY MAL5.1 AND TB” as he rode past. I couldn’t get the number off the bike and TB and I could only assume that it was Dick Dastardly the sneaky bugger as he has mention that he was riding the event.
think a few old old bulls said hello to me to at the stringybark control they prably thought i was a snob did not no who most of them were sorry about that.got a couple of photos of mal at cupitts test
EAGLE`02 wrote:
Quote:Trailboss wrote:Quote:menace wrote:Quote:its all TBs fault….
Yep thats right
A bit harsh I think,,,,,, :blink:
Anything can happen & most probably will at these sort of events APPARENTLY :unsure:
No-one`s fault, just bad luck
gotta blame someone :kiss:
and before you all rip into me, i am joking. i know how much TB has done, and if i was Mal i wouldnt want anyone else turning my spanners…..
Tough Luck Mal and the Crew. I’ve been really enjoying reading about your efforts both before and during the event. At least you get to continue riding.
I’m still looking forward to hearing your thoughts about the whole experience after the dust has settled.
Have fun for the next couple of days
Well Done!Moto wrote:
Quote:You just start each day with your bike off, it’s not allowed to be started before hand. Most of the decent boys will have their bikes starting first kick.I remember last years it was impressive to see so many bikes starting after the chilly night they had endured. I also remember some people struglling with it big style.
You have to cross the start line within a certain amount of time once you been told to start or you pick up time penalties
How could this test possibly show someones adility to complete and even win a 4 day enduro???doesnt make sense that just because you steed doesnt fire up in a require time period you can DNF a 4 day race??? :huh: or is it just me with the shirts because I just pinched a tube putting my new carlsbad on :angry:
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