Nundle – a single too far

[Adrian SnowdenMember]

Eleven of us hit Nundle today in a prerun of the friday singles loop for the big Nundle ride. Awesome day, great trails and yep plenty of reminders about how slippery it is up there when wet. Only draw back was I had underestimated how long the loop was and how technical the loop was. Total length was 90 odd km but it took 6 hours which is a bit much for a Friday arvo ride, plus by the look of the struggle we were all having to get up the steps to the pub it may be a bit much when you have to back up for 120km the next day. We probably wouldnt have got back as quick but we were without the king and damien who normally slow us up.

Thanks to Andy for the launch pad and to Boony for leading the first half and of course super sweep damus. No one injured, most bikes only slightly devalued and we all made the pub along with a stray we picked up halfway around the loop. im sure the boys will post some videos up shortly.

[glennMember]

Awesome ride, more later.

Boony

[andrewMember]

Well another cracker of a ride. A bit slippery in places, and yet again i seem to be spending more time laying next to me bike on the ground waiting for the sweep to come and pick me up and give some more great advice on how to get up the hard stuff!!!!!

( really my plan was to be letting everyone up ahead have a bit of a rest)

Thanks to snowy and boony for the lead

The new launch pad was a great spot….. Feel free to use it when ever you want fellas …. I look forward to the next one hopefully we can get back up there before the August ride for some more carnage ….I will be looking forward to seeing more footage from those little boxes stuck to the side of some of your heads ….

For me it will be back to the shop for some odds and ends to be fixed then I will be ready to go again …

Thanks again fellas for a great day

[Ron BirrellMember]

Thanks Boony and Snowy for leading and Damus for sweeping once again, also thanks Andy for the use of the paddock.
I hadn’t ridden for a while due to work commitments, so I was a bit apprehensive and eager at the same time.The new launch pad was excellent and with everyone kitted up we headed into the hills for some fun.
First up was Lake Bollocks,which was quite tacky and then we headed onto some singles that Snowy and Super Sweep Damus had put in. Still no carnage. We eventually weaved our way to Billy’s Hill where there is always some fun and games trying to get up this short but very slippery hill with a few of us having some trouble getting up, me included.
After travelling along the side of the airstrip we headed for Back Creek, which I always enjoy as it is a very fast flowing single and I had fun trying to get around a certain CRF 250 ( I’m going to get a wide load sign for the back of your bike Snowy ) I think everyone had fun here judging by the laughs at the end.
Instead of going onto the Nundle Rd trails we followed another loamy trail to cross Harris Rd and onto some open fire trails which included Small Rutzilla which I can never negotiate without coming off.
We had a look at another of Snowy’s new singles, I came off on a stick of all things and caught my right foot under the bike and I rolled and injured my ankle again. I continued on for the rest of Snowy’s singles but I was having a lot of trouble with right turns as I had no strength in my ankle and kept falling over.
The guys wanted to do the Steps and Western Boundary and as I didn’t think I would be able to do this with my ankle I decided to bow out and take the sooks road back to the cars and take Andy with me as he had no front brake.
We had a nice cruisey ride back to the cars and the rest of the crew arrived back not long after.
I’d like to thank everyone for a great day on the bikes and can’t wait for the next one.

Buzz

[MalMember]

WTF!!! 90km! I’ll have to carry fuel.

Sounds like a good warm up for the weekend ride. I’ll make sure I’m there late Friday morning. :woohoo:

[Ron BirrellMember]

mal5.1 wrote:

WTF!!! 90km! I’ll have to carry fuel.

Sounds like a good warm up for the weekend ride. I’ll make sure I’m there late Friday morning. :woohoo:

If conditions will be like today Mal you will enjoy it. As for fuel range a Kato 2T made it around so you should

Buzz

[Matt BakerMember]

Mal is always on the pipe and the Gas Gas guzzles Gas Gas!

[DarrylMember]

heard you blokes in the surrounding hills today as camped at Nundle this weekend with family and mates. Unfortunately didnt have bike with me and the tenere wouldnt quite cut the tracks i saw today. By the sound of what i heard ringing through the surrounding hills….brilliant!!!
Regards
Dirthopper

[MalMember]

Buzz wrote:

mal5.1 wrote:

WTF!!! 90km! I’ll have to carry fuel.

Sounds like a good warm up for the weekend ride. I’ll make sure I’m there late Friday morning. :woohoo:

If conditions will be like today Mal you will enjoy it. As for fuel range a Kato 2T made it around so you should

Buzz

I’ll enjoy it either way Buzz, looking forward to riding with you blokes again.

KTMs have always had good fuel range and enjoy over 100km out of a tank. My best is around 80 on open fire trail. Last decent ride I got 70km to empty.

[MalMember]

LC4skin wrote:

Mal is always on the pipe and the Gas Gas guzzles Gas Gas!

Yeah right, I wish…….. :ohmy: bloody thing is too scary to ride on the pipe!

[CrisMember]

Well I think its all been said, another dam good ride had by all.
Video of the day isn’t much as I turned it backwards then finding my self riding near the rear of the pack.
But did get some interesting stuff.

MATT – Duey wants to see the big rock climb he pulled off. From what he was telling me it was a cracker.

Hills of gold bullshit hills of greasy red clay more like it 👿

[glennMember]

Long weekends and trail riding in my eyes really don’t go together, for the main factor of the amount of traffic and campers there are wondering around in the forests up here, So with this in mind I reminded the other 10 riders on Sundays prerun for our Friday loop on the upcoming mount bollocks attempt snowy and I are having a go at, that we could possibly encounter the odd 4×4 or bush walker/hunter on this ride.
Andy gratefully supplies a paddock less than a k away from the van park for us to use as home base for the day.
Once we all got our sh8t together we set off for the pre run, I was to lead the ride to a set point and then Snowy would take the vest and lead us home using some of the singles there are up there. I decided early that this ride was gunna be a bit of a tester for the newbie’s and with this in mind I shot straight up the first single I could find, for those on the last few rides you may remember the single trail half way up the tar hill, It got its desired result, carnage for brekkie, gotta love trail riding. To their credit the newbie’s all came out the other end.
It was shortly after we left this trail we came across a couple of blokes unloading on the side of the road and they too were heading into the forest. Great more traffic I thought.
I lead our troops into gods own trail riding county at a rather steady but nervous pace, bull bars in the back of my mind at every corner,(apparently them buggers hurt). We soon had a reminder as to just how slippery that forest can get after some rain. Traction was not really in great supply when you powered on through some corners.
We had a top run through the latest single that has been made and then we headed up Billies hill and when my bike was all over the place due to the red clay I knew I should wait at the top as there was going to be some guys need a hand, I was right.
I hit the top of this trail and there at the top was parked 2 4x4s with big guns sitting on bipods next to them, I done the friendly thing and said g’day and asked if they had got anything, old mate replied yeah shot bambi on the way in, 2 issues here, 1 these pelicans where shooting out of their cars and 2 we now have deer guts and carcass right where we normally unload.
There was still a few stuck warriors on the hill so I Boze and I headed down to give then some moral support, ( like “hey Damus do you want to be strapped up” I took it by his 1 finger answer he would get there under his own steam.)
Once we were all up we headed off along a trail I have been wanting to cut in for quite some time and it turns out its a ripper, all bar one tiny little hill, that Polly and I had no problems getting up but the rest took the chicken run around it. It was when Polly and I were sitting there we heard a rifle shot ring out over our heads, it was the dick heads up at the landing strip firing off shots.
We had a good run out to the change over point with only a few minor issues and the odd stuck bike due to lack of traction on some of the red clay trails.
Snowy took the vest and we set off on the new internal singles, they are bloody unreal, tight in some sections, open and flowing in others. Andy had a small mishap during these singles and when we got going again we somehow took the wrong turn and lost the other 7 riders, all was good as I knew where we were and I also knew where they were going so it wasn’t long before we were reunited..
The run back to the car was let’s say done at a steady pace as we were flogged and there was some gnarly down hill we wanted to look at.
We all made it back to the cars and then it was off to the Peel in for a few quiet ones.

Thank you Damus for sweeping, Snowy for leading, Andy for the paddock and the rest for being a great ride crew.

Boony

[CrisMember]

Yeah see that’s my problem I cant think or write like that.

Thanks to Boony, Snowy & Buzz for the reports and all that came for a ride especially Paul & Polly having at least a 3Hr drive to get there.

[Adrian SnowdenMember]

Great video. Chris. How bad is the sun on the uphill s at that time of the morning. I scared the shit out of a few pine trees I didn’t see because of the sun when I was going up the new single and nearly t boned boony on that first hill. Still havnt worked out a way to cut the singles loop down enough to fit a Friday arvo especially when Damus wants to add a little snotty uphill at the start of the second half.

[CrisMember]

Yeah the sun was pretty bright but I think it just adds to excitement of them trails. Glad we weren’t looking into it coming down that last hill where that mad 300 flew off the top. Dam he had some air. Thought we were going to find him FUBAR at the bottom some 300 meters down.

Still thinking of a loop but have an idea. will pm you later in the week.

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