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snowy09 wrote:Boony Pep and I did a pre run of our planned Nundle route today and found out a few interesting facts:
Getting started at 1000 is too bloody late when its 34 degrees.
Pep still carries a spare puddle in his backpack
Parachute hill is as much fun going up as going down
your dehydrated when your on your 4th beer 2 cokes and 2l of gatorade and havnt had a leak yet.We need to rethink a few trails and may have to have plans a b c and d and see how people handlethe heat which is a factor we have never had to account for in a Nundle ride.
We are looking at starting the saturday and sunday rides earlier than planned and shorteningup the Friday ride.You will need at least 70km range however you want to do it for saturday and a refuel point will be available or we will organise atrailer to meet us. More importantly make sureyou carry plenty of water the creeks are all pretty well dry apart from a bit of carp urine. Our Tamworth supply dams are at 50 and 38 % capacity and the one with 50 % has less capacity than most toilet bowls. So that may givee you an idea of the current forest conditions. Long range forcast has the trails being preped the week leading up to the ride and temps back in the mid 20’s so heres hoping.
Im off for another beer !
Snowy,
You don’t know the meaning of the word heat
:laugh: :laugh:Just bring it on :woohoo:
Adam.
Considering the annual old bulls hills of gold ride is not that far away :dry: snowy and I decided we better actually work out the trails we might take this year :ohmy: . Someone mentioned “Pre ride”
so Snowy PEP and I decided we would make the sacrifice and go for a spin through some trails and try and work out the best way to run 40 bikes through the forests up our way 
. First things first, there are a shirt load of rocks on the trails at the moment so handy hint number 1 heavy duty tubes, tyre slime and higher tyre pressures would be the order of the day. We only done 94 ks of the possible 130/140 ks we will be running on the Saturday ride. The temperature was ruddy disgustingly hot with no breeze to cool us down on a break. :sick: Handy hint number 2, water, plenty of water guys you are going to need it. :blink: The trails I am taking on the Saturday ride should be sponsored by the peel Inn because they’re going to make you lot thirsty for a coldie when we get back. 
There was a heap of dust and the grip level was a bit on the missing side but hey that’s trail riding. :pinch:
We are still debating the exact route we are going to take as a lot is determined by the lunch/refuel stop as there has not been anything confirmed at this point for a feed. :unsure: It will happen so don’t worry, Another change to this year will be the 3 vest system, there will be 2 sweeps and a lead rider, the reason for the 3 vest will be so we can change leaders without having to constantly changing vest .
The ride yesty was awesome with the boys having a right ole play and there were smiles all round when we hit the pub on the way home.
Handy hint number 3
PRAY FOR RAIN. :unsure: :unsure: :unsure:Bring on November, cant wait.
Boony
After the Nic/ spud ride set the standard, we found a similar scale bridge that someone had built just near the nundle freeway off ramp that competes with spuds bridge. Its really a long way further down to the ground than it looks, so far in fact we probably wont use it in case someone was to fall off it as we may never see them again.
Thanks for going out and waiting for my bike to get a pseudo flat tire
great work nrma. !!!! The trails are brilliant and and will prime your body for high consumption of an alcoholic beverage or two. The ‘b’ team managed 99.8 km and most of those involved the back wheel spinning and going nowhere on cuddle hill. Brilliant primer buzz
Will definitely b doing that again and we could start a bit of a tradition and meet pep the orange adv man again at the long yard for a post bike wash sherbet bring on the real thing.
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