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I have it on good authority that a certain person who had a flat not far from home has gotten a deal on Some ultra HD Tubes and a new rear tyre from Suttos. Good on ya.
(name has been withheld cause I don’t know it but think it started with a G)Chris.
GOCMAN wrote:Ollie,
Yep that was my sleeping bag, thanks for picking it up I didn’t even miss it until I saw this post.
The Tarp isn’t mine.
What suburb are you in ??Hornsby Greg, check your PM’s
Ollie
Thanks to the organizers , support crew and of course the local obt riders for showing us their awesome trails. I haven’t travelled that far (1684km) for a 2 day ride before but it was well worth the drive and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
A big highlight for me was getting to ride with my good mate Chris-t, we used to ride together on the road a lot in England but this was our first singles dirt ride together and he can really get along on that 690 , cheers mate !
Sweeping on Saturday morning was great fun , laughing with STM on the Bluetooths , playing silly buggers with TB trying to run each other into the bush and following lefty who just seems to float over the knarlyest terrain. I tried to keep up with lefty following his exact line and only saw him for 2 corners and he was gone :ohmy:
The afternoon grade 3 ride had STM and I sweeping and we had a great time riding top notch singles and talking on the Bluetooth the whole time. The group split halfway through and we went back out , Galey had a nice paced ride going that was moving really well when poor Mick hit that tree
( get well mate )
This ment some quick thinking and Galey soon had a plan, he lead 3 of us out of the pines at warp speed, I really had trouble keeping him in sight and at times their was no visible track so I was glad when I caught up on the fire road. I went along to go back to camp and let everyone know what had happened so they didn’t send out a search party as it got later. As it turned out the ambos wanted us all to go back to the camp and meet them their. It was a releaf when everyone got back to camp and Mick was safe.
The beers and laughs really flowed evening and STM and I managed to polish of a carton of 500ml cans :dry: :sick: Bollocks ,as always was great doing job with the auction and well done everyone with all the money raisedI woke on Sunday with the mother of all hangovers and thought I might improve with a little grade to ride with Mal5.1 :blink: to say things didn’t flow for me is an undersatement as the hangover grew. I still had a really fun time but was in no shape to tackle anything technical ( I could see boulder knew how I felt as he too knocked back any challenges that could involve the possibilty of picking up a bike :laugh: )
We got back to camp and after a quick refuel I wired up stms helmet and watched him try to put it on between chucks :sick: 😆 for someone so hungover he was riding well and we had a good time racing back to Capertee with the long twin track section really getting fast and fun.
We hit the road home but only made Taree by 10.30 and I could barely stay awake so we got a motel and left for the last leg at 5.30 this morning.
Thanks all OBTs for making this ride one of the greats for me, I had a ball
Like everyone so far i had a great weekend.
Caught up with OLD Bulls and some NEW OLD BULLS and as usual not a bad one amongst them.Few thoughts and observations from the ride.
Rolling into Capertee with the temp at -4 degrees.
Catching up with Action who had camped overnight.:huh:
Pulling one of the first cornerman jobs and seeing bike after bike roar past.
Wrapping my hands around the muffler at the first stop to get feeling back into my fingers.
Following Mal on the afternoon loop (great ride thanks Mal).
Sitting around the camp fire and putting faces to site names.
The auction and presentations were a good laugh. :laugh:
Thanks to all the sponsors.
Young Sam talking to me later that night in a new language.
(let’s call it Jackdanieleese).
Being kicked awake at the fire and told to go to bed.
Adam pushing me out of the creek on the loop on Sunday morning.
Another great 2/3 grade loop well lead by Mal and swept by Kram.
Joining the other six guys that got stuck on the hill.
Mick showering me in roost from the back tyre on his Massey Furgusson in the pine singles.
The trip back to Capertee in the afternoon with just about everything you could want from a ride, hills, singles, rocks, mud etc etc.
Talking to new OBT rider Stickman for about 3/4 of an hour waiting for everyone to come through the gate that i had to close. (i needed the rest at that stage).
Meeting up with different people on cornerman duty.As usual met some interesting characters, learnt some things, laughed a lot and rode my bike. All good!
Thanks to everyone for another excellent Old Bulls adventure.
Organisers
Lead riders
Sweeps
Sponsors
All the OBTsRebore.
Greg, do you mind picking up my bag whilst you are there too mate? I will get it off you at the Watagans ride if that is ok?
Clarky
Ollie wrote:GOCMAN wrote:Ollie,
Yep that was my sleeping bag, thanks for picking it up I didn’t even miss it until I saw this post.
The Tarp isn’t mine.
What suburb are you in ??Hornsby Greg, check your PM’s
Ollie
Well where do i start? What a bloody fantastic weekend!!! :woohoo: :woohoo:
It all actually started at TB’s on friday afternoon dropping my bike off & meeting up with Eagle and Jeffro. Eagle and Jeffro were great and took care of my stuff while I had to go back to work. But I must admit Eagle was like a dog with two dicks :huh: and so proud of his new Kato 690 so i had to take a look. Awesome bike champ, wish i had one. :angry:
Went back to TB’s after work and caught up with some more OB’s. Had a couple of beers and helped Mick change his rear tyre after there was a little banter. :laugh: :laugh: Went home, serviced the bride, (I could only hope!) :whistle: No go there! , so got some sleep. Then when TB arrived to pick me up at 5:15am he looked like the colour of bad shit :sick: so i guess it was my turn for a steer. We met the crew at Macca’s Blaxland and headed for Capertee. :woohoo: So before we left Macca’s i thought i would warm my shoulders up, as they need a bit of attention before a ride, so i put some Goanna heat cream onto them Well that gave TB a bit of something to snort on the way up :sick: :sick: 
but i can assure you he was not real happy about it but as i was driving his car i was pretty sure he wouldn’t have an up and under in it. :blink:Well when we got to Macca’s Lithgow all was back on track. Had some brekky and headed to Capertee for the start…….
More later, dinner is on!
Cheers,
Lefty
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