Race Debut – Nowra 8hr

[Matt BakerMember]

Bob, Green450, Shitty and me made our race debut on Sunday in an 8hr pony express at Nowra.

The Roosters were Bob and LC
The Fatty Owls were Green450 and Shitty

The course was long (about 25kms) and rough with plenty of rocks and sandy whoops, mostly 2nd and 3rd gear. The weather was perfect with rain in the few days leading up to the race and nice and sunny with no dust on the day.

Bob and I flipped a coin to see who started the race, Bob won or lost which ever way you look at it. Green450 was doing the start of Fatty Owls race. Both got pretty good starts but the jumps on the motocross track sorted them out.

Bob put in an awesome first lap in the slippery still wet conditions coming back in about 10th outright (we think he inadvertently cheated when a few riders got lost but we will take it :cheer: )

I got lost on my first lap and wasted about 5 mins going back and forth with a few other riders looking for the arrows. Plus I binned it about 5 times :ohmy: (can’t go very fast when you are laying on the ground)

The Fatty Owls were struggling a bit on the first lap and probably the second (Shitty hates rocks)

Ended up with Bob doing 5 laps and me doing 4.
Green and Shitty only did 4 each.

Best laps
Shitty 58mins
Green 57mins
Bob 54mins (cheat lap) 56mins (full lap) :whistle:
LC4skin 52mins

Semi Pro riders 44 – 45 mins

Rooster came 20th outright and Fatty Owls 27th, anyway we smashed them by a lap :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

50 or so teams in the race plus about 10 nutjobs doing ironman :ohmy:

[Matt BakerMember]

Bob has some video footage of the start that I recorded on his camera and he has some goggle footage also from the start, hopefully he posts it up because I haven’t seen it yet.

[scott bockingMember]

Good onya LC.
Sounds like a great day out. Can’t wait to see some footage.

STM

[Matt BakerMember]

It was f@$king hard work and my body is getting sorer by the minute.

Awesome track!

[Bob DowsettMember]

My body is f@#$%^& :laugh:

[AlexMember]

Top effort lads! Not easy racing now days. The young blokes are heaps fit and fast.

[dennis da menaceMember]

top work dudes.

go roosters…..

go fattys…..

where are the fully sik race pics of you blokes all looking rooted :laugh:

[Chris NicholsonMember]

axel wrote:

Top effort lads! Not easy racing now days. The young blokes are heaps fit and fast.

Hay axel they are young blokes. [ good on you boys ]

[Nick JacksonMember]

Great stuff , sounds like you had a ball and did really well hey

Looking forward to the vids :woohoo:

Nick

[SteveMember]

Great job Guys.I feel your pain,sweep riding a local event kills now,and there only juniors going for an hour.
toes

[peteMember]

Thats a top effort guys nice work.
Every time i thought i was flying in a pony express an expert came through and schooled me on how to ride ( not hard i know ) :laugh:

Is there any plans for more Team Rooster and Team Fatty ?

PTW

[Geoff ForshawMember]

Great effort guys. Well done.

Cheers,
Left

[Mick DMember]

Good report! Well done fellas!

As soon as the flag drops, my head turns into a pumpkin and I crash soon after. :blush:

[Matt BakerMember]

pete the wulf wrote:

Thats a top effort guys nice work.
Every time i thought i was flying in a pony express an expert came through and schooled me on how to ride ( not hard i know ) :laugh:

Is there any plans for more Team Rooster and Team Fatty ?

PTW

Yep, now that we know that we are not useless and can match it with some pretty good riders. Just got to wait for some more events.

[GregMember]

Great stuff guys, bloody pony expresses are a ball Crash and I raced them for years. Well done

TB

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