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February 25, 2012 at 10:45 am #101089
Random photos to start
Chicken on the pipe grass track style
TB Kato mounted :blink:
Spud aka the Hobbit corner cutting :laugh:
Crash on the fiddy taking the Hobbits line
Up the inside of Lefty
Drinks cart
Lefty :laugh:
Spud aka the Hobbit leading a freight train with Crash behind and Lefty behind him
Rob400
The King cutting a new track
More later
TB
Photos by Mick, crackers arent they
February 25, 2012 at 11:21 am #216962Cmon TB elbow up, eyes ahead.
February 25, 2012 at 1:10 pm #216971Dickie wrote:Cmon TB elbow up, eyes ahead.Cheers Dickie I was actually having make a mid corner correction as I nearly hit Mick in the head with the barkbuster :laugh: :laugh: :pinch:
TB
February 25, 2012 at 9:57 pm #216976Massive thanks to Mick for throwing a great weekend together at late notice and to Melissa for letting us overtake the house. Last night was so much fun and the riding was textbook Wauchope. I have some good video and a few stills that I will load up over the next few days.
Huge thanks also to Moose for cutting in the grass track and for getting us around Bago.STM
February 25, 2012 at 11:17 pm #216988What a pearla of a weekend! You know when u leave work at lunch on Friday with bike in tow it’s going to b a good one!
Thanks Mick for your second to none hospitality, it was unreal! Hope I get the chance to return the favour!
Thanks Moose for leading us through and up some great trails! A top mixture of ability testing singles and over grown twin! And of coarse the grass track, for a 5 minute run around the paddock it was a barrel of laughs and loads of fun! Watching the guys battling it out was just as good as riding the track!
Thanks to Spud for taking over the sweeping duties! Glad I could make u laugh with a few log crossings and hills!
Thanks TB for organizing the weekend with Mick and inviting me along with such a high calibre of guys riding! I guess u always need someone to give u a break while u wait on the corner!
And most of all, everyone for making it a great weekend!Dejay
February 25, 2012 at 11:46 pm #216992It was a cracker of a weekend :woohoo: A very special thanks to Mick and Melissa for their hospitality at Chateau Wauchope, it was awesome! Another special thanks to Moose for being the leader as the trails were awesome and challenging in places with the odd swim thrown in!! :blush: :pinch: And that grass track was so much fun, thanks Moose. Thanks to TB for organising the weekend, Spud and Dejay for their sweeping efforts and to Crash for giving me a hand up over that tree root on the last single.
The grass track that Moose cut in was awesome and we had some great dices on Saturday afternoon. :woohoo: Not that anyone was racing eh!Thanks again everyone!
Lefty
February 26, 2012 at 10:01 am #217005Had a few characters turn up at my place Friday arvo looking for a drink and a ride.
AS I had a crook back, I was relegated to the sidelines and couldn’t ride, so I was able to have a few more drinks than normal and I was happy to handle the catering side of things. The shed shenanigans on both nights were gold, as usual there were more laughs than my gut muscles could handle.When the boys hit the grass track, I had a ball with the new Nikon cracking off a few shots of the “racing”.
Connor got in the thick of things on his YZ
There was no racing really.
A good shot of Lefty
The Gravy shot of Spud
Spud was the man to catch on the grass track.
As TB said, there was a bit of corner cutting going on
Here comes Lefty
There goes Lefty
Chicken, had the pig roaring
TB was getting a bit close for comfort. I am amazed his barkbuster didn’t hit my head!
Tripper was just happy to sit and watch the stupidity
The peanut gallery
Meanwhile back at the resort.
More pics to come later.
February 26, 2012 at 10:25 am #217011Spud was the bloke to catch because he is a machine and doesn’t stop :laugh: and yes was quick :pinch: He was the hardest to get past for sure, so smooth and consistent. I had to block pass him in the end :laugh:
There was nothing between Crash and Spud as we all witnessed watching them lap after lap for what seemed like 12 laps. I was a credit to the skill of everyone involved that there were no accidents during the non racing, the speed carried through the slight left at the end of the straight with two bikes side by side or very close into the 1st gear right hander was entertaining, very fast and lots of commitment as we discussed out there. There were a couple of bars banged but it was all clean. Listening to the Hobbit laugh mid corner was gold. It saddens me to say Mick that no one passed me on the grass track but I passed everyone at one stage or another during the non racing :whistle: that would normally make my day so why does it sadden me you ask :huh: That 530 was awesome there on the grass track :whistle: :whistle:
Not just on the straight, but it steered, stopped, turned in, the torque to short shift the double and triple apex corners, and the Teknik’s improved PDS rode the bumps so well, Lefty was saying after we diced at one stage that it was so settled over the rollers. The downer was the rekulse which doesn’t suit the grass track IMO. Crash loved it as well :laugh: I will do a complete write up later.Keep the pictures coming, love the corner cutting pictures
TB
February 26, 2012 at 10:38 am #217013What about Rob400 and Deejay, they caught one another and banged bars :laugh: :laugh:
The yelling from the peanut gallery was funny, the advice the riders couldnt hear :laugh: Chicken on the ol 600 up the straight :woohoo:
Krams young bloke was awesome, so fast and a nice polite young kid credit to you and Penny
Thanks Moose and Kath the afternoon was awesome, oh and the swiming poolTB
February 26, 2012 at 11:35 am #217015Big thanks to TB for all the thought he put into this ride. The movie night was so much fun and watching the footage from the day added to the atmosphere and the heckling was gold!
As always when TB and Mick team up the bar gets lifted and once again it has.STM
February 26, 2012 at 11:47 am #217021Lads ,great pics and reports.
Looked like you all had a ball. Good to see the kids getting some laps as well.
February 26, 2012 at 12:04 pm #216963A biggg thanks to Mick for the great catering and accomodation and Moose for leading us on tracks that even TB hadn’t been on :ohmy: . It was such a great week end, the shed shananigans were funny as, the videos of the the tracks, and seeing karma revisited on nickj was so funny when TB kept replaying the crash after he and nickj left me trapped under the xr. :huh: :huh:
Micks new camera is awesom and nickj’s goggle video camera is so good, excellant vision.
Mick will have to super treat the pool with that much sweat washed off in it.
Thanks to every one, great to meet spud and rob400 (the quiet one)
The rare sighting of a pack of hobbits in bago bushland 😆 😆 :woohoo:
Thanks again to everone
Thanks to DJ for the lift up and backFebruary 26, 2012 at 12:27 pm #217024I did actually notice the pool looked a bit cloudy this morning!
How funny was the footage Nickj caught of his own big come off!!!! That $50,000,000 Goggle camera, certainly payed off that time!! I would have been happy enough to sit there all night and watch that over and over!
February 26, 2012 at 1:27 pm #217026micknmeld wrote:How funny was the footage Nickj caught of his own big come off!!!! That $50,000,000 Goggle camera, certainly payed off that time!! I would have been happy enough to sit there all night and watch that over and over!It was a cracker eh :laugh: :laugh:
Highlights for me
– Friday night catching up with the group :woohoo:
– The shed parties :woohoo:
– The pizzas :cheer:
– Seeing Strucky and Toes
– Saturday Mornings trails, how good were they :woohoo:
– How fast that Kato is now its setup so well :pinch:
– No rain
– The hill climbs :woohoo:
– Riding past Chicken, Crash and Lefty stopped on a hill :woohoo:
– Seeing Nick next over said hill on the buzzbox
– No stinking puddles
– Chasing Moose up a cracker dead end hill climb and thinking I have state of the art everything on this bike and that hippy in front is on a stock 1996 model XR600, made me smile and respect for Moose
– The bike weigh in and Toes putting 5 kilos of lead sinkers in Nickj’s air box adding 4 kilos :laugh:
– Watching Lefty peddle his 450 never knowing if he is standing or sitting yet normally always smooth as silk (riding or backstroking :laugh: ) Smooth
– Mick being all over the tucker
– BBQ breakfasts
– The movies and picture session how good was that, will be adding that to more rides
– The grass tracking, oh my god how much fun was that, oh and yeah no racing bullshit it was on like Donkey Kong peeps I can tell you :laugh:
– The 530 all weekend, yeah it’s a good thing ok
– The finger food plates on Saturday night
– Waking up both mornings feeling better than I should have :sick: :laugh:
– Deejay and Rob on the grass track both wheeling it big time
– Spud aka The Hobbit, the guy is always happy and his laugh pops out random as and cracks me up :laugh: :laugh:
– My pot belly stove that Spud made is a cracker, cheers mate
– New trails that Moose took us on, a bit harder than we normally do up there and they ripped can’t wait to do them again
– Rutzilla and the trails leading to and after it, awesome
– Moose’s laugh :laugh:
– Micks lay out and how it all workedThere is more, hard to remember it all right now but it was epic. More when I do a ride report
TB
February 26, 2012 at 1:47 pm #217027micknmeld wrote:How funny was the footage Nickj caught of his own big come off!!!! That $50,000,000 Goggle camera, certainly payed off that time!! I would have been happy enough to sit there all night and watch that over and over!I was just thinking. All that grass track and no spills. I find that hard to believe. Now we’ve had the glory shots I can’t wait for the carnage shots. Great photos. Thanks for sharing.
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