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Just arrived home from yet another awesome OBT weekend. Glad we didn’t have to make the trip back to Wauchope last night!
Highlights for me wereA well organized ride catering for bikes as diverse as 1000 Vstroms right through to 2 stroke enduro rockets, and rider ability from new guys and gals through to seasoned campaigners.
The support crew were terrific. They didn’t whinge when we were late to meeting points, they had firewood ready at Sofala when we got there, and as we were dragging our sorry asses on to our bikes Sunday morning they were busy cleaning and loading up barbies and picking up any rubbish.
Well done gents. A top effort.How good was the campsite!
The scenery. Great views and that real mountain country look (when you slow down enough to have a look)
Campfire carry on.
“Ol burple” completing another ride despite needing an ovehaul.
Winning a prize for the oldest bike. A set of Pivot Pegs. As anyone who as ever used them will attest to,they are oneof the best accesesories you can fit to a dirtbike.( I wish some other people would start bringing the “old girls” out of the shed.)Yarning with micknmeld and kram on the trip down.
T.B completing day 2 of a ride. :laugh:
Everyones company.
Lowlights were
Krams crash and resulting injury.
Throwing Burple away on a slippery causeway , in full view of at least 3 other riders, including the “papparazi”
I had a ball. Thanks to everybody.
Moose.
mal5.1 wrote:
Quote:There was collection taken for Donna being the champion that she is and driving Kram to the hospital and stain with him for the afternoon. We thank everyone that donated and it is very much appreciated. We had a talk about it last night and made the decision to give the money to Kram and his family. His partner and neighbour Stex (OBTer) drove down from Kempsey last night and are staying in Orange tonight to take Kram home tomorrow. Donna and I feel they can better use of the money and are sure that all the Old Bulls that donated will understand.Donna knows if this happened to any of us anywhere we are riding that we use the resources that we have at the time to do what has to be done. She is a member of OBT and knows all about the OBT spirit. The trip to Bathurst wasn’t out of her way and got her out the house work she had planned. So Kram sort of did her a favour. 😆
I just spoke to Kram and he is going well. They are putting a new cast on after checking his operation cuts. It’s looking like 3 months out of action with the wrist and maybe more surgery later on. He thanked everyone for their help and quick action and was sorry he couldn’t make the rest of the ride. I’ll be catching up with him tomorrow on his way home.
Now that right there is THE OBT SPIRIT at its best
Well done Mal & Donna.
Be sure to wish Kram the best from me too mate, he is one top bloke (especially for a hippy) :laugh:
:woohoo: How good does the Big Strom sound in Jeffro`s vids
Must take some effort to throw that thing around on the trails like that tooWhata great weekend!!!
Thanks TB , Mal and anyone else for there efforts in doing the pre riding and organising for this ride, as it went very smooth considering the amount of riders and the logistics involved!
Both days were full of great trails and obsticals to keep anyone Honest… Unfortunatley it kept Kram a little to honest.. Hope you get well soon mate.
A few of the high lights for me were ( in no particular order)
– Meeting new obtr’s and putting faces to names
– the chalengeing rocky hill climbs
– seeing the trusty old XR’s keeping the late model bikes honest!
– The camp fire banter
– The sponsors contributions,( sutto’s, Muc Off, Jacks Links,
Mud n Tar, Whips )
– The beer at sofala pub after we missed a turn off?
– The Idea that Hatto came up with to fix my clutch lever :cheer:
– The help with fixing my flat tyre especially from Hatto and crash and ollie for his spare tube :woohoo:
– The new trails which I had not ridden before :woohoo: :woohoo:Also great job by Tiny, Lotsa and Bubba for the support vechle’s and the roving sweeps for the photography and general help along the way.
Cheers justo :woohoo:
Well, what an epic weekend that was and I am sure there are plenty of stories to be told. Firstly thanks to TB and Salina for putting us all up on Friday night, the beers and camaraderie that night set the theme for the whole weekend. The anticipation and build up to any ride is one of the highlights in my opinion.
Here are some pics from TB’s on Friday night.
Moose and TB (on the rum and not feeling the cold)
Chicken, Kran and Strucky
Kram was having a good time. He is a social sort of fella
Strucky and Bubba or suburban cowboy support driver
An early night (no Dust to Glory DVD this time) saw us up and ready to head off to Blaxland Maccas to meet the rest of the crew before we headed off to the meeting point for the ride. As we crossed the mountains ominous clouds started to build up and before long the drizzle and fog set in. Not enough to dampen the spirits though and on arrival it was hand shakes all round as we caught up with old mates and made new ones at the same time.
Crash Boulder and Fish shoot the breeze
Jeffro and c-e-l meet for the first time in the fog
The carpark was a buzz of activity as everyone suited up and got ready
After the riders brief we all headed off in single file and as always a large group of riders is a sight to behold. A quick stop at the top of a cutting for a group shot and we were off along the power line trail which got the thumbs up from Moose.
A pic of Kram before his day went bad.
One of the rocky hills early in the piece set the scene for the weekend, with a bit of carnage.
It caught me out a beauty and I soon found myself way over the edge of the trail somewhat stuck. (I am sure someone will post the video of the entire affair) Thanks Crash and I think Hatto for helping me get back on track in a spectacular fashion)Me at the top of the said mongrel hill, the helmet is hiding the fact that I was just shy of having a heart attack at the time
I will let other people fill the gaps about the ride, including Kram’s demise as the weekend was one big blur.
Moose added a bit of excitement for me when he was crossing a causeway and decided to have a brain snap and gas Old Burple only to have her slip out from under him in spectacular fashion on the green slime and Moose hit the deck rather heavily. I did what every good mate would do when his mate has had a big off………I took a photo.
Right near the end of the Saturday ride,I think it may have been me that missed the corner man and subsequently lead all the remaining riders to Sofala Pub (lucky I had been there before and knew where the pub was in such a big town). Not wanting it to be a complete disaster getting lost, we had a schooner at the pub.
WE eventually found our way back to the camp ground where it was all happening, bikes being readied for the next day and people washing the dust down with a fizzy drink or two. It was then that I noticed this fine piece of engineering. Justo had broken his clutch lever and the boys came up with a novel fix for the problem. Tape a spark plug tool on it!!
Random pics I took
It was a pretty spot.
AS darkness descended so did the drunkedness and the good times.
Tiny and the boys got a ton of firewood and we had a ripper fire going, beware the log of Knowledge that stuck out from the fire, It claimed a few victims during the evening, non more than STM and TB though, who tripped on it every time they passed it.
Crash did his best to get a round of The Hokey Pokey going but had no takers so he went alone with it by the looks of this pic.
Everyone rugged up at the fire except for TB who spent the night in shorts and a T shirt, Bundy must be good stuff.
Tryhard was using direct injection of start you bastard as a means to keep warm.
Gavb wasn’t all that keen to give it a go
The Ring of Knowledge got rowdier as the night went on, non more rowdier than our illustrious TB who also found a random tool box to keep tripping over several times during the night.
The next morning the fog was thick and so where a few peoples heads I think after a big night on the drink. Someone was up spewing during the night and the culprit was never found as no one would admit it was them.
Breakfast was made and bikes readied for a big day ahead.
STM regretting those last 15 beers he consumed
The fog mixed with the dust was a bit thick at the start and it made visibility a bit sketchy. But made for a good pic, me and STM pose for a happy snap.
The fog mixed with dust made the dust stick like the proverbial poo
Chris72a got up close and personal with a big puddle and the Kato had a drink and wouldn’t play anymore. IT had to be dried out a bit before it would play again.
IT didn’t want to start on the button so it became a kick fest, Chris kicked and kicked and it wouldn’t fire. To add insult to injury Hatto offered to have a go and it fired 2nd kick. From the puddle it was all up hill from there, literally, and a nasty little hill it was too, with all those random nasty rocks scattered about just waiting to bring you undone. Chris72a had some strife there as he still hadn’t gained his breath from his kickarama 2 minutes before.
Ollie’s attempt was a bit ordinary too, dunno where he thought he was going in this shot.
My quick draw camera holster, is really handy when things go wrong for fellas, as Muckoff shows here after loosing the front end in a corner.
Here are some pics from one of my favourite parts of the ride
.The Steaming Swamp Of Doom, caught a few guys out, check out Chickens effort as he got himself stuck in a hole.
The big girl can throw the roost.
Some other pics from the swamp.
This could very well be the funniest thing I saw all weekend though, Muckoff soon became Muckon when he got a bit close to LC4skin and found out a big Kato can also throw a mean roost.
That is all the pics I got but something that burnt a pic into my mind for life was seeing TB coming down the road at an alarming speed, just before dark and back the big fiddy into the corner and as he did it the big fiddy blew a flame out of the pipe as he rounded the corner in true copy book style. That was sweet mate, awesome stuff.
I will add bits and pieces as this thread develops but that is it for starters.
Jeffro wrote:
Quote:That looks to be the same bog we near lost the V-Strom in, guess we weren’t that far lost after all.Yep that’s it Jeffro. You guys were only abouut 700m off target when you got to that bog hole. It called Long Swamp too. You would have turned right out of the bog and went past the next road on your. That’s the one you were supposed to come out on. All worked out though.
hey all i just wanna say thanks for a great weekend even though i was just carting gear round i still had a ball.. would be happy to help out again any time!
thanks to TB for puttin it on and the campfire entertainment :laugh:
thanks to mal for the great sandwiches hahah
thanks to tiny and lotsa for hangin back a bit when my nugget of a falcon didn’t wanna go up them hills with the load and when my box started to cook! ahahah :laugh:met a whole bunch of good blokes, Oh and Kat! cant forget kat!
thanks again everyone!
Good onya Bubba and welcome mate
Thanks for doing what you did me and I bet the whole rest of us would like to say thanks and shout you a rum or two next time PS I will give you $10 bucks for that belt Buckle :laugh:
Ollie
runner up OBT of the year :laugh:
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