stroud to buladelah and back

[ianMember]

arrived at the show ground to find Jeffro already there then coastcut, WR, pete and Matho showed up started off in high spirits but i led the fellas astray first up. After WR got a flat and fixed it away we went got back on the right Track still fairly wet in some places but wasnt to bad so after i become the human speed hump a few times and blocked the track for the others early in the peace it seemed to pan out not to bad. We made our way over to buladelah, fueled up had something to eat and headed back for some really nice free flowing trails but at about20 mins from the cars in the space of about 10 min i decided to take out the coveted most get offs for the day with 3. 1 on some very slippery red clay and then 2 in some wet bog holes and ended up covered in mud and soaking wet ( Jeffro was there with his camera and i gave him a lot to take photos of) but all in all sorted some good trails out for the next time we go up ended up doing about a 145 km for the day and back at the cars just before 4, hope you all enjoyed yourselves and see you on a ride soon

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

Lucky for Huskybloke the memory card was full by the time he had his never ending laydowns. A lot of the helmet cam footage is a bit dodgy, the camera was pointing down too far except for when the branches tried to rip it from my head and staightened it up. The longest video wont play for some reason so there is not that much good stuff, I will post some once I edit it all.

The day started off fairly well as we headed out to what could be called “Ian’s magical Mystery Tour”, it was a mystery to us, and to him, Puddles has competition I think .

Once we got onto the proper trails there was a reasonable pace on some great tracks, there were steep rocky hills, steep greasy hills, some nice ridge runs, bog holes, creek crossings aplenty, tight single and flowing trails. Ian definately gets the prize for the most offs for the day, including two rippers within 200m of each other where he ended up lying in some fairly deep puddles. Then his rear guard fell off which meant every time he went through some slush it sprayed up all over his back.
There was one mother of a downhill where I just shut off the motor as it doesn’t like too much slow going or it over heats, it just kept going down and down and down. It was slippery and rocky with really steep “erosion mounds” although they looked more like piles of clay put there to stop people using the trail. I had a little lay down there at one point when the front wheel slipped and down I went, by the time I got to the bottom my triceps were burning from hold my fat self up during the descent. And hey, how light is the Berg to pick up after picking up the DRZ all these years, just grap the handle bar with one hand and pick it up. Anyway I continued to the bottom and was waiting for the rest to show up when one of the boys comes down and asks if anyone lost a watch, to my surprise I had lost mine and not even realised. By this time I had been out of water for about half an hour and was hanging for a drink, luckily it was only a short burst to Buladelah.

After a refuel and a feed it was back into the forest and home by some different trails, these were more flowing but at times more slippery,there was one hill early after lunch that just seemed to go on forever, a nice warm up for the rumn back home. Can’t remember too much about the trails other than there was a huge tree to get over which we all did first go (except for ian ), and also Ian’s other wet lie downs, we laft about 8 in the morning and got back to the cars just after 4 doing about 130km for the day.

The Berg was brilliant all day, I followed different people at different times and was pleased to see that the Berg was handling the conditions better than some of the other bikes, while others were slipping and sliding all over the place, after having adjust the suspension to suit me this week, it felt very stable with only the occasional wander off line which is very different to the Warchope ride where it was all over the place.

One of the Puddles Ian played in.

Coastcut Got stuck there as well but didn’t fall in.

Rest break on the trail

The ruts were deep enough to clog a foot peg or 2 in places

Great day on the trails, thanks Ian for leading and Coastcut for Sweeping all day and everyone else for a good days riding.

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

Here is a video that didn’t require any editing, it is a really nice single track along a ridge.

[ianMember]

Jeffro wrote:quote]Lucky for Huskybloke the memory card was full by the time he had his never ending laydowns ) thats a bugger isnt it

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

Couple of Vids for the ride.

This first one is an old single track that went up a hill to nowhere, this is the return run down. The berg overheated at the top from all the slow moving so I was only cruising down getting some air through the radiator, luckily too other wise I my have lost my head on some vines when they wrapped around the helmet cam.

Typically, the videos dont show how steep some of those section were.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npiLpZgI-2I

Here is one the singles we were meant to be on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV5zs9WhHk4

Then onto a fire trail with a few creek crossings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZvGcr_T5b4

And finally Ian was good enough to park his bike in the wrong line of the crossing to stop the rest of us getting stuck, thanks mate, thats a lead rider for you, very unselfish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoF5zun-dKY

and that makes a nice even 900 posts, only taken me 2 years.

[BillMember]

Hey Jeffro how do you find the feel of the rear brake on the berg?

Mine just grabs as soon as you touch it, I have tried to give it more feel without to much success so I have just got a new rear solid disk last week, they say that should give me better feel.

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

The first ride up at Wauchope it felt pretty good except for the fact that thelever was too high which meant I usually stompped on it once I found it. I adjusted it down before this ride but it felt a bit soft but that may have just been the slippery mud making it feel less effective.

[ianMember]

see what you mean by the camera angling down jeffro, but you still get the idea of the place

[BillMember]

Jeffro wrote:

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The first ride up at Wauchope it felt pretty good except for the fact that thelever was too high which meant I usually stompped on it once I found it. I adjusted it down before this ride but it felt a bit soft but that may have just been the slippery mud making it feel less effective.

I had a problem with missing the rear brake pedal I ended up getting a slightly larger pedal extension and that seems to have helped.

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

Found out why the brake felt soft today, one of the hoses had come off

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