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mike wrote:Firstly I want to thank the guys who drove up for the ride Stm, Nick,Nato and Corey,
Scott has been present for all 4 of my rides, Nick only missed last year due to his horrible ride on mower accident,Nato has done the last two and this year Corey came up to tackle only his 2nd ride this year ,and Tom who has also been present for all 4 rides plus the pre- runs of the loop.
Now considering this ride seems to be gaining a bit of a fearsome reputation ( i will try and continue my report) i want to congratulate all the riders at this years ride
Scott arrived with a CRF that was only finished being rebuilt at the 11th hour the motor had been ran for 15minutes :ohmy: and knowing the loop i had planned i was concerned it might not make it :unsure:
With a 5 minute tarmac ride to the forest then a decieving hill to start Scott got on the throttle and thats the way he rode all weekend attacking everything that came before him he might not have liked it but that did’nt stop him , good onya mate :laugh:
That mechanic deserves a pat on the back because that was hard 150k run in period .Nick looked a bit pensive as we geared up for the saturday loop, but with his still shiny new looking Beta and the massive amount of confidence it has given him he rode everything without too many dramas
until we got to Big Red :huh:
Big Red is a nasty, nasty downhill and i did think twice about including it :blush: but i did because this is what riding up here is all about, however when i got half way down i remembered Nick saying to me once that he was”nt keen on big downhills :S :S :S a trip over the bars seemed to shake him a bit but 5 minutes later we came to the hill in the earlier pictures which was later named by the crew as the Bruce Highway because everyone smashed it continued
Nato loved every minute of the ride and I think as it got harder he loved it more, keeping the Gasser on pipe all weekend sounding very sweet
Big Red did catch him out as well though
after advising everyone of the nature of the decent i set off only to be passed by Nato :ohmy: i thought he was going a bit quick but couldnt stop him, when I got to the bottom he told me how he came down which sounded like a scary scary ride :sick: it takes a bit of doing to end up 25 metres from your bike :blush: :blush: but to his credit he did have a go at getting up it afterwards Corey on his first ride for 3 months cruised around without too many problems as well, enjoying the variety of terrain on offer and at one point commenting that theres nothing flat for too long, it’s either up hills or down hills and big ones at that :laugh: I think he will be back
Tom has grown up riding the terrain we have around here and I never not have a go at something because he might not like what he sees, generally what i lead him on he will follow and is one of a small group of riders that i know of that have made it up Big Red :whistle:
He’s happiest when the Yam’s set on the most aggresive map and the back end is hanging out :cheer: something he and Nato did a bit of this weekend :laugh:
Massive thanks to the guys who came up for the challenge and conquered it it was a great weekend
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