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I met up with twobanger at around 9am. He got there early for a bit of a warm up ride and I could hear him flogging his 2 stroke through a single track not far from the cars :woohoo: . He got back and refuelled while I got ready. The temp was about 1 degC and there was frost everywhere. :ohmy:
We headed straight into a nice single through the pines and then onto a bit of fire trail over to capt. Furious’s place and picked him up. We then headed off on some of the 4 day tracks where we had a few issues. A bog hole in one of the singles caught out me and twobanger with a small log sticking out over the rut. I went slowly through the rut and my rear brake lever got caught on the log and stopped the bike dead. I then found that the pedal part had snapped off. Twobanger came flying around the corner and thought he’d give it a bit of gas through the bog hole and the log caught his front wheel and sent him over the bars. I was trying the get the camera out but missed it.
When we got our bikes out and happy, we couldn’t hear the capt coming so we decided to go back and find him. We met him about 50m back and he told us he had come off and had the bike on top of him. We then all had a look at my missing brake pedal and capt came up with the idea of drilling a hole in the remaining lever and putting a long bolt through it for a temporary pedal and offered me his workshop to it as we were only 10min away from his place. So we high tailed it back there and got my brake sorted. Thanks capt.
Since capt told us this was his first real ride in the bush for a long long time we decided not to find any nasty singles for him. So we toured around some nice icy fire trails. There was actually ice on the trails. All of us had some huge moments when you least expect it. Apparently capt had a big one in front of twobanger that he thought capt would not get back from. But he did. Twobanger was sort of excited that he was getting ice rostered. :laugh:
Mr furious had to pull the pin early and head home so banger and I headed for some singles back to the cars for a refuel. We found a sweet single on the way that was flat, flowing and fast. We will have to get back and do that one again. After a refuel we headed for the hills literally. We found a few snotty singles and then a nice flowing one that was used in the 4 day. A long down hill full of loose fist size boulders warmed the legs and the heart up for the hill climbs to end the ride. The first one had no run up and was very slippery and steep. My husky with the rekluse just made first go and twobanger made on the third attempt with his husky screaming it tits off in first gear. :woohoo:
The next hill beat us both. I had one go and lost traction. This is where a rekluse sucks big time. When you stop the engine on manual clutch bikes, the engine acts like a rear brake when you’re off the bike. With a reklused bike, when you step off the bike in a nasty uphill situation and have no traction for the bike or the feet, it turns to shit really quickly. The bike started to slide backwards and I tried to step with it but then ran out of ground to step on and I went over backwards. I landed heavily on my back protector and rolled down the hill about five meters. The bike also rolled side over side after me stopping just before me. One more flip and it would have been on top of me. The neck brace and body armour payed for itself again. I picked myself and the bike up just in time to watch twobangers first attempt. He had 3 or 4 goes at it but kept loosing traction at the same point as me. So we called it a day and headed back to the cars.
Had a great ride in very cold weather. Thanks to twobanger and capt furious for the ride. :woohoo: :woohoo:
Photos and videos to come.
Is this in the same ares the christmas party is going to be held Mal?
Boony
The exact place Boony
mal5.1 wrote:
Quote:I had one go and lost traction. This is where a rekluse sucks big time. When you stop the engine on manual clutch bikes, the engine acts like a rear brake when you’re off the bike. With a reklused bike, when you step off the bike in a nasty uphill situation and have no traction for the bike or the feet, it turns to shit really quickly. The bike started to slide backwards and I tried to step with it but then ran out of ground to step on and I went over backwards. I landed heavily on my back protector and rolled down the hill about five meters. The bike also rolled side over side after me stopping just before me.Ummmm not good Mal
, get rid of it and learn to use the clutch throttle and gears together ya cheat 
:laugh: :woohoo: Glad your ok but the poor old Husky :dry:Sounds like a ripper day wish I had taken the invite up now
The ice title through me still its better the Wauchope where it would be your #*$#@*# crack :ohmy:
Look forward to the pictures big man
TB
TB it’s the only time I don’t like the rekluse, but you can’t have eveything in life. It’s all good as long as I don’t stop on a steep hill. :laugh:
Twobanger just after he pulled himself out of the water.
The brake pedal repairs
First slippery hill.
The hill that beats us. That day, but look out next time. I have made up this hill before. It’s called the Ski Run I think.
Great hill to try and I have the same headlight on my xr that makes my xr a 2009 model now :laugh:
bloody freezing on the fire trails I bet and what about that repair job looks aftermarket bling to me lucky you came out unscathed when you flipped backwardsGood onya Mal…nice report
Looks like some good riding around there.Gotta love that protective gear.
Bol :woohoo:
Thanks to Mal and Twobanger for asking me on the ride. I had a great time.
Got up, geared up and it was bloody cold. -1 at our place when the lads turned up to pick me up. We headed out to some single tracks. My first time on single track so I took it easy as they were pretty slippery (for me anyway) with ice and mud. I was just taking it easy when I dropped into a mudhole about the length of my bike and sank. I dropeed it back to first to get up the steep other side and promptly started to dig a trench to China! When I out my left foot down to steady myself it slipped on the slippery sloping wall on that side and I did a very embarrasing slide under the bike as it laid over on me :blush:
Thank God there was no-one there to see it,,,,,,,,, though I could have done with a hand to get the bloody thing off me!!
So, after pushing, sliding and strugglinh I managed to get out from uder it. By now of course my brand spanking new AXO boots and Acerbis kneeguards are covered in filth and my socks are feeling a bit damp as the water was up over my boots.
About this time I could hear the two two-strokes suddenly stop. Bugger.
Caught my breath and tried to get the 400 going. Bloody left sided kickstarts!!!! No where to stand in this slippery, muddy hole and I am trying to kick this thing facing backwards as I can’t kickstart it left footed!!! Arghhhhh.
Finally got it going and clutched and walked it out of the mud and ice,,,,,, as I was doing this I looked to my right and saw the nice dry(ish) and smooth line that the other two guys had taken
Met them on the way back looking for me and Mal and Twobanger had had adventures of their own. Off to my place to do some running repairs to Mal’s rear brake and we were off again.
More to follow.
Good cold ride awesome :huh: iv’e broken tip off my brakes twice. you can buy a burg tip from suttos for about 20$ that will fit hope this helps. hope to ride up that way soon
Part 2 of the further Adventures of Mal, Twobanger and Capt. Furious (you’d know why my friends gave me the name if you had seen me in the aforementioned boghole trying to start my bike, my superpower is the ability to get really really angry
)The guys took pity on me and we headed to some easier single track and some blasts along the firetrails. Now this I like, some stuff to jump, some corners to slide around,,,,, sometimes at the same time.
Started to head up a nice hill with some erosion bank jumps on it with Mal in the lead, then Twobanger and then me. I opened up the KTM and went past Twobanger like he was standing still, mainly beacuse I don’t think he knew we were racing
Damn ice is slippery!!!! My rear wheel stepped out so far that if it had been a race it would have won!!!! I figured as oong as my front wheel was pointing in the direction I wanted to go I would keep the old girl pinned and ride it out,,, which I did,,, straight over the next jump. I was having flashbacks to my motocross days. Oh yes, the older I get the better I was.
When we pulled up at the top for a chat Twobanger was covered in ice from my back wheel and saying something about “I thought you were going to die!!!!”.
Much fun.
Off we go again and into some single tracks again. Starting to get the hang of it. I liked this one, some ruts and little berms so I just dropped on into them and railed them around, that’s more like it. According to Mal all us ex-motocrossers are the same, give us a rut and we are happy :laugh:
And so the day went on. Lots of very icy tracks, some jumps and some bogholes and laughs. I took a line around the outside of a mudhole that turned out to be frozen over and covered in dirt, broke straight through and it swallowed my front wheel. Bloody ice. Bit wet and cold now. Took the lads for a blast along the trails to a little grassy down and up track that I usually ride on the horses. Cracking along one trail there is a very sharp left hander that was, you guessed it, covered in ice. Jumped on the hangers and actually got faster through this corner!!! I could hear Mal and Twobanger coming in hot behind me so was hoping my locked up brake slide through the corner was a giveaway that it was sharp and slippery.
I didnt see it (too busy trying not to die) but I hear Mal went into BoyRacer mode and slipped on past Twobanger whilst he too was busy “Trying Not to Die”.
Quick chat at the top of the hill and I headed off home whilst Mal and Twobanger went back to fuel up and hit some more hils.
Had great day and realised how out of practice I am, how slow I am and how unfit I am. Mucho fun.
Nice report Capt. Glad to see you had a good time.
Thanks for the tip Tiny. I was hoping something would fit, but I might even try and make something for it.
Medogrocket – The pedal broke in the same track as your’s did. Probably the same bog hole
. Having the spare wouldn’t have helped to much as we still had to drill a hole and the spare pedal (off the Sherco) is too short anyway.Here the first few vids.
A nice sweet section of single track.
Twobanger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TCgAkQOIXYCapt. Furious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Fe2x5yRT0Me and Twobanger
Holy Crap, I even kinda look like I know what I am doing
Thanks for getting out on the ride Mal and Rod enjoyed the cold,got me thinking how good the top WEC riders must be riding in the ice and snow all the time.
Had plenty of “moments”but im undecided if frozen grass is slipperyer than frozen clay.
The ice roost i was talking about was when you hit a frozen puddle the fragments of the puddle went flying instead of splashing,saves on getting wet
Mal had a look on my leaver and yours snapped where the flat spot is machined.So now its going to be stronger!
cheers
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