the ccc ride

[glennMember]

I forgot to mention the ride would have flowed better if bloody Aaron gave me a hand :whistle:

[Ron BirrellMember]

Well for my first trip to the cells it was a memorable one not just a costly one.
After arriving at camp on Friday arvo with Bols and House I set up camp and listened to the guys talk about their day on the trails over a few soft drinks.
Saturday dawned and everyone was casually having breakfast and prepping bikes when Aaron arrived in his usual cloud of dust.
With everyone ready we headed out on some easy fire trails to warm up on and then onto some really nice technical singles which tested me which I enjoyed even though I had a couple of foopars on the hills.
After lunch at the stamper Snowy lead us on some good open trails that were a bit greasy in places.
About about half way through the afternoon I had my worst off yet. After coming out of a nice tacky section I crossed a log and lost the front end on the slippery surface and went down with the bike slid straight into the end of another log and totaled the left hand radiator. With the help of Damus and a couple of others we were able to change a couple of hoses about and limp the bike back to base camp.
Sorry guys for ending the days ride a bit early.
At camp I was resigning myself to sitting out Sunday session when Cycletune offered to have a go at fixing the radiator which I didn’t could be done, but after straightening it and flling the hole with some steel putty and then using a mix of 2 egg whites and some pepper he was able to fix it, thanks Steve.
Sunday’s ride for me was even better with really fast open trails and a few angles thrown in. It was disappointing that I had to leave before the end due to having to go to work.
Thanks to Snowy for leading a great weekend, Damus and Cycletune for all Their help and everyone else who made the weekend so enjoyable.

Buzz

[glennMember]

SATURDAY
This was to be our big ride day, snowy had planned a ripper of a route and we were as keen as kids in a lolly shop, Aaron arrived and we started to get ready. The day was going to be a warm one. :blink:
I lead the troops along some real nice overgrown fire trails then out to the highway. There is a guide post somewhere in NSW with OBT 18/2/12 on it, yell out of you find it. :whistle: :whistle:
I handed the vest to Snowy :pinch: and off we went on what has to be some of the best single trails in the country. The pace was good the ride was flowing ok, came over a crest only to find a few bikes stopped and the boys were looking at a downed rider, :ohmy: Turned out Polly had somehow binned it big time and landed back/kidneys first on a log in the grass and it hurt. :blush: The tuff bugger rode on but the pain got to him so we took him back to camp. We made sure he was fine and then in true Tamworthian fashion we went riding. :whistle: The next obstacle was a rather challenging hill, only 6 of the group made it and the others went around it to meet up with the group. Poor Bollocks left his goggles halve way up it and had to walk back up and get them, it near killed him. :woohoo: :woohoo:
After we had regrouped I had some of the best side by side high speed riding I have ever had, Steve the local KTM dealer.(Cycletune Tamworth) can ride like you would not believe and crikey his KTM 250 throws some stones. :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:
Next on the Snowy tour of doom was the valley of doom 4, :ohmy: this is where things slowly started turning to poo for some. We finally got the entire crew up so it was down to the stamper for a break. House decided he didn’t want to die from heat exhaustion so in the freezing cold creek he went, about 3 seconds later after some of us looked at each other in we went too, boots and all, god it was cold but bloody nice, good call house.
The next trail is one I will not forget in a hurry, the first steep hill was just pure carnage, Rick and I must have chose the right line because we rode around some really good riders, I stopped at the top to help the boys up. Bolls got up on the cranky one and then a rider went off his nut at me because he reckoned i was the cause of him not making up the hill so he threw abuse at me at the top of his voice. I put the strap around his fork , dragged him and his bike up and then i continued to wear and ear full. Handy hint to that rider, DO NOT ABUSE THE PEOPLE HELPING YOU, :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: Oh and when experienced rider like Aaron, Damus, Steve, House give you guidance on how to ride some obstacles, it would pay to listen. He may notice that I rode around him on the hills on the following days ride instead of assisting him like I would normally do. 👿
We then rode a main trail that led us to a track that would link us up to where we needed to be, I was scooting along following Aaron when I jumped over some small logs across the track, and I don’t know what made me do it but i turned around just in time to see Buzz bin it big time. :ohmy: I quickly turned around to give him a hand. He stood the yammy up only to discover he had mooshed a radiator. That was that ride over for the day. Due to the time we spent helping a rider through some obstacles it was pretty late by the time the boys had the yammy doctored up, so we limped home to the esky’s. :dry:

More later

Boony

[Adrian SnowdenMember]

Tell the truth Boony each time you binned the Kato was when you saw how well a DRZ went and your mind wandered off wishing how you would still like to have such a reliable bike. It should also be mentioned it got up every hill first time unlike the kato — no soft cock excuses about me being first up and you being at the back you hare chishna devotee. And thts the real reason Boony was cranky!

[Dwayne OMember]

snowy09 wrote:

Tell the truth Boony each time you binned the Kato was when you saw how well a DRZ went and your mind wandered off wishing how you would still like to have such a reliable bike. It should also be mentioned it got up every hill first time unlike the kato — no soft cock excuses about me being first up and you being at the back you hare chishna devotee. And thts the real reason Boony was cranky!

:laugh:
Aint that the truth
Good onya Snow (not often I say that) :huh:

[simon burkeMember]

great ride
carnage
i have vids
and food poisoning from a dodgey pie from Gingers creek :sick:
ride report later when i’m well enough :blink:
Bol :woohoo:

PS boony…can you please clarify that it was not me who went off…thats the way it sorta reads…or maybe i’m just delerious with dodgey pie :sick:

[glennMember]

Seeing that I only bimned the kato twice that means the dozer only went good 2 times the whole weekend and please tell the peoples whose bike once again had to be hot wire all weekend ? Oh and what was your comment when I said I didn’t need a hand to get my bike under that log ??

[MichaelMember]

Cant wait to see to vids and photos sound like a great weekend guys

Cheers
Strucky

[glennMember]

BOLLOCKS wrote:

great ride
carnage
i have vids
and food poisoning from a dodgey pie from Gingers creek :sick:
ride report later when i’m well enough :blink: :sick:
Bol :woohoo:

PS boony…can you please clarify that it was not me who went off…thats the way it sorta reads…or maybe i’m just delerious with dodgey pie :sick:

It was not you that went off bolls. I wouldn’t leave you stuck mate, and I also am crook as a dog. Poo and spew

[PeterMember]

Fridays ride started out on Kakoda, aptly named as it it has got really overgrown, lots of grabby vines , little traction. The trail was a 7km challenge and took 4 ever . :unsure: :unsure: :unsure:
Next we offed into one of Snowys favourites, loosely called one of many valley of dooms. Luckily we took the easy direction , down hill, but believe it or not it was more overgrown than Kokoda. :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy: Even the bullet pruff DRZ boiled ( promise of more surprises to come. One high point was Boonys Kato expiring . I went back uphill to rescue our stranded sweep.
Normal questions:-
Polly “whats wrong “
Boony “it wont go no power”
Polly ‘Where is the fuses”
Boony ” F Nose”
Polly ” Before I get the NRMA for u , have you checked the choke ?? “
Boony ” Yeah Polly go get Damos …. please”

After finding Damos a bit down the steamy jungle, I managed to get him to help the luckless Boony.
Result Boony finally found where his Kato’s fuses were kept. with Damos assist.

Other blokes have their “fuses” hidden in other places ???? ( in Joke 👿 👿 )

After all of us finally extricating our tired bodies / MCs out of the doom land we got onto some nice open singles and cooled down back to the beer camp..

Saturday a new day , more starters Bols ( now mounted on a red 450) , Nags ( making a guest appearance after a 4 year layoff ) Buzz & Aaron .
We all had a great blast from the camp out to the highway then started back into the singles. Unfortunately it was in the singles where I lost the plot and had a big falling out with the yellow bike.
It all happened so quick , one minute just cruisin without a care, next second lying under yer bike pondering is my body going to work??
After getting my breath back and realising my riding was done for the weekend it was a slow ride back to base camp.

I must thank ALL of the guys for being so supportive and helpful during my little orf.

So there my ride report stops, but the fun continued ….
I have some pics , I will load them in a few days – my net con is severely restricted – overdrawn account.

Polly

[Nick JacksonMember]

Great ride report guys !!!!

Sounds like your ride had the lot , even food poisoning !!!!

Cmon Bols tell us about the new bike mate !!!

Nick

[Adrian SnowdenMember]

Seeing Bolls is still in the cow pens ripping off his customers let me summarise Bolls new bike

Rattle

Bang

Clang

Silence

Hole in side of motor where gear teeth left the building

Bolls left in camp with beer and porn mags

Repeat from start

[Adrian SnowdenMember]

Boony wrote:

Seeing that I only bimned the kato twice that means the dozer only went good 2 times the whole weekend and please tell the peoples whose bike once again had to be hot wire all weekend ? Oh and what was your comment when I said I didn’t need a hand to get my bike under that log ??

My comment was along the lines of your a cheat Boony you brought a BMX not a motorbike, no wonder it cant be used for clearing trails like a drz, it doesn’t even come with a dozer blade and rippers like a real bike.

[glennMember]

Polly400 wrote:

Fridays ride started out on Kakoda, aptly named as it it has got really overgrown, lots of grabby vines , little traction. The trail was a 7km challenge and took 4 ever . :unsure: :unsure: :unsure:
Next we offed into one of Snowys favourites, loosely called one of many valley of dooms. Luckily we took the easy direction , down hill, but believe it or not it was more overgrown than Kokoda. :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy: Even the bullet pruff DRZ boiled ( promise of more surprises to come. One high point was Boonys Kato expiring . I went back uphill to rescue our stranded sweep.
Normal questions:-
Polly “whats wrong “
Boony “it wont go no power”
Polly ‘Where is the fuses”
Boony ” F Nose”
Polly ” Before I get the NRMA for u , have you checked the choke ?? “
Boony ” Yeah Polly go get Damos …. please”

After finding Damos a bit down the steamy jungle, I managed to get him to help the luckless Boony.
Result Boony finally found where his Kato’s fuses were kept. with Damos assist.

Other blokes have their “fuses” hidden in other places ???? ( in Joke 👿 👿 )

After all of us finally extricating our tired bodies / MCs out of the doom land we got onto some nice open singles and cooled down back to the beer camp..

Saturday a new day , more starters Bols ( now mounted on a red 450) , Nags ( making a guest appearance after a 4 year layoff ) Buzz & Aaron .
We all had a great blast from the camp out to the highway then started back into the singles. Unfortunately it was in the singles where I lost the plot and had a big falling out with the yellow bike.
It all happened so quick , one minute just cruisin without a care, next second lying under yer bike pondering is my body going to work??
After getting my breath back and realising my riding was done for the weekend it was a slow ride back to base camp.

I must thank ALL of the guys for being so supportive and helpful during my little orf.

So there my ride report stops, but the fun continued ….
I have some pics , I will load them in a few days – my net con is severely restricted – overdrawn account.

Polly

hey Poll thanks for leaving out my major dummy spit at narva

Boony

[Adrian SnowdenMember]

My version of a report

The weekend started badly when Boony demanded a five am start so we could get to Walcha an hour before the bacon and egg roll shop and servo opened, and to Gingers Creek two hours before they opened.

We set up laid out a fuel dump for the Saturday ride and then went to do some gentle wide open trails, apart from Damo playing hide and seek with an angry tiger snake, up at the pointy end of the ride it was pretty straight forward we even did a little trail maintenance and played what vine is that. There was some occasioinal bad language floating down from behind and when we rode back we found some mongrel had dumped some old Austrian piece of shit on the trail, it was obviously worthless as it wouldnt run. Damus worked his magic and it was returned to Tamworth for scrap metal. Friday nights Bench racing was very enjoyable.

Saturday, 150 km of trails to do with a fuel dump in place and a packet of mint slice biscuits for lunch the day dawned with promise and the sound of Bollocks venting the Adventure rider dried curry meal from Friday night. Two dead possums will verify how bad it was. After a nice run out to the highway for Boony to autograph a white post had every one warmed up and we started the first long singles run, it was during this that Polly fell off his bike laughing at the constant stream of KTM loveing crap that Boony was spouting. Realising that the eskies and porn mags Bollocks had brought were unattended at camp Polly used the excuse of falling off to can his ride and return to camp. Aftter dumping him at camp we returned to the ride proper only to loose hours waiting for Boony to get up a very simple hill, as lead rider I can attest to there being no slippery bits on it when I went up. It was on this hill that Bolls new bike started to produce more noise than a fireworks competition, Aaron and I rode back down the hill and found Boony and Bolls cowering at the bottom of the hill and helped them around the hill using the track of defeat. Not long after this Bolls bike went quiet and we thought it was ok but it may have just been quiet compared to his wimpering as he decended into the valley of doom four (yep I have found four of them now). Damo and I had a picnic at the bottom of the valley while we waited for the others until Damo gave up waiting and rode his Kwaka up the trackout of the valley just using the back wheel as he was worried about tread wear on the front. I rode up and met him and eventually House and Boony arrived saying that Bolls was curled up in the fetal position refusing to get up unless someone rode his bike up the hill for him.
After clearing the hill we rode off to the stamper where house proceeded to cause greenpeace concerns when he went swimming, a few of us went into rescue him only to have Bolls almost head on a big rock under the water, learn bolls always wear your helmet when swimming. The long hill single was next and despite its great condition and gentle slope again the pack was found wanting apparently they had to rope the Honda and Kato all the way up the hill. they took so long I had time to rewire the Drz as Boony had stolen my spare key so he could quietly take a real bike for a ride later on when we were all asleep. Finally they arrived much to cycle tunes relief as he was now nearly over his data quota after surfing the net for fourty minutes while waiting for Boony. Now three hours behind schedule we headed of for more sweet singles but again fate played its hand and Boony cut in front of Buzz to stop him too passing the kato, causing buzz to crash with a terminal radiator injury. Due to the sun fading and the proximity of the eskies, we called the ride and headed for camp.

During dinner a gaping hole was spotted in the side of Bolls new bike which is apparently an optional Honda accessory he hadnt realised he had ordered. Everyone beat Big Dog to bed rather than have to listen to a certain KTM lover crap on about how he was going on a carrot diet to get more like the colour of his bike.

Sunday saw Bolls swap Polly for the porn mags and Damus and Polly head home. The rest of the team and Boony headed off and finally things went to plan. We rode a shit load of great trails aa well as being able to laugh at boony who was getting crooker by the minute until he was no loger game to fart or burp without risk of following though. All bikes and riders survived the day and got back to camp.

All up a great weekend despite Bolls and Boony coming. We only got through 150km of a planned 230 but it was all quality despite the trails being so wide and flat.
The End Snowy

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