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Trailboss wrote:MrSquiggle wrote:MrSquiggle wrote:hey TB,
Can you put Merlyn down, he will be making it. He picks his bike up in the morning.
Cheers
bump, can you still here voices there TB?
Gees Louise youre a hard task master, what was it, how long 19hrs :huh: Well its done now :laugh:
TB
:laugh: :laugh: happy now, and there better not be any bloody sand either
sea-bass wrote:Can you add my mate Cam on to come with me please!Cam needs to join mate, if he isn’t already a member its easy and free
Then get him to pop his head in pls 
Edit: makes sure he reads the first post as well
TB
I have added him so he doesn’t miss out (pending)
PRE RUN REPORT FOR WEDNESDAY THE 18 SEPTEMBER, 2013 :dry:
Here’s a conversation I had with my wife late last week:
ME: “I’ve changed my roster next Wednesday, I’m going riding.”
HER: “Who with?”ME: “A bloke from the Old Bull website?”
HER: “What’s his name?”ME: “They call him TB.”
HER: “His name is VD?”ME: “TB”
HER “VB?”ME: “TB”
HER: “Oh. Have you ever met him?”ME: “ Yeah he fixed up the GPS I bought and loaded it at the last NAV Rally in Wauchope.”
HER: “So your riding around the bush with a bloke you met on the internet and have spoken to for a whole five minutes… what if he’s an axe murderer?”ME: “I’ll see his axe and come home…”
So it was I travelled to Sunny Lithgow on a day where the temperatures were predicted to reach 26-27 degrees in Sydney’s west (where I just happen to live). I have been going to the Oberon area for 27 years and as a good guide Oberon is 10 degrees COOLER year, round than home. Coming into town there is a funeral home with temperature gauge and clock out the front… temp said 7 degrees… it was right!
It WAS as cold an bleak as it looks… there was a westerly wind blowing as well.
I was in the car park a whole 30 seconds before this bloke turned up…Turns out it’s VD, without his axe…
So we gear up and head out… oh I forgot to mention, before we headed out I had to sign a confidentiality agreement. This clearly stipulated that I was not to divulge to a third party ANY of the route we were to take. Further, I was told, I would not be taken on the whole route… just like KFC where no ONE person knows all eleven secret herbs and spices!
We rode on some tar, past some water. Then we got to a VERY wet pine forest that looked like this
Then there was another bit that looked like this
It was very wet and slippery in the pines.
I was riding along thinking this VB bloke doesn’t mind getting along at a good pace and then I see this
The photo’s are blurry due to the groggy pilot yelling something like “Youbetternotputthisonthefargininternet. Everycarn’tknowsIdon’tcomeoffever!” at the same time he’s throwing pine cones and whatever else he can find at me!
I ran off down the track as he regained full consciousness, he was that angry that he just flicked that 200kg behemoth up like it was a DT175!
TBC
Now he says he’s going home…
Looks like he decided to use the knobs on the side of his tyre!
So I just say nothing and hope he calms himself down. It was GOOD news! Not only did he calm down, he must have “scared self” big time because he also slowed down to a comfortable pace. VD showed me some great tracks in both pines and bush that I am hanging to ride again. Just as I got sick of the fast open stuff we made a sudden change into tighter stuff. Just as I was sick of that we changed back to open it was RED HOT! Mind you it was as slippery as snot with the water around the place! 8 days ago Sydney was going to burn in hell, now I’m freezing my back side off in Oberon chasing some lunatic around on his brand new bike that had TEN km on it when he pulled into the car park!
Surveying his country
More secret water and stuff
Top secret rocky place
A place with a fence around the rocks
A big rock and a chair in case you want to have a sit down…
Hope he doesn’t see me taking photo’s!
Two hands for beginners… VD only uses ONE HAND!
Hanging down stuff inside the big secret rock
Bit of old stuff happening
The BMW types will love this ride! They have umbrellas to sit under while you watch everyone watch you watching your bike!
The road and stairs to “no where” I was told by VB.
No where
Dark and stormy
Don’t cross the streams!
It’s so hard to not let him see me taking all these spy pics!
The old road…
Lunchtime! What does a champion Paris-Dakar rider eat? Boiled eggs! VD sure has issues…
A bridge over a “REEK” this was one hell of a road!
That rocky looking thing on the right, in the gutter is an echidna… he didn’t like loud pipes!
Secret Tussock rocky hill
Up’s and down’s
Shit he’s seen me!
Some nice single
Flat hill
A NSW correctional facility at a secret location
:laugh: :laugh: three things you nutter
– It was a cross rut speed had nothing to do with it
– I didn’t slow afterwards you just sped up a little until the last couple of hrs when you dropped off and things would have been a lot quicker if I had loaded the correct GPS and wasn’t riding one handed all day using that stupid GPS for pre-running doesn’t work :pinch: :pinch:
– Not all the places here are in the route either :huh:
Keep the report coming
TB
BTW – Pines cones? Really? as if :laugh: :laugh:
Why it was called ‘Flat Hill’ it was just after that one of us had a flat! I don’t ride white…
I’d heard all these stories about how he could do a change in 129 seconds flat… that record wasn’t broken today. BUT it was very efficient from where I stood supervising, which I was pretty good at I might say.
More tools than an OBT Christmas party!
The SUPA LIGHT tyre levers made from unobtainium! Light as a feather, but they have to be to counter the 15kg’s of nuts, bolts and tools he carries.
The culprit!
No damage over here on the black machine!
Who doesn’t like ruts on an adventure ride? They’d only be better in the wet!
Always something wrong! I told him 50PSI was standard practice where I come from… he got used to it!
Smokin!
And then my world came crashing down! Not paying enough attention in a sweeping left hander it was either over the edge or over on it’s side… I chose the latter
View over the edge and one of the many hundreds of stumps I could have hit if I went over there.
Ahhhh… the cavalry comes to remind me of the 1:1 crash scoreline
Where I came from
Loose slippery gravel on the road, probably helped me in the end…
Back on track…
Water, water everywhere
Ahhhh… just remember lads this ride will be at the official start of summer! We had wet boots after this particular secret water crossing.
The tree of truth
VD on the gas
More damage. Who do I send the bill to VB?
About 27 years ago a mate and I were out 4wd’ing when we came across this humpy in the bush near a secret place. The ‘swaggie’ who lived there asked us if we had any milk we could give him. We gave him all the milk we had for smoko as it was a luxury he couldn’t have due to no refrigeration. Funny coming across it again after all these years
A road. Somewhere in NSW. That may, or may not be used on a NAV ride.
Where did he go?
A big rock and a littler rock
The boiled egg gobbler in his natural environment
Before I knew it we had used up a whole day, covering 410 secret kilometres. I left home in the dark and arrived back in the dark! Thanks VB! It was rooly good!
LESSONS LEARNED
Anyone can do it PROVIDED that you ride within your own ability and the ability of the machinery that you choose to bring along.
TIPS for new players
1.FIRST gear going UP and DOWN some of the hills… it’s much easier to change/speed up remember!2.Listen to the advice re the 350km fuel range… you’ll need it.
3.If you get tired have a break. There are PLENTY of OUTS on the ride to allow you to leave the course and either go to Woodstock on day 1 or Lithgow on day 2. JUST REMEMBER TO LET SOMEONE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
4.The trail/tracks are constantly changing something NEW is around every corner.
5.I have seen first hand how much work is involved in linking sections and finding ways around obstacles, and I thought just riding on the day was hard! :blush:
6. NO HARD PANNIERS. You WILL hurt yourself.
7.If it’s wet, leave the BMW 1200 in the garage these tracks are NOT suited for them in the wet. Other pilots should ensure that their machine is on FRESH rubber if it is wet… there were some really slippery sections today.
Thanks TB and crew for what you do PRE NAV ride and also during
P.S. Apparently you need to read the first post… EVERY DAY until the ride happens.
Trailboss wrote::laugh: :laugh: three things you nutter– It was a cross rut speed had nothing to do with it
– I didn’t slow afterwards you just sped up a little until the last couple of hrs when you dropped off and things would have been a lot quicker if I had loaded the correct GPS and wasn’t riding one handed all day using that stupid GPS for pre-running doesn’t work :pinch: :pinch:
– Not all the places here are in the route either :huh:
Keep the report coming
TB
BTW – Pines cones? Really? as if :laugh: :laugh:
Are you on drugs? Speed had EVERYTHING to do with it. If you were stationary and fell off it would NOT have been anywhere near as spectacular as it was.
You did a lot of one handed riding, but your “spare” hand wasn’t on your GPS…
What route? There is no route! You’re just a poor simple bloke with lots of Ifriends who you share a map with on a day that you just happen to go riding in the same places… after they read the first post, of course.
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