Watos 2012 RR
Gocman, MickKTM300, Kamazaki-rocket and I did the event as sweeps. The organisers put the call out for some pro riders to sweep, but they were racing somewhere so we got the call up.
Highlights
• 240km of awesome trails with loamy ST and grippy sandstone rock shelves to climb. About a grade 2-3 level.
• Camping with the lads.
• Mick turning up on Saturday without a hangover after Goccy and I backed him out of the Saturday ride.
• Seeing/ Hearing about Mick’s 6 crashes over the weekend.
• Seeing how much Goccy has improved on his riding.
• Seeing Goccy bring his camera to the ride. Even if it was bigger than ones most pro snappers have.
• Racing Mick on the fast sandy FT’s.
• Meeting and riding with Kamazaki-rocket and checking out his awesome CRF 450 with bling dripping off it.
• Catching up with a heap of ride buddies.
• The camp fire shenanigans. Mick was on fire.
• A Bandicoot came over to our camp on Saturday night for a feed.
• Damien Smith (Enduro pro and legend) and his mate mosied over to the fire on Friday night. He has his own team running Huskies. TE310 mounted. I couldn’t talk him into a deal for 2013.
Lowlights
• Marty 450 and ClarkyKTM MIA.
• It was a little bit dusty.
• Running too fast a pace for Goccy and Kamazaki-rocket on the first loop with Mick. We got to the expert section and called Goccy up on the 2 way, but his bloody new 2 way couldn’t pick us up. Man we must have smoked them Mick!
• Not winning the WR450.
• Doing the last loop on Sunday by myself
• The expert loop was not hard enough. This may be so no one hurts themselves.
• Old mate that did break a leg on the expert loop, as I found out this week, comes from Lithgow way. His son also broke his shoulder in a MTB event on the same day.
• Learning about MickKTM300’s daily two finger prostate check! Had Goccy going with that one Mick.
• Waiting too long for the next group ride
Cheers
Galey.
