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December 14, 2012 at 2:16 am #102164
Merv and I had some work in Orange, and as with all our away trips the bikes came along
Where to ride in Orange :huh: ask Wolfie
Wolfie lives on 3000 odd acres and was looking for some buddies (read guinea pigs) to help explore
We arrived at Wolfie’s around 10am kitted up and headed out. It was pretty warm and Wolfie had us in pine singles 300m from his house, how cool is that :woohoo:
We then proceeded to ride through paddocks, gullies, up hills and down hills just poking around until Merv jarred his back on a steep down hill
I rode his bike through the difficult bits and we took him back to the house to rest up whilst Wolfie and I explored a track down to the river
He was hoping to ride down the track and up a ridge further up the river
What he didn’t know was this was a grade 4 – 5 ridge :ohmy:
We picked our way up the ridge not knowing which path to take, what started out as a good line soon ended in a pile of rocks, or a heap of fallen trees. We’d traverse across in search of another line up and slowly (and I mean slowly) made our way up. Some sections took a couple of attempts or a helping push.
We needed several rest breaks as it was hot, walking up the hill looking for lines was hard, and we couldn’t get Wolfie too excited (he was champing at the bit to tackle this hill
), and pushing and shoving to stop Wolfie’s bike sliding back down the hill was not easy :sick:
Finally we found the top and the main track which also leads down to the river further along :woohoo:
We rode it to the river and went in for a dip to get our body temperatures back down from boiling point :whistle:
After our 10 minute soak we headed back to the house via a very rock strewn track and Wolfie showed me the spot where he was taken out by a large grey roo :ohmy: he was lucky not to be seriously injured to say the least :pinch:
A few welcome cool drinks from our host whilst we loaded up and we were on our way back home at about 6pm.
Turned out to be quite a ride for a cruise around his property :laugh: :laugh:
Thanks Wolfie and we’ll be back when we’re up there to finish of the job in Orange :woohoo:
Got some vids to post later.
Adam.
December 14, 2012 at 3:10 am #233720Sounds like you three had an adventure. I hope you marked the trail for the next group to go through!
The river sounded like it was a welcomed dip.
How much has Wolfie improved!
Looking forward to some beaut pics and vids.
Galey
December 14, 2012 at 3:50 am #233730GaleyKTM300 wrote:Sounds like you three had an adventure. I hope you marked the trail for the next group to go through!The river sounded like it was a welcomed dip.
How much has Wolfie improved!
Looking forward to some beaut pics and vids.
Galey
Galey,
You’ve created a monster 👿
:laugh: :laugh:
He shows no fear :unsure: :laugh:
Adam.
December 14, 2012 at 3:59 am #233732He was always there, i just opened the door for Wolfie to unleash the beast.
Well done Wolf man 👿
December 14, 2012 at 4:18 am #233721This vids from the phone as the helmet cam had gone flat, a bit like me by this stage :whistle:
This was the easy bit :huh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETaKXIAdwx4
Adam.
December 14, 2012 at 5:10 am #233722had a ball now i can say my limits have risen due to the help of galey, thanx mate
, ill have to be carefull next time i go with galey :whistle: ,i can sence there will be no more taking it easy on me 😆
i will amit i was puffing and what made it worse was i could see the river and all i had to do was to ride back down cool off but then i would had to ride back up :pinch: ,all up i think we did around 45kms of fire trails goat tracks and trying to make some , thanx adam for coming for a run with me and having a look about my back yardDecember 14, 2012 at 8:21 am #233723hey adam what you mean galey has created a monster ?? :whistle: :whistle:im a quite conservitive little chap :laugh: :laugh: but i am enjoying the little hill climbs :whistle:
December 14, 2012 at 8:25 am #233724Yeh! thats some good looking country out there,not to bad to have that at yu door step. :cheer: What river is that ?
Teza.December 14, 2012 at 8:29 am #233725macquirie river teza
December 14, 2012 at 9:25 am #233726December 14, 2012 at 9:54 am #233741You will havw to organise a ride weekend ther Wolfie. Get a heap of riders helping you cut in the tracks
December 14, 2012 at 10:47 am #233727jeffro -adam and iv allready spoke about that while he was out ere and im thinking once it cools down i will org something like that with a bonfire and org a spit dinner but in the mean time if anybody out this way they can come for a run and ill keep working out differant routes till then , and maybe some of the local farmers will give me permission aswell , but what i am working on atm is puting some sort of ramps that goes over the fences to save opening gates but so stock cant cross over
December 14, 2012 at 12:14 pm #233728This is the vid of Wolfie’s River Loop (well half anyway)
Galey, pay close attention to the begining :huh:
These are the directions you’ll need when you do it :whistle: :laugh: :laugh:
Pity the battery ran out on the camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsj3UmBJiKw
Adam.
December 14, 2012 at 12:41 pm #233729how loose was that shale and how hard was it to find traction there adam it was so deceaving hey, im going back but ill walk it to try and mark a route then try again but if i cant find a partner for the next run at that hill iv already got my plan b backup at ready and thats my mate in a alumiman dingy waiting for me if i fail ill boat the bike to our cool off hole
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