Hey Katgirl,
Thanks heaps for organising the ride. It was awesome to meet you and you can seriously ride! Especially on the fire trails you fly along and kept up there with the boys all day and they were loving it.
When I heard we were doing a run from Martinsville to Millfield I wasn’t sure what to expect but what a superb ride with a great crew of people with everything imaginable.
The ‘Girls Ride’ turned into 121KM run (8 hour ride) ha ha ha ha ha ha with Merlot telling me at one stage ‘he wanted to find a nice hole to crawl into’. That was so funny as at this stage I felt like a freight train had run over me and this was at the Flat Top rock look out on the way home but it was so worth it as we all had a superb ride.
I had lots of fun mud slides with Merlot always there to lend a helping hand and always full of encouragement, we had some tricky down hills and I got some awesome pointers from both Darren and Merlot about seat positioning and how to tackle these runs and when to break which was almost like turning a light switch on in my head as it worked a treat.
The conditions varied all day from smooth dirt tracks to beautiful hills that climbed on and on back to tight tracks and then into sweet runs and just as I thought we were at the top of some of the climbs I noticed it kept going, its funny but on these hills once or twice Kat and I seemed to come off at the same spot, hee hee but we always managed to get back on and master our way up the hill, but my favourite part of the day was always the single tracks and some were really tight!
The way they meandered in and out of the trees,down the hill and up the hill,through the mud ditches then back on the gas to get through the swamp land back into weaving we all had such a great time.
There was one section on private road I have nicknamed ‘slippery log mud surprise’ as just as you came out of a corner there would be lovely logs of various shapes and sizes lying across a mud water hole that you would land in that would take you completely by surprise. Merlot and I had lots of laughs at this point as we were getting quite muddy (Melot from helping me out of the mud!)
Thanks heaps to Ben, Darren, Paul and Scotty as they were always there with encouragement in the tough spots, getting off their bikes and screaming for us to get on the gas to get up a hill or go flying into and through a deep deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep water mud pit
By the end of the day we were all covered with mud, grinning from ear to ear with lots of funny stories.
and Benjjy with the harder ride! Looking forward to meeting some more OBT peeps.