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I shot you a pm with my bank details for the refund mate. *You’re not that bad though, I’m going for a refund and $$ for the extra fuel and worn tyre from the other mob that ditched me in the forest!

*disclaimer – in case those that don’t know me don’t realise, this is purely in jest.

Trailboss really is that bad.

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I just re-read this and realised I was looking the times people were getting there friday night thinking they were talking about saturday morning

I’m not going to make excuses but can we have the locked pinned until after the ride in future?

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Edit: I almost forgot about the whole being late thing – like you lot would let that happen! Sincere apologies for holding up the start and thanks for not beating me up about it. I honestly thought I was getting there early enough to compensate for my old lady like prep but obviously I misread something somewhere. That brings me to a funny memory from the weekend. I was kicking the crap out of my bike after Beemer had joined us and all but Mick and one other had taken off to start the main ride and I cracked it and pushed the bike over to a power pole to lean it and get a better kick. As I leant the left side of the bars against the pole I noticed the kill switch was on It used to be a button and I wasn’t used to having to switch it back but even then it still caught me out again for a kick or two over the weekend. I’ve now learnt to switch it off then back on again while I’m thinking of it.

The ride was a lot of fun mixing between different grades and also different terrains. It’d be dry and dusty down one hill and then the next could literally be a waterfall. The beauty of the place is how well you can link up hills like those that ollie pointed us to after lunch! You’d ride down hill for a good kilometre and then it’d be off up another for a click or two but each was different and kept you on the toes! I missed Eagles low side slide but did catch Bollocks losing it down the same hill the next day I only caught the ending of TB’s low side 180 20m from lunch but that was enough to have me in stitches, thanks for entertaining us :p

I was getting comfortable on the 300 and thought I’d pop the front wheel up at what turned into a very inopportune moment as the group stopped in front of me and I had to test the brakes out and very nearly ended up sitting on the back of Holeshot’s drz and still sideswiped him a little with the front wheel. TB did some nice wheelies and had a nice oh shit moment overtaking me into a sharp right hander but made it look like he was all in control as he backed it in and made the corner.

Lifta was probably the most inspiring for me on Saturday. I had a ball watching you rip the front up and tearing around the place especially when you belted past me then overshot the corner and I putted back past you again :p You sure looked in sync with that kato mate well done.

You blokes did bloody well on those bananas too, I get tired throwing my 100kg 2 stroke around and you blokes keep those tractors at pace all day. Perhaps not all weekend but there was a valiant effort by all!

That was my first camping ride weekend and boy was it a cracker! Both days had great riding and great groups and the camp site was almost perfect including the crowd. I only say almost because I’m sitting here at my desk looking like a zombie with my legs covered in calamine lotion! When I was saying hooroo yesterday I didn’t have any aeroguard on and I think the marsh flies had a feast and now I’ve got about 5 golf ball size welts on my legs and a bloody rash down my arm! The boss freaked last night when I went to jump in the shower and she spotted a baby leech on the back of my leg – I would’ve expected he’d be pretty big after feeding on me for a few hours but I’m guessing he had one sip and the rum put him to sleep. If only it did that to me too!

The funny thing about these intraweb forums is you really can’t know a bloke based on their posts because their character only really shows when you meet them in the flesh. I mean, who would’ve thought Boon could be a nice bloke eh!? And who would’ve guessed that Boll had a fetish for young men in speedos!? It really was a great crowd to ride and camp with and I was blown away at how good a spot we had there with such great riding on the doorstep.

Thanks to Trent Lane and thanks Ollie for hooking it up and thanks to everyone for contributing to a great weekend that I’ll never forget

No doubt the “incident” will be raised in Sunday’s ride thread but in the mean time thanks again everyone for showing true concern and keeping on despite being knackered. It’s a free lesson for all I say.

Signed,

Tony.

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I think that’s why the hippies didn’t bury me alive, they were trippin too hard looking at my eyes!

I’ve got some stipes across the bridge of my nose from riding the vines near the gap servo without goggles and my neck is bloody raw today from those at dungog so I’d hate to imagine what it’d do to your eyes!

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I’ve had a slightly ordinary run with goggles. My scott twin lense only lasted about 10 rides and I thought I looked after them pretty well. The lenses delam’d and the foam over the brow split and would drop in front of my eyes.

Then I bought the progrip 3450s with light sensitive lenses and the buggers have also had a problem with the lense making it look like an oil slick across the lense but I only ever wash them with warm water and had them hanging in the laundry to dry so I don’t know what’s caused it.

On the weekend I used these on the saturday and they were great.

Got a lot of attention from the guys and worked well in all conditions which is funny because they’re about 10years old!

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Hey ollie what are the plans for grub on saturday night and sunday morning? Every man for themselves or is the bbq going to be firing and byo meat?

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I’ve done it twice now and enjoyed it both times.

I did the tall ships cruise on the weekend and have to say it was quite dull though it might’ve been improved if we had so much as a breath of wind.

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Ah fair enough, you’re right I shouldn’t have done the c word. My sincere apologies Mick

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Go Bruce! If only you were on the yamaha and it would’ve been a double score for running you down! :woohoo:

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:laugh: Mick, did you edit the P word out of my post? Surely not! If you did you missed one and you also left my sign off behind

I’ve been a mod before so I know better than to bother being touchy about being edited but I have to say I didn’t see that coming. :unsure:

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Ollie wrote:

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Your getting old Ollie!

Chris.

and Grumpy :laugh:

Ollie

Don’t get me started on you old pricks! :angry: :woohoo:

Like the silly old p###k that cut across the traffic and caused me to lock the brakes up into the gutter then flipped me the bird when I tried to get him to pull over and exchange details. Or the grumpy old tradie that went crook at my missus because she called him out for something simple when I was stuck at work. You grumpy old p###s need to change your diapers more often and you’d enjoy things a lot more I reckon.

signed,

young dickhead :p

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Didn’t realise Mal had bought the F800GS – bloody serious bit of gear that is hey! I’d love to be able to justify buying any dual sporter let alone one of those.

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Wired my switch up yesterday. I retained all of the original wiring and bought a 2 pin plug from jaycar which didn’t match the tail on the ebay switch I bought so I cut that plug off and used the jaycar on both ends without a worry. I was a bit nervous about it but it was all extremely simple and it worked first go I just need to cable tie the excess wires behind the lights and the tie the kill switch wiring to the bar.

I decided I’ll put a simple rocker switch behind the headlight to turn it off if I need to but for now it’s off and will most likely stay that way.

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You have more arse then a bus load of poofters Mick I see it time and time again :ohmy: You do minimum maintenance with those kids bikes fuel and ride fuel and ride and dodge a bullet here again (half ya luck :laugh: ) Yeah it was close for sure, maybe next time earlier?

TB

Whereas if that had’ve been me the piston would’ve come out of the cylinder and damaged my backup bike on impact :angry:

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I’m doing the tallships cruise from circular quay and I’ll most likely park up at surry hills around midday.

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