Arrived at goanna tracks a tad late, but we got there none the less.
Found the old bulls camp and yep it was near the crappers, but hey a camps a camp.
Hellos out of the way bollocks tells me he just drove the last 10ks with a flat on his lux, something to add to the iron man contest for the day when we change it after the race.
I was introduced to 2 more old bulls in the form of ecks-man and white rocket, typical old bulls good blokes. (Haven’t met a bad one yet.).
White rocket and ecks-man were in the team’s event
Iron man event had Bollocks, Steve, Pep
The riders left for their sighting lap, and I was left sooking around the pit area taking photos,(told you how much I hate roos).
The riders returned about 40 minutes later and there were smiles all-round, a few test crashes were tried just to perfect the inevitable but zero injuries.
Riders were called to the start and the Old bulls attack coona 2009 was on,
The start was great to watch, the riders had to stand in front of their bikes with the motors off, the starter waved a flag and then all hell broke loose.
Of the old bulls Pep got the best start an absolute pearler and blew the rest out of the water, the perfect holeshot.go Oldbulls.
Ecks and I just stood there and watch these blokes tear into the distance Ecks was keen, I was crying.
45-50 minutes later pep the first of the old bulls rode into staging, he was followed soon after by Steve and then Rocket then bollocks. Ecks was off on his first pony express, that smile will take forever to wipe off ecks.
The guys were having a ball. The was only a few minor repairs to be done to some of the bikes, Pep lost a seat bolt, Ecks lost a disk guard bolt and bollocks lost a bark buster and apparently was hit by some guy and that jammed his only remaining bark buster against his throttle, all bikes were easily fixed and back out they went.
The report I was getting from our riders was that the mud holes were getting deeper and so were the ruts, a couple of our riders actually got stuck in the mud a few times and needed help extracting their steeds so they could continue.
I am unsure of the final results due to we all had to get on the road and they were not on the web site before my repot went to print, I will keep chasing this info and keep you all posted.
Highlights of the day
Spending Fathers day at the bikes with the family.
Meeting Ecks-man and white rocket
Seeing that magic start of peps
The smiles on our riders faces when they took off helmets on completion of a lap
Photos are on their way.
Boony
