What a great weekend, Boony you outdid yourself, I hope all the stress was worth it, you certainly pulled it off, Bollocks same to you for the great ride and touristy trip on sunday and Morning Tea (don’t burn the scones next time!!)..
Day 1
A long trip started friday afternoon about 1.30 leaving home at blaxland and heading up to newcastle to pick up Eagle. Arrived at eagles at about 4.00pm (lots of traffic) we quickly switched drivers and eagle took control of the vehicle to Nundle.. Eagle thought he should ring Boony on the way but I had another plan. A phone call from me being Charles from the RFS telling boony that we’d seen his ride on a website and that he would have to cancel as all the forests were closed for backburning. Cheeky bugger even offered to help if we could give him some drip torches.. I think we had him going for a good while and we were satisfied when he agreed to send everyone home. I thought eagle was going to wet himself next to me, I finally let Boony in on the joke and there were many expletives. Boony then proceeded to call every half hour or so to check where we were, It was decided they would wait for us until they went to the pub for dinner, a slight detour due to GPS sending us the wrong way put us back a bit but I think we got there about 7.50 and headed straight for the pub. Introductions were done etc etc.. MickG, Unit and Vman showed up a bit later. The boonstar was well and truly hammered when we got there but kept going to not let anyone down. Most of the talk of the evening revolved around Menace. Boony is in love with menace although he has never met him.. Yes he even admitted it. Lots of beer flowed on the friday night with just about all the gang there. A great feed at the pub, we retired to the firepit where moose and I plucked a few tunes on Mooses guitar. Several more drinks and a rumski saw me heading off to bed.
Awoke saturday morning to eagle telling me the bacon and eggs were ready how good was this, a bacon and egg roll for breaky and then off to gear up for the day ahead.. Novice had a bit of an issue getting his bike starting but in came the D’s with their words of wisdom and Dan furiously kicking the snot out of the WR fag in mouth and all, Novice finally got it started and all was good. In the mean time I had poor old Steve fitting a new back tyre on the WR, and boy am I glad I did. Steve is at Tamworth Cycle Tune 02-6762 5578 so all you locals go and see Steve for parts and accessories and servicing, mecahnical repairs etc.
We headed up some crappy tar stuff about 8-9 k’s before we headed into the bush some nice flowing twin trail and firetrail warmed us up before heading into some slippery muddy wet singles in the pine forests. This where our leader for the Day Boony had a nice little off all caught on no less that 2 helmet cams, poor bugger (NOT). The day was full of great tracks it had everything, singles, twin, firetrail, snotty hills. Parachute hill was fun the biggest longest downhill I’ve ever seen, A couple of people decided it was way too hot and thought theyd have a swim, the puddles and creek crossings were entertaining, we had bollocks going for a swim early on and then KylieD decided it was her turn. Good old super sherpa was there in a flash to pick princess up.. I didn’t mean to laugh but it was pretty funny..
We kept going on some real slippery clay trails I was having way too much fun side to side and all over the place, I think it was billy who had a pretty decent off on one of these sections.. Always bringing up the rear was Demis our sweep for the weekend who did a great job but I don’t think we kept him busy enough, no flats, no breakdowns.. Thanks Demis, Boulder would be proud of ya.
Some more nice flowing fast twin trail heading into lunch, the boys were getting a bit fiesty at this stage and the play started how much fun was that, I did my best to stay away from Dan cause I got sick of copping roost from the big 450. There was some great high speed riding and play going on, I only wish MickG would learn to ride a bit quicker and make it a bit more challenging insert cheeky laugh here. Unit kept whingeing about the big DR on the slippery stuff and how it was too heavy blah blah.. Yeah sure.
We arrived at the berry patch spot on 1.00pm and could smell the barbie cooking straight away, what a feed, gourmet sausages, chicken bits, salad drinks and an amazing berry and icecream desert, had trouble getting my gear back on after that feed. After a bit of a rest and a feed we found some jerry cans with some fuel in them so we fueled up, geared up and headed off. We stopped for a bit of a breather after some more great tracks and were amazed that there was still ice in the puddles, you could here it crackling when you rode up, unit being unit decided to have a lick on the ice..
Boony warned us about a big hill coming up couldn’t wait for it we stopped at the bottom for a bit of a break and chatted etc.. Off we went up the hill got to what I thought was the top and said to DanD is that it.. I think so he said.. Well up a bit further it started again and just kept going and going and going great hill that but I would have liked to have ridden up parachute hill. All made it to the top and we headed off for more great tracks. We decided to head back to the caravan park don’t know what time it was, i was completely knackered though, more of that crappy black top stuff (what’s with that Boony). Then back to the park for showers and beers. We headed to the pub for more beers and a feed. The pub put a couple of nice Reserved for OBT signs on 2 of the big tables. We had another great feed and lots of banter. We had a visit from Boonys mrs and the kids. Eagle and I picked up a couple of takeaway rumskis but I was that buggered I headed straight to bed without drinking it…
Highlights that I remember from Day 1
KylieD’s Swim in the creek crossing
Bollocks swim and completely submerging the DRZ, wait till you see the footage.
Parachute Hill what a great hill
The slippery sloppy singles through the pine forests.
Ice in the Puddles
Lunch – That was the best.
The big uphill that just kept going and going and going.
Boony whingeing about his swollen epiglotis, lucky Menace wasn’t there or something else may have been swollen.
Quality and quantity ha ha, you missed the best bit both ways at the Caves ride Beagle when you rode the bitumen instead :blink: ask everyone that rode the ride and you didnt finish Hillend :blink: , both of those had more riding :laugh: Its not a pissing contest, I know only to well what goes into it good job Boony and Bollocks with the effort that went into it, it was always going to work well done boys 
