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Practice day on Sunday.

Hoping to start up an enduro at some stage. Maybe try to incorperate with the Gundy 400 Off Road (like Finke does), or start up the Nindigully 500 again.

Would love to see our own desert race

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It’s not so much the heat but the humidity.

I had a contract stock mustering buisness in far north west NSW where I would sit on a bike from daylight to dark in 55c + every day. But was a dry heat out there.

I rode yesterday and it was 39c in the shade. I good sweat never hurt anyone.

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Good job on the points table. I will certainly be keeping an eye on it this season!!

I thought you may have been talking about Brenden. He brought a new bike last year too. Must be getting lazy in his old age. :laugh: I don’t know Andrew.

I can’t remember what happened to the guys at Upper Horton. I’ll have to find out. I remember they had trouble with their laps at the end of one of the races. They shold have done one more lap but didn’t of something.

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Good luck with organising the dates. In the end it will always clash with something but that’s life. As a general rule, moree races 1st sunday of the month, Narrabri the 2nd and Inverell the 3rd Sunday. The pony express is sort of random. It is basically one race per month with the races as evenly spaced out as possible. There are not a lot of people in the pony express that are serious about MX racing as well so we don’t worry to much about clashes. As funny as it sounds, it is bloody hard to organise the calendar so there are minimal clashes. The only ones you definitely can’t clash with are the national mx titles at Moree and Coonabarabran. I can’t remember the dates but they are some time in June and July I think.

Good to see another team in a grade. We are a bit light on for those blokes. I’ll see you at the start line in B grade though.

Yeah its not going to be easy to please everyone when doing the calender. I prefer the Pony Express more than MX myself.

http://www.inverellmcsc.com.au/calendar02.pdf

The above calender is what I have been looking at so far.

Toolie and Griffo were in A grade last year. They came fourth overall and missed the first. round at Armidale. See below.

http://www.narrabridirtbikeclub.com/ponyexpress.html

I went to the MX nats. in Moree last year. It was good to watch. I would have liked to see Tye do better. I am originally from Bourke too.

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Had a look into that average speed rule for pony express once. Problem is I can’t remember what I found out but I have a feeling I wasn’t pleasantly surprised and there was an average speed thing of around 25 km/hr or something very low. I don’t think they worry to much about it though. In our series you would average low 30’s on most tracks and at best low 40’s if you’re real good at moree.

I’m sure there would be ways around it if you talked to MQLD. They seem much more relaxed and realistic than MNSW from my limited experience. I went to a 2 day state round enduro at Goomburra a couple of years ago and it was more relaxed than one of our pony expresses and that’s saying something.

Gibbit, make sure you post up any enduro type events you blokes are putting on as I for one have not heard of any. Do you have a website with a race calendar. If you are looking for pony express dates go to http://www.narrabridirtbikeclub.com

I don’t think we will be doing any enduro type events for a while yet Bundy. I think the focus at the moment would be to get the motorcross track and facillities up to scratch and to boost our membership numbers.

We don’t have a website as yet. We just have the face book page which is run by our president Steven O’Toole. Both Toolie and I will be doing pony express this year. We will have different partners. He will be A grade with Griffo (I think) and I will do B grade.

We don’t have a calender yet. At our next meeting we will look at Inverell, Narribri and Moree dates and work ours around them and the pony express so there are no double-bookings. I’m not sure if the plan is to run any race meets this year. We may be too late to organise this year. Practise days are our focus at the moment.

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Thanks Bundy!! I know we do have an enduro account and our new president is more into enduro and pony express so there could be a chance of joining the inland series down the track (excess the pun)a bit. I would love to use the Gundy 400 track cause i like the high speed stuff hence why i want to do Hattah and Finke.

I did see the ride organised at Bike Teritory and it pricked my ears a bit I will have to see if I can make it.

Thanks for the offer for advise about paperwork. In the last couple of weeks we have become quite good freinds with the people at MQLD and they are great to get along with so we will see how we go.

Don’t Pony X have a rule that the tracks will have an average speed around 50Kph ??? I was talking to Chris Thomas about that track(Gundy 400) when they allowed bikes and he said it was very fast. Yes he is fast but the average from what I heard back then would have been closer to 100kph or higher???. Also congrats on the club re vamp!

You could be right Aaron. I am pretty new into the legalities of it all. It would be something we would have to look into when/if the time comes. The rest of the commitee may not want to use it either. Or maybe we wouldn’t be allowed to use it if it’s CAMS registered. I don’t know. But I would love to have a crack at riding it as I didn’t live in Gundy when you could race bikes there. It would certainly be a fast track.

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Thanks Bundy!! I know we do have an enduro account and our new president is more into enduro and pony express so there could be a chance of joining the inland series down the track (excess the pun)a bit. I would love to use the Gundy 400 track cause i like the high speed stuff hence why i want to do Hattah and Finke.

I did see the ride organised at Bike Teritory and it pricked my ears a bit I will have to see if I can make it.

Thanks for the offer for advise about paperwork. In the last couple of weeks we have become quite good freinds with the people at MQLD and they are great to get along with so we will see how we go.

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Sounds good to me mate. I may have to quit the smokes and grog when I start training for Hattah though I think.

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BOLLOCKS wrote:

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Gday Gibbit
welcome to OBT.I am planing to do all the inland pony expresses this year,there is a hand full of us bulls who go in it.Might cu there,…you can use me for traction
Sometimes we get an OBT tent together..Horton at the end of the year is the one not to miss :cheer:

Bol :woohoo:

Thanks Bollocks
Looking at trying B grade for the pony express and see how we go. I am no A grader. My team mate may not make it too all the rounds which I think means I can do Iron man to keep points. I might have to think about reducing the smoking and drinking if I have to do that. 😆

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JIMMY ELLIS, TB he is a fencer in ringwood if thats who u r talking about

Oh yeh!! F#$ck he was faaaaasssstttt!! :laugh: :laugh: My mate brought his Finke winning KTM 500 off of him.

Id like to see some helicopter footage of him flying through the desert :woohoo:

Ollie

Here is some other footage of Jimmy at Finke.

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I only have 4 Hours on it so far which has been around a track so I don’t really know what its like in the bush yet.
It’ got a Force Bash plate, Bark Busters Ego’s, Steg pegz and an MSC dampner so she’s ready to go.
If it’s anything like my 09 YZ450 it should be sweet!!

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Spent the day in 40 degree heat doing a major overhaul of the Goondiwindi MX track. We had 3 bobcats, 2 big loaders, two slashers and 30 volenters. The track looks great now. Can’t wait to ride it on Sunday. :woohoo:

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