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You know what Mick’s like, he is a hoarder, especially when it comes to Honda parts.
Lucky for Huskybloke the memory card was full by the time he had his never ending laydowns. A lot of the helmet cam footage is a bit dodgy, the camera was pointing down too far except for when the branches tried to rip it from my head and staightened it up. The longest video wont play for some reason so there is not that much good stuff, I will post some once I edit it all.
The day started off fairly well as we headed out to what could be called “Ian’s magical Mystery Tour”, it was a mystery to us, and to him, Puddles has competition I think
.Once we got onto the proper trails there was a reasonable pace on some great tracks, there were steep rocky hills, steep greasy hills, some nice ridge runs, bog holes, creek crossings aplenty, tight single and flowing trails. Ian definately gets the prize for the most offs for the day, including two rippers within 200m of each other where he ended up lying in some fairly deep puddles. Then his rear guard fell off which meant every time he went through some slush it sprayed up all over his back.
There was one mother of a downhill where I just shut off the motor as it doesn’t like too much slow going or it over heats, it just kept going down and down and down. It was slippery and rocky with really steep “erosion mounds” although they looked more like piles of clay put there to stop people using the trail. I had a little lay down there at one point when the front wheel slipped and down I went, by the time I got to the bottom my triceps were burning from hold my fat self up during the descent. And hey, how light is the Berg to pick up after picking up the DRZ all these years, just grap the handle bar with one hand and pick it up. Anyway I continued to the bottom and was waiting for the rest to show up when one of the boys comes down and asks if anyone lost a watch, to my surprise I had lost mine and not even realised. By this time I had been out of water for about half an hour and was hanging for a drink, luckily it was only a short burst to Buladelah.After a refuel and a feed it was back into the forest and home by some different trails, these were more flowing but at times more slippery,there was one hill early after lunch that just seemed to go on forever, a nice warm up for the rumn back home. Can’t remember too much about the trails other than there was a huge tree to get over which we all did first go (except for ian
), and also Ian’s other wet lie downs, we laft about 8 in the morning and got back to the cars just after 4 doing about 130km for the day.The Berg was brilliant all day, I followed different people at different times and was pleased to see that the Berg was handling the conditions better than some of the other bikes, while others were slipping and sliding all over the place, after having adjust the suspension to suit me this week, it felt very stable with only the occasional wander off line which is very different to the Warchope ride where it was all over the place.
One of the Puddles Ian played in.
Coastcut Got stuck there as well but didn’t fall in.
Rest break on the trail
The ruts were deep enough to clog a foot peg or 2 in places
Great day on the trails, thanks Ian for leading and Coastcut for Sweeping all day and everyone else for a good days riding.
Get well soon Mate, you have until November to prove your fitness.
I’m in for this one Ian, see you at Stroud
mal5.1 wrote:
Quote:They are all top quality mate and faarrking funny too.All except those couple of dodgy ones to make the grand
:laugh: :kiss:Well done Bol :woohoo:
Put me down too Scotty, should be awesome
Thanks Sutto’s, as always, great supporters of old bulls.
