[katrina ratcliffMember]

Thanks everyone for your thoughts….. Having an awesome day getting dirty indoors….. 👿

Got to strip her down…. Got greasy, and learn new things……. :whistle:

Ok… I try and keep it clean this is a family forum……..

Mick’s mate just arrived with his CRF 230 and changing over his muffler to a FMF….

Will enjoy few rums………… Life is good….

Kat

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Sounds like another epic trip…….. Just remember its going to be painful for us to wait that long for one of your entertaining ride reports.

Happy planning..

Kat

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Happy Birthday LC………great day for it to fall on……..we expect to hear about the hangover tomorrow……go hard or go home….

Kat

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Rach wrote:

Side note: I have been thinking about trading the BMW for a more “adventure style” bike ….Could you have done that ride on your BMW? …… would love to have a chat with you about it and get some advice ….. maybe next ride we catch up on

Hi Rach… we plotted this track on the GPS not knowing what the road conditions were like. After riding it you could do it on a BMW providing its set up for off road. There was only one section that I would not like to be on a heavy bike when we went up a slippery clay hill that seem to go for ever. The KLR went down and took some help to get it back up and going again.

Hope this answers your question… it’s all up to what type of adv riding vrs tar riding you want out of your bike.

Hope this helps.

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Well we are in final preps for this weekend with bikes already on the trailer and gear packed. The plan is to drive the car/trailer to Canberra for an overnight stay in a hotel then depart 7am for what we think will be 320km to Bright. The spot will be on…

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=08z6qermb2ym1TOCS63DkaxkSxhIqxL8g

So those guys working on Friday you can drool over the computer screen to see our attempt to navigate the route. Don’t be surprised if you see us going back and forth…. It’s all part of the adventure…

Will take lots of pictures and post a ride report on our return.

For those doing the 2 day nav ride…. Be safe and looking forward to hearing about it.

Kat

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Happy birthday Steve. Hope you had a special day and that you got spoilt…..

Kat

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Some photos from the extraction….

Mick and TB consulting the map

The extraction vehicle

Mick happy that the push out of the bush was successful

Lift up with brut force required

Tape up job

TB heading home.

Thanks TB. Your legend status grows even more…..

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Loved reading your post STM…. Made me giggle ….. Having a legend on a ride would have me quivering in my boots….. But how good is it to have the opportunity to learn from them….

Kat

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Well TB was waiting outside Kitchener Pub was we drove in at 6.40am. He looked surprisingly good for that time in the morning….. Believe me I’ve seen worse.

TB rode that truck in the bush like it was a oversize tenere. We arrived at the extraction area and it turned out TB was in the ball park last night but just didn’t venture into the bush far enough with his thongs. Whilst TB and II were yakking Mick went bush and we could hear the grunts in the distance and decided to keep yakking till Mick had the bike pushed onto the track. With a bit grunt the bike was lifted onto the trailer. The electrical tape came out and TB taped the bike together for the trip home.

We parted ways and left TB to continue on his way.

Operation Chinese extraction successful.

Kat and Mick

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What a way to start the day watching this vid….. Thanks for sharing TB.

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So SMick400 led Rach, Alyssa, WRSteve, Troy and myself back into the bush with the plan to head to BellBird Pub for lunch. Rach decided to do a sliding turn on the first tar corner after the pub… very impressive.

Steve suggested we head to higher ground to get away from the creeks. Kat on some red slippery
clay.

WRSteve blasting up a hill

Followed by Troy…

Then Rach

It worked best to hang back and watch the others go through to work out the best lines… Alyssa lead the way

But on this occasion Alyssa decided to get really wet!! Steve came to the rescue and dragged the bike out of the water

Rach found some not so wet lines…

We got to BellBird pub at 1pm and had time to dry out and enjoy lunch/drink. Then back out there again at about 2pm…

We had a little stop for a bit cause Rach enjoyed a splash in the creek …

Then after lots of button pushing and kick starting the KKKKKKKKKKTM wouldn’t start. So SMick400 and WRSteve stripped her, found out the joys of trying to spark her but had no luck…. The bike wouldn’t start…. Rach on the other hand was yaking away holding the nuts and watching…. With Alyssa

So out came the strap to tie her up to drag her out… the things you do to get a KKKKKTM to go. It was impressive to see the guys attempt to tow not only in tight single track, rutted sections but with such wet conditions – legends…. A clutch start on a fire trail did the trick.

SMick400 didn’t have allot of options on what tracks to take…. It was more like what rivers to take

Even our sweep got busted taking a swim

So by 4pm it was time for Alyssa, WRSteve and Troy to peel off and start heading home to clean up and head back for dinner at Cessnock. We found them one last water crossing to try out and we watched with great enthusiasm to see what bow wave they could muster.
Troy went first

And he made a splash

Alyssa went through next we had our fingers crossed that she would get across safely

WRSteve then made his bike kick up some mud for good measures

So after they left SMick400 asked Rach and I a dumb question…… do you want to ride some more…..took Rach and I nanoseconds to say YEHHHHHH
So off for more fun

We stopped in at the old Coal mine for a photo opportunity

Rach had a good go at tackling this slippery hill

As part of Rach’s initiation into OldBulls chic’s team we gave her the job to test the water (depth, ruts and logs)

So the section on the side didn’t look good so we asked her to check the middle of the creek which resulted in moving a tree branch…

But Rach had one more job… to walk down the middle with legs apart to determine if ruts existed… what a top chic….

It was 5pm and time to head back to the pub for a hot shower… so on our way home we came across more water holes…

It just so happen to be my turn to drop my bike in the water…but like a true Honda it fired up first time…..

But then…… she was coughing all the way back to the pub… seems like some dirt got in the carbie..but she still got me home..

We got back to the pub at 5.30pm and hit the hot showers. Alyssa and Steve arrived at 6.30 and the drinks flowed and dinner was amazing. After many more drinks we wobbled into bed by 12 ish and I don’t remember hitting the pillow.

Sunday’s ride was called off so we got up early, had some breakfast, loaded the bikes on the trailer and headed home to clean up the mess…(made easy by the gurnie).

Top weekend…. with top OldBull’s …… thanks to everyone who came along to make it another memorial ride/swim.

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Rach… That is fantastic news.

Dejay….. It would be awesome having you along for the Saturday’s ride and dinner if you could make it….. Im sure there will be plenty of belly laughs and great moments captured on camera….

Kat

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oldgirl wrote:

Hi
I’ve booked my room and it has two king singles. I’m happy to share if anyone needs. I don’t snore 😆

Love your style Oldgirl….. The only time I consider myself as snoring is when I wake myself up ….. Doesn’t happen often but the rum and coke is always to blame for that….. I’m so pleased you are coming up… We will have plenty of belly laughs…. Get those abs ready!!!. We went up on Saturday to checked out some singles….. You will have a BALL.

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Have updated the first post with details of ride and accommodation. Don’t forget to book accommodation.

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Did you see that the only remaining chic Sanz (#36) came into the bivouac at 5am towed in by her team mates. She had been on the bike for 24 hrs. 3 hrs later after an engine change to fix an oil problem she was back at the start with a 17 hr penalty. What a amazing chic…

Kat

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