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adam wrote:Riggs, Mal5.1, Chris72a,
What are your impressions of the recluse system ??
Riggs I know you haven’t used yours yet but let us know what you think when you do
Adam.
Have a read of this adam and riggs.
There’s a few pics of the z-strat pro and early thoughts.
I had mine in for just over 12 months and loved it for the most part. It did start to bother me not been able to hold it on a hill using the gears with the engine off.
Great vid thanks Capt. It’s been an absoloute blast doing the shows. It will will only get bigger from here.
How good were the crowds. They loved us!
Yes the work is nice Ollie.
But the jury is still out on your choice of bike.
:ohmy: :ohmy:
I’ve watched this vid about 6 times.
Poor bugger that a long way down.
Well I finally got to type my report late last night. Sorry it’s a bit late. But here goes.
Friday night Corey and Bigger Al turned to camp at home. After a bit of bench racing and a beer bigger Al changed his front sprocket and we chowed down on pizza and beer, then off to bed.
Up early Saturday morning to a magic sunrise and cold temps. Got geared up and the boys got out of bed to watch the sunrise. I left them to get organised at around 7am to meet Medogrocket and Gotchya. The run up to Capertee was cold but ok until we hit Cullen Bullen. I swear the temp got down to -3 and we were riding over puddles with ½ inch of ice on them. I got so cold I was nauseous and had to slow down and concentrate real hard.
Once at Capertee all was good, except for getting Gotchya to undo my fuel cap. My little cold hands couldn’t do it. Did the rounds, caught up with the usuals and met some newbies. Briefing done and we were off.
Medogrocket and I had a rough plan of the tracks to take as we had heaps of time and wanted to throw in some interesting bits. We were cruising along having a bit of fun riding side by side and enjoying the ride. I was enjoying watching dog boy trying to keep control of the berg on some of the rocky up hills. Normally I don’t get anywhere near him but the bike didn’t seem to want him on there that day so I took advantage and rode up beside him. I’m sure if he knuckled down and pushed I would have eaten rocks. I hope everyone liked the run to the camp site.
The arvo grade 2ish ride was fun and we had a great crew. Lefty the little pocket rocket ran sweep and did a great job. Nothing fazes him and he always had a smile. Thanks mate. I was told that sam13 was a bit worried about going out and holding everyone up, so I picked some suitable tracks (I hope) that all the guys would like and had a couple of easier options for Sam13. We headed over to the top of 2 steps hill to watch medogrocket’s boys come up and have a bit of a break. Then went down 1 step hill, which is not as steep but infested with rocks (sunny corner loam) and sam13 nailed it and not too far behind the rest of the guys. Great work mate. We then cruised a nice fire trail that splits the natural bush and the pine forest until a rocky downhill where we peeled off to head back to camp for the evening’s festivities.
Sam13 and Lefty
Sam _ Lefty by malinjected, on FlickrAdam
Adam 1 by malinjected, on FlickrSaturday night was a blinder (literally for some). Hearing of Mick been attacked by a tree is never good but Galey is a trained professional and help was on the way fast. Rest up mate and see you on tracks when you’re all healed.
The drinks flowed and so did the prizes. Huge thanks to all the sponsors and guys that donated prizes. Thanks to ADVENTURE MOTO for my fuel bladder. I thought it was so good I bought the other one at the auction. And what about the auctioneer, Bollocks you’re a legend mate and do a great job. More drinks flowed and most of them went into the new Kings guts. STM you’re an alcohol mole, mate you will drink anything put in front of you. Great to watch. After everyone left the fire I turned the lights out and sat by the fire to finish my drink.
The new King in all his glory.
STM 6 by malinjected, on FlickrCamp fire and power pole type log from the redneck twins
fire 1 by malinjected, on FlickrSunday morning came around rather quickly and a lot of sore heads gathered around the fire, mine included. After a chicken sanga and heaps of water I was good to go. Sam13 had decided to rest up for the ride back to Capertee so I uped the grade a little for the guys I had. I had Kram sweeping today, cheers mate. We started on a couple of flowing fire trails, then down through a creek and up a slippery slope that had Bollocks trying to land his front wheel on my head. Great job taming the WR Bol.
We picked up a few more singles and some nice fast fire trails over to a great pine single section. We ripped through the first single and I stopped for a regroup and a rest. Everyone was enjoying the tracks and welcomed the rest. Lucky we stopped as a small group of riders came rocketing out of the track we were about to get into. All rested with cancer sticks and snakes inhaled, we headed off into some of my favourite tracks. Single after single of pine goodness then some fire trail and one more single to the main road. Cross the road and straight into another single. We toured some open fire trails and came out at the top of a steep rocky hill. There was an easy and hard option for the brave. Down the bottom we cross the creek and head for the first section of the Ski Run hill. I forgot to tell the not so confident guys that there was an easy option and when Lefty and I raced to the top, I asked Lefty to help anyone that has trouble and I’ll go down the easy way and let the guys know about the easy way. When I got to the start of the hill there were bikes spread all over the place. Most guys had a crack at it and 4 or 5 made it up, the rest Adam took the easy way. Thanks for that mate. It was getting time to be back for the run to Capertee so we high tailed on fire trails back to camp.
Everyone packed up and rode off. I pack up the love shack and checked the camp before we left. Thanks everyone for cleaning the camp site. You’d hardly know we were there. Got home unhooked the trailer and headed to Capertee to pickup Mick’s van. Mick had left the lights on and the battery was dead flat. The redneck twins tried pushing me for a clutch start but that didn’t work either. We found a set of light cabled jumper leads in Mick’s van but they were to light to jump off my battery. So we sat for 10 – 20 mins while the van battery charged enough to start. All good got the van home, had a shower and went to bed for a couple of hours then went to work for 12 hours. Top weekend in my books.
Big thanks to everyone that showed up and everyone that helped with the organising. The support drivers were legends again, thanks guys.
Huge thanks to Medogrocket for making me look like I know where I’m going. I’ve spent the best part of 10 years following him around Sunny Corner and still seem to get myself lost. Cheers mate.
I have a bit of video. I just need to get an editing program working to cut it up.
Cheers
MalI’m going to pull out of this ride Murph due to a slight injury that will prevent me from wresting the bike up most of your tracks.
Have a good ride and I hope a few guys make it unassisted. :woohoo:
