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what a wicked weekend! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
firstly just for the record, my back is probably the least sorest part of me, the rest of my body is a joke. i feel like ive just gone 12 rounds with Tyson….except i still have both ears attached :laugh: :laugh:
saturday morning…
the Bulls arrived, introductions were made, (thanks Aido), Sammys magic lolly bags were handed out, coffees were gulped, bikes were warmed and we were off by 9am.
so, over the road we go, into the singles. it was weird being behind everyone, watching them hit the first track and blast off up the straight :laugh:
i tentatively crossed the road, onto the first track and with the first twist of the throttle……bang!!!
it was like my brain rebooted to bike mode. in a blink it all flooded back. i was up on the pegs and skipping the woops like id never stopped riding. every crack of band widened my eyes…..and my grin :laugh: :laugh:
by 4th band i was actually screaming inside my helmet. (i love 4th band, its when the trees start to blurr)
:laugh: :laugh:but then my butt puckered :laugh:
as i backed off at the last second for the first corner (as you do :laugh: ) and went to hit the skids…
it suddenly hit me that i had new front and rear pads, this was their first go at bedding :dry:
and i had to pull up for a 90 degree corner :blink:
and quickly!!! :pinch:i had better take a second to thank TB here, i remember hearing him say once whilst in his drunken stupor to scrub the new pads on concrete to aid the bedding and remove the initial film off them. i did this and they pulled up great first go…thank God (ie; Kato).
i stuffed the corner right up still and gumbyed my way around it. it was ugly but i survived….
it reset my ability versus ambition meter at the same time too :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
i had to muscle the bike around the corner through deep sand. thats what i thought was going to hurt my back but it was ok. i only really feel pain if i turn my head fully with all my gear on. i think following what the physio says and doing all his excesises has helped me a lot. i wonder if i can get a disabled parking sticker for my bike??? :laugh:……the lake was way up after the rain weve had in the hills lately. we had to divert a bit to get around. its only about 1 metre off being full.
i knew i wouldnt….but i had fun trying
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it gave me the speed fix i needed,
man have i missed it. 👿 :laugh:choppa set a good pace all day leading and only managed to get us lost twice :laugh: :laugh:
he reckons he is map dyslexic :laugh: :laugh:
both times i knew we’d gone off course straight away, not because id been there before but because i have been staring at the friggin map of this route for weeks in anticipation!!!!. :laugh: :laugh:
so anyway…. i just HAD TO dice through the pack to try and catch him :laugh: :laugh: all caution to the wind like :woohoo:anyway, when he wasnt as lost as a toddler in Target, Chop was riding like a madman and go-go-go. just pointing corners out to the next rider like an evil school teacher and roosting off. i suspect he was loving it :laugh: :laugh:
i reckon i went for over an hour without a smoke. :laugh: :laugh:
we all ended up stopping and having a rest and sending ranga off to fetch him like a crazed jack russell. :laugh: :laugh:
id told him to stop at the next river when i gave him the map, he thought i said THE river, the one we were aiming the ride at :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: it doesnt matter, it was all part of the adventure and we got to see some hot chicks becuase of his first detour
we didnt hit any snow unfortunately. i did see some on top of Mt BawBaw through the trees. i tried to point it out to XY but he was too busy riding with his tongue hanging out in total concentration. :laugh:
it was the first time i have ever swept for a whole ride. i had a ball though, getting roosted by whoever was in front of me :laugh: :laugh:
i even copped a rock on the end of the old fella and just tried to laughed it off :S i was just sooo happy to be back on the pegs. i even let out a few woohoo’s :laugh: :laugh:there really is nothing in life i like better than riding in the bush
take that how ever you will :laugh: :laugh:….after talking it up that we will hit snow, i felt a little guilty after i overtook Aido and monoed a 10 foot puddle, drowning him, right down to his short and curlies, literally……and only 1/2 hour into the ride. :dry:
“it nearly knocked me off the bike” he said :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: a pearla!we got to “junction hut” and crossed the Aberfeldy river. it was a good 20 metre crossing and up to 500ish deep. we stopped for a smoke and this dude on a quad came down the track and crossed the river. my god, the roost was intense! sometimes you couldnt see quad or rider for water :laugh: i asked him if he was wearing a wetsuit. :laugh: :laugh:
we recrossed the river and crossed and recrossed Donnelly river trying to find our way out. :laugh:
Donnellys creek track was all id heared it would be, absolutely beautiful!
it was so nice i just wanted to cruise along and admire it. so i did.we stopped at another hut called Goonans, to fix Drews front puncture. bloody MX retreads i said :laugh: :laugh:
it became quickly obvious that the tyre changing lessons from Mal5.1 at the Kenda had fallen on deaf ears :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: with a team effort we got it sorted and took off again i waited at the river crossing and watched everyone get through as ranga got the big CR to fire.
then i hear…
F**K!!!
and i turn around to see bill getting up out of the river. i cracked up and i could hear him cursing. he was soaked. it woke him up and must have been very refreshing :laugh: :laugh: as it runs straight off the snow peaks :laugh: :laugh:there were a couple of shorter escape routes i had marked on the map called strangely enough…Flat track and Steep track. passing the entrance i saw Flat track starting at about a 45 degree incline and getting meaner by the metre. i started wondering what Steep track was gonna be like!!
guess what!!
you could nearly bloody abseil down it :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
it had to be 50 degrees plus and like a staircase of rock. thank god we didnt need to use either of them! :laugh:we finally hit Cheynes Bridge track, the last 5 kms before lunch. it drops about 1000m in about 3km and has some of the best jumps on it. i was feeling pretty invincible by now :laugh: and was getting some major hangtime :woohoo: on the way down.
Sammy was awaiting us at the river with lashings of choice foods.
roast beef, gravy, slaw, cheese, meat platters and drinks. she has outdone herself again :kiss: . we were starving and devoured it all in a flash.we refuelled and got ready. we were all rooted and decided to take an easier, more direct route home. as i got on my bike i looked down and my heart nearly thumped a hole through my chest :ohmy: :huh: :dry: and i froze…..
this is what i saw….
Holy Shit!
how long had it been loose?
i was having flashes of the jumps coming down to lunch and i started to feel a little :X
i had been standing up most of the day coz i was sweeping…and my arse was hurting, and didnt see it. i dont know how.i dont know how i didnt do them up enough in the first place? :blush: its my fault, i put the forks on and tightened them up….then realized id left the fork protectors off and took the forks back off…then probably had 3 beers and put them back on :blush:
man, what if???
it coulda been really ugly, it could have snapped, spun around and pole vaulted me like a HR holden with a broken front uni joint :laugh: :laugh:
that would have forked me up :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:i shoulda known as soon as i was feeling invincible that something was about to go terribly wrong :laugh: :laugh:
it seriously freaked me out. i told some of the boys im out and they took off into the bush. i couldnt even swap 1 bolt from the other side in the bottom as the clamp is bent and spread. i followed sammy home on the tar, poohing myself all the way…
we had a trailer, but i forgot to grab some emergency tiedowns :blush:we limped home ok eventually.
i had a burning hot shower and felt heaps better, munched some panadeine and just finished my first beer when the boys got back….all smiles
with talk of racing the last leg across the lake sand and through the singles. spewin i missed that….one of the boys will elaborate on that im sure :laugh: :laugh:except drew and ranga, who were still in the bush fixing drews puncture…well i think drew was fixing the puncture and ranga was doing a few tracks around him :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
we had a beer of two, woofed into some JACKS LINKS BEEF JERKY and talked shit for a while. everyone was telling stories of roosing and getting roosted, remennissing some of the days puckering moments :laugh:
it was getting on and everyone had to get home. the boys had said goodbyes and were just leaving when XY and ranga got back just shy of dark.we had a feed and watched a bit of telly…
i was nodding off at 7pm but battled it till 9…then gave up :laugh: :laugh:i slept till 8am, thats the longest ive slept since hurting my back. i woke up and expected the worst but felt good. bones are good, muscles are gone :laugh: :laugh:
im not looking forward to going to physio tomorrow, i will be sorer by then and he will hammer me when i tell him i went riding :dry: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
i didnt take any pics and i didnt get much footage as i was just too excited to think of it :laugh: :laugh:
i did get a bit of me and bill and johnny dicing the tracks and some of Donnellys creek. ill post em up tomorrow.
thanks to everyone for coming. you are all welcome anytime.
thanks to chop for leading and sammy for our delightful lunch.lets do it again soon!!!! :woohoo:
there are some formidable foes in the mexican high country…
here is a southern ice bunyip battling a west mexican werewolf
note the werewolf is packing a chain with a mace ball just out of picture.heres one that i roosted into submission on a previous ride.
they are pretty tame once you scratch them under the chin :laugh: :laugh:Kram on his last visit to mexico :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
micknmeld wrote:
Quote:man this has been a long time coming!! :S Cant wait for the reports. Take it easy Menace, you know how easy you break. :laugh:like fine china mick :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
we will only be about 10-15km from Mt BawBaw as the crow flies. there is 50cm+ of cover and its falling down to 1000m. i think our highest peak for the ride is 1100m
note to self- fix grip heaters :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
you 2 sun lovers would turn into popsicles :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Krams jeruselum locks would ice up and he would look like Sir Edmund Hillary :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
xy-transit wrote:
Quote:Don’t forget i’m on this ride Menace :unsure:just as long as there’s no XY hills
you shouldn’t have to ride Katii too far for me. :laugh:you will be right tiger…ive got a tow rope :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
oh, and i suggest everyone wear a jacket at least for the morning session.
im planning on hitting snow
aido wrote:
Quote:Hey marty i notice your lurking around,why dont you talk to us ? Have you picked up your bike mate ?he better be comin, i have hand picked some slimy hills to test his prowess :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
DONT BE SOFT MARTY!!!!
36 hours to go and i will be back to ruining the ozone layer 👿 :laugh: :laugh:
one twist at a time
i knew there was some alterior motive boonit :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
but your right, we are lucky
those of you that have met my wife Sammy, will know that im fighting Waaaaaay above my weight :laugh: :laugh:
those that havent will just have to trust me, she is the best. :kiss:
im goin riding in 36 hours….. can you reset the clock TB
:laugh::woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
JAK wrote:
Quote:Shove a nice thick steak down the back of the pants Spidy, you’ll need all the padding you can get. Have a good one.no way, the bunyips will eat me :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
aido wrote:
Quote:BOLLOCKS wrote:Quote:Good luck old mate…your getting old and brittle so take it easy
enjoy your return ride u ol bastard :cheer:
Bol :woohoo:
The resemblance is uncanny :laugh: :laugh:
laugh it up….
look at my bling and wad of cash,
bad ass pimpin spidy :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS…….
please arrive around 8AM, im aiming to be on the bikes by 8.30
address….
blores hill caravan park.
wier road, heyfield, vic, 3858.
its site no. 57, (dennis and sams place)
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as it says,
turn left in traralgon at heyfield turnoff, towards heyfield. bypass the township and turn right at the roundabout (where “timberline” service station is) follow the road for about 1km. turn left into wier road (big tree on corner, cant miss it), follow road for approx 5km. caravan park on the right. (if you get to the end of the road, youve gone about 300m too far.
once you enter the park, drive straight past the office (its ok, pay on the way out) follow the “main rd” (red line on map) down the hill. there is a toilet block (facility 2 , on map) on the left and i am 50m past that, also on the left.
you will see my car.if you get lost, call me. there is phone reception at my van.
please bring a jerry can full and fill your tank before arrival.
fuel is available in town 10 minutes away. we will tie the jerrys to a trailer and Sammy will meet us for lunch at the river and refuel us for the second leg.i believe roast beef rolls with gravy and slaw are on the menu….
and the usual lolly bags :laugh:
see yous there :woohoo:
