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Trailboss wrote:singletrackmind wrote:micknmeld wrote:I have had trouble commiting to this ride, I will know for sure after this weekend. It all depends on how my daughter goes in a competition in Sydney on Saturday. If she goes well, I will have to be back in Sydney on the Coffs weekend.
You must feel bad cheering for the other team :laugh:
STM
Wouldn’t worry him Scott pretty sure he has been batting for the other team for ages :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
TB
Nice pair of bastards you two are! :laugh:
This weekend is one step away from the National Championships :woohoo: , to held be on the same weekend as Coffs.
I have had trouble commiting to this ride, I will know for sure after this weekend. It all depends on how my daughter goes in a competition in Sydney on Saturday. If she goes well, I will have to be back in Sydney on the Coffs weekend.
Great report and pics so far, Looking forward to Pt2.
AS Bull said, it was bloody hot, it felt as though every kilometer we rode it got 1 degree hotter. The recent bushfires that have ripped through the area contributed to the dust as the bushfiries put a dozer down some of the trails on Bull’s place as well as the joining property we know as Paradise.
Using the corner man system allowed us to space out enough to minimize the dust, which made it bearable as there was a strong westerly wind that dissipated the dust to a degree.
Bulll’s place has a tonne of great trails, some open stuff that suits the XR nicely .some tight lantana tunnels, rocky creek crossings and some cracker hill climbs.
As it is private property, none of the trails have been raped by dickheads in 4×4’s and it also sees very little bike traffic so the trails are littered with leaves that in the dry weather are as slippery as hell!
About halfway into the ride I jumped an erosion mound and landed dead smack on top of a besser block sized rock that near threw me over the hangers, I managed to stay on the bike and thought to myself I was lucky not to get a flat tyre out of that. Two corners later the arse end of the pig slid out and at that stage I knew what was wrong, a bloody pinch flat. Even UHD tubes have their limits and the hit the tyre took exceeded those limits.
A handy trailside stump was found and Dickie and I got into fixing the flat.
I think we should change Dickies name to 4 day as the speed he got the tyre off, the tube back in and the tyre back on would make any 4 day competitor proud!
It was ironic that I was the only one with tools and a spare tube and I was the one who got the flat tyre.Once we got the tyre fixed the temperature had hit the high 30’s and it was good to just get moving again. WE decided to give Tower hill a run as it is always a challenge at the best of times, but it hadalso seen a dozer lately and it was 6 inches deep of talcum powder, that created a white out for the following rider.
Connor, got lost in the white out and ran up the bank and crashed 10 meters from the top of the hill, and needed some help to get up the last section
As you can see the dust hung thick in the air.
Bull had a moment on his first run and had to go back and have another go and as he passed where I was standing he gave me a roosting that Ollie would have been proud off, I was totally covered head to toe in rocks and dust.
Razzle has taken to the Husaberg like a duck to water after a 28 year lay off from riding dirt bikes and it wont be long and none of us will catch him.
Once we got back to Bull’s, it was straight to the eskies for a drink to wash the dust down, although the conditions were extreme, we still had a good ride didn’t we Razzle!
Thanks To Bull and Scotty for leading and sweeping, I am looking forward to hitting Tower hill again, after some rain next time!
GReat effort on the video. Have you started to love the iMac yet TB? :laugh:
Once you have a imac you’ll never go back!
LC4skin wrote:I’m getting “canned” on left over piss from my trip to the Bathurst 1000 2 weeks ago.2 questions, how can the piss last 2 weeks in the fridge without getting drunk and why did I have left over piss from Bathurst???????????????????
😆 :woohoo: :woohoo: :pinch:Have your account been been hacked? No one should have piss in their fridge that long.
I was originally going to ride a CT90 in the 2013 Scrapheap Adventure ride but once I found out it was way out west this year, I decided I needed something with a bit more go about it.
This year I did the Scrapheap Adventure Ride on a 1989 NX650 and it did the job well. I picked another one up for $200, it had no spark and looks as rough as guts. This one is a later model and even has a disc brake backend.
Here it is with last years Scraper NX.
I dragged it into the shed and threw her up on the stand to see why she had no spark,
I replaced the CDI and Coil, still no spark. I found a loose connection on the pulse generator wires and low and behold, she all of a sudden had spark.
I jammed a tank on her and hooked up some fuel and she fired into life after several years of laying dormant.
A massive cloud of rusty dust blew out of the exhausts all over every thing in the shed and she ran like a beauty!
As you can see, she still needs a fair bit of work to tidy her up but I am pretty sure I have found next year’s Scrapper!
