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A short report from Sundays Ride.
Woke up on Sunday with a few aches and pains and feeling every bit of my 44 years.
RiderX had organised a special ride for those that were still keen, Ray, one of the local trail legends was to take us on a tour of his special trails over at Bonny Hills. Ray Has been riding these trails for 35 or more years and he certainly knows his way around. He just kept on linking one sweet trail to the next and gave us a fair work out.
The first place he took us to is called Old Bottlebutt ,an awesome big tree in the bush just out of Wauchope.
Here are the pics I took there.
The trails Ray led us through were mainly flowing rain forest single trail that were a pleasure to ride and all of a sudden he threw a tricky hill climb at us.
I rounded the corner,to be greeted with a rather steep shaley hill with rock step ups and rutts. The bit that concerned me most was, there were blokes from our group coming back down the hill after failing to make it on their first run at the hill and they were all younger than me on state of the art bikes and here is me on 140kg of steel framed XR. To my relief the XR picked a good line and I just hung on until she got us both to the top.
Here is RC Honda on his 2nd attempt at the hill.Pics don’t do justice to how steep and Gnarly this section was. It was no doubt the hardest section of the whole weekend.
It didn’t quite go to plan for him.
He got there in the End,even though the buster stuffed his ankle and he had to retire soon after.
Ray lead us on a heap more awesome trails, some I had done before and some I want to do again and a ton that I had no idea they were there. From there we headed over to the Hastings Valley Motorcycle raceway to watch the Aussie offroad championships for a while.
A quick shortcut through Cowarra from there put us back near the Brecken ridge Farmstay so the boys could pack up and make the long drive home.
A special mention must go to White Rockets effort,he rode hard all weekend and then loaded up his big gear bag, strapped it to his back and he rode the big Kato back to Taree along th e Highway.
Thanks must go to Ray for the ride it was great,I cant wait to get out there when I am fresh and not the day after a RiderX boot camp.holeshot wrote:
Quote:Mick I have been advised by my legal team to plead the 5th as there is no photographic evidence:laugh: :laugh:
I have a picture in my head that will last a long time mate:laugh:
Moto wrote:
Quote:Ha Mick! Both those pictures you’ve said are KTM01 are me
Yeah sorry mate I had just realised my mistake. I was trying to work out who was who from thumbnail pics. It is fixed now.
Some more shots at the log dump.(If I have got the names wrong let us know by PM please)
Gasit on his GG300
Boulder looking the goods just before things went real pear shaped.
Pear shaped indeed!!!
Moose and Rocket were ther to lend a helping hand (Boulder’s DRZ wasn’t the only DRZ to go arse up here ay Holeshot?)
Graz made it look easy
I even had a go on a new WR450
Who is this?? Brownie?
Ollie on his little red bike.
Ash made everything look easy all day
Bloody young fellas showed us up all weekend. JCW250 cruise on through.
MOTO is now ready for Erzberg
Itsagas on his Gasser 450
Strucky’s XR400, handled the log jam with ease.
RC HONDA on his CRF450
DT had a good time on the logs.
Crash just charged through on the 650
Fossil had a go at sweep too
Here is one section that was interesting to say the least!!!
What a great three days!! Thanks to all the guys who turned up and rode. I had a ball except when I crashed, that sucked, especially because Ollie saw it happen!!
Here are some of the picsI took after lunch on the Saturday, enjoy.RiderX doing what he does best. Thanks for the great job mate.
TB on the Gas
Ollie ON the Gasser
Boulder on his Banana
Crash on the Big 650
Gasit,on his Gasser
MOTO in the thick of things
Brown, one of the whipper snappers that showed up the old fellas.
Strucky styling it up for the camera
Burto on the WR
Sweep rider and all round good fella, MOOSE on the stocker XR600
