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Unfortunately there are no Suzuki dealers in Coffs mate. Graft would be your closest.
STM
Aaron wrote:The mx. Cams would probably be the go two banger
. I had the. 426 set to y z spec and it was lively in the tight stuff and I changed it as it was not as good as a trail bike. But on a 250 it might be just what the doctor ordered. The air box will be as open as sustainably possible Mr the king. 
this will be my first electric legged trailbike so I think I can smell a recluse coming on. .Sounds like the perfect setup mate. The Rekluse is definitely a good way to go on a 250F.
STM
Hi Damon and welcome to the site.
I live on the Coffs Coast so if you are keen to head south I can show you some nice trails.Cheers
STMI wouldn’t get to carried away with the bore mate. You have the pipe so just make sure the air box is open enough and make her scream.
EnjoySTM
Happy birthday KevDog
Have a great day and if not before I will see you in November.
STM
Great footage Bollocks.
Conditions looked absolutely primo!STM
Nice find Ollie
I can vouch for the Six Six One Rob. I have had one for 6 years and I wear it all year long. It gets thrown in the wash and hung on the line and it is stil going strong.
STM
Congrats Aaron.
Good looking bike and I reckon its a great choice. Can’t wait to hear a full report.STM
white rocket wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gevPgfP2x0&feature=player_embedded the yanky catcher is a crack up :woohoo:Did I see the Tumble Boss in that clip :laugh:
STM
white rocket wrote:like that video a missing yamaha and TB going past on the back wheel top stuff the one before it to think TB has the right attitude if you don t make it try againThat noise you hear is not a miss Rocket, it is my Go Pro rattling in its mount. I can happily say my bike is running beautifully.
STM
It is not such a big deal in the cities were there are a lot of bike shops but in regional areas you can be limited to choices by your local dealers. No point owning an exotic bike if you can’t get a basic part on a Saturday morning.
STM
The ride I did on the weekend with TB had four bikes and all were different capacities. There wa a 250, 400, 450 and a 650. We all rode the same trails and we all had a lot of fun. The best riders will be the quickest regardless of capacity unless you are riding flat open terrain. Have you spent any time on Bolls 250 mate? Don’t be worried about how much you have to rev them as they are built to handle it.
STM
Corey8 wrote:Krusty wrote:Gold King.. Absolute Gold…Hey Krusty after a bit of talk we have decided that the widow maker will be on the big ride but we will only need to go down it and there will be the option of going up if you so wish
Ignore Corey. The Widow Maker will be ridden neither direction unless you want to. The option will be there for everyone on the November ride.
STM
Sunday 14th August
When TB called to let me know he was planning a North Coast trip I was keen to get him out and show him some of the new trails I have found since the OBT Coffs ride last November. Judging by the phone call and pm I received on Friday night it sounded like Mick’s shed party was in full swing so I was pretty certain by the time he got to my place on Saturday afternoon he would be feeling a bit beaten up and ready for a relatively quiet night. When he arrived he looked like a cast member from the ‘Hangover’ and it seems the Bundy had taken its toll on him. As we unloaded his bikes my little boy, Jesse, was like a dog with two dicks as TB had not only his BRP and Tenere but also a Peewee50 he had driven up for Dupsyam4. Of course Jesse thought it was for him! We had a good feed of Lamb Shanks, a few quiet ones and turned in early in preparation for the next day.
Sunday morning dawned clear and cool and it looked like a perfect day for riding. We met Corey8 and Tdriver at the local servo and as we geared up it was clear everyone was excited for the ride as the heckling came thick and fast. Whenever TB and Corey get together it is always a recipe for a fast ride and with Tdriver sweeping it was just the four of us. We were going to cover a lot of ground and as soon as the bikes fired up and hit the dirt the pace was on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHqpKeJO0Bk
Over the course of the next 5 hours each us was destined to crash and I got mine out of my system very early. We were less than 5 mins into it when I hung my front wheel up on the edge of a bog hole and went down. My landing could not have been softer but it could have been drier! The water in this bog hole is stagnant and stinks and I managed to fall right into it. I got up as quick as I could and shook myself off whilst looking to see who had witnessed it. I was hoping it was not TB as I would never live it down and I turned to see it was Corey behind me and he was pissing himself laughing. I really can’t blame him as if the shoe was on the other foot I would have had a good laugh too. Unfortunately the shoe (boot) that was on my foot was full of swamp water as were my jersey pants and gloves!
I jumped back on my bike and pinned it. I knew with TB and Corey on my tail and Tdriver sweeping I would not have to spend much time dropping cornermen so I charged into some sweet flowing singles.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGmqFehSG1w
I linked four different sections together before I stopped for our first regroup and it was not long until we were all back together. It had been a quick start to the morning and everyone was keen to shake the hands out and take a breather. From here we headed for a steep clay downhill when I was stopped by another bike sitting off to the side of the trail. It was Boris from Detour with a group from Sydney so we waited and chatted while his group climbed the hill we were about to descend. In all the time I have been riding out here I have never come across an organised ride group so I asked which way they were headed and as soon as their sweep arrived we headed off.
The forestry guys have been busy working the next corner of the forest we rode to and this resulted in us having to make 3 U Turns and then a fire road transport section to get away from the plot they had been working on. By November I will have found ways around all the timber they have knocked down and left but that is for another day. We had plenty of great trails ahead so there was no point getting caught up in a log jam. We ripped down some fire road and turned down into a sweet piece of single called Tunnel Ball. We ride this trail in either direction but in the downhill direction it is one of Corey’s favourite trails so I motioned to him to lead at the top and he was gone. He was riding well and was soon out of view. When we regrouped at the bottom TB asked if we were going to the Widow Maker and I told him we would after lunch. He said he wanted to ride it now which meant we would have to go up Two Step to get to it. I asked if Corey and Tdriver were happy to ride Two Step as it can be a bigger challenge than the Widow Maker. One by one we made our way to the top until it was Tdriver’s turn. He got to the last ledge when he ran out of momentum and tumbled back below his bike. His leg was jammed under the bike and Corey and I quickly jumped down and dragged it off him. Together we got it to the top and then it was just a short run to the base of the Widow Maker.TB was keen for me to follow him up and film it on the Go Pro but I was not sure it sounded like such a good idea. There is no point arguing with the Big Fella so I hit record and jumped in behind him. He took off at mach speed up the main face and looked like he had it in the bag until the final set of rock ledges. His bike spun across the ledge and there was nowhere for him to go but down. When he hit the rock he started to roll and almost ended under my front wheel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8nKCWtw4c
Seeing a polka dot jersey rolling down a rock wall is very funny so my instinct was laugh first and help second. As I walking down to help pick TB’s bike up Corey hit the bottom and full tilt but also came to grief this time just above the first face. So there I stood, just me and my ‘mountain bike’ as TB calls it, on top of the Widow Maker whilst two gun riders grovelled below me. Gold!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc85JVWhhOM
Corey got to the top, turned around and rode back down so as to give it another go. This time he cleaned it and we headed off. About a km later I heard TB revving his engine and yelling behind me so I pulled over. He said something about having to go back and I thought he meant his day was done. What he was saying was that he needed to go back and ride the Widow Maker again to get the monkey off his back. He had his mind made up so we all turned and followed him back down. He nailed it in second gear which is pretty impressive and it seemed to take away some of the pain he was feeling in the right side of his hip.
We then rode some great sections of fast flowing singles through some beautiful bush. These are the sorts of trails where the bush starts to blur and the eyes start to widen.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIHqvMy48x8
Just after this section I came flying round a bend on a fast piece of single and for the second time that day I saw Boris from Detour. This time however we were both doing about 60 and we were on the same line and only came into each other’s view when we were within a short distance of each other. We both moved towards the left side while braking as quickly as we could so that we could warn our groups behind us. As we passed each other we were very close and still moving at a fair clip. Time slowed as our gazes locked but fortunately we both had the sense of mind not to panic or lock our bikes up and we both pulled up safely. Corey was on my back wheel and jumped on the brakes and stopped a short distance behind me. As you can imagine my heart was racing but disaster had been avoided and everyone was ok. We waited for their sweep riders to come through before heading off. They were headed to a different town to us so we knew we would not see each other again that day but it was a timely reminder to be conscious of other riders.
From here the bush then starts to open up into some fast twin singles and old forest roads. This is the natural home of the BRP and TB was having a ball tearing up the open stuff. Big two wheel drifts and long power wheelies with water bars every couple of hundred meters to send you skyward.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqUXEj_4u0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRXSob1UJWk
Our last section of trail before lunch is a beautifully built piece of single that threads its way through sub tropical forest. TB was keen to show that the BRP was agile enough to deal with the tighter going trails and sat on my back wheel until I got hung up on some rocks and he went on through. This trail seems to go on forever and is a lot of fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdTHCe8KIE
We dropped into the valley and followed our last section of trail to arrive at the pub for lunch.
We pulled up at the pub and judging by the way TB was moving he was in a fair bit of pain. We chatted over lunch and relaxed for an hour before we geared up and got ready to head back over the range to the coast. It was at this point that TB let me know that he would need to take the main road back. I knew he must be hurting to miss an afternoon’s riding so I gave him the directions and sent him on his way.It was now just Corey8, Tdriver and I. We headed back up a forest road and straight back into some great trails.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfaNCtuN0oQ
We rode back towards the escarpment and into some more of the tight stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f92iSIs3x68&feature=related
Once we were back up on the ridgeline the sky began to darken and the thunder could be heard rolling in from the west. It had been a great day and we were keen not to get caught out in a thunder storm so we made our way back towards the cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIHqvMy48x8
Somehow Corey got split up from us but he knows his way around so Tdriver and I made our way back together. When we arrived at the cars Corey was loading up and I said my goodbyes and headed home to catch up with TB where I found him on my couch with his Ipad. We cracked a drink and watched the footage from my Go Pro and had a good laugh. Just as he was getting ready to leave the skies opened and the hail started pounding down. That just gave us a chance for one more drink before the storm passed and I helped load TB’s gear into his Hilux.
It was a great day on the trails and a good chance to show TB some of the new terrain that we will be using next November. I look forward to reading the next instalments of his Northern ride.
Nickj the baton is passed. He is your problem now!STM
Trailboss wrote:Come on King more videos please before all theCorey8 wrote:unlike all the other pussys that will not even have a go.take the piss out of me :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Come on :woohoo:
TB
Why stop the party now? It seems that everyone is having such a good time. :laugh:
I am loading up the rest of the batch but it will take a while. I will post a full report with the rest of the videos tomorrow. Hope your hip feels a bit better in the morning mate.
STM
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