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micknmeld wrote:

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What is it about eating pies that makes you have a goofy face??? Check out the pic of me eating a pie on the Hill End Ride report.:blush:

Kidding arent you, you have a head like a dropped pie! :laugh:

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Man that sounds like a phat ride Lotsa, I will be in that one again if it comes up, I used to ride all those trails couple of years ago good work

TB

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Fezza wrote:

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Thanks TB. Definately, I am always keen to get the boys out and about for a ride. I have taken them to Pacific Park a couple of times, which is good for kids, if not a bit feral at times.

I’m at Wahroonga, about 40 minute to Pacific Park, fortunately not as far away as the CC.

Yeah its good for the kids, I take a BBQ and its all good. You will have to come to Orange for some of those pine single trails

TB

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I am interest if its in August Menace, I will come down for that for sure, my even be able to talk Crash into coming

TB

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Cheers Twobanger it was a great trip and that report has taken hrs mate downloading all those videos and pictures :laugh: , all the guys will tell you its the best tracks and the best riding areas not rutted to pieces, I will be organising another ride up there soon, its worth the effort trust me

Cheers

TB

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Day 2

Moto jumped straight up away looking like this (not), few beers last night

we rode out early to Glergate forest area to watch the guys come through a transport section, a marshall took down some tape so we could ride through into the forest. We travelled up the track until we came across one of Ballards ghost riders, we parked up and wandered into the forest where Moto decided to show us how tough he is, or stupid you be the judge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNSwFSwRoQg&feature=channel_page

He then went on the show us how he would take Hollis out for Benny Grabham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL_5HVtw_aw&feature=channel_page

We watched a few of the guns come through, I missed getting a picture of Benny as he was the only guy that said hi and I was so taken back that I missed the shot

Chris Hollis

It was decided that the way Moto was riding he should trade his fully sic bro Subaru for something better suited to his needs

We then left for Hillend for a counter meal, on the way I took the boys to Ophir to take a walk in the mines

This shot was taken in the pitch black and after the flash we found out what was really going on :blink:

This is better, these shafts are about 25 to 30 mtrs in length

Out the front of the shaft and the creek

We left for hillend, seems the boys needed a feed as they appeared in a hurry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCoHoeKXiE0&feature=channel_page

I got back in the lead and we travelled down and crossed long point crossing and on to long point for a counter lunch, the pub even had our sticker on the window and the publican said I know you, I said hows that he said “that jersey is a one of isn’t it?” :laugh:

We left and decided to go down the bridle trail towards bathurst and cross rothog crossing and go back to Orange that way

Roothog crossing is a crossing that was used in the Australian Safari in 2003 or there abouts and it claimed a fair few of the field with drowned bikes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdA6KVm7654&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ASgyigOA6Y&feature=channel

From there we took the rockiest road in all of Australia I reckon up the back of Clifton Grove and went back in and played in the pine forest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtGI5gVXyvg&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVhiQKmIqM&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFkqFcOJrMY&feature=channel_page

Then Champo had a lay down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCpvP3YimKg&feature=channel_page

Moto

The boys started dicking around

Then they wanted a album cover shot for their new boy band they are forming WTF! :silly:

We then headed back to camp and got the old RM370 out, its a 1976 model, three years older then moto, it also had a trials tyre fitted for long track so it was struggling for traction in the grass paddock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GodOcBehBO8&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcV3tTf31Qk&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=786AhNv9U7U&feature=channel

Moto’s bike was the fastest for the day, until the 650 took him down the next day

We went to the Hogs Breath for dinner good time had by all

TB

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Moto wrote:

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Have a look at our Old Bull 1 year Birthday ride from Mittagong to Hampton it may be of interest

Moto, remember

Trailboss wrote:

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This ride is now full

Due to the distance of this ride this ride is now full, ECKS, Strucky and Moto have expressed interest earleir and will be able to add their names in the next couple of days if they wish.
Anybody else if you want to go I can put you on a stand by list.

TB

You could go a the stand by list, no one else is on the list and I am sure someone will pull out bommo ??

TB

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Tinys biarch wrote:

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Number disconnected Tb, thanks anyway

OMG it was a Gee up, I made it all up, so you rang it, a shop all about Quoits ha ha only at Penrith lol :laugh: :laugh:

Hey watching your team go around, 2009 year of the eels, they are gone for all money lol :laugh:

TB

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First 2 days

OK so I meet LC4 and Green450 at McDonalds at Blaxland at about 7.30 on the Wednesday morning, we cruised up over the mountains to Orange. When we got to the olds place we found that Garry (step father) had got us a load of fire wood and sorted everything for us, cheers Garry

We unloaded and the boys set their tent up, I set up the quick shade and unloaded the bikes, we then went into town did some shopping and got a box of Rums!

After we got back we decided to light the fire, am still not sure why we did it in the middle of the afternoon but we did.

We cooked some dinner and started in the beers and rums whilst we waited for Moto and Champo, seems Moto had got to Champo’s at around 1.30 that arvo and it took Champo 3 hrs to get ready (he did have to get an engine organised for his car) but 3 hrs, bloody two stroke riders lol

When he turned up I helped Moto put a chain and rear sprocket on the Kato, check the pictures :ohmy:

The camp the first night, including a 4 burner BBQ

We got an early start the next morning and went into Parc Ferme

Bikes Bikes and more bikes

We watched the guns get their bikes out of Parc Ferme and start or not start

AJ Roberts in his 10 min work period

AJ’s bike wouldn’t start the first morning and he failed the cold start test, 10 second penalty On that note, Rockets KTM also failed the cold start test on day one all you KTM blokes , also a BMW we saw being pushed down the road :angry:

Ben Grabhams Blue steel look lol, heaps of blue steel this week (Champo can explain the blue steel look)

Chris Hollis fitting new stickers in his work period

AJ, Hollis and someone I can’t remember getting under way

AJ getting away, we tracked down one of the Honda team guys and he said as AJ’s bike was an R thus it is EFI, you need to kick it over three times to charge the capacitor before it will will start (has no battery) once the capacitor is charged the engine starts, but the team had to fit lights for the 4 day and because AJ didn’t turn the lights of, every time he kicked the engine over to charge the capacitor the power went to the lights DOH ! :blink: We watched him, once he sorted it, it started straight away

BMW not starting and then starting and not keeping running, embarrassing

So we went back to camp and suited up, we rode out to the grass track test, it was real ordinary, viewing wasn’t really thought out by the organisers, they did say later the safety requirements in NSW are tough and that’s the way it has to be as the tracks are inspected.

We set up on the fence and Moto layed down on the ground, he mentioned a few times that it was too early in the morning to be out of bed

Our OBT reporter in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMAqs4XTsPk&feature=channel_page

Moto supporting the riders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfEe9Xrl54w

Rocket in action on the grass track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daEYHL5jSTU&feature=channel_page

XR650 in action :blush: , but he beat ECKS’s brother in-law in the final Moto :blush:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHFbcLiqAg8&feature=channel

We drove into town for Moto to do some shopping and the we went riding in some real sweet single line Pine Forest I had a rim lock that was not doing the job as I had broken mine earlier that day, so I raced back to the camp and grabbed Chop’s Banana, lucky the pine is only 2 mins from the olds place, meet up with the guys and keep going, Moto dumped the Kato on the 3rd turn in the s/t pine, we rode for a while before we headed in for a counter lunch

LC4skin, Green450, Champo and Moto

Bikes at the Pub

After lunch we went and fuelled the bikes and headed out to watch the 15min work period, the last turn out the front of Parc Ferme is a 90 degree intersection on bitumen, about halfway through the corner on chop’s banana I hear the sound of metal grinding along the tar, my first thought was that the bike would hit me and take me down, I turn around to see Moto and the Kato on the ground, in front of the four day! People in cars are laughing OMG!! The below photo is a re-enactment as he got up before I could get my camera out

And how he ended up

The katos war wounds

Moto’s War wounds

We went in to watch the guys change tyres etc

AJ

Chris Hollis

Chris laying into the Husky with a hammer lol its wasn’t working for him and he took put the bike into parc ferme without a tyre on the rear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtG3r-GHUjU&feature=channel_page

Ben Grabham doing a rear Moouse change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLlDtThgso&feature=channel

And finished early

Michael from Ballards was finding it all to much by the looks

The BMW pit

We went back to camp for Moto to display his snappy dress sense

He carried on and on that he is not an elephant, but really?

We finished the day with some beers and a BBQ dinner

Later Day 2

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Yeah think so Mick, he was on a two stroke Kato, so that was him I would guess, but they didnt really know you but knew Rick and Deanna :blink:

TB

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Nice pics mate well done, on the subject of the young fellow and getting on the back of the kato, after watching the final moto at the 4 day and PDS in action I wouldnt get on the back either, we saw some funny rear end action I tell ya

Good work on the kids and the bikes, should bring the kids to Pacific Park one day when we go down there, you are on the central coast?? I cant remember sorry :blush:

TB

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Jarrod Bewley wins 2009 Australian 4-Day Enduro
Ballard’s Wellard Yamaha racer Jarrod Bewley has taken the Outright win of this year’s Hog’s Breath Cafe Australian 4-Day Enduro (A4DE) in what has been one of the closest battles in the 31-year history of the event.

Bewley, 22, from Sydney, went into today’s Jayco Final Motocross Event at Orange, NSW, 22-seconds ahead of MSC Kawasaki’s Toby Price.

Price, 21, from Singleton (NSW) got a good start in the day’s premier race – the main heat for Championship Class 4 – in which Bewley and all five of the top runners were in.

Price got a good start in the six-lap moto and charged up to 2nd, nearly hunting down the leader, Peter Boyle (Honda).

Bewley was further back off the start and managed to get up into 3rd – Price’s ride in the final motocross today closed the gap between him and Bewley, with Bewley winning Outright and Class 4 by 9-seconds.

“Words can’t explain how I feel. I’m all teary and it just shows that all the hard work pays off,” Bewley said.

“From here we’ve got the Australian Off-Road Championship and the [International Six Days Enduro] and I really want to make a stand in that and be overseas one day, this is only the start of it.”

Price was “overjoyed” to finish a close 2nd Outright in his first ever A4DE. To watch video interviews with Jarrod and Toby visit http://www.a4de.com.

Third Outright and in the premier Class 4 was up for grabs today between last year’s A4DE winner, Chris Hollis (Husqvarna) and top-contender Anthony ‘AJ’ Roberts, with Roberts finishing Day 3 a mere .146-seconds ahead of Hollis.

Despite a crash, Hollis managed to fend Roberts off to take the 3rd podium spot.

Fourth Outright went to Honda’s Peter Boyle, who’s solid final moto pulled him up two Outright spots, with Roberts 0.5 of a second behind (5th Outright).

Racing was just as close in most of the other classes.

Bewley’s teammate, ‘King’ Kirk Hutton wrapped up the win in Championship Class 3 (250cc 4-Stroke) by 7.7-seconds over Kawasaki young gun Josh Green after a nail biting final moto.

Hutton was the first non-450cc rider to finish in the top-10 Outright, claiming 6th, followed by Green (7th).

Queenslanders Grant Siebenhausen (Yamaha) and Nathan Castle (KTM) had the scorers scratching their heads today – the pair were neck and neck all event and finished one-two in the final motocross – Siebenhausen had a 2-second lead going into today and finished the moto 0.6 of a second behind Castle.

New Zealander Rory Mead looked as if he might have lost his Aussie Class 2 (220cc to 250cc 2-Stroke) title in the final moto today – fellow Kiwi Jason Davis had a blinder and Mead’s bike only just made it across the finish line due to engine trouble.

Mead had a 50-second lead going into today – he ended up limping past the checkered flag and winning by 20-seconds over Davis and another Kiwi, Karl Power.

In the big-bore (Championship Class 5) only 6.5-seconds separated Husqvarna’s Jehi Willis and KTM’s Brad ‘Wonka’ Williscroft going into their heat this afternoon.

Willis put in a strong ride and ended up winning the title by 5-seconds. Geoff Braico who finished 3rd in the class, won the moto.

Yamaha racers easily wrapped up the Championship Veteran’s, Master’s and Women’s today, with Alison Parker taking the Women’s crown, Orange’s own Stuart Bennett the fastest Veteran and Geoff Ballard smoking the Masters by more than 10-minutes.

In the Junior Trophy Team stakes, Queensland were the winners.

And the fastest of the Senior Trophy Team’s was Victoria.

The fastest Club Team was the Southside Time Bandits (Alison Parker, Jemma Wilson and Nathan Castle).

And the KTM Motorex Off-Road Team won the Trade Team division.

For full A4DE results, pics and video go to: http://www.a4de.com

The next event on the off-road racing calendar is the third and 4th rounds of the Yamaha Australian Off-Road Championship (AORC) down the road from Orange at Blayney, NSW, on May 16 and 17. For info or to enter go to http://www.dirtbikepromotions.com.au

2009 Hog’s Breath Cafe A4DE Outright Top-10
1. Jarrod Bewley
2. Toby Price
3. Chris Hollis
4. Peter Boyle
5. AJ Roberts
6. Kirk Hutton
7. Josh Green
8. Ben Grabham
9. Blake Hore
10. Jehi Willis

[GregMember]

I fitted force to Chops Banana, check the thread in Suzuki’s, project bike thread, supplied by Fathead at Battyes 02 9543 5133

Devol are crap, I have uni bikers from the states

TB

[GregMember]

Gday Morgo, welcome mate, we will have to have a catch up again at the Watagans again soon including a BBQ

Stay tuned

TB

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Hi welcome Bommo63
There are heaps of rides and stuff going on here, dont worry about Menace and Booney, I think shortly those two will need to get a room :ohmy:

I live at Blaxland and am up for a ride most times, Crash is close to you and quite often does a early morning dash on sundays at Menai

TB

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