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micknmeld wrote:
Quote:BUGGER!! He’s here!!:ohmy: Mate they are your responsibility now. “What a bargain, geez Mick done me a good deal”:laugh:
:blink:Gasit, he would sell a flat tyre to his mum, he paid $40 for those pants, they are s*#t!! And he knows it, he bagged the crap out of the O’Neals and then sold them to you, look at the Kato I bought, wouldnt trust him mate bad news!
TB
This is a piss pulling exercise, but still wouldnt trust the bastard, sh*t, think TB, did I think or say that??
shane_vor wrote:
Quote:Of course if TB were to supply an explanation then it would be worded something like, “…well Honda had to fit the bigger rear lights so that we could be seen way off in the distance on the trails and you blokes on KTMs wouldn’t get lost. You know it was my idea dontchya? I spoke to Mr Sushiyama at the 1908 four day and he invited me over to the land of the rising sun to develop the larger Aussie version tail light…blah blah blah.”It’s been a long day indeed! You know I’m joking don’t ya big feller? Oh crap I just remembered, he knows where I live!!!
Where’s the ANYKEY?:laugh:
You idiot, Karma cause your funny and I will get revenge
By the way I told you the story, I told Sushiyama at the 1908 four day that we needed brighter globes so that we could be seen way off in the distance on the trails and you blokes on VOR’s and KTM’s wouldn’t get lost, not bigger lights lol :laugh:
TB
Just making the start was a hassle, I had to go Orange the day before for a family function and I can’t stand them :angry: (and the whole function thing lol) anyways I took the boys bikes and that meant I could spend the day in the paddock which was better then the house! :laugh: After driving out and back in the day, getting home and washing bikes etc my shoulder was giving me crap I didn’t think I would be going. I had foresaw this and arranged Chicken and although he didn’t know it Boulder for leader duties as I had maps with all the turns and kms between turns already done so basically anyone could lead if need be. Next time I may even take the maps myself as I wont need to check Dr D’s GPS to be sure, turns out I was right but that self doubt was setting in there for a spell :blink: . So I was going not going, going not going but made it much to the surprise of a couple when I pulled into the Pines.
I meet Crash, Ghost rider and DrD at the Caltex servos at Eastern Creek at 4.30 :blink: in the morning.
I then got the job of driving GR to Chickens as he had sore ribs from attempting to ring bark a tree the day before on his trusty KLX 450.
Once up to chickens we quickly left and pedaled up to the Pines to meet the group and what a group!
We got going quickly and it was a pleasant run down into Laguna Valley until we hit the fog, goggles quickly got wet, everything got wet, I took my goggles till we came out at Laguna. Turns out the water droplets had got between the 5 tear offs I had loaded and the whole set needed to be ripped of, I was not happy but that’s life:angry: :angry:
We made really good ground to the aboriginal carvings / lookout where we had a quick break and Champo’s TM had a smoke??
See the smoke?
Once we left there we really just kept at it till we meet the Putty Rd, once there we waited and waited, word came through that Chicken had zigged when he should have zagged and then did a full dirt inspection, result you ask, bent front wheel, how bent you ask, well the video doesn’t do justice but the noise it makes rubbing the fork leg does, PS Crash was behind him, the pattern starts here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p5RtOpfQeY
I did a runner for the halfway house and told Eagle who quick as a flash was back with the trusty XR 600, hey check the photo this bike has done so many miles the thread in the case for the sump plug just plain wore out, so a cat manufactured sump plug for the dozer.
Are you going to race that??
Halfway house
We fueled up and left to complete the 120km loop back to the halfway for lunch. What a phat loop! At one stage Crash and I started to mix it up, I had pulled away on him a bit only to come around the corner to be fronted by a bulbar on a dirty big International Transtar! Fark!! Logging trucks on Sunday, that’s farked!!!The windrows have recently been graded and it was supercross city! I hit the first one, that’s OK I thought, the second one I lined up in 3rd gear again it had steep up ramp hit it and found it had been dug out behind, there was a hole you could park a car in, I smashed into the ramp leading out of the hole stayed on board but that was it as far as the shoulder went for the day
We got the group together at Raspberry junction and everybody had an experience to talk about, turns out that Yakka had pulled his signature cart wheel move for Crash, it turns out Crash was on the spot for both Chicken’s and Yakkas’s crashes, the only real crashes of the day.
Waiting at Raspberry Junction
We meet up with Eagle and arrived back at the Halfway house, only real drama was Champo who was pedaling real hard reeling me in, he had been looking down the valley and was catching me, he stopped at a gate and told me he was chasing and I was hurting, he ran out of fuel couple of kays short of the halfway house.
We had a feed, would recommend the hamburgers there, the shoulder was real sore and I wasn’t up to the return trip, but Chicken wouldn’t give me a scrap of help or sympathy so I took some pain killers and we had to head back the way we had come over from Laguna, some of the guys felt more comfortable with the track and soon they had the wicks turned up, Champo came through one of the gates lined up a windrow as speed noticed a large rock in his path way so he headed through the trees !!! All turned out ok as he reentered the track and kept up his chase of Crash and myself. Crash and I finally meet up the front and it was a long run together between turns, it was getting out of hand I feel looking back, I think we topped out at least once at around 140kph, I got away from him once and slowed and we went at it again it ended in crash over shooting a corner onto my side, but I saw the corner coming and shut it down a spilt second earlier and crossed behind him and got away.
We stopped the group for the first time in nearly 75kms and the questions about who overshot what started, then someone said who left the two black marks on the bitumen hair pin 1 km ago, we had only done 2kms of black stuff and it appears DrD couldn’t pull the Kato 300 up and speared straight ahead at the hairpin. We regrouped for the 2 kms of bitumen to the Laguna wine bar as I have heard it called lol we had a couple of beers / rums and headed back to the cars. Was good to see Dan D turn up the wick on the little 250, it was a great group, a great ride, such a good ride suited to the day and the riders.
Ghostrider and the KLX450
Big Air Specialist
KD
Scotty Deosnt Know Bout Fiona and me Do it In my Van every Sunday!!!
Crash master of the devil bike and ?? Sorry mate
Old Gumby Jeffro
What the fiddy does to a Michelin S12 140 in 340 kilometers, it was the wrong tyre but between time and the shoulder dramas I couldnt swap it, so it copped a hidding
Thanks everyone that made the ride what it was, cheers Guys and Gals
By the way if you enjoyed the ride the Caves to Caves will be even better and it isn’t much further over two days, Girls you will love this ride.
Thanks Eagle you lifted the role of a support vehicle to new levels, Boulder you are the sweep to end all sweeps, master sweep! Yakka cheers for the sweep duties thanks mate.
TB
PS more helmet cam footage to follow
I am hearing you on the tongue holding Mr Blue :blink: , I thought it maybe the opportunity to graft some linkages onto it and make it handle
, but as per my previous post I tried to help first .TB
Would love to guys sounds like fun, but
as i have ridden the last 3 or even 4 weekends in a row one way or another (NX or XR) and I am going away at easter and the the 4 day I best do somethings here, lawns etc TB
