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That first video starts with Roothog crossing we rode past on Sunday morning on the bridle trail, the same famous crossing that the late great Andy Caldcott drowned his factory KTM and lost the Safari if my memory serves me well.
That first video between the 1.38 mark and 2 min mark is pure bike porn !!! Desert riding porn
TB
Busy busy busy is how life has been for the last couple of months so a ride was in order. Also Gaz and Deejay needed to test their ADV setups, camp, cook, get used to riding loaded bikes and test themselves :laugh:
I finished Gaz’s bike during the week, wheel bearings, chain, sprockets, seal etc Not the breather tubes for the carby as I was reminded 😆Once everyone arrived we set sail for Mt Vic the start of the dirt, but just before Mt Vic is Mt Boyce. There is a sweet little 2.5kms twin track to get you wet for the rest of the ride :laugh: I tell Deejay we are turning off on the blue tooth, he says ok, drop a gear or two around the back of the rail corp ute and away we go. All I hear is the sound of a bike sliding and someone with the air rapidly coming out of him :laugh: I look in the mirror and see Deejay and the brand new DR sliding under the trees :pinch: I ask over the blue tooth are you ok, he replies with a very embarrassed “yeah :blush: ” So I spin around laughing and shoot the shot :laugh:
Got the little guy up, and away we went, we took the twin trails via the service line tracks to Bell, then the same to the old railway line east of the Zig Zag. Tree down, so over the old line it was
I was going to film Deejay but I thought it was going to fall over and once there I helped everyone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRVhc3lR-ug
We had a quick breather, checked the bags etc
We sooted the Black Fellows Hand trail to Wolgan Rd. This included a section of the power lines track. Time was getting away and we rode into the Garden of Stone, down the wall which I will be honest had me shitting bricks :laugh: As DJ said not pretty but we got to the bottom, after which there were a couple of corners where Boulder appeared to be picking up his bike. He had more excuses than a drunk waking up with Julia Gillard as to how he hadn’t crashed but the proof was in the looking I reckon :laugh:
Again push push push, into a short single dark was coming and we needed to get to Hillend
Up the railway service track into Capertee, fueled the bikes and launched to the top of Cherry tree hill, we were supposed to do the service track to Running Stream but time was getting away, we weren’t making the time I wanted to. A quick left onto Razor Back Rd, its a slippery twisty track / road into the back of the Turon into Sofala. It has no guard rail etc towards the ends with the mother of all drops !! :ohmy: I was Telling DJ on the bluetooth that Nick with his fear of heights would be shitting the gear :laugh: :laugh: .
No time for stopping straight through Sofala, checked a camp site out west of Sofala but continued full noise for Hillend. Once in Hillend we ran into the pub for roadies :laugh:
I wanted to get to Long point, my brother Jack was down there waiting but it was getting dark and for reasons that are whatever I said we would go straight down to the Turon on the Bridle Trail. We got into camp just in time to pro form a quick smart setup
Wood was collected, Krusty used his SAS training :laugh: and made fire. We cooked
My Camp
Camp Owl
Camp Krusty, in the trees :huh: Does anyone hear a tree fall in the forest? Yeah when it lands on Krusty they will
Deejay cooking, oh he forgot his chair :laugh:
Krusty and Gaz cooking or doing something
The Left one a want a be Honda pilot
His weapon of choice
Boulder doing what it seems him or fish do every ride, fix their bikes
Camp fire surround
Boulder eating still more, he had a can of Chilli beans and a re hydrated meal :laugh:
Gaz had a lamb shank, yup :ohmy: A bloody lamb shank !!
We had a few, laughed carried on and went to bed for a 5.30 wake up and a 7am departure. 238kms covered which wasnt bad
more later
TB
I have been running two of them since 2006 Eags, I have a 50 and a 48 I use on the XR, the 48 has done the 4 day (I dont have my log book here, but) I think last check around 5,000kms of singles and trails etc It has seen 2 chains and 4 front sprockets.
They are good kit, not as good as Chain Gang but almost. Chain Gang dont do Tenere ones yet but when they do I will use them
TB
A motley crew :laugh:
Lefty wrote:Home safe! Thanks to everyone involved had an absolute ball. :woohoo: Report to come later.
I Big thanks to all my “sponsors” for the Ride.
Chicken for the loan of the big XR600, and bags. (BTW she used no oil champ!) I used Motul 20w50 it seems to have done the trick. Needs re-jetting though.:dry:
TB for getting thr XR, mexican chicken meal, tent, mattress. :huh: I think I have about got it all.
Cheers,
Lefty
Leftone you are very welcome son, your antics on the big hunge were jaw dropping to watch at times bloody ripper. You do a good trail side tyre change and watching you get on and off the big girl make it all worth while :laugh: what’s doing on Moose’s causeway you didn’t mention that !!
Talk during the week mate
TB
WTF Eags! You should maybe get the KLX back I reckon or ignore your signature and roll it on reallly really slow and maybe only to 1/4 throttle with the engine misfiring :laugh:
All is well when no one rides in an ambulance I say
Look forward to more in the report
TB
Ockerstrom wrote:Trailboss wrote:Ockerstrom wrote:So this is the bike you were telling me about on Friday TB?The pictures show it looking even better than my mind had envisioned from your description.
Same same mate, its a ripper although it doesnt look so good now :laugh:
Oops, that sounds ominous. :unsure:
Nah its really only dirty and maybe a mark here and there, watch the report on the maiden run clicky click here
Ockerstrom wrote:So this is the bike you were telling me about on Friday TB?The pictures show it looking even better than my mind had envisioned from your description.
Same same mate, its a ripper although it doesnt look so good now :laugh:
King STM wrote:Trailboss wrote:Lefty, Crash and Myself for Friday, Saturday and half Sunday :woohoo: We are good for launch now Mal, 4 bikes in the big trailer, 5 phones books for Lefty to sit on and all good. You are right Mal to stay here the night before as discussed early start FridayTB
Sunday’s ride is only until midday anyway. I think last year I was asleep on my couch by 1pm. :laugh:
STM
ummm isnt half a day midday
TB
