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WTF Eags!! Nah it will be ok champ, change is like a holiday
I will be up there at the end of the month will see what I can do and if I can catch up maybe. Actually due for another rumsky tour :laugh: :whistle:Will give you a ring champ
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Happy Birthday Jeffro, mate I hope its a cracker of a day for you. Look forward to catching up in May
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Random photos from the pre run
Note for JTB this is not a ride report it’s just sharing some info
Lunch day 3
Blue rag
A Spur track
Where we ended up tonight
Dargo pub for lunch again today, Steve Smith, Shaun Goldsmith and Pete the Wulf
Some of the track we will actually be using
Today we took Steve and Shaun up Blue Rag again and to Dargo and then took them to Orbost. More slab then we ever do
More later
So we have spend the day pre running, day 2 special is locked down. Blue Rag was awesome as always and the whole days route is one for the punter.
Day 2 standard route we will put to bed next Tuesday if all goes to plan.
We are at the Ensay Little River Hotel tonight, it’s the Saturday night stay of our ride
Yesterday we had a tue adventure that meant when we were staving in the bush we ate tuna from the can each using tyre levers, hardcore :laugh:
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It’s a gathering thread see up the top :laugh: not ride report thread we will do that after the ride. We do this to give people that are coming on the ride an idea of what’s going on. That’s not you, you aren’t coming are you?
As we were then eh
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jtb2879 wrote:So who are these blokes you take on pre runs that don’t have camera’s? Or if they do don’t know how to use them? :pinch:
what?You’ve described the ascent from and into the valley of death… yet I see no pictoral evidence of anything but your bike on a hill, somewhere near a trig station and the prince of death himself, Lord Vader! :whistle:
Can’t take pictures if you are riding
You are going to have to make a better effort than this Chuck… saying that Shane WATTS or Stefan MERRIMAN wouldn’t have been able to ride it but you did with three broken legs just scares people away
TrailBoss wrote:
Mt Pinnibar may not be in the ride for a few reasons. The track condition is far worse then I have ever seen it for one. The track is so weather depend that any rain will make the section from the river to the turn off unable to be done by a recovery vehicle or an adventure bikeTB
What does that say?
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Let me say this is the 4th time I have been up and down Mt Pinnibar on this side and it’s really changed :ohmy:
So Pete and I pre-ran the day 1 special today. Today was an adventure, a true adventure ride. The run up Mt Pinnibar was the toughest 30 mins I have ever done. I havent been so scared and excited at the same time for ages. At times I couldnt believe I was still going up and on the bike. It makes Jacobs ladder look and feel like the Sydney / Newcastle F3 freeway. The rocks were relentless, the water has washed every bit of fill out between them making sunny corner seem like a sandy beach!!
It rained towards the top and made it even worse with fogging goggles and visors. Once the photos were completed we headed down a dfiierent way towards Omeo. We came across a rocky downhill, and looking back I should have followed my gut and got off. A 200 kilo bike down a hill most couldnt ride an enduro bike up wasnt going to end well. Still full of stupidity I headed down. I came to grief as I was almost stopped, in the process of dropping the bike I dislocated my left thumb!! Pete helped me pick the bike up as I wondered what to do now, reality was there was no going back. The thumb to wrist joint was all out of wack but after some painful rooting around it went back in and while sore worked. We bulldogged the bikes down the ledge and headed on. It rained and then pissed down, I am not complaining because when I got a rear flat an hour later it stopped raining! Pete helped me change the tube and we had a can of tuna each. It was half past 1 and it was all we had eaten all day!! Onwards we headed to Omeo. Once here we checked in and crawled into a rum.
Mt Pinnibar may not be in the ride for a few reasons. The track condition is far worse then I have ever seen it for one. The track is so weather depend that any rain will make the section from the river to the turn off unable to be done by a recovery vehicle or an adventure bike
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