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Is that a hill Bollocks or is your helmet cam on an angle :laugh: :laugh:
Yeah I know it doesnt do justice to hills up or down does it at least you kept at it and conquered it
TB
Seahorse wrote:
Quote:On the other hand we need to make something quite clear….HIS BUSINESS IS NOT FOR SALE!!Thought old Al did :laugh:
:laugh:TB
crash wrote:
Quote:You found some great new (to us) tracks again and just threaded them all together seemlessly…..Great ride!!!!Crash
Yeah a few new tracks and they will serve us well on up and coming Sofala weekend ride
TB
Great riding down there Katgirl, the facility was used at the 4 day in 2006 and we raced three special tests there I think it was and the place seemed to have it all and was well setup.
You will gain so much from Heffo and his crew, have a great time I lok forward to reading all about
TB
crash wrote:
Quote:Great report Guru!A couple of omissions
You didn’t mention the 15+ landrover owners on their expedition….the one in particular that came within a gnats nut from sending it over the edge of the track and down the mountain side!!! We could hear his dinger slamming shut as he nearly lost control.!!
Or the 888 being dropped a couple of times either!
How good is Boulder? He just keeps on keepin’ on!
You found some great new (to us) tracks again and just threaded them all together seemlessly…..Great ride!!!!
The new trip meter set up and roadbook went well. I need to modify the routing of my front brakeline and decomp. cable…but other than that, alls well.
Thanks again to Boulder for coming along……Solid as and Good as GOLD. (dispite the atrocious conditions, we didn’t even think of ringing him..because we just knew he’d be there)
Thanks again TB and Salina.
Crash
I cant tell the whole story, yeah the city 4x4s nearly had a big drama of the side of the mountain :laugh:
Yeah the Fiddy had two lay downs, once in first gear and a branch stuck me in the armour and it feel over but I held the clutch in
The other well you know that was your fault and I was stopped or close enough anyway, next time I will take your advice and T bone ya :laugh: :laugh:Boulder is amazing the eveready bunny
Mate that ride is amazing and I am thinking about doing that and overnight stay at Sofala for say 15 all the good tracks from today and the Turon run
TB
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So after a bacon and egg roll we suited back up and left Capertee with a fun single up to the Mudgee road at the lookout. From there down about half a kay on the black top and back onto the railway service track along the fence line that has a heap of big soft puddles, wet soft sand and some wheel smashing spoke breaking ruts it was here the insaneo meter registered a 9 + when Crash and I spend sometime on the hammer with the 650’s winding out and leaving Boulder behind some, dodging ruts and talking over the blue tooth helps to make those silly times heaps safer. We worked our way back to Chris’s hill as I have named it and none of us made it up this time. I ended up of the track but still up right, Crash stopped and started going backwards with his only concern not to scratch his new side cover graphics but he crashed blocking Boulder.
We rode back up to the top of the range behind Cullen Bullen that are very rocky and this included a hill that would be at home on a Murphsburg. Crash had a flameout so Boulder and I waited when we got going thru the tight singles along the ridge I had a nearly over the bars arse puckering moment. No sooner had I composed myself I heard the call “MAN DOWN” Crash was down of the edge of the track which was fairly steep in places. Once going we came out behind Cullen Bullen Pub and dashed about 2kms up the road and went back into the scrub to follow and old power line service track that doesn’t see much use which had a big rutted rocky uphill and a really rutted rocky downhill
Looking back down the hill
Boulder and Crash at the top with Mt Piper power station in the back ground
We worked our way back out through the singles etc to the start of the Black Fellows hand trail and up to the pass
From there we just rode some fire trail, a heap of twins including the power lines again, some narrow leaf covered twins, some singles, retread hill (which is harder going down I reckon) heaps of rutted washed out trails and back to the car park
Zig Zag station
My bike with the white wet side covers
Crash’s Fiddy all dirty
Boulder already loaded
Mal 5.1 this video is for you after your safety concerns with Crash loading his bike (only because I couldn’t talk him into riding it on, he will next time I reckon)
http://www.youtube.com/user/obtrailriders#p/a/u/0/ZeZJIrVsamo
Crash and I went back to the Mt Vic pub for a beer and Rum and then home for Salina’s famous noodles, nice eh Crash?
TB
Things that happened
It was rocky in places, Boulder said he was getting hit by rocks 35 to 40 meters behind me :laugh: :laugh: :ohmy:
Crash rode over half the ride with no goggles as he had the shits with them fogging etc so I gave him my spare safety specs which he lost, only to find on the way back :ohmy:
My bike couldn’t get out of the car park this morning under its own power as it wouldn’t rev :angry: The new side plate for the wet was restricting the air so much it wouldn’t rev (because of the open side cover jetting) some quick mods and away we went
TB
