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Wicked job TR and the offer to make others
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Is that where Bollocks took it? It’s Fishes relax (sure you knew that
) Fish crashed and broke his ankle yesterday. :ohmy: 
Boony don’t ride it Fish has broken his shoulder and ankle on it in 15k its cursed I reckon :laugh:Boony adventure riding, never happen for many reasons that we are all happy about :laugh: :laugh: see Pete’s panic. Relax Pete its all good
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Trailraider wrote:ADV riders taking over the Motel…..
Not a Latte in sight :laugh: :laugh:
Thats not around the back either many more there
How good was that location, we had it all bar one room I think :laugh: :laugh:
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Another Cracker of Steve having a break from support driver duties
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Great picture Gav
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Great idea in theory Squiggle thanks for the feedback. When I do a route I do tracks that everyone can do and we have had a success everytime yes the last one was more technical than normal or was it just that the technical section was longer than normal. Day 2 you missed had one hard bit Jacobs ladder that everybody got down. Now if we cut out Jacobs ladder the route would have missed the awesome 80kms before. It’s all a compromise in a non perfect world. I don’t want anyone hurt, I have some fun and talk it up harder than its is maybe so people don’t be careless and stay aware. I explained the tougher bits, there should have been no surprises if ridden at your pace. The next one will be more like the first 3 but when it’s more open you run other risks ask Lotsa. It all involves risk, we all need to manage it ourselves.
I will see if I can grade the next one, but
1/ How do you grade 700kms in 6 different forests over 2 days?
2/ Imagine trying to find 700kms of grade 2 as you put it without a few 4 sections to link it together that everybody can do if they just ride within their ability. Then you need a grade 2 and people say that’s to easy
3/ Everybody rode down Jacobs ladder, that went off without a fall or drama and there isnt much tougher than that I would do on and adv bike. I had a contingency plan for that and every section both days.
4/ We didn’t have any injuries because the route was to hard a grade, the injury happened because of two bikes meeting on a corner going different directions (which shouldn’t be a problem as its a public track and one bike was running wide by his own admission)
5/ Can you imagine the time to put together 4 grade 1 rides for a year, 4 grade 2 rides for a year, 4 grade 3 rides for a year etc etc then running the ride for 3 grade 1’s the next for 9 grade 2’s the next for 7 grade 3’s etc
6/ We twice on the weekend rerouted bikes because of a reasons, experience and time mainly, a group on Saturday because of their experience and one on Sunday
If everyone listens and rides to their ability and takes their time it does work we have proven it. Eagle didn’t crash after kempsey because it was hard he was going to quick for the conditions. Puddles didn’t crash because of the difficulty of the track it was a mixture of a bike coming the other way he didn’t expect and him being on the wrong side of the track by his own admission.
Thanks for the feedback
As for safety gear, you should always wear the best you can afford ALL the time on any bike on any ride unless you can predict the future
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