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My tyre is sorry
TB
champo35 wrote:
Quote:i have a bruise. and i don’t bruise easily. i have only had a few bruises in my life. it normally takes a joust or a handlebar to the nuts to bruise me.:ohmy:From me?
TB
Oh yeah Champo comes up beside my bike just as I am about to ride of after a stop and says hey your fuel tap is off, and he reaches down and says there you go. Dan had been around that side of my bike, so over the blue tooth I am abusing Dan and he is saying it wasnt me and I am saying whatever, this is war etc etc, then my bike starts backfiring, Champo had turned the fuel off :laugh: :laugh:, got me a beauty, never did apologise to Dan
TB
champo35 wrote:
Quote:Trailboss wrote:Quote:Umm I think your mistaken Rodney I wasnt going to hot or hard, you the acting corner-man aren’t in the right spot out on the main track :laugh: so by the time I spot you down where you are doing the corner-man and taking my picture I am having trouble stopping its a big bike Check Dan out, I had yelled to him on the blue tooth STOPPING, TURN LEFT, TURN LEFT.
Later we came over a hill later and I said to Dan again on the blue tooth “stopping turning right” Dan said “ok”, and still went straight ahead into the little gully much to mine and Boulders amusment :laugh: :laugh:
It was a lot of fun
TB
sorry gregory. i didn’t realise i was a cornerman then. i just stopped on the side of the track to take some photos and wait for racy. i thought you ran ride and went around the tree and nearly hit me then showered me in rocks. i removed the photo.
What it was fun? Why would you do that, Dont do that mate, showered you
, I didnt know sorry, you didnt mention it at the pub when we talked about Dan following me, I am sorry, very sorry my bad, the only person I thought copped some rocks was sport and I apologized to him so many times, sorry again mate I just didnt see anyone at the corner was allHey wait till you see the video of you on the whoops as shot my Dan’s helmet cam I have here that I am loading on youtube, cool
TB
EAGLE`02 wrote:
Quote:Will be a cranking rideYeah Beagle it has a section in it you dont like I am told, and then there is the bog holes, need I remind you again
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TB
crash wrote:
Quote:####JACOB SMITH WINS THE SAFARI ON HIS HONDA CRF450####(pasted most from site)
Smith becomes youngest ever Safari winner
Twenty-year old Condobolin rider, Jacob Smith, has become the youngest ever winner of the Australasian Safari after dominating the seven-day event, which finished in the Western Australian gold mining city of Kalgoorlie today.
Riding a Honda CRF 450X, Smith took the lead on the third of the event’s 19 timed stages and finished the 3771 kilometre event 14 minutes and 18 seconds ahead of his brother, Todd Smith, riding a KTM. Defending champion, Ben Grabham, also on a KTM, was third, three minutes 30 seconds further back.
The final day of the off-road marathon saw competitors tackle two stages on a 165 kilometre loop out of the gold mining city of Kalgoorlie. Navigational skills were really tested over a number of tricky station tracks.
Ben Grabham started the event as hot favourite in the bike section after winning the past two Safaris, but his hopes of a third straight win ended on day two when he lost a rear tyre and dropped over an hour to the Smith brothers.
From then on, Jacob Smith controlled the event, and the third year apprentice linesman was elated with his victory.
“It’s fantastic to beat to Ben (Grabham) as he’s the best rider in Australia,” Smith said. “Any time you can beat him it’s a good achievement. It’s my third Safari, so it’s third time lucky – I was second in 2007, and had an engine failure last year.”
While he wasn’t the event favourite, Smith was always aiming for victory.
“I always race to win, I don’t do it for second, but it was such a strong field it was always going to be tough. But after the first few days I knew I could do it.”
Having his 24-year old brother in second place was an added bonus.
“We work together, even though we’re on different teams, and we support each other,” Smith said. “We always wanted to be 1-2, it was just a case of who was first and who was second.”
Anything but a full-time professional rider, Smith will be back at work on Monday morning, less than 48 hours after his historic victory.
Fourth placed Ivan Erceg was the first Western Australian rider home on his KTM, easily taking his best ever Safari result. He finished over half an hour clear of South Australian David Scwharz on a Husaberg.
“Coming into the event I was hoping for a top ten finish, but I never thought I’d be this high. I’m stoked with the result,” Erceg said.
Swedish rider, Annie Seel, relished her first Safari experience, and reaped praise on the event and her fellow-competitors.
“I think if you want to do the Dakar in Argentina then you need to do this event first as a training event,” the 40-year old veteran said. “I’m going to try to sell the event back home and get more competitors for next year.
“I was particularly impressed by how fast the locals ride with the navigation. An Aussie team in the Dakar could do very well. For me, this event was as tough as the Dakar.”
Final results, 2009 Australasian Safari (provisional)
MOTO
1 Jacob SMITH (NSW), Honda CRF 450 X, 22h 58m 09s
2 Todd SMITH (NSW), KTM 530 EXC, +14m 18s
3 Ben GRABHAM (NSW), KTM 530 EXC, +17m 48s
4 Ivan ERCEG (WA), KTM 450 EXC, +1h 58m 57s
5 David SCHWARZ (SA), Husaberg, +2hrs 32m 25sIt looks like Ecks relo, David Finlay on his 610 Husky, finished 27th of the 41 who finished, from the 54 who started last Sunday – TOP EFFORT, WELL DONE, SOMETHING TO BE VERY PROUD! – I RECKON!
Crash
So there you go Honda win again
TB
Umm I think your mistaken Rodney I wasnt going to hot or hard, you the acting corner-man aren’t in the right spot out on the main track :laugh: so by the time I spot you down where you are doing the corner-man and taking my picture I am having trouble stopping its a big bike
Check Dan out, I had yelled to him on the blue tooth STOPPING, TURN LEFT, TURN LEFT.Later we came over a hill later and I said to Dan again on the blue tooth “stopping turning right” Dan said “ok”, and still went straight ahead into the little gully much to mine and Boulders amusment :laugh: :laugh:
It was a lot of fun
TB
Well we assembled at Dan’s to ride up to meet Al and the crew
From left to right
Boulder, Chicken, TB and Dan
We rode up to meet them at Sugarloaf which got the blood pumping.
Chicken made one of his rare appearances
Champo wouldnt get of Dan’s bike and there was talk of a new bike while his was there, does this mean he is going to stop polluting the atmosphere and get rid of his environmentally unfriendly two stroke
We saw a monkey and got a picture of his butt
Al gave his speech and said we could pass the lead rider, this was allowed as long as you waited at the next intersection
We left and went here and there on some really fun trails, the dust was pretty bad at times but thats riding isnt it
Dan and I cut loose and ran back towards the road under instruction from old Al, we came across a large mud puddle I yelled for Dan to go the the left side on the blue tooth and I got through, I was through and gunning it when over the blue tooth came ” MAN DOWN MAN DOWN ” Dan had fallen in the muddle puddle and was letting me know :laugh: :laugh:
We came across this little jump up, Chrisscrossed got cross rutted and had a moment, I couldnt get the camera out quick enough, but here is a few of the others
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXsYmBRyetk&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMMQMjZWSVU&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF624tcSPL8&feature=channel
We rode around and around and ended up at the Pub
We left the ride there and continued out for another 90kms of sweet single and twin trail, will talk about that elsewhere
Thanks AL and all that went a great job
TB
