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Tommys Post Ride Ride
Players: Tommy, Pounce, Wrex, Carlo and CRF Andrew.
It was only a couple of days after a 2 day WCS ride and Tommy posted a message calling a ride. With no real responses over the next few days, I thought no one wanted to ride, people still recovering, bike and gear still dirty, and the buzz from the WCS ride still hanging around. So Friday came and having nothing on for Saturday, no work or domestic duties, I figured why not? Call to Wrex and its all organised. The meet point was 7.30am at the Rock Inne. Pounce, Tommy and Carlo were already there when Wrex and I turned up. It was nice and cold as we headed off to the parking spot. Bikes unloaded and all geared up, Tommy told us his plan - 100ks, bring fuel, going to find new tracks and ride a few old ones. We all headed off and being only five riders there was no official sweep. The first trails were nice and flowing on gravel. At this point we soon realised that at 70 kmh its freezing, our fingers started going numb! So at the first stop point about 30ks in, we are all so cold, trying to warm up by putting our hands on our bikes engines. Pounce decided a fire was in order, so, with a little fuel from Wrex we had instant heat. After a 15 minute thaw out and discussion about the ride (Carlo had already had one small stack on a down hill) we set off again, a few little hills, more trails. Next regroup was at a small clearing, with a nice little jump. Nothing too serious but we all gave it a go (photos in gallery.) Again we took off with our leader showing the way. Nice pace of about 70kmh, a little dust, which is quite normal out in the bush. The only problem was the few logs to jump, stumps to miss and holes to ride over. After a brief stop for Tommy to consult the magical instrument that told us where we were and where wed been, we headed onto an old 4wd drive track that looked like it would be quite muddy after rain as there were big ruts with water in some. Not surprisingly everyone avoided them - the only one thing worse than cleaning a muddy bike is trying to get it out of a big deep muddy hole! After a short transit on a gravel road (I got lost in the moment, forgetting that we are responsible dirt bike riders and went full noise around a couple of corners, and accidently roosted Wrex, oops! Sorry bout that!) we found another trail with more logs, another stack for Carlo (too fast into a corner I think), and a few skippys bouncing along the track. This is where the trail riding finished and we started heading back. Tommy shot off into the bush and we all followed. No track in particular, just bush. After about 30 mins of negotiating logs, rocks, trees and scrub, we made it out alive. Carlo decided that it was easier to lay his bike down on a pile of rocks than to ride over a stick (sorry, Carlo!) We were back at the cars by about 12.30, 110km in total. Seemed short after the 400km ride the week before, but definitely a good ride and nice pace. Well worth it, as they all are. Thanks Tommy for a great ride. SOTD: Carlo - sorry buddy! ROTD: Pounce for lighting the fire, at a very needed time and also waiting for those bikes (CRF and WR`s) to start before he headed off after the regroups. Report by CRF Andrew Ride RED  Kark ist cold  kark its cold  kark its cold  kark its cold  kark its cold  Kark ist cold |
