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Trail Report: August 25th 2002
| Players: | Brad, Geoff, JAW, Joel, Matt, Mik, Rob, Simon, Wolfie. |
| Venue: | Alkimos and Yanchep |
| Rider of the Day: | Mik - Even with the back shock reduced to just a spring, "Pogo Mik" was flyin'. |
| Stack of the Day: | Matt - There aren't many trees to hit out Crusty Quinns way. Matt found one. |
| Breakages & Injuries: | Mik - put the rear guard vertical again, Wolfie - "caught" Brads bike by the exhaust pipe and scored a nasty burn. |
Report:
Saturday, 4pm, JAW is returning Brad's edger. "You thinkin' about going for a ride tomorrow?" "I'm medium keen." "Yeah, so am I." "Lets see how it goes huh."
12pm, JAW rings Mik. "You thinkin' about going out?" "Well if I don't go out today I won't be going out for the next month of Sundays, so we should go."
12:30pm. Wolfie rings JAW. "Player or Stayer?" "Player ;) See you at 14:00." 12:35 JAW posts a messageboard urgent alert, Ride is On. 12:53, Rob post message "Darn Dirt Bikers!"
By 14:00 Rob, Wolfie, Simon, Brad and JAW are ready to go. Mik is mucking around so it's not until 14:30 they are gathered at the end of Marmion limestone track ready for action. First port of call: Timetrials.
JAW hangs back with Simon who is quickly finding his riding legs. The frontrunners race up ahead, and past the timetrials. Sheesh. After some too-ing and fro-ing they finally all manage to converge at the startline, just in time for a bit of rain. Only a light shower - hey, winter in Perth doesn't necessarily mean rain - much to the dismay of the farmers who could use plenty right about now.
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At the timetrial track the players catch up with Geoff and his mates Joel and Matt. Not everyone was keen for timetrial action as there were quite a number of pesky 4x4s around. However Geoff put in one good lap for a sub two minute club and Wolfie shows excellent consistency but narrowly misses out on the sub two minutes - you wouldn't have even known he was still drunk from the night before ;) Brad is still in form and JAW seems to have plateau'd just above the two minute barrier. There is some contention as Mik thinks he has put in a personal best of 2:03 but JAW points out that the number was a two, not a one, meaning 5th place for Mik. |
In the future the times should come down a bit - 4x4s have been creating some "short-cuts" around some of the bumpier parts of the track. Since the course is a "loose" circuit around a bunch of hills, there is nothing stopping anyone from finding a quicker path...
A record turnout of 9 players at the timetrials.
 Brad's attempt at stack of the day... |
With such a large pack at the Alkimos some players are doing death valley circuit runs, some are kicking the dune jump, some are resting at the top of the hill. JAW follows Brad up the narrow track near the coast on the death valley run only to find Brad toppled on the other side. Brad has hit a partly buried steel drum in soft sand and gone over, facing downhill with the bike on top of him. As any of you who has been in this predicament know, it is hard when you are pinned face down, facing downhill, with a bike on your legs, to get it off. |
In some sort of Austin Powers moment, Brad says to JAW as he passes by "This bike is quite heavy on me." JAW fumbles finding a place to park. "The exhaust is on my leg. It is rather warm." JAW fumbles getting his stand down. "It is really hot now, it is starting to cause me pain..."
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An inland Yanchep run is called. Joel passes it up, not enough fuel. In quite a disorganised manner the front runners head out and the back runners continue the known way - but noone up front is pausing to see how they are fairing. Fair enough, but the call should be made "see you at the tanks!" JAW hangs back at the inland hill turn and gets some snaps; Mik hangs back out Pippidinny road. |
 Wolfie takes the hard right up the inland hill turn. |
 Matt scars a "tree".. |
Incidentally Mik picks up Rider of the Day for managing to keep the Pojo Mik XR going more or less in a straight line for the whole day at a good pace. Mik, do us all a favour and get that rear shock tended to! Meantime Matt has scored himself Stack of the Day for not quiet negotiating a turn and hitting a tree. Ouch. There aren't that many trees between Quinns and Yanchep, well done Matt ;) |
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Matt is okay, the pack is back together, it's time to ride on. JAW mucks around for a while getting the anvil started again, sees the dodgy connection to the CDI is playing up. You too JAW, do us all a favour and get that wiring sorted! |
 Stopped and regrouped. |
After a few lollies (thanks Mik) at the tanks, Brad decides to invent the "Unmateship Award." First he tries to park the bike next to Wolfies, stumbles and drops it. Rather than letting it domino the other bikes over Wolfie catches it, by the exhaust and cops a nasty burn. "If I had have known you were going to do that I would have left the bike on you longer back at the Alkimos" JAW exclaims.
Then he pulls out a sinlge Mars Bar for himself. "Where's ours Brad?"
No excuses for that sort of behaviour... ;)
The players make a run for home and split up just before the Alkimos. There are those who do the beach run, those who do the inland run. A few players didn't like the idea of corroding out the insides of their rims (it can happen) and some were just too tired.
Eventually the beach runners give up and head inland for a nice fast scramble the rest of the way - the beach is not much fun when the tide is in.
And so brings an end to another good ride - the largest contingent of players to date.
"Would you like a beer?" "Well it would be rude not to."