CRUSTY QUINNS
NURSE BEC
TECH TIPS
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Trail Report: June 22nd 2003
Players: |
Adrian, Andy, Bucky, Brad, Colin, JAW, Nathan, Peter, Rob, Sam, Steve, Tim426.
Cameo appearance by Bec, Marty Moose and family. |
Venue: |
Alkimos, Time Trials, Moose Mountain and Yanchep |
Rider of the Day: |
Nathan - Breaks the 1:40 time trial barrier with authority. |
Stack of the Day: |
Adrian - Drops the big 650 along a fenceline track. |
Breakages & Injuries: |
Sam - Puts a battle scar ding in the CR125 exhaust |
Day Stats: |
Trip Dist |
Trip Time |
Vave |
Vmax |
66.75km |
1:42:52 |
39.1kph |
124kph |
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Report by JAW:
It had been a long time between events. Well, not true at all, it had been a long time
between a big Quinns meet with the standard fare of time trials and a tanks run. Some
players scratch together enough time during the week for after work runs in fact not a weekend has gone by
recently without at least a Gnagara pines run; or even the adventure rally, pony
expresses or the next leg in this seasons enduros. Of which a number of players are
flying the Crusty Quinns flag.
Meantime, there had been enough rain overnight, the sun was shinin', birds chirpin'
and a team of 13 had gathered at the Pipidinny starting gate. "Time Trials!"
Ah, the serenity. Broken by the sound of 13 angry bike engines.
Rank |
Rider |
Lap 1 |
Lap 2 |
Lap 3 |
Lap 4 |
1 |
Nathan |
1:59.28 |
1:46.70 |
1:51.74 |
1:36.25 |
2 |
Bucky |
1:45.50 |
1:55.61 |
2:20.09 |
1:48.94 |
3 |
Rob |
1:57.46 |
2:00.65 |
- |
- |
4 |
Tim426 |
2:00.15 |
DNF |
- |
- |
5 |
Andy |
2:01.04 |
2:04.26 |
- |
- |
6 |
JAW |
2:01.04 |
DNF |
- |
- |
7 |
Steve |
2:06.30 |
2:03.08 |
- |
- |
8 |
Adrian |
2:09.17 |
2:05.08 |
- |
- |
9 |
Sam |
2:15.29 |
- |
- |
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Time Trial Results.
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Rob comes through with the goods and organises traffic spotters; posted out of the
pit, just past the esses and at the starting gate. JAW meantime has switched
to using his fangled new mobile phone as a timing device - each time a player
passes press the split button and all the splits are shown on the screen. Schweet! The
upshot of this is 1/100th of a second timing which should sort out a few of
those "discussions" from players with equal-to-the-nearest-second times on the
board.
Baptism of fire for some new CQ players: Bucky on his CR250, Adrian on the
big XR650 thumper and Sam on the CR125.
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Bucky has obviously done it all before on his CR250, putting in some impressive
laps; Adrian is moving the XR650 around nicely but not enough for a sub two minute
and Sam on the smaller capacity bike puts a debut time on the board, now with a bit
more knowledge of the track layout for next time. Well done guys.
Nathan, sporting his new ride; CR500 widow maker, knows where it's at. His superb
1:36.25 earns him Rider of the Day and puts a new benchmark to the game. Sub
one forty is the new exclusive club to be in.
Rob has also moved to a CR500 and keeps it rubber side down long enough for a
respectable 1:57.46. Tim426 in between enthusiastic stacks ("you should have seen
the sand in his visor") is eluded by the two minute barrier but manages to but a
hold on the Honda domination of the days scoreboard which so far consisted of
CR500, CR250, CR500 1-2-3.
JAW and Andy put in a freaky identical best time, but with JAWs "ungraceful
stops" on 2 out of his 3 laps the money goes to Andy. Steve in the meantime is
honing his time trialing skills, its only a matter of time before he reaches the
once sought after Sub Two Minute Club. Which gave way to the Sub One Fifty Club.
Which has now given way to Sub One Forty Club.
Moose Mountain, less of a challenge now but still finds victims.
Steve comes down from a mountain hike.
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With Time Trialing sorted a call is made for Moose Mountain. There was
still a few guys who had not completed the hill climb, and what better time
to make a go of it. With the amount of traffic it serves, there is now a path
up the middle - making things a bit easier - but the mountain still claims
the odd victim here and there.
"Those last few meters scared the s..t out of me" Colin exclaimed upon
reaching the top. Gets a tick in the completed box though :) A few players are
yet to get their Moose Mountain badge, next time huh...
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Peter is keen to take a new path inland, where the tracks are more open
and straigher and you can really wind the clock out. He's not keen to lead
however, so Nathan takes the reigns.
With Nath still on fire from the Time Trials, his pace is much faster the
pack could handle. There is a bit of stopping and starting with head count
tallies ("who are we missing?"). Suprisingly though there are no breakages and no real holdups which
is a credit to all the riders and those making sure everyone is present and
accounted for. Thirteen riders of varying experience and machinery is not
normally an easy task to keep together.
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Leading away from the inland fence track.
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Andy and Nath on a breather.
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Well there is the occasional and perhaps inevitable stack. Nature of the game huh?
While blasting down one of the
inland fence line tracks, the ground has turned from hard, to soft in spots,
to soft and boggy all the way. At speed you have to keep your wits about you
- focused, up on the pegs, good selection of gear so you have some "get out
of danger" power ready on command.
Report has it that Adrian had come unstuck hooning mighty close to the
barbed wire fence. Down hard enough to earn him Stack of The Day, but
no serious damage or injury.
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At this stage the sky start to open up, somewhere between drizzle and
rain. Most players will tell you that rain is great except for the part where
your goggles fog up and have droplets of water on them making it quite hard
to see. Rumour has it that defogging spray on the inside and Mr Sheen on the
outside will improve things but short of little windscreen wipers you have to
start relying somewhat on using the force.
With some guys low on fuel its a run back to Pip road to top up. Some
players head off home, a few hang around for the obligary tanks run. "C'mon
fellas, hop to it, I'm gettin' cold!"
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Stopped in the rain.
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Andy the BBQ chef.
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If you keep riding, you'll stay warm. Colin, Peter and Sam take off to the
tanks as team 1. 10 minutes later, team 2 refuelled also head off. Colder than team 1. A whistle stop tanks run is performed and the teams nicely time a reunion halfway back. For
some the day is getting long and the energy reserves are being sapped from
the body. Sam takes a dive, putting a dent in his nice shiny pipe. "She'll be
right, call it a battle scar."
Back at base Chef Andy (Aristos eart your heart out) puts on the snags for
hotdogs. In the rain no less. There is no keeping him down. Most other
players pike leaving just a few to enjoy some hot lunch. Well done Andy.
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Yet another good meet, plenty of players, welcomed a few newies and no major incidents.
You can't get much better than that!
Winter brings green back to the fire ravaged terrain, everything that was
destroyed is on the mend. Mother nature at work in all her glory. Shame about the
dirtbike riders huh. Even more shame about the 10-20 years time when it will be a
sea of houses.
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