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Rider rating:this ride is 1/4 to maybe 1/2 throttle/Terrain 2

Feb 23rd 2013
1/4  throttle- Slow and steady is me.
 1/2  throttle- Nice pace, but i need some breaks.
 3/4  throttle- Now were talking, a few breaks and i am happy.
 Full throttle- I go all day, a quick stop is all i need.
 On the limiter- this is the valve bouncing racing mode! I ride like there's no tomorrow!
 
Ride terrain:
 
1-    Loads of fire trails, some easy hills.
 2-    Fire trails, with some tight trails, but nothing to hard.
 3-    Stepping  up now aren’t we, more challenging tighter trails, some  logs and some nice hills to play on.
 4-    Bog holes, ruts, rocks, logs, huge hill climbs and decents, i like it  all.
 5-    Anything goes, bring it on.



Spargo creek is approx 50 mins from westgate bridge.
Travel over westgate bridge ,right at western ring road,left at western freeway towards ballarat.
5 ks after Macca,s servo at Ballan,turn right at  Ballan/daylesford Rd ,the ride start point is approx 10 to 12 ks down this rd.turn left into spargo creek rd(mineral Spings hotel,currently not open, is on right side of this intersection.amtra signs will be out.
meet here at 8am for 8:30am start.
bring LUNCH and fuel for 100/120 
  Found this place practically untouched and level 1 level 2 heaven ,do ya self a favour and come along you wont regret it
No steep hills ,no creeks ,no hard stuff, just fun trails

There is also a natural mineral sping on our way back ,so we might even stop for a sip 

Any Queries call me,seano, on 0418367177


Riders: ;D

Seano
Paul M
Bill T
Gohard Dave
Timmers
Billy
Lefty
Michael

Thanks Seano,

Can you please register my interest.

Cheers,

Milo
DR650 ;D

done ;)

If I can get a baby sitter I'm in.

ok

Im in seano!

awsome,c ya satdy ;)

Morning Seano,

Please count me in.

Are we back at the cars for lunch/refuelling or do I need to make provision for carrying the fuel with me?

Thanks,
Billy M

bring both with you,ur on the list

Im in, Seano. I'll put the speedos in for a dip in spring on the way home !!!

If you bring speedo,s you will be left behind ???
Your on the list ;)

I'm in

I,ll wack ya on the list then shall I ;D

Sorry couldn't make it. Front end on bike is playing up. Maybe next time. ;D

 I hope you gave Seano a call (his number is in the first post) so that he's not waiting for you at the start of the ride.
 
No you haven't as I see you've posted this an hour after the ride started.

 And people wonder why ride leaders don't want to put in the effort of putting on rides...

I'll start of the ride report by saying the apprehension about the time to travel and the weather was blown out of the water with the result of the day. Left home at 6.10 and had a great run out to Spargo Creek loading point. I found four punters there including Seano, all in various states of undress...All packed and ready to go Seano tells us that Timmers husband forgot to set the alarm and he was running late. Off we go for 40min to explore the eastern section. Some nice single and fast flowing tracks we soon piled on the k's, headed back to the cars for Timmers. Long story short, his toe nail polish had peeled off and he couldn't ride. Hmmm. Off we go again taking lots of tracks working our way to the Northern section of the Wombat. Fast flowing and a little technical section. These got us to a nice little rotunda around 12 for lunch. Refueled we picked up the pace with some more of the same. A couple of slow moving offs from Dave and Billy without too much harm, Dave's new AXO's also pierced by a branch, lucky. Made our way to a mineral spring (dame that tastes bad, rusty water) and as the temp started to rise a decision was made to start heading home via some known tracks. Its about 1.15 at this stage and 25 C. Well, what a blast the 2 hours 20 minutes were. Some very fast flowing "virgin" track and great technical stuff. Down we went, found a challenging rocky up hill and had a crack back up the technical stuff. This isnt new to Seano, Bill Toan or myself but Dave and Billy were heard to say "Im spent, im stuffed, help me lord !" Credit to them both to hang in there and lift to the next level. Headed back to the cars and arrived at 3.40pm with approx 110 on the clock. Loaded up and hit the road. We all went to Pikes Creek, stripped off and had a swim. We joined in a circle holding hands, moving slowly to the left. Timmers popped his head up in the middle of the circle and sang "Come bye ah my lord". A fitting end to a great ride with a great bunch of blokes. There IS still love in the AMTRA family.
                   THE END.
PS. Some part of this ride report didn't happen !!!     

nice report lefty, too bad ya got my story all wrong!!!!
I was running through the house the night before and deiced to kick the absolute sh#$t out of a exposed brick corner. i then rolled around on the floor in excruciating pain for 10 mins and popped a couple of painkillers.

That morning i woke up one hour late and could barely walk this is when i should of stayed in bed but instead of telling seano that i said "ILL BE THERE SOON" turned out i was half an hour late,
So there i was keen as to go riding and getting ready in record time only to have left my body amour F#@%^#$&%King HELLL

So i went home because i knew my day was only going to get worse, just one of those days i guess, we all have them!
I stopped off at the doctors on my way home and turns out my little toe is broken  :-[

Thanks Seano for taking the boys on a quick loop in the morning so i could still ride much appreciated.

Sounds like a GAMTRA Ride " Glad i couldn't make it "

Just fish'n Timmers... Think I caught my bait !!! Missed u on the ride champ. Hope the toe mends well.
Cheers,
Lefty.

PS. You have a nice voice...

hi there guys really enjoyed it will go again great bunch of blokes really happy to join the club i got up sunday morning to go shopping with my fiance and i was pretty sore went to amx motocross superstore in keilor and went and got some new boots hopefully nothing goes thru them and lefty i did buy some thor brand armour ready for the next ride always level 2 until i get better and thanks to seano for organizing the ride and being friendly such as all you fellows hope to ride with u all soon kind regards go hard davo

 ;D

Hmmmm does it get any creepier than this???

Not without putting an R rating on it!

We all went to Pikes Creek, stripped off and had a swim. We joined in a circle holding hands, moving slowly to the left. Timmers popped his head up in the middle of the circle and sang "Come bye ah my lord". A fitting end to a great ride with a great bunch of blokes. There IS still love in the AMTRA family.
                   THE END.
PS. Some part of this ride report didn't happen !!!     

What part would that be lefty???? :)

Thanks for leading a fantastic ride Seano, I had a ball....even the so called technical poo was great fun even though I got a puncture on the rear from that sharp jagged rocky section but just keep going it was to hot to stop and fix it.... ;) ;)

looking forward to the next ride as there is a load of unexplored tracks to sort out.