Ride Reports

[Frankie-boy]

Had a great day, A bit cold to start with everyone had their jackets on except me, the only time I felt the cold was when we rode the open road stuff, when we hit the trails I soon warmed up did I tell ya how good the Kato 300 is, awesome bike
Mat did a great job leading us around Neerim, I heard he only had one off for the day I had to put that in mate
it was quite busy on the trails with bikes & 4x4's I've never seen the unloading area so full, some had to park on the road side.

Mat was supposed to take us on some easy tracks for us old farts which he did, just for interest he also threw in some tracks with the famous Neerim bog holes, Fred had a swim in one of them further along there was a bit of a hold up, all I could see looking past 3 or 4 riders in front of me & the bushes & trees was my son lifting a bike up, I thought that he had come off & I was also worried that he might do his back in lifting the bike up, as it turned out he was helping some one else I couldn't see who it was, he was on hand a couple of times that I saw, good on ya Son
I swapped bikes with him for the last 15 minutes of the ride,me now on the Yamaha 250 nice bike to ride but no were near the power of the Kato 300, my Son said that he had forgotten how good the 2 strokes are, if he was to buy a  dirt bike again, he would buy a smoker for sure.

As I said before I had a great day with a great bunch of blokes & my Son being there was extra special.

Thanks Mat for leading & Bill for the sweep.

[Btoan]

I had a great ride today it flowed well for an old farts ride, with a few testing tracks thown in. A big thanks to Will & Matt for organising it all but I was a bit disapointed Will did not meet us out at the junction with Coffee & Scones for mornig tea since he was not riding

Also a big thanks to Fred for the great laugh watching him laying like a turtle stuck on his back in a very deep bog whole but he rode very well today and conquered all that was thrown at him, I think Matt forgot it was an old farts ride

I also enjoyed the tail duties today at least I didn't hold anyone up

[Grandpa]

Well...... another great day out !!!
Good on ya' Matt for taking on ride leader duties.
We covered a lot of the usual tracks, which was ideal for me to get more of a feel for the Husky 150......
This little thing is one helluva fun bike !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Through the tight stuff it is an absolute delight..... no huffing, puffing, sweating or swearing, just point & go !!! & in the open, blast into the top end end & hang on !!... I kept talking to myself ...... is this really only 150cc ?.
You can certainly just doodle along on it at a cuisey pace, but if you want to go harder, it wont tolerate laziness....
It doesn't like water much either........ It was literally dancing around all the slop on the bog hole section untill the very last bog......I thought bugger it ! it cant be too deep ........... smack into a pool of wet cement !!!!!
It sucked a bit of moisture up a breather tube & didn't want to start !!!Drain carby & all is good !  took about 3 minutes.   ( re-route breather tubes required)
Who saw the big ugly rat at one of our rest stops ?  I think it jumped out of the airbox of Matt's cr when he was trying to start it !!!
Thanks for the day out & big thanks to Bill for sweeping.