Ride Reports

[Frankie-boy]

A big thanks to Peter R for taking the time to show us one of his riding areas, when I first joined the club & read some of Peters ride reports,it didn't inspire me to go on any of his rides, now that I've got to know him & been out on one of his rides, I know that his bark is worse then his bite

As brad said, left the car park at 9am the trails was a bit dusty & Quite rocky in places, one of the rocky hills we went up had a lot of loose rocks on it, I hit the hill a bit to hard & got a bit out of shape, while I was trying to keep the bike under control I some how put my foot on the brake a came to an abrupt Holt, a few riders came past me while I'm trying to restart my bike with the kicker, yeah the button didn't work that time, anyway King Budda came past me full of concentration & didn't notice that it was me stuck on that hill, he told me later that he knew that I was ahead of him & was trying to catch me he didn't see me anywhere & thought to himself, gee Frankie must have pulled his finger out
I had 3 offs for the day, the last one was a bit of a gumby one, as I was coming to a Holt in front off everyone, almost came to a stop & still had a bit to much front brake on while turning, the front locked up & went down, lucky for me I was able to throw my leg over the bars & landing on my feet that's not really a crash is it!! need less to say, I got a very loud cheer

At morning briefing Peter said if you see some tracks of to the right or left & it's not maned just stay on the track that you are on, go straight on,after lunch it took me a little time to get back into the swing, I was getting back into it when I could see 3 rider up a head, but after going around a few bends I came to a small fork it wasn't maned so I took the track that I thought was straight on, but as I got further along that track I couldn't see any dust so I thought that maybe I took the wrong track & stopped, 4 or 5 riders went past so I thought that maybe the 2 tracks join up at the top of the hill, this were the fun starts for the ones that went past me, the hill got steeper & rocker, each one of them came to a stop, the first one couldn't go any further & dropped his bike, the other 3 also came to a stop & sat there for a moment & one by one rolled back about a bike length & fell off, one of to the right& the other to the left yeah it looked funny not sure who the riders were, Matt R was doing the sweep, when he got there the hill was covered with bikes & bodies
Who ever you were you did a great job to get up as far as you did, I reckon it was a level 4 hill.

Once again thanks Peter R for a great ride, Mark Vandenburg for doing the sweep to lunch time & Mat R doing the sweep after lunch, with out you blokes we wouldn't have a ride to go on.

Thanks to everyone that came along to make it a great day out on the bikes.

PS just a thought, maybe for you that are not mechanical minded ask the ride leader to give your bike a once over & see if your bike is in order to do the ride, don't get me wrong I'm not having a go at anybody, I know that some things can be over looked.

[Grandpa]

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Ah !!  that's better, just cleared out a bit of that high country dust !!

Great day out on the bikes. Looking forward to the next one.

Thanks all.

[Wiggy]

Looks like I missed a good ride 

[Willbar]

I have to agree, a great day had by all !!
Pete puts on a great ride with flowing tracks & looks after his riders. He is a larikan who has a serious side when it comes to making sure that everyone makes it back to the cars in 1 piece. On a personal note, I would like to thank Brad & Matt (& 2 other guys) for helping me out when the rear wheel bearing poo itself (not happy Jan considering that it was the 1st ride since a $600 service !! ). Mat dunk me 8k's or so back to the main road, where Russell lent his 990 to Pete (silly boy, what was he thinking)& with me on the back to get back to the cars. We all loved the V8 sound of the 990, but Pete had to put it to the test. He loved it, he had a smile on his face, as he kept pushing back on me his smile got bigger??  anyway thanks for a great day guys !



 

Hey Marc they must have been bad for them to have shut themselfs with only a little bloke like you on the bike, wonder how long they would have lasted with me riding it,mmm about 5 minutes I reckon. Good luck getting them fixed. Will

[MarcL]

I had better thank Eric too for escorting me back to my bike that we had left it the bush, thanks mate! I eventually made it home just after 10pm, a long day after you get up at 5:15am, but well worth it !

[Peter r]

Thanks everyone for turning up, and for helping the needy.

Loved that 990 V8 especially when you crank it on, 80,90,100,110 ....... unbelievable.
Marc was hanging on for his life.

[DarrenD]

Hi Peter

Thanks for another great ride.  Great company great tracks and great accommodation.  When can we get 2868 t shirts made up?