Ride Reports

[Lefty]

Yeah, I went to Kinglake on Saturday as well and had a ball. We met in Yarra Glen at 7.30ish grouped up and drove to the unload point which took about 25 min. I'm still getting used to the 449 but we were straight into it. Fast flowing, lots of tight stuff and heaps in between. Pretty full on till lunch and then back to the cars (as Rod stated) to refuel and back for more. The tempo didn't change much after Paul took over and I was feeling the pinch. More mad tracks and I took over tail to slow down a bit and enjoy, and that I did. After some great tracks home and me, almost spent, praised the lord as we shot out on the main road 40 metres from the car park. Thanks to all for your day, those who organized, helped, cracked some jokes,tailed and helped when needed. Lefty.

PS. Great to see a father and son team out there enjoying each others company and ability...Something to be proud of..I know I love it.       

[johnny d]

I had a blast!.. Early start for me as I left home at 0530hrs, but was most certainly worth it. Not having ridden in this area before I was really keen to have a look. The morning loop was great, easy flowing tracks to start with and then a couple of tighter ones thrown in to see us at the lunch spot. After lunch a really gnarly downhill had most if not all of us dead engine to the bottom, then a nice climb out the other side, that equalled bloody awesome for me  .
 Bill had a battery or charging issue not long after this so the decision was made to head back to the cars, Paul offered to lead those of us that wanted to continue on a loop of his -yes please. Absolutely awesome tracks with a mix of everything you could ask and hope for, I definitely need to ride in places like this more often, so if time permits I will definitely be back... Thanks to the ride leaders and the tailmen,
 Rocked back home at 1920hrs, so a big day for me, still smiling about that downhill  .

[Willbar]

I was having a great day, all was flowing very well until that big fallen tree jump out in front of me...only hit that because Seano gave me a shunt I have a very nice huge black/blue/yellow coloured bruise on my thigh after that one, plus it stuffed up what rhythm I had and that wasn't much ....Sorry about the wrong turn into that snotty down hill and that's where it all went bad for me. I had a small off going down because my clutch was sticking and the bike decide it was not going to start via the button so Will & I decide it was better for me to turn around just in case I got stuck down the bottom with a bike that would not start. After a few detours we all found each other and regrouped....the UHF's do come in handy....I decided it was better if I headed back to the cars and the rest off them could go back out a do some nice hidden tracks.

I think everyone had a good ride and I also think everyone had ther fair share of little lay downs for the day....I know I had 3 good ones. There are still a heap load of tracks that I did not get a chance to show but there is always another time.

"NO" not all of us had lay downs, I have a new scratch on my bike though and can only assume that happened when some one decided to use me to lean there bike on when they decided to have a lay down whilst stopped