End of year beach blast......at the beach.

**Buddy L** · 2nd December 2006, 10:30

OK here is the deal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!We now have a 4x4 for support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
End of the year and its time for a day of fun,
What my plans are is that on Saturday the 16th of December thats in two weeks.

Head out to the woodhill bike park go for a blast in the park then out on to the beach when the tide is going out.

Ride up to the bombing range and play in sand dunes, wheelies, donuts, skids and all other things that cant be done on the beach.
Ill take my camera and extra gas on my back, might not make it back on the little 125.

After seeing all the sunts and tricks in the stunting forum i want to try some things.

So if you keen, or havent been out to the bombing range (me neither) then come along will be a good day.
I presume the north head and south head are the same terrain?
Here a pic of what your be in for

JUst remember that we are meeting at the entrance to the bike park at 10am
which is on Rimmers road just west of helinsville

**cheese** · 2nd December 2006, 11:45

could be fun!

**telliman** · 2nd December 2006, 20:42

keen as dude,me never been up there either! have attemted to ride up on the 2 stroke but damn its a long way,we could see the wagons turning up at the end so thats how close we got before we started to shit ourselves being so far away.sick of going round and round at ardmore and the likes.count me in for sure!

**Buddy L** · 2nd December 2006, 21:56

OK i willsort out a time to meet up out their, just need to look up the tide charts a week before, so we don't get stuck with the tide
Most likely it will be
meet at the bike park at 10am and then spend the rest of the day riding the bike

untill you run out of gas

**barty5** · 3rd December 2006, 17:57

last time i went on cr 250 we took enough spare for two tanks full its about 40 ks up there rode up refilled had abit left did a quick top up then once that pretty much ran out used the last to head back but be carefull we came back with only 1 1/2 hour be for high tide not god as tide come right up in some places and you then get havin to time your sprints down certain parts missed a couple and got washed off agaist sand bank then havin to do made run down the rest pushin dry out bike then head of again was a lon process.

**ArcherWC** · 3rd December 2006, 19:02

If you are going to do a bombing range run, you should really try to organise a support vehicle, to carry

Extra fuel
Drink/food
tools, etc

It is a long way up there to get stranded

**telliman** · 3rd December 2006, 19:31

i definatly wouldnt do it without one!

**Boosted** · 4th December 2006, 06:45

well i have a nice big 4x4, but i'll be on my bike lol

**Ixion** · 4th December 2006, 06:51

It's a long time since I played up there, but the correct , safe, method was to ride up on the INCOMING tide (obviously set off at low tide or soon after). Make sure you are in the dunes by high tide, then ride back out on the outgoing tide.

Try to get back down the beach running against an incoming tide is quite dangerous, there are sections at the top end that are unrideable quite early , well before high tide. And there is the stream, you need to get over that while it's low.

**GR81** · 4th December 2006, 07:06

Originally Posted by GTAe

well i have a nice big 4x4, but i'll be on my bike lol

i had better get the bike into the shop to get fixed then!!!
otherwise ill thrash...errr drive your 4x4 adam

**Boosted** · 4th December 2006, 07:08

i'll try not to fall off like last time cam hahaha

**cheese** · 4th December 2006, 10:13

Can we go in a back way?

**Ixion** · 4th December 2006, 10:17

There are back forestry roads that run well up the coast . But you need permission from Carter Holt (? guessing - used to be Forestry HQ in the old days).

Back before Roger sold the forests off, it was easy to get permission. Most bikers , and a lot of 4WD folk used to do that, and there was a nice easy beach access about two thirds of the way up, AFTER the cliffs. So you didn't need to worry nearly so much about the tide. Nowdays, dunno. Suspect it'd be a lot harder.

**barty5** · 4th December 2006, 14:02

ive got a detailed map of the whole area there are a few walk ways that lead in from the eastern side never tried but as long as you could get on to tracks there no reason you couldnt go in and around from the top. could be worth a drive to check out first.here map from yellow pages web site map at home is better but you should be able to fairly close then use walkin tracks unlees roads are open last time i looked the tracks came out about half way up from lower part of the inlet (center of map) you should be able to skip round the edges its all pretty flat there from memory.