Sunday muddy Sunday

[courts]

well, a few of us headed out early sunday morning into the coromandel ranges after heavy rain and survived a few treacherous rutty, crevasse-ridden clay and rock slides that can only be described as f**kin extreeeeme !!!!
In between dodging kamikaze riders on homo chariots, dragging bikes under fallen trees , leaking petrol, giant bogs and crevasses that would swallow bike and rider whole, we managed a solid days riding- finally getting back to base at 8pm with police waiting and search and rescue not far away.
Myself and daff having the only 2 lights for 6 riders making it interesting for the journey out as you may imagine.
Here's a helmetcam clip of our daytime adventures before things got real interesting-thanks to the lads jt, xen, daff, hondapower and vazza for the great teamwork that was required to see out the day.:Punk:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOQXSnyqasE

[xen]

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Yeah cheeers for the light man I would've been off a bank without it lol.

Was an epic ride with some hills so slippery we had to get the tow rope out and all 6 of us helping to get each bike up. 10 hour ride not bad :)

Daf next time give us some warning when we're going to be doing one of your night rides :laugh:

[kezzafish]

looks neat guys. where's that? cheers for the clip and the report courts... blung

[courts]

looks neat guys. where's that? cheers for the clip and the report courts... blung
thats cool man feel free to help my rep out- i got reamed by the mormons........don't those mormons believe in karma?

[vazza]

Was an epic ride. Good meeting all the dudes! Had some great team building in there hahah! was starting to get abit edgy when it got dark.. Was pretty intense trying to do fairly gnarly hill climbs in the complete dark, trying to follow the ruts with the light from the dudes bike in front of you..

What I dont get is that I started off with a completely full tank, possibly leaked out at least a litre from the carb(managed to fix itself).. and still managed to ride all day without any extra gas? I was on reserve for at least 2 hours lol. How is that possible.. 10 hours of hillclimbing etc lol.. weird.

Was so glad to see the van when we got back haha.. I practically leapt in and turn the heater on full blast!

[flyingcr250]

Was an epic ride. Good meeting all the dudes! Had some great team building in there hahah! was starting to get abit edgy when it got dark.. Was pretty intense trying to do fairly gnarly hill climbs in the complete dark, trying to follow the ruts with the light from the dudes bike in front of you..

What I dont get is that I started off with a completely full tank, possibly leaked out at least a litre from the carb(managed to fix itself).. and still managed to ride all day without any extra gas? I was on reserve for at least 2 hours lol. How is that possible.. 10 hours of hillclimbing etc lol.. weird.

Was so glad to see the van when we got back haha.. I practically leapt in and turn the heater on full blast!

Keen for gutbuster in reverse in a few weeks! :D

:Offtopic:oh man i wish i had gone now. i always miss the epic rides. must be about time for a wires group soon??:Offtopic:

[dafydd roberts]

Yeah I thought the wires\gut buster was hard but I never had to be pulled up a mud track ever :shit: have always managed to get up by pushing and AWD but some of those hills were so extreme there was no other way to get up other than by tow line. Also, the bog holes were crazy and when the night time came that was another story.

Considering I was on a 4 banger I wasn’t far off reserve either.

[courts]

yeah i had a full tank and hit reserve on road home. those crazy ktm's 2t seem to run on the smell of an oily rag.crazy.

[kevfromcoro]

Was this the wires track??

Or somewhere else?

Tell us where you went..

Cheers.....................

[xen]

:Offtopic:oh man i wish i had gone now. i always miss the epic rides. must be about time for a wires group soon??:Offtopic:

you knob you said you were gonna come. Should be another wires ride soon

[jt119]

yeah i had a full tank and hit reserve on road home. those crazy ktm's 2t seem to run on the smell of an oily rag.crazy.i thought i would of run out must of been close how are you xen and daff going to top that ride

[jt119]

you knob you said you were gonna come. Should be another wires ride soonya knob:2guns:

[dafydd roberts]

i thought i would of run out must of been close how are you xen and daff going to top that ride

More fuel and some lights and you will see. :shifty:

[flyingcr250]

ya knob:2guns:

get rid of that rubbish bike and buy that 200 exc you were looking at........

[vazza]

yeah i had a full tank and hit reserve on road home. those crazy ktm's 2t seem to run on the smell of an oily rag.crazy.

LOL!!! Thats what im beginning to think to!

[jt119]

get rid of that rubbish bike and buy that 200 exc you were looking at........rang about it today 115 hours on it thers a demo one coming up soon :Offtopic:

[xen]

LOL!!! Thats what im beginning to think to!

Yea its better than my kdx200 :laugh:

jt: all good when's that demo in, you've got a couple weeks before we do an extreme ride again, gotta rest up ;)

[jt119]

Yea its better than my kdx200 :laugh:

jt: all good when's that demo in, you've got a couple weeks before we do an extreme ride again, gotta rest up ;)dead toad is a cpl of weeks wont to give that ago

[tommorth]

shit looks like fun that big groove in the ktm front gaurd must be for fitting a torch
seems I missed out on this one my riding for the weekend was 10min on a ds80 on the flat and I fell off stilll limping from it to

[xen]

dead toad is a cpl of weeks wont to give that ago

yea will be up for that if i can afford it

[honda_power]

epic ride. faarrrk riding in the dark is dodgy