Trailblazer - Taupo 18 & 19 July

[Atomic]

Cool... Should be on the road by 3.30pm
May see ya on the way down... we'll be in the American Muscle Jeep...

Sweet, ill keep an eye out for your 76" wheels

[barty5]

Sweet, ill keep an eye out for your 76" wheels

The mighty silver Johndeer. haahhaaa

[Bradz]

The mighty silver Johndeer. haahhaaa

A tractor it may be, but cheap on fuel unlike the orange beasty

[barty5]

A tractor it may be, but cheap on fuel unlike the orange beasty

nothing wrong with 19L per hundy is there??

[Bradz]

nothing wrong with 19L per hundy is there??

nuh, not when your pockets are as deep as yours

[Hemex]

Cool... Should be on the road by 3.30pm
May see ya on the way down... we'll be in the American Muscle Jeep...

I think they'll notice your red tyres well before they notice the jeep...

nothing wrong with 19L per hundy is there??

Yeah there is... rising fuel costs for the rest of us due to depletion...

[4stroke]

arrgh just spent an hour trying to put the husky back together again, dont ya hate it when ya get ya front mudguard plastic welded back together again and they weld the f...kn bolt holes up garggghhh should have been a 5 min job!!

[Chia]

I think they'll notice your red tyres well before they notice the jeep...

If they don't notice the red tyres it's because they'll be distracted by the Jack Daniel's No 7 bike...

[laserracer]

WE had a great day on saturday one word sums it up .....MUD... unfortunately i didnt ride i whoosed out yeah i know big girls blouse and it looked like cool fun but may have been too much for the dodgy ticker but i had fun just watching all you other dudes and great fun drifting the xr6 falcon into and out of the venuewe had a 13 year old girl with our group and this was her first event ever.. she loved it and the guys recon she had a real nack of missing those deep water filled ruts ..unlike 2 of the guys

[barty5]

Yup wicked ride i would have to say only did the sunday went and did a few laps round motocross track instead today. And yeh i think mud was the overall theme of saturday followed by lot a drinks round the pool once we got back great to meet those that stayed at the Top 10. Now needing sleep.

[camchain]

I got a coupla DVDs from Keith F, and the trailblazer tracks looked superb, and want to get down there at some point. Was it hard slog type mud or could you get some groove going in it? Keen to hear a bit more about it.

[Gravel911]

Sat was great.........mud mud mud.

There were some serious ruts.

On the first lap of the 40k loop I was going through one of those puddles/slop which did not look very deep, next thing bottom of the forks dug in.......bike stopped almost instantly. I can remember the handle bars going under the sludge as the bike was about to do the complete flip just managed to stop it. My mates had a great laugh!!

The next lap was great, lot easier to pick the lines, shame they closed the track early.

There were a lot of bikes stopped out on the trail.

Did you notice the amount of quads stuck. I never passed a quad all day; the only ones I saw were either parked helping his stuck mates or stuck themselves.

[barty5]

was really mixed there was heaps a sloppy shit and bog holes but nothing that you couldnt get through traction was wicked even with a really worn tyre just hooked up real well. once your in the tracks off the roads the line made by others are real easy to get a good pace on and really allows you to throw it in to the corners.

[Shorty_925]

Only went on saturday and was awesome, had not done an epic event for a while. The 40k loop was rad, thought the 12k loop had more mud in it! Came across a few quads in the way, but not nearly as many as other trail rides Ive been on. Had fun following the old man and bro and watching them struggle on little DRZ and KLX 125's, good for a laugh but they had a blast and made it around.

[green machine]

Sat was great.........mud mud mud.

There were some serious ruts.

On the first lap of the 40k loop I was going through one of those puddles/slop which did not look very deep, next thing bottom of the forks dug in.......bike stopped almost instantly. I can remember the handle bars going under the sludge as the bike was about to do the complete flip just managed to stop it. My mates had a great laugh!!

The next lap was great, lot easier to pick the lines, shame they closed the track early.

There were a lot of bikes stopped out on the trail.

Did you notice the amount of quads stuck. I never passed a quad all day; the only ones I saw were either parked helping his stuck mates or stuck themselves.

Was that a big mudhole that had a branch laying in front,a tree to the left and a small ledge to your left to miss the mudhole,it was around a corner so had little time to react.......cause i found that one,the slop came up to my seat and took alot of effort,as i was alone at the time to get out