Sand Country Run - Sunday 13 May!

**F5 Dave** · 14th May 2012, 17:54

Well best to speak to a Medic for a decent kit idea, but I've been doing these sort of rides for quite some years & haven't personally had to stop & do the 1st aiding before as there has been someone on the scene & just helped with diverting traffic etc.

The way I see it is that as a rider I'm unlikely to carry a proper first aid kit. Once you start to list the eventualities the kit size grows & personally I don't want to fall on that bag. I think to work on the principle that if you can see the insides of someone, or red stuff is leaking out then, cover, apply pressure & elevate that limb. If you have a sterile Telfa pad & some handi-bandage crepe roll you are ahead of the game. That is all I've bought & will double zip lock bag it & hope not to have to use it, but wouldn't have minded having it yesterday. Fortunately the guy wasn't bleeding much, but if he had been I wouldn't have had much this side of ripping my riding shirt off.

**thecharmed01** · 14th May 2012, 20:57

Originally Posted by pete.ktm

i know i must have seen you about 5 times in different places including when i lost my front wheel in the sand trying to go round the outside of you, lol.

Next time i see you i'll shout out, although with a not quite distintive bike as yours you'll probably just think 'whos that weirdo'.

haha do say hi! I've seen so many of your pictures now it'd be bloody nice to meet you in person!!!!
Our 4WD is pretty distinctive, come say hi before the ride starts!

bwahahahaha at the front wheel thing. I was trying to figure out the sand. It's been so long since I rode sand I was actually struggling a bit. Every sandy bit I was trying something different to figure out whether I felt better on my feet... or sitting... or what but I'm not sure how successful I was with it at all hahaha
I was doing better than the two other girls I was riding with, but was being passed by all and sundry at a great rate of knots, so I can't have been going nearly fast enough

**mazz1972** · 15th May 2012, 14:45

Originally Posted by pete.ktm

The guy we stopped to help was on a two stroke and as soon as he said he had no tools and no spare spark plug we were sort of thinking 'screw it, he can get picked up at the end of the ride'. in the end it was probably more serious than just a new spark plug but at least he could have confirmed that himself and we wouldn't have wasted 45 minutes. and thanx to KTM for using a different sized spark plug for every model, real helpful.

Pete, can you remember if this guy was with his girlfriend? And he definately didn't have any tools with him? They would have been in about the last quarter of the track. Just trying to put two and two together here

**mazz1972** · 15th May 2012, 14:49

Couple of things handed in at the ride and not claimed....

A pair of goggles.

A key with a remote attached, found at the far end of the carpark.

If you think either of these items could be yours, please contact us to identify them hmcc@kol.co.nz

Cheers
Maree

**pete.ktm** · 15th May 2012, 15:54

Originally Posted by mazz1972

Pete, can you remember if this guy was with his girlfriend? And he definately didn't have any tools with him? They would have been in about the last quarter of the track. Just trying to put two and two together here

yeah that would have been him, his gf (yz250f?) turned up after about 20 minutes and she was still with him when we passed him in the afternoon. and he had no tools.

what time did he get back to the car park?

**mazz1972** · 15th May 2012, 16:48

Originally Posted by pete.ktm

yeah that would have been him, his gf (yz250f?) turned up after about 20 minutes and she was still with him when we passed him in the afternoon. and he had no tools.

what time did he get back to the car park?

Two and two makes four then, thanks for that. No idea what time they got back to the carpark, but it would have been pretty late in the day as they were still there when we started track clearing.

We were packing up in the pitch black with torches, and the poor fellas out doing the track clearing had to give up in the end as it was too dodgy to carry on in the dark. Fun times!

**pierc** · 15th May 2012, 19:38

well i've done the ride, bike still goes, wifes bike still goes if it had a battery, and with a jar of nurofen I was able to get up on monday morning to clean the gear Ha Ha still think its the best ride out this side of Jaffaville, and the high point was the heavy shower of rain after the ride was finished

**quallman1234** · 16th May 2012, 01:06

Finally turned up to a trial ride, after not going for ages... Was well ran and pretty well marked... Had fun, and the surface was had alot more grip than karapoti clay!

**F5 Dave** · 16th May 2012, 10:32

Yeah even my M12 stuck in well, but I didn't see any hairdressers out there preparing my line, so that was a bit disappointing.

**thecharmed01** · 16th May 2012, 19:46

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Yeah even my M12 stuck in well, but I didn't see any hairdressers out there preparing my line, so that was a bit disappointing.

there was a hairdresser there

**pete.ktm** · 16th May 2012, 23:58

quick thread highjack...

for anyone who hasn't checked silverbullet recently theres another Makara Trail Ride on this w/e - the 20th.

as well as the Carterton ride.

and while i'm here, anyone know if Raetihi Ripper is on this year? Their web page is still advertising the 2011 ride.

cheers.

**thecharmed01** · 17th May 2012, 00:14

Originally Posted by pete.ktm

quick thread highjack...

for anyone who hasn't checked silverbullet recently theres another Makara Trail Ride on this w/e - the 20th.

as well as the Carterton ride.

and while i'm here, anyone know if Raetihi Ripper is on this year? Their web page is still advertising the 2011 ride.

cheers.

That Carterton ride is crap for the fact it's not a great ride.
The terrain is not great, signposting was rubbish the last two years, they didn't mark a single hazard and there were so many - I'm so surprised there aren't more injuries there!
Then there is the fact they want $30 PLUS you have to buy lunch.
We swore we wouldn't do it again after the first time, it was just horrible. Then we got suckered the next year as they changed the name so we didn't realise till we got there it was the same one.
And it's not that I'm tight... I'll happily pay more money for GOOD riding.
I've paid a couple hundred dollars for the weekend at Desert Storm as the riding is totally worth the money!
That one however, WAY over priced.

Didn't see the local ride though, that's tempting me so bad even though we have Desert Storm next weekend... man, it's so close to home!
Ahhhh to do it or to save myself for the weekend!

**F5 Dave** · 17th May 2012, 10:10

That was the one that was right out the sticks blowing like a barsteward & then we came to that uphill of muddy death? I made it up the right route having failed the left hill a few times, but I was pretty knackered. Then I figured I better go help my mate. He fluked it up the other way, but just walking (crawling?) back up the hill took me over 1/2 hr.