Morleys 6-hour Cross Country

[warewolf]

Pic 2: Loved that section. Hairing along a gravel road, and then the arrows point you off the side, straight down a 3m drop. Wound down through the trees with a couple of very steep bits...great fun!

Pic 3: That puddle cost me time using the bypass unnecessarily. On the first four laps the only person I saw attempting it tried to ride around the RHS edge, doing a wall of death, and fell in! Then I saw someone ride straight through the LHS and it was only axle or so deep, no ruts that I felt. Grrrr! Last two laps I went straight through.

Pic 4: That shot almost makes that steep pinch look flat! Until you look at the guy at the bottom, and realise you can't really see the ground between the bikes basically at the top flat section, and the bottom. IIRC #11 was a CRF450X that boiled trying to get up. It was blowing coolant like a steam train! It seemed like only the bigger 4Ts boiled.

[NordieBoy]

I went down that drop and through the tree section and was a bit worried the bike wasn't handeling right and seemed a bit unstable with the new shocks until halfway when I realised I was in second gear

Number X with the dreads bounced off the right hand side of the puddle. I've got a shot of him entering it and he was gone. Couldn't believe how fast he went through and without a splash.

100m of clay and wet round rocks. It was almost a toss of a coin wether you'd make it up or not. That guy was boiling before half way up.

Those Polaris quads with the KTM 525 engines and independant rear suspension went well.

[merv]

Great day - just showing what fun dirt riding can be and how tiring it can get when its too wet.

[cooneyr]

Awesome pics Nordie. That looks like a really fun (read tiring but fun) day.

Whoever said motorbiking is a lazy sport obviously never rode one!

Cheers R

[NordieBoy]

If it was held on the Sat it would have been perfect conditions.
I had to use the little point and shoot camera instead of my good one

People were blowing so hard up the top of that hill you couldn't hear the bikes