Going around that farm with the dad Roy is more my (relaxed) style, but the place always has something else just a bit tougher when ya ready for it . .. . they also have a rough bush farm higher up the mountain which I hope to wangle an invite onto. Roy is a nice chap & always keen to encourage interest in trials riding .. . . we might even see a local Greybeards or Twinshock trials scene start . ... eeee I aint arfe chuffed that the place is only 45mins from Chez DZL.
That toughgoing TS90 agin more expensive bikes is a hoot. Reminds me of Gary Wentz doing adventure rides on this most scrofulous old mudbug with bits wired on etc, & him waxing guys on whizbikes in the bush AND along the metal . .. him with THAT dry grin!
Same thing as when one year I went to the Far North with John Kuriger from Manaia. He's a dairy farmer, rides the oldest Mudbug in Noo Zild, practices twice a day by doing feet-up power donuts on cowshit-slippery concrete. His road/adventyre scoot is a scruffy old R100 Beemer, & he shit vast numbers of 'enduro' types by zapping thru offroiad sections where the 'hard men in lycra' were getting stuck. When he started feeling he needed some extra traction he scrounged a length of bailing twine from a cockies shed & knitted up a set of 'chains' for the rear, then went & waxed some more guys. All this with a big floppy sheepskin that had slipped over the back of the seat & got just as muddy & daggy as a live sheeps rear, made his bike look even more mind-boggling to the guys he shot past!
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