Desert Storm January?

[westie]

Wheres MY Credit Flinn!!?!? Just because i got knocked out first! :P

Anyone got any pics / Vids of the High jumps??

Fkn classic. Didn't know you rode proper bikes as well. Nice wheelie on the avatar.
You guys were like kids at a toy store. Bloody good show!

[Arven]

"Proper Bikes" eh!!? Yeah man.. had to get rid of my R1 tho.. too many tickets and losses of licences... i'm pretty darn unlucky when it comes to the fuzz.... I love dirt tho. You can be a complete crazy ass nut and don't have to worry about that sort of stuff...

But there is a different buzz in getting your knee down at 160kph!!!

[kezzafish]

I came a door knocking Sunday but missed you guys, damn. Saw you disappearing all loaded up heading for home, next time is a must.
On Sunday I was one of the first out there and she was just like Riverhead on a good day. On my second lap the surface was mint especially with only about 3km of road as opposed to about 10-15k on Saturday. Still managed to take out a tree on one of those fast dark tracks through the trees full on. Tad lucky (tree hugger)

Bloody big weekend with 4 loops of the big track on Sat plus the 30k and 10k and then 2 big loops on Sunday.

I have a question for the organisers tho.

The weather forecast was for showers/rain on Sat evening and on Sunday. Why didn't they have swap the tracks around so that the west loop with all the roads in it was on Sunday. Wouldn't have had a dust problem then.!

ha haaa, yeah i was going my hardest. Had a wicked run and a couple of slams. the surface was awesome and variation was wicked too. there were places with major grip and the slick stuff was cooool. i was all over the show! and the little stretches of road for a breather were just right (sunday).

The boys were a bit weakened with Brendan's collar bone and Dave's thumb and Pat got a flat. They weren't keen for another loop so we called it a day. That'd be my only disappointment for the weekend as i don't feel very sore/stiff and kinda regret not doing more. But it's no fun on your own or with people waiting for ya.

Yeah definately next time, i was gassing up my mates all week about how we were gonna kick some Aucklanders asses!! lol. I even had visions of starting a KB "trail ranking" thread! was my fault we didn't get to go for a blast so you're in 1st, i'm in 2nd and 4stroke's in 3rd (for not doing Sunday) lol

Did ya have a hoon round the mini MX track on the east loop? i had a major moment over the jump... landed with my front wheel in the sky... twice!

that's true about the road sections on the West loop, they were a bit long. they shoulda opened the east loop saturday

[alistair1]

Wheres MY Credit Flinn!!?!? Just because i got knocked out first! :P

Anyone got any pics / Vids of the High jumps??

i found this on drd.co.nz

[Atomic]

i found this on drd.co.nz

Cheers Alistair!

[secondfield]

That was my first desert storm / 2 day trailride / campout. Really enjoyed it too. Must apologise to the boys for getting pissed all the way there and raiding the chilli bin at midnite swearing and making a mess.

The riding was primo' 4th gear whoops and all that good stuff. Enjoyed the rock garden, pretty straight forward loops with no nasty surprises. Wasnt over the moon with a few issues I had (extinguisher coming loose, slowing me down..) binned the bike once toward the end of the day and slammed my recently healed collarbone, suspecting another crack in her.

That dust was crazy! took to wearing my shades and chucked my goggles (scratched)... eyelids were welded shut when i woke up sunday morning, hehe, even after a wash in the river sat arvo. Sunday I took it easy in the morning, got my suspension tuned by ritchie.. and as fate would have it met chop and chris birch while getting a coffee. I was stoked. Went out to do the west loop on my own and eased into it finally finding my pace about 20 minutes into the ride. The rain we had was great! a completely different set of riding conditions sunday.

Ha' there was once crazy dude on an rmz 450 sunday arvo who insisted on riding the endurocross track about half a dozen times. ... shit, im sure every time he leapt off that bank into the river he bounced off that sucker, headfirst into the drink. Talk about a stickler for punishment! good on him, everyone in the pits who could see him was giving him a shout out....

Good to meet (briefly) all the KB'ers out there. We will have to be a bit more organised next time and do a run together (drinks and riding!). As we all like to say, 'the more the merirer!' . Cheers...

[Arven]

i found this on drd.co.nz

HAHA! thats gotta be bad for Lances EGO!

Cool pic! you can even see your dad and Finn in the background!

[dammad1]

I came a door knocking Sunday but missed you guys, damn. Saw you disappearing all loaded up heading for home, next time is a must.
On Sunday I was one of the first out there and she was just like Riverhead on a good day. On my second lap the surface was mint especially with only about 3km of road as opposed to about 10-15k on Saturday. Still managed to take out a tree on one of those fast dark tracks through the trees full on. Tad lucky (tree hugger)

Bloody big weekend with 4 loops of the big track on Sat plus the 30k and 10k and then 2 big loops on Sunday.

I have a question for the organisers tho.

The weather forecast was for showers/rain on Sat evening and on Sunday. Why didn't they have swap the tracks around so that the west loop with all the roads in it was on Sunday. Wouldn't have had a dust problem then.!

Man that was good going, on the Saturday I did 3 x 35's and one of the 53, got high sided on the last lap of the day leaving my a bit sore on Sunday so we flagged it and went home.

Good weekend though and i'm looking forward to next year.

[Ktmboy]

Man that was good going, on the Saturday I did 3 x 35's and one of the 53, got high sided on the last lap of the day leaving my a bit sore on Sunday so we flagged it and went home.

Good weekend though and i'm looking forward to next year.

Yep, feeling a tad tired on Monday.

As Secondfield said the ole eyes feel like a day welding with no goggles. Chop and eye both wear contacts to ride only. Jeez that dust is like grinding past with them in.. Missus thinks I've been on the piss all weekend.

[Oper8r]

Hey Kezza, good to meet you guys the other day. For anyone reading I have heaps of photos of the high jump, if someone could tell my how to post pictures on here I will load them up..!
Also I am loading some helmet cam footage up on youtube, had to cut out a bit, here is one: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iitJNgqEqw

Loading the boulder part up soon, takes a while... if you have good b/band, hit the 'high quality' bit just under the viewing bit, it looks a hell of a lot better.
I was knackered after one day, had a bit of a guts ache problem, but still had a blast. cheers

[secondfield]

Gotta love that rock climb eh.. lucky it wasn't rendered invisible from the dust..

sweet footage, a fine representation of a choice day!

[kezzafish]

Hey Kezza, good to meet you guys the other day. For anyone reading I have heaps of photos of the high jump, if someone could tell my how to post pictures on here I will load them up..!
Also I am loading some helmet cam footage up on youtube, had to cut out a bit, here is one: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iitJNgqEqw

Loading the boulder part up soon, takes a while... if you have good b/band, hit the 'high quality' bit just under the viewing bit, it looks a hell of a lot better.
I was knackered after one day, had a bit of a guts ache problem, but still had a blast. cheers

yeah good to meet you too mate. Nice footage. i watched all your clips... i like the tree crash ha haaa that guy behind ya was a close call, woohoo. The sound is really good on your clips. what cam is it? is the mic. mounted seperately from the cam?

[Arven]

Hey Kezza, good to meet you guys the other day. For anyone reading I have heaps of photos of the high jump, if someone could tell my how to post pictures on here I will load them up..!
Also I am loading some helmet cam footage up on youtube, had to cut out a bit, here is one: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iitJNgqEqw

Loading the boulder part up soon, takes a while... if you have good b/band, hit the 'high quality' bit just under the viewing bit, it looks a hell of a lot better.
I was knackered after one day, had a bit of a guts ache problem, but still had a blast. cheers

You can attach them through the Additional Options in your reply window. Down the bottom you will have Manage Attachments and you can attach 4 at a time.

I would be keen on getting a copy of them if you want to email a few through to my email address? But if they are full resolution it may take a while to upload! Send them through 5 at a time to stuff@atomic13.co.nz if you like?

Cheers mate.

[secondfield]

Was that you arven jumping the kxf?

[Arven]

Yeah i was on the 450 number 46... I shoulda shown off more like lance and i mighta made it onto the Dirt rider mag and the Desert storm email like lance! haha. Nah its all good fun.