Woodhill Trail Ride Sunday July 19

**SpikedPunch** · 19th July 2009, 19:54

Originally Posted by vazza

:O! Ahh I thought it may have been you, I recalled the funky graphics haha.

What was the problem with it? You seriously gotta sort out that kickstarter.. was so hard to kick lol.

Small world eh

! Thanks heaps for the help!! Same goes to the organisers, jerry rigging a tow rope out of that ktm caution tape was genius! I will pack tow rope and wire cutters in the future, thought I kept a pretty thorough camelback until today, haha. I'll let krad come on here and theorise about why what happened happened, got some theories but nothing solid. Compressions sweet and it was sparking so who knows for sure.
Kickstarter is the bane of my existance...But it's normally easy to start

And to everyone who mentioned it today, yeah it's getting a new chain and spockets this week GEEZ

It was a cool ride, nice and flowy, I was having a good time until the bike died! So glad it's going now, was freaking out/packing a sad about having to miss two man

**flyingcr250** · 19th July 2009, 20:03

Originally Posted by SpikedPunch

Eh? Was that me you're on about? So those were KBers that passed, ooooh bad karma!!

Good karma for you though

OH! LIVE ACTION! Krad just kicked it over YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Been working on it since we got back haha!

ooooops!! usulally i do stop to help people, but it didnt really look like you were in trouble, oh well next time you see me in trouble you can brease past and cover me in roost ha ha ha

**jt119** · 19th July 2009, 20:19

Originally Posted by flyingcr250

ooooops!! usulally i do stop to help people, but it didnt really look like you were in trouble, oh well next time you see me in trouble you can brease past and cover me in roost ha ha ha

lol last time you stopped for me it was only to laugh

**clmintie** · 19th July 2009, 20:55

Thanks to A&R for giving us a lift, Grace and Sophie had a cool ride today while I hung round watching. Either the tracks are getting tamer or the riders are getting better cause the St Johns looked bored......

Not riding sucks.....

Roll on next Sunday for the two man............

**Ktmboy** · 19th July 2009, 21:20

Originally Posted by clmintie

Thanks to A&R for giving us a lift, Grace and Sophie had a cool ride today while I hung round watching. Either the tracks are getting tamer or the riders are getting better cause the St Johns looked bored......

Not riding sucks.....

Roll on next Sunday for the two man............

Jeez I hear you...you sort of looked like the little lost sole

Felt for you mate. Girls looked happy tho!! if thats any consolation?

**SpikedPunch** · 19th July 2009, 21:43

Originally Posted by flyingcr250

ooooops!! usulally i do stop to help people, but it didnt really look like you were in trouble, oh well next time you see me in trouble you can brease past and cover me in roost ha ha ha

Hehe, maybe at two man when you're all tired from ironmanning it

Bring it oooon!

(I am SO nervous!)

**clmintie** · 19th July 2009, 21:44

Originally Posted by Ktmboy

Jeez I hear you...you sort of looked like the little lost sole

Felt for you mate. Girls looked happy tho!! if thats any consolation?

Yeah and it really sucks not to be able to play with the camera either.. Double whammy.........

The girls are really getting into the riding and have been around the tracks long enough now to feel part of the crowd. It's so cool to see them catching up with riding mates and not needing Dad with them all the time.. I guess they're growing up...

They got stuck in to cleaning the bikes as soon as they got home and are on a motorcycling high.... Don't let anyone ever tell you this isn't a great family activity.....

**noobi** · 19th July 2009, 21:55

Originally Posted by clmintie

Don't let anyone ever tell you this isn't a great family activity.....

maybe those people who ride their horses on the tracks by the road into the forest.

very bad people dirt bikers, they scare our horseies and ruin our precious beaches. PC PC PC

**krad_nz** · 19th July 2009, 22:25

Theory behind SpikedPunch's bike dying is....

First and foremost apparently she punted into stump and fell over as a result. From this point onwards no one could get the bike going. She changed the plug in field all by herself (impressed, I must have done something right) thinking it was fouled. Usually you know when you foul a plug, it sort of dribbles to a halt, wheezing and spluttering. In this case a sharp bump had caused it cut out suddenly apparently.

When we got it back on the trailer noobie and I had a go at checking for spark and fiddling with the HT lead. Didn't seem to make any spark, and the HT lead seemed ok. Noobie noticed that both her spark plugs didn't have the end caps on them that seat into the end of the HT lead. I suspect this was the problem all along. It must have been a marginal connection from the start and an unlucky off must have shook it loose. When I removed the new plug she had put in I noticed it was fairly loose resulting in reduced compression perhaps which wouldn't have helped things.

Was just about the pull the carbi out and clean things out when I tried mashing the HT lead onto the threaded spark plug end one more time. Worked!

New plugs at $7-8/each WITH end caps = priceless.

Hope your wrist is sweet noobi, sounded like a you had a bad off. Thanks Vassa for helping Sacha out!

Good ride over all. Didn't enjoy the slow technical bit in the middle of the 25k loop though. Usually I like that stuff not this time though. Fell off a few times which is unusual for me. Normally I stay on two wheels. I think I was used to the sand slowing me down, but I had to remember that I need to use the brakes now

**camchain** · 20th July 2009, 10:48

Hey Noobi. Mmmm, that featherlight clutch was a pleasure to fondle. Katoom has a hydraulic clutch but it's a long way off being a genuine one finger job. Think I'll take a look at it.
I figured you guys must have taken the left fork. Nice to be able to jump on KB to debrief/square things up and hopefully avoid looking like a rude R-Sole! With my sense of direction I'm surprised I found the long way round second time. When I ride I'm in tunnel vision mode focussing 100% on the track & I often miss arrows/options - usually crossed arrows lol/ouch.

I enjoyed the extra tighter stuff added this course, especially through the toi-toi. A good challenge variation trying to keep a good pace as well as read course direction through that. Krad, I noticed the underside (white) of toi-toi leaves on the ground looked a lot like the white tree roots...

**L Rider** · 20th July 2009, 10:49

Originally Posted by SpikedPunch

Small world eh

! Thanks heaps for the help!! Same goes to the organisers, jerry rigging a tow rope out of that ktm caution tape was genius! I will pack tow rope and wire cutters in the future, thought I kept a pretty thorough camelback until today, haha. I'll let krad come on here and theorise about why what happened happened, got some theories but nothing solid. Compressions sweet and it was sparking so who knows for sure.
Kickstarter is the bane of my existance...But it's normally easy to start

And to everyone who mentioned it today, yeah it's getting a new chain and spockets this week GEEZ

It was a cool ride, nice and flowy, I was having a good time until the bike died! So glad it's going now, was freaking out/packing a sad about having to miss two man

You're not having the best of luck lately. Glad to hear you got it sorted

**IIIRII** · 21st July 2009, 20:09

Sorry It took me 5 minutes to remember your name Sash's

I am pretty old you know.

**A&R** · 23rd July 2009, 23:11

Great ride. Did anyone get caught out on the "expert only" bit at the 10k marker?
Seen the little sandy hill,thought yep looks no probs., got over the top and :

........ landed in a heap with bike carrying on without me got up nothing broken just a couple bruises - so ok for the 2 man next week

. It was just a 8 foot hill with a peak but vertical drop on the down side caught me out a cropper.
Next time someone posts one of these on a ride I'll have a look over the hill before I ride over it. I guess someone had some some fun marking this one up! (Billaroo?

)
I bet there was more than one pile up there too. Would have been a good place to catch some camera footage.

**SpikedPunch** · 23rd July 2009, 23:30

Originally Posted by A&R

Great ride. Did anyone get caught out on the "expert only" bit at the 10k marker?

Heaps of people were getting stuck on that one! Bit of a backlog happened. Pleased to say I got over sweet

.... and then dug a series of big holes on the next hill in, doh

Originally Posted by IIIRII

Sorry It took me 5 minutes to remember your name Sash's

I am pretty old you know.

Haha, no worries, before you took your helmet off I was running thru my mental checklist of KBers who ride ktms

**billaroo** · 24th July 2009, 08:14

Originally Posted by A&R

Great ride. Did anyone get caught out on the "expert only" bit at the 10k marker?
Seen the little sandy hill,thought yep looks no probs., got over the top and :

........ landed in a heap with bike carrying on without me got up nothing broken just a couple bruises - so ok for the 2 man next week

. It was just a 8 foot hill with a peak but vertical drop on the down side caught me out a cropper.
Next time someone posts one of these on a ride I'll have a look over the hill before I ride over it. I guess someone had some some fun marking this one up! (Billaroo?

)
I bet there was more than one pile up there too. Would have been a good place to catch some camera footage.

Guilty as charged- I like technical little bits like that- although there were a few that had issues it got easier as the day went on.