DB1k 08 - aka Dusty Butt 08

**Padmei** · 24th August 2008, 19:57

Are you talking about the one that gets MTBed over cos if it is I don't think you can take a moto on it. I think it's DOC. I did it a couple of times last year & is an excellent down hill.

**NordieBoy** · 24th August 2008, 20:12

We stayed last night up Wakamarina Road and the owner of the chalet told us about it.

Hmmm...

**cooneyr** · 24th August 2008, 21:43

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Hey R, check out on your maps from Wakamarina over the hills to Onamalutu.
There's supposed to be an accessable track that would cut out all that seal work.
It's the old gold trail or something.

May be good to test on one of the Nelson Rideouts soon and get a GPS track for ya.

Pic from the topos attached. There is two routes between Wakamarina and Onamalutu but both a shown as walking tracks and looking at the contour lines I'm thinking is trial's bike territory or worse. One route is over Mt Royal and the other is via Fosters Clearing.

Feel free to have a look and prove me wrong but I don't think this is a goer.

Cheers R

**NordieBoy** · 24th August 2008, 22:13

We drove to the end of the road today and it'd be a nice ride anyway.
May have a chance to check it out this weekend.

**Padmei** · 25th August 2008, 07:49

We rode MTBs across from Fosters clearing. Very tight for a moto, grouse MTB though - about 50 downhill switchback corners

**Lugzy23** · 25th August 2008, 12:19

Isnt there a swing bridge at the end of the Wakamarina Road that would make getting a bike accross all but impossible?

**MXNUT** · 25th August 2008, 16:26

Originally Posted by cooneyr

I'm thinking about organising another run but no firm ideas on date yet.
Keep and eye out for the new thread about the 2009 run - DB1k 09.

I have read the ride reports on last years run with great interest and disscussed the ride with other local riders.
Looks like you have a great area at the top of the south island ideally suited to this type of ride. The problem for us is that to come all that way and try and complete the ride in one day is that we would not get to see much of the route we are riding due to time contraints and riding in the dark etc.

What about a two day option for soft adventurers like us.
There must be a camping ground/accomodation half way round perhaps, so we could enjoy more of the ride without having to go hard out ???.

Just a thought.

**cooneyr** · 25th August 2008, 16:38

Originally Posted by MOTOXNUT

I have read the ride reports on last years run with great interest and disscussed the ride with other local riders.
Looks like you have a great area at the top of the south island ideally suited to this type of ride. The problem for us is that to come all that way and try and complete the ride in one day is that we would not get to see much of the route we are riding due to time contraints and riding in the dark etc.

What about a two day option for soft adventurers like us.
There must be a camping ground/accomodation half way round perhaps, so we could enjoy more of the ride without having to go hard out ???.

Just a thought.

There will almost certainly be a 2 day run as well as the 1 day run. Last year the 2 dayers stayed at a shearing shed just south of St Arnard which is approx 1/2 way. The other option is to crash the camping ground at St Arnaud.

Nordie - any chance of getting the same digs as last year or is there other options that would work????

Cheers R

**XF650** · 25th August 2008, 16:43

The 2 day option this year (led by Nordie) was ideal for those of us who were just sight-seeing or simply not tough enough for the 1 day ride. It was a fantastic trip but still nowhere near the achievement of the 1 dayers.

**zeRax** · 25th August 2008, 19:22

>_< thinking back, argh, few dodgy moments, im really suprised i never had a bad off, get so tired, lack of visibility, my really really really crappy lighting, the amount of corners i nearly went straight through when it was pitch black...

i REALLY wanna do it all again, so bad ;O. CHOMP CHOMPING at the bit!

**NordieBoy** · 25th August 2008, 19:29

Same accommodation is probably sweet but what date are we looking at for '09?
They had only moved the sheep away a day or two before we arrived last time.

I'd like to do the DB in one day as a challenge but I know I'll have more fun on the 2-dayer.

**cooneyr** · 25th August 2008, 23:12

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Same accommodation is probably sweet but what date are we looking at for '09?
They had only moved the sheep away a day or two before we arrived last time.

I'd like to do the DB in one day as a challenge but I know I'll have more fun on the 2-dayer.

Lets leave this along till I start the new thread.

Cheers R

**mazz1972** · 29th August 2008, 15:16

I think my lot would be up for the 2 day option.....

**Padmei** · 29th August 2008, 18:26

I think there would be quite a bit of interest for the 2 day option - makes it a good weekend away. The alloy butt crew can tell us what its like when they finish