Maromaku school trail ride

[4stroke]

28 March, 2009


Maromaku School Trail Bike Ride

Maromaku School Trail Bike ride, quads and 2 wheelers, all ages/abilities, adults $25, under 16 $15 (accompanied by an adult). Riders must wear helmets/safety boots etc. 30 mins north of Whangarei, signposted SH1 Towai. Food/BBQ and drinks available for sale, all proceeds to Maromaku School, contact Nolan 09 4334756 or Mar 09 4334890

ill be heading over to this if anyones thinking of somwhere to ride oh and its on saturday

[takitimu]

Hope to see you there, probably silver hilux with white double axle trailer, might have my gold bt50.

Nigel

[4stroke]

i dear say ill be there with a group of hondas from dargaville honda lol, green rodeo.

[takitimu]

That was one helluva ride, alot of expert sections & whilst all rideable there was one uphill that was pretty gnarley.

Postives:
- Alot of expert sections.
- The expert sections were not easy
- Alot of really cool downhills, one expert one in the bush was fantastic, lots of drop offs under roots to jump over.
- average speed 39kph for the fast guys in my group, so not alot of just open the throttle & cruise stuff.
- They added some manmade jumps, really cool, especially the last one over the drain ( ok 5 foot wide ditch )
- Tree roots that were not more slippery than ice.

Negatives:
- The marking was not quite as good as the riding, though never got lost, spent a bit of time looking around.

Foolish moments ( for chop / billaroo ):
- Falling into the electric fence while trying to tie the kick stand up, would have been ok if I had not got tangled, really well tangled in the hot wires, spent what felt like 5 minutes trying to get out, probably 2, definitely enough time to get a few kicks from the fence & the poor guy who tried to pull my bike out got a good 4 or 5 for his trouble, my boot got caught in the wires, I blame the barb wire, but really pure incompetence on my part was the problem.
- Riding to fast into the steepest part of the track ( bad recollection of the steep parts ) & ended up on the front wheel avoiding the fence, what looked a massive root, and two trees that seemed intent on jumping in front of me, front behind it looked spectacular I'm told, the good part was I overshot the corner by a metre & the lower line was way easier on the next section ( being really not smart I didn't take the easy line next time around ).

[4stroke]

yeah it was i mint ride, suited me except it was a bit to dry, i tihnk i saw your wagon when we come in, doesnt help that we didnt get the till 11am, then when we came back off our first loop i think you guys had gone, the guys i was with spent alot of time playing on the jumps, all the broxy coaching they get must be paying off i did 2 laps with all expert loops and ended up in a reall nasty bog due to the sinage not being visable,(someone had been in the before us too) chop would have had a good day in the tight stuff?

[takitimu]

yeah it was i mint ride, suited me except it was a bit to dry, i tihnk i saw your wagon when we come in, doesnt help that we didnt get the till 11am, then when we came back off our first loop i think you guys had gone, the guys i was with spent alot of time playing on the jumps, all the broxy coaching they get must be paying off i did 2 laps with all expert loops and ended up in a reall nasty bog due to the sinage not being visable,(someone had been in the before us too) chop would have had a good day in the tight stuff?

lol, they can go those guys, I was @ the same training ( tail end charlie ). I was one of the first people into that bog I think, a dead end one bottom of a gully just past a hard right up a bank, was ok being first, but I bet it got progressively worse.
Chop would have been in his element I reckon, some of that stuff was damn near as tight as the tight stuff in the Sandpit, but the downhills were up a level from the sandpit stuff.
I was actually only there at the start & end, had a quick gas/drink/snack break for the two stops, next time ( should have cold beer if we can get the fridge sorted out ).