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Junior's Lakes Ride
Junior, Hazi, USA Tommy, JB, Jack, and Hooters,
Junior called a Lakes ride and 5 of us jumped on board. Boots on at 8:30, and off we went from the lakes, few other bikes around and the weather was a bit iffy, jacket or no jacket kinda deal. JB and I freshly scared from Darin's Bannister adventure chose a jacket. Straight into the usual track out the back of the servo, Junior proudly sporting a GPS mount with an anti Parrot bush feature. (apparently the 3 mile bush bash not part of the itinery this time....) But since it was a bit nippy our fearless leader (fearless and soulless!) decided that a tractionless rock strewn hill would warm us all up- it did! No one had a clean run, although JB did say he would have but I blocked his line, FYI JB if the situation was reversed I woulda used you for traction, just sayin' hehe! So after 10 minutes of sweat an tears we were warmed up ready to go. A great mix of trails no more nasty hills just an awesome mix of tight single track and open loamy fast tracks, whoops a plenty tho, just so we didn't have too much fun! One big bog claimed a few victims, lucky it was stinky smells like rotten feet bog water! "wheelie thru it" doesn't mean, drop the front wheel smack bang in the deep middle part and disappear under a wave of "smells like death" water, but maybe that was my fault and I wasn't clear with the instructions...! More tracks, the rock with the view smoko, and a bit of the creek section to mix it up. Quite a few bikes out, dudes on there own, WTF? So glad I can ride with the crustys I never ride alone and anything less than 4 is hard if you have serious drama. Juniors nav skills were bang on and we had great tracks a few small offs but nothing serious. A small hiccup when we lost Jack and JB but only for about 5 minutes. Back at the cars, boots off slippers on, about 1:30pm a hundred k's done. Great ride only a bit of rain and no major drama, although there was a rumour that fully qualified maintenance supervisor screwed the pooch but unfortunately didn't screw the drive sprocket retaining bolt enough ( Husqvarna's fault no doubt!!) but like I always say, any day that doesn't involve a rescue chopper is a good day. Thanks again Junior, USA Tommy for sweeping and as usual the boys for the laughs. Loving my new Mobius knee braces, cheers Marty for the advice- they are the shit! see ya's out there, Hooters ps one ride closer to orange bobby argh hahahaha!! |
