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Cols Cataby Call
Date 30/May/09
6 Riders carlo, Colin McCaughey, FueltankerAllen, Greg, Tommy, walker
Rider of the day Not awarded
Stack of the day Tommy
Report to come.

Short snippet from Col Mc:
I think Tommy has both hands on SOTD, having taken a decent tumble on the main track to Cataby. Carlo may be the main prosecution witness here, so he can let us know. Clearly Fueltanker Allen most have thought it hilarious and came out in sympathy by doing one of those embarrassing 0 kms per hour stacks.

Full report from Greg:
6 riders in all were ready to rumble at the Lano car park at 7.45am.

In the pre ride brief Carlo volunteered to ride sweep.

After a quick run down on the corner man system and a very welcome look out for 4WDs from Colin, we headed out at 8.00am

On the way out to the Army sentry post, we came across 3 - 4wds heading straight at us.

One on the far left or the track, (you know, our side!!)


After a quick regroup we headed up fence line and onto the back track through to the old windmill at Bullfrog Well.

At this stage we had settled into our ride pattern for the day, Colin our front with Fuel Tanker Allen and Walker on his heals, give or take some dust in between.

Then a further dust-settling gap to myself, Tommy and Carlo riding sweep.

Colin had a few run ins with Skippy on the way through here and through to the right-hander that takes you out to Cataby.

One Skippy must have left the hearing aids at home, bouncing along with Colin right on his arse for a good 300 metres before leisurely getting out of Cols way.


A regroup at the right-hander had Colin giving us a quick rub down on the next 20 Ks. (Col gives rub downs now?- Pounce)

Its straight, its boggy and it ends at a gravel road, see you in 20 Ks

Near the end of the track, Tommy decided that Carlo must have been falling asleep in sweep on such a leisurely ride.

So he put on a forward flip with a half twist, the half twist performed by his WR facing back the way it had come.


On we went to Cataby roadhouse number 2, where 40 odd Harleys were lined up at the bowser.

After joining the que and pushing in front of a really pissed off caravaner, we went back to the first Servo to fuel up.

Buy the time we were fuelled the caravaner turned up having also given up on waiting for the wild hogs to have their drink.


We quickly moved on up the highway and onto the inland heading road, regrouping for another chat from Colin.

We were at the far end of the time trial section extension, I think Colins exact words were:

This bit is fast, it puts the Faaarrrrkkkk! In fast and he wasnt wrong.

After what had been a fairly boring ride to that point we made it to the section that makes it worthwhile.

We spent the next 45min or so through running through the time trial section and other tracks in the same area.

It was then back to where we had turned off to Cataby and back to Bullfrog Well.

While regrouping here, Carlo decided to wash the spilt fuel off his bike with half a bottle of water.

This had most of us and especially Tommy, thinking that Carlo was attempting to torch his WR by pouring fuel on it!


The run back to town was uneventful, baring an almost near miss?? (near near miss?) by myself and a couple of bikes coming the other way.

Whilst I was riding on the far right of the track (you know, their side), 2 bikes were coming the other way and we avoided each other easily.


Back at the car park the odometer was showing just shy of 150kms, it sure didnt feel like it?

A big thankyou to Colin for leading the ride and for Carlo for riding sweep.

If Colin wont accept Ride of the day for leading, it should go to either:

Walker - who kept his CRF 250 not far behind Colin all day. Or

Carlo for sucking 5 other bikes dust for 4 hours












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