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Run Silent Run Deep
The title should be "The Hunt for Black Choktober" or "60 Rides, 60 Fathoms"
After a bit of rain during the week, Pounce called a ride around one of his favourite runs in the Hills hoping that the dust would be a bit subdued. 6.30am sounded like a good time for an off as Pounce wanted to be back early as did a few of the otheres. At this time of year, it's a bloody great time to be out there as it's still cool but the roos don't care about that. 9 guys showed up for what turned out to be a quick paced ride through a mix of all sorts of trails. Around the usual track to that very samll rutted out hill bit, with the only one to have a bit of trouble on it being Gavin. 4th ride out with us (how often he rides elswhere I don't know) & he's getting more confident. Technical stuff still slows him a bit but on the open, he can hold his own. It's hard to write an in depth report being the lead rider as you don't get to see what happens in the pack, but I can remember some saying that trees got in the way somewhere, corners snuck up on others elsewhere & just the usual shennanigans happening between riders. Now the fun bit. We get around to the area that has some water in it. I stop the group to let them know I want to go through first to get some pics. I pick my line, centre of the puddle whick I know is the shallowish bit. Yould expect the guys behind you to follow the line I took? HA! Beej comes through first taking the right side & the BMW cruises through easily.  Beej doing it the eay way Then our poor Choko, (say no more) has a go. Props to him, he starts taking the shallow centre line but the CR has too much power for him, back wheel slips into the deep bit, then the pics tell the rest.  OOROOGAH, OOROOGAH, DIVE, DIVE, DIVE  OOROOGAH, OOROOGAH, DIVE, DIVE, DIVE  OOROOGAH, OOROOGAH, DIVE, DIVE, DIVE Now in Chokos words, this is what happened. "Alright before any rumours go around or somebody stretches the truth a little let me tell the true version of what happened. As i was already riding with 1 arm all day and the pain killers were wearing off, it was half my luck that as i approached the puddle the biggest kangeroo ive ever seen jumped out right in front of me and took my focus away, he was so quick thats why he wasnt caught on camera. At the same time a huge bird of some sort had tried to sweep down at me and thats why i thought the safest thing to do was to go down under water where he couldnt get me. Luckily for my mahummad ali reflexes and myricky carmicheal riding ability i managed to do so. otherwise it could have gotten out of control. Just thought my mates out there would want to know the truth. LOL!!!" Mick450 makes it thrugh the deep bit too, even after the "Bremer Bay Incident" nothing stops him from having a go.  Mick doing it the eay way The rest of the pack come around "Nancyboy style"  Gavin going the girlie way  Grant going the girlie way DEAD HONDA! The fun begins now trying to get Choko started. Air filter is removed, bike tipped up & no wonder Perth has a water shortage, it's all in the airbox & carby. All sorts of advice is flowing back & forth, do this, do that, burn it, kick it, leave it etc. but after about 40 minutes & multiple attempts there's still life in it & she fires up with a scream. Deciding not to risk it & having to restart Choko if he stalls it, I cut about 30klm's of the loop & head back to the cars which gets us back at the time I was hoping for anyway. All in all a good fast run. Thanks to everyone for the ride, Col for sweeping (which he seems to like doing in the dust?) & the assistance everyone gave to Choko. Now writing a report isn't as daunting as you'ld think, so I'ld like to ask again for others to put their hand up to do it, even if it's a group effort. If 2-3 guys put some words together, I'm happy to edit it all to make a story out of it. As I said, a report from the guy in front doesn't have the content from the blokes in the middle that see their mate miss a roo by inches, or the laughs of puddle fights & filling ins etc. Thanks. |
