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The Chicken Run
I pulled into the OVT and asked Slade so where we riding?. North East he says - its only 35km to GinGin as the crow flies - be a bit further on the tracks. The servo there sells the best Fried Chicken I reply, sounds good to me - so began The Chicken Run.
After a false start to a locked gate / fenced off area and a sticking throttle cable on the 2 stroke, 2 Hondas, 1 Yamahaha and a KTM head off (its not often the red riders have the majority) ! A quick few kms on bitumen and limestone we hit the tracks proper - Long fast sweeping sandy tracks. With only 4 riders we dispensed with the cornerman system and 'just rode' which meant kms were covered fast and we soon hit the RAAF boundary fence. With uncanny accuracy (using a page torn from a street directory,a gumball machine compass ... and the sun) Slade brings us out of the sand bang on the GinGin turn off on Brand Highway. Impressive. Its the 60km mark so its time for a refuel, rehydrate and some damn fine Fried Chicken ! We about face and head back about 50km before a diversion across country is taken and we end up at the Yanchep turnoff. XRCass suggests an alternative way back to OVT via coastal tracks and the Pipidinny hills and heads down some of the old faithful tracks that still exist. Ash shows the 4 strokes how whoops should be ridden - fast. We make it back to the OVT on fumes - 150km, no flats, no injuries and no DNFs. Cheers to Slade calling, leading, navigating the ride - will do it again. SOTD: Usual offs (sandy corner slo-mo drops, mistimed whoop cross ups) but nothing major - WRLindsay bailed out at the site of a fence racing towards him but that was more a judgement call than a stack me thinks. ROTD: either Slade for navigation skills or Ash for the best F@!*!ing save I've seen in a long while - and me with a ringside seat. One second he's switching ruts for a better shot at a corner under speed - the next he's hit a hidden stump that has shot him head height into the air, still heading in the direction of the track only completely SIDEWAYS ... a successful sideways landing doesn't seem possible so I'm looking for some way to dodge the impending mess when the lucky bugger lands it and continues riding unscathed. Apparently the steering dampener works.  Chicken Run  Chicken Run |
