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Trail Report: October 4th 2003

Players: Colin, JAW, Marty Moose, Nathan, Peter, Rob, Sam.
Venue: Alkimos and Pipidinny
Rider of the Day: Sam - Most improved rider in the pack.
Stack of the Day: None
Breakages & Injuries: Colin - Back tyre puncture, but gets it (quite a way) back to the trailer.
Day Stats:
Trip Dist Trip Time Vave Vmax
78.40km 2:05:36 37.5kph 126kph

Report by JAW:

Weather report: it's gettin' that time of year again; you're gettin' hot, you need to take a hat out and you have finished your camelbak waaay before the ride is over. But as you can see, it takes more than that to stop CQ riders. Seven players gather at Pipidinny road and then set off the Alkimos to see what's going on.

Now the Ranger had been out all morning and some CQ riders had already had a yarn with him. A good fella, rides a trailbike himself. Usual story, some anti-social idiots, in their continuing effort to ruin it for us all, cause locals to complain and thus the council/constabulatory have to look like they are doing something about it. Most CQ'ers have registered bikes which makes them legal, no problems. A few quad riders out at the Alkimos dunes were told to "nick off" but most ground covered is private property and although Farmer Alan hates us all he tolerates us so long as we stick to the tracks.

CQ should drop a carton of beer or two on his doorstep for Christmas, with a card that says something like "Thanks for not shooting us, signed Crusty Quinns." ;)

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Sam and Peter stop to admire the spring day out at the back paddocks.

For something different, the players head inland down the paddock tracks and check out some of the jumps. Marty Moose, Nathan and Sam put in a few passes, Rob and JAW give it a shot but don't really find much airtime. After a few photos, the players head further inland, to the telegraph road track.
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Marty Moose
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Nathan
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Sam

Some interesting tracks out there, bit flatter and faster than the usual twisty & undulatin' coastal dune tracks. Until at least Rob/Nathan found a kilometer of hard limestone caprock that is. Even just putting along in first gear pinched off the rear tube on Colin's Yammy for a flat. This brought about a fairly slow hike for him, about 10kms, back to Pip road basecamp.

Safely returned to the carpark, JAW calls Rob for a drag rematch; CR500E vs XR600. Although "very bogany" according to some; there is a nice 300m strip which just begs to be used as thus.
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Hanging out in a shady spot.

Colin spots the bikes at the start line with a hands up, hands down - the bikes leap into action. With plenty of grip and heaps of power down low, the challenge is mostly not to fall off the back of the bike from takeoff. Wind the power in until somewhere in second gear full throttle may be found. The first run JAW beats Rob off the line and Rob is unable to reel the lost distance in by the finish.

Marty Moose can't help himself and lines up on the second drag, making it CR500E vs XR600 vs KTM300. All draggers get a nice launch from the line, Marty Moose has wound on heaps of power and has the KTM in a mono up to the first change. Rob manages to grab half a bike length on JAW but Marty Moose is at least a bike length out front.

By the end of the track the obvious has happened (well at least to engine:power buffs) - the top end of the CR500E has been enough to start pulling away from the other competitors but the XR600 is gaining on the KTM. With only 300m or so of total usuable track, there was not enough time for anyone to catch any distance so the finish line was exactly as it started - Marty Moose, Rob, JAW. Summary - over such a short distance, it's all in your launch!

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Marty hadn't been to his Mountain for a while...

Colin and Peter head off home ("c'arn Col, put in yer spare tube!" "nah, can't be bothered.") The five remaining players head to Moose Mountain... Four smokers with the one thumper. No comment ;)

The Mountain is pretty easy these days and all players make it up. Sam doesn't quite manage a clean pass but makes it over no less - legs dangling over the side of the bike. A clean pass means feet on pegs right over the top. Good effort by Sam though as he'd not been near the top before. In fact Sam was so well improved from the last meet that there was nothing for it other than to award him Rider of the Day.

Meantime, Marty Moose and Nathan had found themselves a little jump behind the mountain, and were giving it a go.

Marty Moose has a particularly good save when he backs off slightly on the lip of the jump sending the bike into a nose dive. With a mid air full rap on the throttle he just manages to land it. All caught on video - good work Marty :)

Meantime JAW has noticed the Kangaroo Paw is out in full force. "Don't you be running over the wildflowers now!" What a shame the digital camera has been too abused from being strapped to rider for over 30 rides that it can't do a macro anymore. A native wildflower found only in Western Australia, Kangaroo Paw is quite unusual and spectacular.
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A particularly bad picture of an otherwise spectacular kangaroo Paw.

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Normally a favoured spot by picnic goers.

Considering there were no Yanchep runs, no time trials - just Pippidinny and Alkimos - the players put in a lot of kilometers and made a real day out of it. There was further jumping through Alkimos death valley, there were sections of Wolfies agility test and a bit of not-the-normal territory explored.

This is good, because the day had a feel of what is pretty much now upon us: Summer. As JB would say, "once the air you are breathing in is hotter than the air you are breathing out, it is time to stop." It doesn't take much for a Western Australian Summer to do that.

I suspect however that it won't have everyone locking their rides away for the season...

Stay tuned for the next ride!

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"You can't stand in the way of progress". Once part of CQ's riding ground, yet another section of bushland is prepared for a sea of houses.