My least favourite part was the tight stuff in the trees
That was my favourite bit! My least favourite was the first half of section 1, you know that slimy bit around the river and under the bridge.
guy on a big xt yammie
Which one? There were three XT550s entered this year!
Hurts worse if you were on the LOSING ORIENTALS TEAM. Suffer in ya Mawashi's, suckers!
Well, yes. I would like to humbly accept the umpires decision, and... ah, stuff that; we wuz robbed! Wait 'til 2015!
this is where you're supposed to be telling us how BAD it was, and how those of us that didn't go, didn't really miss out...
Sorry mate, but it was the best one ever in my opinion. Maybe I'm just saying that because the weather was great, and I just happened to have a particularly awesome weekend. I didn't fall off once, but came bloody close when I strayed from the path, directly against Shoey's advice at the riders briefing, and struck a slippery log. My mate following behind yelled even louder than I did ("Oh shitttt!") as arms, legs and bike flailed madly in all directions. Somehow the little DT righted itself and I continued on my merry, albeit slow, way.
I didn't really get bogged either and I just magically seemed to be able to pick a good line through the worst of the crossings, whereas last year the exact opposite was true!
The weekend wasn't without mishap, as the slightest hint of water had the bike cutting out until I made up a shroud for the plug cap. Still caused me a few hassles after that. Having Canam370 parked beside me, tooting his horn every time I kicked the thing while Wombat laughed his head off was another, er, highlight. That's what I get for giving them the "salute" when I passed them earlier I suppose...
I bent the brake pedal on a rock, and lost a bolt from the clutch lever too. Thanks to Alex & Canam370 respectively for assisting me with fixing these little issues.
I had so much fun on the little DT on Saturday I took it out for the first lap on Sunday. When I came back to get the XT250 I discovered it had a flat tyre, so the DT was pressed into service again.
One lap on Saturday, and two on Sunday earned me a gold medal, all on a twin shock DT125, so I was stoked.
Everywhere you looked there were smiling faces. Campfire banter kept people in stitches all night. The VERi AGM was conducted and we got through all of the club business just in time for dinner to start. A certain team from the ACT decided to pour some extra money into Harrow via the pub, and so were too sick to mount their machines on Sunday morning! After some extra sleep they were able to hit the loop before lunchtime. Top effort guys.
Hats off to the Green & Gold team member who came across from WA to ride the event too.
The Barossa Photography team award went to the inimitable Tolmie Beards.
Jeez, I could go on all day about it, it really was that good!
Tex