Well winter is on it's way the ruts are getting deeper and more slippery, the climbs are getting trickier and the mt 21s are turning into large lumps of rotating clay with about as much grip as my feeble mind wrestling with this box of data bytes in front of me 
we started the year with a gs1150 adv, a gs 12 and an hp2
the road bikes were swapped for singles and the riders then endured much abuse from the pilot of the HP2, well all things come to pass and the lardy hp2 has been parked for the winter and swapped for the very capable, if not a little girlie, XR400
the start of the day saw a couple of clean 600s alongside a rather dirty xr (lazy git)
a quick glance reveals that we only have half the amount of cylinders required for this site
the first lane consisted of 2 foot deep ruts that no horizontally opposed engine could traverse, sorry no piccies
then onto an easier track
a touch further along and we came to an abrupt halt on some tree roots, how do they know to grow a bikes length apart
no sooner over the ruts and into the ..........
its only a 650, come on it's not as if it's a GS
and out onto the plains, no indians to be seen though, Gaz managing the down hill aswell as he managed the uphill last week, but with the new lighter , mirror less model
time to try out the bomb hole on the xr400, I made an ass of this several times before getting up it, what a muppet
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I didn't tell Garry that I'd bent his clutch lever, he was not happy
that's it from my piccies, this ride was the unbelievably slippery, the mt 21s didn't cope at all well, most of the day was spent spinning the back wheel and sliding the front. I didn't drop my own bike but it reminded me of riding the GS in mud with tkcs on (bloody scary)
not as much outright fun as in the dry but very rewarding in it's own way
a top day out even if we were all on girls bikes
we started the year with a gs1150 adv, a gs 12 and an hp2
the road bikes were swapped for singles and the riders then endured much abuse from the pilot of the HP2, well all things come to pass and the lardy hp2 has been parked for the winter and swapped for the very capable, if not a little girlie, XR400
the start of the day saw a couple of clean 600s alongside a rather dirty xr (lazy git)
a quick glance reveals that we only have half the amount of cylinders required for this site
the first lane consisted of 2 foot deep ruts that no horizontally opposed engine could traverse, sorry no piccies
then onto an easier track
a touch further along and we came to an abrupt halt on some tree roots, how do they know to grow a bikes length apart
no sooner over the ruts and into the ..........
its only a 650, come on it's not as if it's a GS
and out onto the plains, no indians to be seen though, Gaz managing the down hill aswell as he managed the uphill last week, but with the new lighter , mirror less model
time to try out the bomb hole on the xr400, I made an ass of this several times before getting up it, what a muppet
thumb2I didn't tell Garry that I'd bent his clutch lever, he was not happy
that's it from my piccies, this ride was the unbelievably slippery, the mt 21s didn't cope at all well, most of the day was spent spinning the back wheel and sliding the front. I didn't drop my own bike but it reminded me of riding the GS in mud with tkcs on (bloody scary)
not as much outright fun as in the dry but very rewarding in it's own way
a top day out even if we were all on girls bikes
why??
