My off road story.....
We all gathered in the car park of the Hand hotel at 0930 for a through briefing from Simon. Usual crap - no insurance (what??) farmers with gun's (WHAT??) and oh by the way, have fun.
The first few lanes were to lull us into a false sense of security I'm sure. We climbed and climbed and climbed over rocky and grassy tracks. The ruts seemed deep here (foolish boy
).
The scenery was really breathtaking, I looked so much I kept falling off
We got up onto the tops and found a welcome from a farmer which necessitated us parking our bikes. As someone has said, they are designed well for parking in ruts
This was the farmers 'welcome' - a few small pebbles across a public access gate. Casey getting down to the job.
As has been mentioned - I was working on the principle that the more bits I knocked off the bike the lighter it would become. didn't seem to work though??
The off road team
... and with me in. I am commenting on how much fun I am having. they are commenting on my riding skills
a very nice place to have lunch...
Simon and Georgie tuck in...
Casey gets a welcome break from helping me pick my bike up
Decided my footpegs were better on the bike than in my pocket so we fixed those. If you have the fastaway pegs check the circlip stays on the bottom of the fixing pin.
Yeah yeah - we've seen that one before. Note the rush to help me up.
Then about a quarter of the way round we heard the sound of thrashing two strokes and came across a kids moto cross track. they must have been only 7 or 8 but god were they giving it some welly..
As you can see here
...and here
someone elses turn to fall off so the rest of us parked up again...
Soft wet slippy mud - dontcha just lurve it
Mouse giving it some right hand
...with the desired result...
Fanferkintastic it was - if I was to do it again I would certainly do some serious training beforehand to get fit.
It was exhausting but I'm still grinning.