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The Day That Was( ccccold)


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By BM Epic - Posted on 15 June 2010

Re: This ride meeting: 
Lidsdale 13th June

So our trip tp lidsdale started with a chilly trek out to the wonderful and mysterious Lidsdale pine forest, i knew things were not quite right when i turned up to see about 10 cars parked in the wrong area, this was the rendesvouz point for our friends in blue who give in to there urges, this time i thought a mass orgy was on, so i kept driving in fear of violation!
It was good to see some new faces, i bought my regular riding partner Jeff and there were also a couple of other people who i have forgotten names for, it was awesome to see you guys, and also the familiar faces that we have come to know and love.
As we got going a few questions were mulling around inside the thing that they call my brain, would my flu nearly kill me?, why was Michael so quiet?, would i get us lost?, would anybody get hurt?..the answers to these questions were starting to answer themselves immediately, the flu was getting me on my first pedal stroke( i should have bought a lumberjacket ),i all of a sudden was remembering were to go!!!!
After getting over the first section, all was looking good, people were huffing and puffing after the brutal climb to the top, we decided to have a break and do some jumping on some small little practice jumps, after finishing these and sighing with releif that nobody had a stack it was onwards and upwards to do the harder and more technical south side of the track, before we could get there it required us to ride a section of double track that offers no hardship and nothing more technical than to keep the bike upright and DONT hit any trees, unfortunatel our friend Michael ignored the rules and decided that he would test the strength of his new specialized frame and went off track and into said tree!..Mike's mistake was that he told us all about it, i thought to myself, this is why Mike's been a bit quiet today, he had a strength test in mind for the specialized, the outcome of all this is the bike stood up to it and the fearless Mike stood up as well, i couldn't even find some dirt on him, no scratch no nothing!!
So on we went into the south end of the track to get to the legendary gap jump, after seeing Hector clear this gap jump we all stood back in awe as we watched the orange santa cruz sail over the gap for a perfect landing, after this section we rattled down the long, ledgey downhill section and finish up stopping at the fire road to regroup, unfortunately we were without hector and the santa cruz, we rode back to see what happened, the story that hector tells us is that the wheel suddenly fell off and he came off because of this, this sounded very familiar, so we asked around and alas, an informer came forward and told us the sorry, sordid tale, it goes like this...As hector was coming down the last corner of the downhill section he couldn't wash off enough speed and the end result was a stack on the corner, what happened next still remains in dispute, after laying the bike down and nobody around to witness this appalling crime, our friend hector pulled his wheel off and various other bits and pieces so that when we all arrived to see what was up, hector told us that the wheel fell off!!!!!!
Turns out later on that indeed Hectors bike was to blame, the wheel had indeed fallen off, which makes me shudder in disbeleif that this bloke did the gap jump twice with a wheel that was literally about to pop off, after all, hector had complained that the bike felt not right, this qualifies Hector for a bravery award in my opinion!
So after finishing a lap of Lidsdale it was time for a few of us to pack up and head home, my riding partner had no rear brakes whatsoever, my virus was telling me to get warm and get off the bike!
Hopefully everybody enjoyed the day at Lidsdale, and we look forward to our next adventure, be it MtYork, Grose Head South/Blue Gum Swamp or even a night jaunt around Yellowmundee.
Thanks all for coming!
Todd

Andy Bloot's picture

And a good read afterwards when Todd's involved

i finally got to ride here
And as soon as I left, I wanted to go back

Huge thanks to Anthony for the loan of the gloves
i can't believe i forgot mine and that someone had a spare pair
You saved my arse (or hands anyway) - it was ccccold!

How about a day ride to Mundee first, before a night ride
Only ridden here once, ages ago

Flynny's picture

Between you lot and Al and his DH runs.... I didn't even look at a bike all weekend

HEC's picture

First of all, thanks to Todd for showing us around, it was a good ride.

As for me, I'm still scratching my head over my rear axle incident. How could that happen? Maybe sabotage?? or maybe a bike shop that doesn't retighten bolts at first service??? That probably explains the whole rear derailleur dramas. Thanks for helping out Jim and BLKFOZ.

Luckily for me rotten mushrooms and wet pine needles provide a soft surface to land on. Smiling

Ian_A's picture

Thanks Todd for the organisation and leading,

Was a great ride - I love the flowing single track.

Thanks to Jim for leading the second leg - got a bit more flow going the second time round. I managed 2 out of the 3 Flynnys Frequent Flyers doubles - the first one snuck up on me and I cased the rear.

Definately going to head out these again soon. Well worth the trip.

Ian

J the B's picture

Yeah, it was a good day. I think this track gets better the harder you go at it. In such a large group, you really need to be either in the front (i.e. pretend you know your way around so you get nominated as point-man), or make sure you leave a gap between you and the guy in front so you can go as fast as you want.

Definitely think that long, fast section with Flynny's Frequent Flyers (needs a berm at the bottom, not a padded tree!) and the Dead Zone are my pick.

bushpilot's picture

I enjoyed myself a lot in spite of having no rear brakes, hey maybe I can save weight by removing them permanently.
It was good to meet up with all the new people too, would have been great to do another lap with you all, but not to be, maybe next time.

hathill's picture

Did you get them sorted - was it just bleeding or something more serious?

Flynny's picture

Any one can rail a berm, J the B. It's little bits like that that let the guys with technical skills put a bit of time into the field.

I try and boost off the rabbit warren at the top, break hard before the stutters and then off the brakes taking the left most line possible. if you get it right you get through fairly smoothly and you'll find it is actually bermed allowing you to hold speed into the little up hill.

Get it wrong and you hit the tree... thus the padding Smiling

J the B's picture

Trails certainly need things to challenge you. I was just expressing my thought pattern as I went flying down the track for the first time and my whoo-hoo! turned into an oh-oh! Next time I'm on it I'll try to remember to lose a bit of speed before that last bit.

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