A wet and windy day

[TeeJay]

Part One:

Had a great day out today with the "original" crew, all present and correct as we haven't all ridden together for ages.
Started out from my house at 8am, Paul picked me up in his landy, then we headed off to get Simon, then off to meet Pete at 9am.
Simon thought he'd make my journey more interesting by dumping his unsealed 20 litre canister of petrol in the back of the landrover, which was where my accomodation for the second leg was.
Anyways we all arrived safely and got ourselves kitted for the ride.
We set off at about 09:30 into the mountains.


Here's one that often causes chaos, it's on a shallow climb of about 20 degrees, but very deeply rutted and very slippery
Paul got stuck and I ended up having to take this route

I saw it coming and stood up, gave it a handfull, got my weight over the front end as it flipped over the edge, woohooo, made it, then the rear wheel hit flipped up and the seat smacked me in the bollicks fek that hurt for a while.
Walked back down to help unstick Simon as he was having nightmares with his bike stalling under power (chain too tight and clutch needed adjusting)

Straight into the nadgery stuff and the first victim was Pete, it's a very slippery ascent with a 90 degree left hander and a raised, wet tree root about 12 inches tall on the turn, Pete had hit it and got stuck, gave it a handfull, his bike climbed up over the root then continued to loft the front til it was facing the other way.


Stopped here after a couple more climbs as Simon's bike was still playing up, so he headed back to base to adjust his chain as we didn't have a spanner big enough, we was to meet up with him later.

Got a call from Simon as when he got back to base he discovered that he'd hit a root and buckled an oil pipe on his WR450F and it was leaking, so we all headed back to base to put our heads together and fix it
Luckily we bring Peter with us as he's a good engineer and he managed to fix it.

Once all done we headed back up, avoiding the bits we'd already done,
Heading back up I was mindfull to keep an eye on Simon behind me incase he had any more bike trouble, as I was riding a flat rocky track I looked over my shoulder hit a rock and the bike got deflected 90 degrees left where I got spat off to the right, no trouble, I spotted my landing area and did a Jui Jitsu roll, my bike however faired less well, with a broken scoop and a severely dented and bent pipe (crap Minxy was looking so nice)

Continued....