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kalem
01-06-2003, 06:32 PM
Well had a nice day out at Rob Roy, said hi to lots of farkin members, lots of dudes representing the hardtail class! FTF put on a good event, with a big turnout, my only problem was waiting ages for the race runs but there's nothing you could do about that. It just left you really cold on your race run and you got tired very quickly. Fergus (fastrider gus) rocked the hardtail class with his 7" of boxxer love and 3" tires, well deserved win. I got 2 decent runs out with a 1.39 and 1.38, probably about 6th. Steve (Socket) had a few mechanical troubles... Uhhh that'll do, i'm tired. I'll have a little video of myself uploaded in a minute...
Yeah it was a great turnout i thought!
organisation............well how many times do they have to call for riders to get on the transport ?? took a while to get going. I arrived at 11:30 expecting it to start very soon, nearly hour and a half later it gets going. Ahwell still a great event.
Shout outs to steve!! didnt see kalem or oz. My cam battery died sometime before the HT section (i think, hard to tell) so i left.
Socket
http://www.nhd3.net/gallery/albums/dhrobroy/118_1852_IMG.sized.jpg
Dog-Crazy
http://www.nhd3.net/gallery/albums/dhrobroy/118_1862_IMG.sized.jpg
Feel free to direct link any of my other photos, link em on other sites let me know and give me props :)
Ahhh that pic of me is before almost dying. Yes I stacked, yes it hurt, yes my time for that run sucked, yes it stripped a crank (how the fuck did it do that!), and yes I said yes too much. I landed exactly the same way I'm positioned in that pic, but about 4-5m further down into the gully... it hurterised.
kalem
01-06-2003, 06:50 PM
nice pics nhd.. yeah hardtail class was the last do to the first runs... damn
here's a little vid (1mb) of me not pedalling enough...right click save target as... (http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/rctb/robroy2.mov)
oh yeah i forgot
the rest are up at
http://nhd3.net/gallery/dhrobroy
have fun!
edit: oh and yes at the start that was my car (silver camry with L plates) blocking you all, MUAHAHAH..........not that it actually did anything, we moved it after shuttles had gone.
CHEWY
01-06-2003, 08:20 PM
Fergus won? that crazy bastard hes unstopable!
kalem
01-06-2003, 08:21 PM
Fergus won? that crazy bastard hes unstopable!
he was goin hard!
oz-freerider
01-06-2003, 08:34 PM
hi! I"M ALIVE! only one bail in my first run and 2 sec behind gus in my second run! close won but ah wells next time :P
oz-freerider
01-06-2003, 09:58 PM
nice pics btw man u should of walked up and found me u bum! u cant miss grover!!!!!!!
i would have if i had seen it :P i can spot kalems bike from afar :)
oz-freerider
01-06-2003, 10:03 PM
haha ah well it was a good day ow huge were ppl going off that jump! i loved it!
haha ah well it was a good day ow huge were ppl going off that jump! i loved it!
That jump was great fun, but bloody dangerous too!
oz-freerider
01-06-2003, 10:25 PM
yeah some one broke their arm in 2 places and got taken away in a ambo from team orange :| and a few others went off and landed in the bushes
Yeah, every 2nd guy who went over it on their 2nd run (while we were waiting up top) musta stacked, the amount of noise the crowd was making...
oz-freerider
01-06-2003, 10:31 PM
hahaha yeah a few of the ht class crashed out their when i did it on my 2nd run i land way off to the left in the soft dirt somtihng was going on with that jump in the end... :|
It was getting late, people were getting tired, going faster than they could handle, etc.
It's a damn hard landing when you launch off it tho... think about it, ya must be dropping well over 6 feet.
oz-freerider
01-06-2003, 10:40 PM
yeah easy i was bottoming my fork's not that its hard to do now thoi was landing right donw on the flat i was fully landing vart and letting the front cone down slow then launching out the other side up into the rut
that jump looks weird socket, is that the landing right below you? It looks like it is right after the take-off
kalem
02-06-2003, 08:49 AM
that jump looks weird socket, is that the landing right below you? It looks like it is right after the take-off
there's a gully that goes for while, you clear that wood thing by a mile...
Like this guy :: he cleared it by heaps, yeah most generally did except those who braked off heaps of speed and a) went around or b) rolled over it, NO PHOTOS OF THEM!
http://www.nhd3.net/gallery/albums/dhrobroy/118_1849_IMG.sized.jpg
kalem
02-06-2003, 09:32 AM
Like this guy :: he cleared it by heaps, yeah most generally did except those who braked off heaps of speed and a) went around or b) rolled over it, NO PHOTOS OF THEM!
i wish there was a pic of me launchin that sucker! Damn you and your batteries!
fastrider gus
02-06-2003, 12:49 PM
it was a weird jump.. i had trouble keeping the front end down over it.. i was dissapointed after i didnt style it...
Gutty
02-06-2003, 01:10 PM
i was dissapointed after i didnt style it...
And so you should have been ! Style is everything !! :wink:
kalem
02-06-2003, 01:19 PM
i was dissapointed after i didnt style it...
And so you should have been ! Style is everything !! :wink:
werd!
fastrider gus
02-06-2003, 01:22 PM
i was concentrating on keeping it a bit lower a planting the power..
fastrider gus
02-06-2003, 01:30 PM
does anyone have pics of the HT class??
oz-freerider
02-06-2003, 05:33 PM
my dad said u hit it the biggest out of anyone in ht and most of the races (he sat there alllllllllllllllllllllllll day with the video cam i'll get back to ya later and tell ya (i'll get it caputed when my mate gets his arse into gear)
so that was your dad oz!! haha i think i was talking to your mum further down the hill :P she kept mentioning "josh".
oz-freerider
02-06-2003, 05:41 PM
errrrmmmmm my mum wasnt there may have been ride guy's mum
fastrider gus
02-06-2003, 09:12 PM
how much fun was the track though!!!??
i loved it! best HT track so far i think
oz-freerider
02-06-2003, 09:50 PM
yeah for sure
I loved the track cos it was flowy (cept for the first corner), there wasn't any stop/start BS like eildon.
oz-freerider
02-06-2003, 09:55 PM
eildon rocked i never had to stop but i love rocky off chamber stuff
eildon rocked i never had to stop but i love rocky off chamber stuff
You didn't have to stop, but some of those switchbacks (like the ones right before the second a-frame) were ridiculous.
curtisrider
02-06-2003, 09:57 PM
it was such a good day for me :evil:
i rocked up with my dh'r and hardtail went over to the rego desk and the stupid woman said that rego closed three minutes ago and wouldn't let me farkin register. then she proceeded to tell me and my mate that you must have a full-face helmet and a kidney belt to race, while there were people in open face helmets with no armour on going down behind us. so i just went for a jump at st. andrews.
Kidney belt? Bullshit... fullface? Also bullshit.
But ya gotta admit, turning up at 11am is kind of asking for it!
curtisrider
02-06-2003, 10:12 PM
try 10 past 10
oz-freerider
02-06-2003, 10:12 PM
eildon rocked i never had to stop but i love rocky off chamber stuff
You didn't have to stop, but some of those switchbacks (like the ones right before the second a-frame) were ridiculous.
have a cry they were good if u worked out how to take them with speed and pump them all u had to watch out for was the tree in the middle when u landed :shock:
shmity
02-06-2003, 10:40 PM
You dont have dual crowns oz.
oz-freerider
02-06-2003, 10:42 PM
shhhhh!!!
try 10 past 10
Same shit.
eildon rocked i never had to stop but i love rocky off chamber stuff
You didn't have to stop, but some of those switchbacks (like the ones right before the second a-frame) were ridiculous.
have a cry they were good if u worked out how to take them with speed and pump them all u had to watch out for was the tree in the middle when u landed :shock:
Um, having watched some of Australia's fastest riders coming through there, I can say that no matter how ya hit it, going fast thru those switchbacks was pretty much impossible.
curtisrider
02-06-2003, 11:01 PM
yeah thats not the point she said thet you had to register befor practice strated and it had 50 minutes left. if you ask me she had no idea.
What the FUCK? Every single thing you got told was BS then... rego goes from 30 mins BEFORE practice to 30 mins before the END of practice (usually, and this was the case here - or should have been), you DON'T need a fullface, you certainly don't need a kidney belt (or any other type of armour bar a helmet)....
curtisrider
02-06-2003, 11:15 PM
Yeah, i'm still fuc'n pissed off. you have know idea the trouble i went through to even get there.
fastrider gus
03-06-2003, 10:47 AM
when will ftf post pics damnit!!! im so impatient!!
grrrr...
kalem
03-06-2003, 10:59 AM
RESULTS! (http://www.ftf.com.au/Results/RobRoy%20DH%20Results%20June.htm)
fastrider gus
03-06-2003, 11:13 AM
yea but no pics!! :evil:
Ride_Guy
03-06-2003, 04:09 PM
the jump was mad.... enough said
the jump was mad.... enough said
It was.
trobb
03-06-2003, 06:23 PM
yer, i thought rob roy was a sik as race. i lobe the jump at the top and the last section at the end that was rad. the only part in that track i hated was that s berm sortof halfway down with the logs in the middle, that was a bitch, i lost time in that but wat ca u do
CHEWY
03-06-2003, 06:55 PM
haha trobb!
Ride_Guy
03-06-2003, 06:59 PM
well as for any one having a sook......go home get on your road bike and have a lovly ride along the bike track, not every DH track can be perfect but eildon was about as close as they get, rob roy also for the lenght of the track was as good as it was going to get good to see a few options on a dh track.
Ride_Guy
03-06-2003, 07:00 PM
well as for any one having a sook......go home get on your road bike and have a lovly ride along the bike track, not every DH track can be perfect but eildon was about as close as they get, rob roy also for the length of the track was as good as it was going to get, good to see a few options on a dh track.
trobb
03-06-2003, 10:51 PM
yer i thought rob roy was a fun as race. The jump at the start was cool and the end bit on the grass bunni hoppen over all the ditches in the ground. There was one part i hated most, that s bend with the logs in the middle. that was a bitch, i was real slow there. oh well wat can u do.
CHEWY
04-06-2003, 11:49 AM
yea u aready said that trobb.... :roll:
fastrider gus
04-06-2003, 03:56 PM
stooge
trobb
04-06-2003, 10:25 PM
yer i thouhgt robroy was a mad as race, i would have lied to have a hardtail there but uno, the jump at the top and last garace bit at the bottom was cool fun. the worst bit in the hole track was that dam s doubble s berm with the 2 logs in the middle, that was a bitch to get out of but wat can u do.
fastrider gus
05-06-2003, 10:39 AM
trobb.... what the hell are you on about????
learn how to farkin type!! you have no idea do you...
kalem
05-06-2003, 10:51 AM
crazybastard? is that you??
Gutty
05-06-2003, 10:53 AM
crazybastard? is that you??
Ahahahahahahahaaaaa
CHEWY
05-06-2003, 01:06 PM
dont mind trobb he has some sort of mental illness...
fastrider gus
05-06-2003, 02:47 PM
he is actually spasticated...
CHEWY
05-06-2003, 02:48 PM
probably
fastrider gus
05-06-2003, 03:28 PM
he IS! CANT YOU TELL?
fastrider_ben
05-06-2003, 09:07 PM
yey Gus
not bad fergus
ill b at the next one
fastrider gus
06-06-2003, 03:10 PM
yea... nice one ben...
big up tha geelong massive...
jeeze i'd hate to copy me AGAIN ben!!!!
get your own ideas.. i hate it when people copy...
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