At least that bits soft! It's like your bike calling you a dumbass in the nicest possible way.

worst race ever.....

7 stacks including 1 mega OTB in the new section where i managed to wind myself on the bars before going over, destroyed back, cuts, brusies and hurt pride. gotta love ourimbah......

days like this make me feel like shelving the MTB racing and just concentrating on road!

I knew there was a reason I gave my MTB to the missus Bad luck Commo, sounds like nothing went right.

wb thunder!

HD, It could have been worse, I went up to Killlingworth to ride and there was a race on...WTF XC race was at ourimbah..? Anyway, they let us ride and the course is CRAP! no hills mainly firetrail. CRAP!
Oh did I mention it's CRAP! never let this day be spoken of again!

On the + side, We stopped of at Ourimbah on the way home for a fix, rode the old XC track as well which is very sketchy, one really nice section whic tests the mettle!

It may get better, I really like the looks of the SRAM I-Motion 9 comming out. I hear its as good (or better) than the Rohloff and much much cheaper.

Basso looks good.

I picked him for the double, tho I want Ullrich to win.

Voels got 4th and he and Gates have piloted Robbie Mac and been there in the last few kilometres for him and half wheeling in reverse just ready to sweep his rear wheel and make sure he did not get boxed.

Great riding by those two..

fark that, I read that it was great. You've saved me a wasted trip going up there. Ourimbah rocks !!

anyone ride/go to the CCCC Hcp yesterday? Who won?

Probably only one section that was any good and it was excluded from the XC race course...

I cant belive the lack of hills, I mean Ourimbah doesnt have any hills as such unless Demtel is included but it at least undulates...Killingworth was flat as a witches tit!

Dodging a few ruts...you could have ridden a cyclo-cross bike round there at serious speeds!!!!!!!

Odin, yer was messy allright. ah well, next time eh?

Pshaw - HMBA races at killingworth, CCOMTB races at ourimbah. small turnout due mianly to the state round running at appin.

im sooooo sore today with a massive headache to boot. thinking im going to cut down on the MTB racing except for richmond which is a course that suits me( read : no big drops) otherwise ill just go out and hit it up socially on the weekends. 2X a month road racing bekons....

thats wierd what you have siad about killingworth, most people who have been there have said its great. i guess its horses for courses. there is a hill there, a big one that they included in the state round last year and caught a lot of people off guard. Penrose was a track that surprised me. also descibed as a location of great single track, it was like 50/50 singletrack to fire road??!! Ill probably still have a crack at killingworth one day. i dont tend to mind the less techy courses as it normally means you can get some serious speed / drift action happening.

We did ride up the trails next to the downhill course... was pretty funny really cause when they said the DH race was on I stupidly asked the question "Where?" Dont think it went down too well

Still if you go, pack the road bike

Oh yeah and take your 4WD too, the firetrail to get into the trail head is a shocker!
My mate from Syd in his nice 5 series wagon wasnt too impressed, fortunately I was in my mates work ute as it would have eaten my l'il corolla.

also, where is the " old XC track " at ourimbah?

Penrose was OK, it was part of the Fling and was probably the best bit of the 100km as it wasn't fire road but yeah, it's all little sections connected by fire roads. And Penrose is pretty flat, at least the Fling bits were that we rode.

If anything I'd say if the trails weren't at least as technical or hilly as Ourimbah, I wouldn't waste my time going there. I MTB to have a challenge, not race a dirt crit. Even PShaws Woy Woy tip ride rates better than Killingworth and it's not even that well known.

I'll have to look it up. What I really want though is a 14 speed gearbox that's frame mounted. No other vehicle has the gears in the hub, so why bikes?

well, if you went there now, i think youl find little more than a very technical trials track as it got logged the day after the 8 hour! the 8 hour had a fair bit of climbing in it. Also IIRC the fling ran penrose in reverse of the normal XC track.

wow, no tracks there anymore? Penrose the other way around would be pretty good, it seemed to mostly rolling fast singletrack either way around. Haven't done Ourimbah backwards for a while, maybe next time although I don't think I'll make the big drop-off going up it instead of down

Head all the way up firetrail to the 3 way point, follow thre sign to Palmdale for a couple of KM's then take a right hand fork (better details to be supplied) heading up to a power pylon.
The trail head is quite concealed to the right of the tower. Once you are on the trail just follow your nose.
You will eventually pop out into a clearing where you should head down and right into a nice super sketch section thats probably worth walking first. Near the end you will find yourself on a rough 4wd track which climbs back up to the ridgeline, look for trail offshoots on the left and right which loop into the bush then re-join the main trail further up. If you'r like me by this point and bleeding profusely from the thorns and branches covering the trail, you will probably just climb straight out.

It's not a patch on the new course and no where near as flowing. Be prepared to fight off lantana and for some reason quite a lot of wasps (Although I was wearing my full yellow kit, maybe they thought I was a big flower )

I've been gone a few days. Did I miss anything? We're in our new house now, finally.

not a ****ing thing you Yanky ****

Jock's back on the bike
Thunder's back (albeit briefly )
Eds gone quite
Odin got a new bike
HD won the MTB OTB comp
Matagi won the road OTB comp
Climbos got a new kid
531's still around...somewhere
I'm still dressing like a banana

What am I? Chopped Liver?

I've had big problems staying looged on since the forum server was changed. I get booted off every few mins, so I've gotta keep logging on, over and over, so, not even I have time to do that ........

Jeez I knew I would miss someone sorry T!

Tiggers been knocking frames out faster then some 8yrold kid in China while quaffing boutique beer

Are you using IE? Voted by PCWorld magazine one of the top ten worst bits of software ever created....

"Full of features, easy to use, and a virtual engraved invitation to hackers and other digital delinquents, Internet Explorer 6.x might be the least secure software on the planet. How insecure? In June 2004, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) took the unusual step of urging PC users to use a browser--any browser--other than IE."

Thanks pshaw, I'll forgive ya just this once.

Got a handful of local enquiries today. Never know, I might actually sell some bikes in Australia if this keeps up. Then you can start calling me "Our Tigger"!

yeah, but I had no problems until the fourm changed the server