Cul-de-Sac Sunday!

[firecoast]

so, i decided to hijack superten and grrr's ride to the old helshoogte pass.  >

we were going to call it 'dead end', but somehow it doesn't sound too happy!  :biggrin:

ended up just being the three of us... some got cold feet and bailed  :angel1:

i of course forgot my camera at home and grrr's battery died, so pardon the blackberry and nokia picture quality.

 

[firecoast]

once on the old pass we didn't really have a plan and just picked a direction as it came our way...

1... the boys clearing the road a bit

2... our path... no! seriously!

3... somewhere in there is superten and myself!

4... it's more overgrown than it looks!!!!  :eek7:

 

[firecoast]

it was too overgrown, so we had to turn around. to the left of my bike there was a tad bit of a drop, so superten showed me a really nifty way of swivelling the bike around on the sidestand. NIIIIIICE!

1... superten at work

2... almost there

3... damsel in the bushes!

 

[firecoast]

soooooooooo, we head off into another direction... down a bit of a steep (just a bit) path!

it's going nowhere!

oh crap, we have to turn around. of course the guys do it without breaking a sweat.

MY FEET ARE TOO DAMN SHORT TO GET PROPER FOOTING!

1... superten holding my bike while i back it onto more 'solid' ground.

2... this photo involved lots of this type of conversation...

    me: I AM GOING TO FALL! I AM GOING TO FALL!!!
    superten: DONT STRESS! I'VE GOT THE BIKE!!!

3... his last words to me were... don't stop til you get to the top... so that's my dust trail hahahahaha

 

[firecoast]

stopped at the dam wall for a bit of a breather and to check my butt for thorns!!!

... oh ja, just after i had a side-stand incident, i pushed my bike back and backed into a thornbush of sorts!

 

[westfrogger]

:thumleft:
Nice idea! Would be awesome if one could punch through.
Nice Cagiva (Lucky Strike?)....

 

[firecoast]

the road on the way down to the bottom of the dam wall...

 

[DirtRebell]

Gee - looks like great fun was had! :thumleft:

 

[firecoast]

now this was really a pretty stop... lots of greenery and well, just fantastic!

1... beauty and the beasts! 

2... grrr getting in touch with his creative side!

 

[Walkaway]

Nice one- looks like fun. :ricky:

 

[firecoast]

super-strenght-ten!  :imaposer:

ps: if you are wondering what i am doing behind him, i am not praying next to the bike, but removing little sticks that were caught in my bashplate and were getting a bit singed by the exhaust.  :biggrin:

 

[firecoast]

1... having a silly moment!

2... wondering what to do next!

 

[firecoast]

so off we go again and decide to go down another steep decent, unbeknown to us it stops a few metres down the track... AGAIN!!!

1 &2 ... WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! THIS IS FUN!!!!!!!

 

[firecoast]

this of course is not so fun!!!!

grrrr backs his bike up and gets the hell out of there and bombs up the path.

superten then helps me get off the bike (yes, the short legs / uneven terrain issue again) and shows me how to walk the bike around.  :biggrin: if he wasn't holding it on the other side, i would have probably dropped it a few times!

 

[firecoast]

as it was getting a bit hot, we ended up at the dros for a cold one even before the boeing had left the hangar  :imaposer:

THANKS GUYS!!!! IT WAS FANTASTIC!!! sure learnt a lot!!!

 

[Grrrr....]

Ja, thanks to all involved had fun!

Great Sunday morning turn around.... I mean ride.  ;D

And sorry for the cr@p pictures....   

But you okes get the idea. It really was fun just riding until you get stuck and then taking another route.

 

[Crossed-up]

That looks tremendous.  I love to try to get through.  Should I bring a chainsaw?

 

[firecoast]

That looks tremendous.  I love to try to get through.  Should I bring a chainsaw?

dunno what it looked like up ahead. wouldn't mind going exploring again on the 200

 

[superten]

Thanks guys, that was lots of fun,just riding with no direction planned.

Next time will bring the machette,chainsaw, and indiana jones hat.

 

[Grrrr....]

The pictures don't really show how steep some of those descents we had to do U-turn's on were.

But even the 'fat ass' Beemer made it out!  ;D

Yip, next time we take machetes. Then! Que the music!

[flash=480,385]https://www.youtube.com/v/fTrK4VQG93Y?fs=1&hl=en_GB"[/flash]