Sand, water and mud - a lekker Sunday ride

[terminator1]

My son and I took a three hour ride on the endure bikes at Rover yesterday in the rain. It was actually quite wet, and one deep river caught us by surprise. Some pics below. Sorry about the quality, but the action cam was often covered in rain and sand:

(P.S. All this is a 2 minute ride from our house  :laughing4

Lots of water lying around at the start:

The whoop sections are bigger that I last remember:

A lot of fallen trees. Some of them seemingly placed across the tracks to stop bush riders. Why I don’t know. This area has been used for endures for decades.

Virgin wet sand, what a pleasure 

More:

Everything is super-green after all the rain. These Port Jackson saplings have nitrogenous nodules on the root system which produces their own nitrogen, giving them a massive advantage over competitor flora, and enabling them to thrive in pure sand.

more to come...

 

[xTzar]

That looks like you had so much fun!! Nothing better than "sand pit" sand to ride on.

 

[terminator1]

Virgin berms

Narrow sections:

After one of the deep river crossings – smokin’!

Big jump coming up took me by surprise

6 feet in the air:

Safe landing

Fresh sand dunes

This river turned out to be saddle depth

Right over the cam – benefit was that it cleaned the lens off.

Cleaned off lens

Another beautiful stream – flowing fast, but quite shallow

 

[terminator1]

Gnarly trees

Lots of water

This could be Scortlind

Then onto the race route

These burnt stumps are dangerous. They broke my mates ankle a few weeks back

Still on the race route

What’s not to love?

6 foot drop off

Landing it

This is where I had quite a hard fall. Shoulder gonna be sore for a few days:  I took the route across instead of left

At about 60km/h I see the track is blocked. Start heading left to follow that track

Too late – front wheel digs in and I go flying

Tell me why the local municipality, after putting up new pylons (well done) just leave the old ones lying in the bush – about 6 months now... mind boggles

 

[terminator1]

The “Wave”

Lekker ride – very wet and cold when we got home. Nothing Jack couldn’t fix.

thanks for reading  :thumleft:

 

[TerrorSA]

Nice one  :thumleft:

 

[N[]vA]

that looks like some sick ridding!

totally disgusting that they leave the pylons in the bush

 

[letsgofishing]

Looks awesome J-dog  :thumleft:

 

[Thump]

nice, did you take your fly rod?

 

[edgy]

Awesome!
I havent ridden there for a long time!

 

[Crossed-up]

Great stuff! 

 

[White Rhino]

Nice report and rollings action pics. Where exactly is this Scortland place?

 

[terminator1]

Nice report and rollings action pics. Where exactly is this Scortland place?

:ricky: SCOTLAND

 

[White Rhino]

Nay, where is your Sortland spot?

 

[terminator1]

Och Aye no I no what ya mean... It's a bonnie wee place beyod yore..

Ag forget it man, let's talk kief laak we understaan

it's in the area between Rover and Summerstrand in PE

 

[White Rhino]

Schweet bru.

I'm heading down to St. Francis in Dec - hopefully the bridge is sorted by then. I'll bring my offroad with and come by and chek it out. Looks like fun.

 

[Drifter]

Awsome fotos  :thumleft:

 

[BlueBull2007]

Awsome fotos  :thumleft:

+1 What camera is that? I take it was video you were running?

 

[terminator1]

HD170 from Warrick at action cameras. I lost it in the same bush a week or two ago  ???