Red Hill Fun Day / Practice

Red Hill is the most fun there is. How can I resist?

as my bike is fixed - Julie killed my brakes on Friday then i will be there!

MEEEE

would love to join for some handy tips and have not done a group ride in a long time and little bored of riding on my own

Bring your bike and pads early to the ride and I'll show you how to fit them.

Evan

Good!

See Ya's There!

Greg

will be there if my bike is fixed in time, should be ready tommorrow hopefully!!!!
Q: technical stuff- xc or dh or a bit of both

cool if my bike is ready,
hopefully tomorrow i'll see everyone there!!!!

we will be the only group of people milling about up there i expect!!

MEEE

Don't like this, I wish I could help u. "Dave", I know it's Dan but what would I know.
Sorry I don't have a spare bike.
well next time,
Bernd

and I won't be able to make it - hope to ride with you guys agian pretty soon

I'm glad it has a seat!!!!
Bernd

Where's the pictures? Where's the video links? I can't wait... you gotta see this stuff!!

Ev, nice one organising the ride. Top work mate. You done did good.

Yes, I like it,
sorry Sam, and thanks for the note!
Movies are on the way to Evan to put them somewhere.....
I did not take any pictures, ask Gazza. BTW Gazza, u r a Legend!!!!!
b*%&* good riding, well done.
Thanks everyone for a great day. As always, thanks to Christine for hanging out with us.
Bernd

sounds like a great day! And I hope you will need some more practice there very soon !Hurry up with the footage Evan please, can't wait to see your tricks on your new bike!!

Carolin

Yes I turned up feeling okay, if a bit sore. But once I got going, I warmed up quickly and blasted away the remnants of the previous day's grind. I'm sure Gaz was the same. Energy was a bit lacking (for me at least), but otherwise everything else was as it should be. After all, this is Red Hill!! Can't go wrong there. Still, it was 22km of riding, right? A good hit out for sure.

Evan, I also recommend we do that ride again soon as practice makes perfect on those drops. And given what was attempted later in the arvo, some of our earlier riding could now be "improved" upon. So, see you in a month?

(For those that missed it, Ev has a garden hose that he brings with him on rides now. So he hooked it up to the tap in the carpark. It made the bike cleaning at the end a cinch! In my opinion, one of the best ideas yet seen from the group.)

Doesn't using a hose to clean your bike like that contravene water restrictions? You really don't need to hose and in these times shouldn't. Use a bucket of soapy water maybe once a week and at other times just brush off the crud, clean off your suspension staunchions/sliders/seals and wipe/lube the chain.

Naughty boys!

avi files, I only get the sound and then the typical windoze visual randomizer?

Instead of using a slow running hose directed only where you need it using probably 2 to 3 litres lets fill a 9 litre bucket and throw that over the beast instead, that complies doesn't it? What about we use our garden hose connected to mains pressure on the right days at the right times to fill our water tank. Then we can connect a "gernie" to the tank and wash what ever we like when ever we like. That IS legal, ring Sydney Water if you don't believe me.

Better still lets just shower for 1 minute less on the day we ride, that saves 9 litres and lets you do option 1 guilt free. While I'm on it how about I take my 4x4 to the local servo where some schmuck has set up a car wash and pay him $120 to wash it with his hose connected upto the tap that uses the same water supply that comes to my taps that I'm not allowed to use. Before you post back, not all of them recycle their water, certainly the newer ones do but the smaller operations send the water to a sediment arrestor then down the drain

Sorry, but the hypocracy of these restrictions really gets under my skin. How about we get a government that actually plans for the next decade rather than being concerned about making this years budget look good so they get voted in again, oh no now I'm getting political.

Why don't we all just use some common sense and an understanding that we share a limited resource and I bet we'll save more water than what is being saved now. Oh yeah, just remembered why, common sense ain't that common.

Which now just leaves the real question, should we be riding our precious trails when we are expecting them to wet and muddy?

Thus ends my political rant for the day

My bad forgot to mention that these are all mpeg4 movies.
Quick search on the young persons internet using Google should find the correct codecs. These then should enable you to use windows media player etc.
As previously stated you will need the VLC player, it is a freebie. http://www.videolan.org/vlc

I will work on making the next lot more compatible.

Evan

Put a bucket in the shower or on the washing machine outflow and use that for bike washing. Then you are truly a very nice person indeed.

I agree Stuart that there's a lot of eejuts around wasting a lot of water but I can sleep well at night knowing I do my bit as far as I can. Legal and right aren't always the same thing but it's usually pretty clear what the right thing to do is.

No single raindrop believes they're responsible for the flood...
(shameless plagiarism from another's sig)

Ta,
Matt.