Ambition exceeded talent
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 7:44 pm
My wife just bought a 2X doubler for her camera and wanted to try it out so we headed off to Mt Mee to take some photos and I took my bike so I could play on the windy bits while she took photos.
We went down a road called Campbell pocket road. On the way in we passed a group ride coming towards us who were heading towards D'aquiler hwy. Anyway, we pulled up on a crest on Campbell pocket road with a dirt intersection(Dawes Rd) that looked over the valley. Seemed like a nice spot.
I got off the bike and noticed another bike ( a triumph) parked and a guy standing in the long grass in the paddock on the phone. I didn't take much notice. I just thought that he was with the group that passed us and has stopped to take a piss.
I walk over to him cause the guy seemed a bit stressed and there's a BMW R1200GT in the paddock and an old guy laying on his side. So I did what I could to help.
Bugger me but we'd pulled up just after the old bloke had cartwheeled into the scenery on his BMW and the other guy following him had stopped and was organising an ambulance.
So it turns out that he was tail end charlie for a Ulysses ride and he was trying to catch up to the rest of the group. He'd come down this huge hill, up to this long left on a crest. Basically he'd gone in way too fast, apexed early, ran wide, got into the gravel edge, swerved to miss a row of arrow signs, clipped the the last one and bent the sign, carried on over the gravel triangulated intersection, got to the long grass beside the paddock, got it sideways and cartwheeled into the scrub.
One of his panniers was flung 20 metres away!
He had a bit of bark off, a sore shoulder but his leg and hip were painful. He'd snapped the RHS handlebar off and flung the panniers all over the place but the bike was pretty good.
Tha ambo's turned up and the fireys , in fact we had about 7 vehicles there in the end.
Then all of a sudden they were all gone. So we went home.
We went down a road called Campbell pocket road. On the way in we passed a group ride coming towards us who were heading towards D'aquiler hwy. Anyway, we pulled up on a crest on Campbell pocket road with a dirt intersection(Dawes Rd) that looked over the valley. Seemed like a nice spot.
I got off the bike and noticed another bike ( a triumph) parked and a guy standing in the long grass in the paddock on the phone. I didn't take much notice. I just thought that he was with the group that passed us and has stopped to take a piss.
I walk over to him cause the guy seemed a bit stressed and there's a BMW R1200GT in the paddock and an old guy laying on his side. So I did what I could to help.
Bugger me but we'd pulled up just after the old bloke had cartwheeled into the scenery on his BMW and the other guy following him had stopped and was organising an ambulance.
So it turns out that he was tail end charlie for a Ulysses ride and he was trying to catch up to the rest of the group. He'd come down this huge hill, up to this long left on a crest. Basically he'd gone in way too fast, apexed early, ran wide, got into the gravel edge, swerved to miss a row of arrow signs, clipped the the last one and bent the sign, carried on over the gravel triangulated intersection, got to the long grass beside the paddock, got it sideways and cartwheeled into the scrub.
One of his panniers was flung 20 metres away!
He had a bit of bark off, a sore shoulder but his leg and hip were painful. He'd snapped the RHS handlebar off and flung the panniers all over the place but the bike was pretty good.
Tha ambo's turned up and the fireys , in fact we had about 7 vehicles there in the end.
Then all of a sudden they were all gone. So we went home.
