Mallee Masters trail ride 2011
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:21 pm
The 9th annual running of the Ariel MCC Mallee Masters trail ride was held last weekend.
Ardvark and myself loaded up friday arvo and headed 2 hrs east actually it was more like 3 hrs but i told Jase it was 2
53 riders registered for the event so it was a great turn out over the 2 days.
This would have to be one of the most gruelling physical rides you can do, all of it in sand and some of it deep and unrelenting (think sand dunes), some through tight scrub trees waiting for you to impale yourself on the branches. The temperature was 28 deg just to add another dimension along with the dust.
They said this was the toughest one they have held so far and it was with 140kms on saturday and 60 or so km's on the sunday.
There were a few minor injuries and considering what we were riding through it is surprising there weren't more serious ones.
Jase had to do most of it with a failed front brake which gave him plenty of oh crap moments as he used bushes to slow himself at times, he also scored a nice bruise courtousy of the bar end but i will let him post a pic of that if he wants too Only one serious injury where a riders foot was caught in front of the peg as he hit a tree resulting in a broken ankle and a broken femur, had to transport him in a 4wd to get to mobile phone range to call a meat wagon but reports say he is ok..
Everthing went to plan, the organising was spot on and well run with catering etc, friday night had many drink to much and suffering the next day
so saturday night was a tad quieter around the fire 
Anyway the video speaks for itself
This is a short video of some of the mishaps, Jase is in the light blue on the yellow berg..
Ardvark and myself loaded up friday arvo and headed 2 hrs east actually it was more like 3 hrs but i told Jase it was 2
53 riders registered for the event so it was a great turn out over the 2 days.
This would have to be one of the most gruelling physical rides you can do, all of it in sand and some of it deep and unrelenting (think sand dunes), some through tight scrub trees waiting for you to impale yourself on the branches. The temperature was 28 deg just to add another dimension along with the dust.
They said this was the toughest one they have held so far and it was with 140kms on saturday and 60 or so km's on the sunday.
There were a few minor injuries and considering what we were riding through it is surprising there weren't more serious ones.
Jase had to do most of it with a failed front brake which gave him plenty of oh crap moments as he used bushes to slow himself at times, he also scored a nice bruise courtousy of the bar end but i will let him post a pic of that if he wants too
Only one serious injury where a riders foot was caught in front of the peg as he hit a tree resulting in a broken ankle and a broken femur, had to transport him in a 4wd to get to mobile phone range to call a meat wagon but reports say he is ok..Everthing went to plan, the organising was spot on and well run with catering etc, friday night had many drink to much and suffering the next day
so saturday night was a tad quieter around the fire Anyway the video speaks for itself
This is a short video of some of the mishaps, Jase is in the light blue on the yellow berg..
