and for a laugh-

Cheers Tony

Gee, what happened there Tony?

Was having a blast, then I hit a nice little angled branch buried under leaf litter. While I was picking my bike up a TT600 duplicated my fall (was that you flipper?). The photographer in the first photo told me 5 bikes had gone down prior to my fall.  I moved the branch (probably to the spectators displeasure).

Great pix Tony  
Mate I didn't think you ever came off ya bike, hope the bike pulled up ok LOL

Tony H wrote:
Yes Tony, that was me - I was looking to see if you needed help with your bike and didn't even notice the greasy branch on the ground. Next thing I knew, I was lying down - did you catch it on your helmet cam?

The closed loop track was good fun, but a bit tight for the heavy TT, and I rarely hit 3rd gear.

I did 5 or 6 laps of the closed loop, and then decided to join the organised 'red plate' that was scheduled to leave at 12 midday.

There were 22 bikes on the 'red plate' ride, with the leader and tailman on new model machines, and the rest of us on old bangers.
It was an interesting mix of bikes, with lots of ITs, a few XRs, an XT500, a couple of XLs, an MT and even a Triumph 650. The Triumph sounded awesome - it was like hearing a road bike coming down a highway towards you.

The 'red plate' ride surprised me - I was expecting a docile putt through the bush along open main tracks.
What we got were lots of goat tracks and challenging hill descents into overgrown gullies and creek beds. There were lots of laughs to be had as we watched the older bikes navigating terrain that would test even the newest of machines.

Unfortunately, the differences in the capabilities of both bikes and riders meant that there were a few long waiting periods when we needed to regroup, but it gave us a good excuse to gasbag about the restorations and idiosyncrasies of our old machines.

A good day out, but very cold when you stopped for any length of time.
 

No, I didn't catch you on the cam Flipper, I turned it off whilst picking up the bike and surveying the damage (fortunately not much).
Here's a few clips-

Following a 1978 IT400 up a hill on my 1980 IT425 (these old big bores can tractor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GShDuChOawE

I tilted the camera to show the little rock garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TmuJ7waeLg

and most of the unregistered bike loop at Tallarook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZq0UU1yUxA

regards Tony

Tony H wrote:
It was at the 15 second mark (on this clip), that I came off!.  Toppled off to the RIGHT!  Down the hill! 

See that rock there?  It's probably got my bones on it!