Manxclub Blackduck valley trip report

Baja Wes · 2004-05-23T03:10:57+00:00

There will be a full report in the manxclub magazine, and all of the photos will probably get posted on the manxclub website, but here's a brief run down and some pics. We met at Gatton macca's on sat morning. Some people had left a little too early that morning, and spent a while waiting around. We left at 9:00 as planned, and headed into blackduck. We had a slow run behind motorbike and horse trailers, and it was peakhour trying to sign in and pay the money. We eventually headed towards the camping area at 10:00. We found dubcab's camping set-up and met-up to introduce ourselfs and set-up camp. The attending vehicles were; My Baja Heather's ($2.63) Baja Andrew's Towdster Daz in his manx Mick in his Max FX Mike M in his manx Dyno in his supasports Ash in his Patrol We also had a guy called guy from the gold coast tagging along in his baja. They happened to see us, followed us, broke down in the middle of our group, we fixed it, then they left us. So anyway, thanks to dubcab (and family) for the hospitality to let us join them. So first off we went off for a scenic tour of the park. The scenic tour was mainly beginners tracks, but if you took a soft-roader 4wd on them it would hit stuff and get destroyed. The tracks were quite rocky in places. The track took us on a nice tour of the hills, with plenty of scenic views of the valley below. As mentioned the tag along baja broke down on a narrow one lane track, stopping our convoy. All 3 of it's spring plate bolts had fallen out, letting the rear wheel go for a little bit of a walk backwards. Andrew seemed keen to jump and get dirting fixing, with the rest of us offering tools and moral support (as well as stirring guy about the cost of call-out, and weekend labour). The damage could have been worse, but luckily only resulted in a bent rear shock So after that the convoy continued... After the inital tour, the rest of the arvo was spent eating, talking, and stuffing about on play tracks. The play tracks were fun, heaps of cool little hill climbs, and a weird in ground rocky test track. Playing on those drew a large crowd of spectators. And Daz and Andrew tried a rocky challenging track. The towdster couldn't could the front wheels on the ground long enough to steer, and Daz found out his tyres don't live-up to the hype either. A rock managing to puncture the side-wall. The photo below is ironic and funny. The puncture couldn't have been in a better place for the photo.

dubcab Seriously Crusin Dubber

175 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 26 May 2004, 8:15 pm

#178711

its not ahole its a detour to the other side

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dubcab Seriously Crusin Dubber

175 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 26 May 2004, 8:16 pm

#178712

[Edited on 26-5-2004 by dubcab]

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dubcab Seriously Crusin Dubber

175 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 26 May 2004, 8:18 pm

#178715

PYRO DUBBERS

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dubcab Seriously Crusin Dubber

175 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 26 May 2004, 8:20 pm

#178716

"its the bubbles of nothing that make it something" ( that's what the grinders for)...

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$2.63 homebrand baja

0 posts · joined Feb 2004 · 26 May 2004, 9:30 pm

#178760

hey wat bout the hardcore firewalking and flamethrowing????:P mmm smelt like the deep friers at maccas!😀

OZ Towdster Keen to finish some projects

1,921 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 27 May 2004, 8:25 pm

#179251

dubcab wrote:not pretty but very tough

Hey and i thought it was pretty when i bought it but yeh it is TUFF too and steer's great when you can back of long enough for the front wheels to hit ground and change direction.

Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel