Laverton Motocross Track Saturday April 4th

[MarkeeMark]

As discussed in the other thread, lets go ride some dirt on our tards.

Track website is here www.wyndham-motox.piczo.com and here www.wyndhammotocrosstrack.com

I've called and left a message about the current track status.
I will keep this thread updated as the weather will determine if I am able to ride or not.
If its dry the week before I'm there on slicks. If it rains early in the week I'll see how it looks on the Friday night, I might put on wets.
If it's wet on the Friday I might come along and watch the guys who are bringing their knobbed up bikes ;)

Not sure on the price yet and their webpage doesn't give much info.
I'm sure Flash will chime in with a price.

Cheers MM

[shitbmxrider]

sounds good :)

[albonator316]

i'll be bringing the knobber back to melb this weekend ;)

[Flash]

Great mate! Last time I was there it was $25 for the day. But that is a little over 12 months ago.

I live 10 mins fromt he track I'll head over on Sunday and check the details.

[ben100]

were abouts in melbourne is it

[Muzzard]

were abouts in melbourne is it
Old Geelong Rd Laverton

[MarkeeMark]

Laverton Ben! 20mins south east of Melbourne

[Flash]

It's be 2 mins off the Westgate freeway

[Fazio]

im off to get the motorcrosser this weekend also.. looking forward to it!

[SlickNCGhia]

hows the mx track at home going alex? :D

or have you been too busy cleaning up and such?

[Woolf555]

Should be there :)

[HyperGez]

Me too.

[HyperGez]

Is this still going ahead?

[albonator316]

well i'm going :D
picking up the bike to bring back to melb as I type ;)

[MarkeeMark]

Yeah we're still on. Weather is looking dry all week. I will call them 2moro to confirm they'll be open and prices.

[Flash]

I'm going to head over for a look tomorrow so I'll let you know!

[Fazio]

howd it go ash?
everyone ready for sat... it took me 4 hours to go get my bike and ive spent another good 2 - 3 hours working on it, so i hope its still a goer!

im excited, first time at an mx track, can someone run thourgh what i need.

[MarkeeMark]

Alex just bring all the gear you use in the bush. Boots, nylons, gloves, helmet, goggles.
Bring some drinks and a bite to eat. I'll have tools if needed. A centre stand or something to hold the bike up.

[Wobbly]

I just hope there are more dirt noobs there than just me :lol2:

[Fazio]

Alex just bring all the gear you use in the bush. Boots, nylons, gloves, helmet, goggles.
Bring some drinks and a bite to eat. I'll have tools if needed. A centre stand or something to hold the bike up.

cheers mark
i normaly just ride in army pants with boots and knee guards then body armour and a tshirt over the top, gloves helmet and goggles as well of course, is that alright?

also what time we all thinking of getting there?

[Flash]

Sorry didn't make it there in time :?

I'll be going for a ride there next weekend so I'll find out then sorry again fella's

[Wobbly]

Guess we'll find out saturday :)

[shitbmxrider]

Im a dirt track n00b...and Im gunna do it on the motard rims (due to sheer lazyness in changing back again)

[SlickNCGhia]

:( bikeless till next week sometime so im out.

plus i will be working all weekend so i cant come out and cheer yall on

[Woolf555]

Alex just bring all the gear you use in the bush. Boots, nylons, gloves, helmet, goggles.
Bring some drinks and a bite to eat. I'll have tools if needed. A centre stand or something to hold the bike up.

cheers mark
i normaly just ride in army pants with boots and knee guards then body armour and a tshirt over the top, gloves helmet and goggles as well of course, is that alright?

also what time we all thinking of getting there?

That should be fine Faz, just maybe run a long sleeve top rather than a T-shirt. I'll have some spare jerseys you can use for the day if you like.
I'll probably get there around 10am I suppose.

[shitbmxrider]

Any ideas on cost yet?

[Fazio]

awesome dean! thanks mate

i'll aim at 10am as well then..
really looking forward to it!!!

can someone post the actual adress up so i can plug it into my gps to find out exactly how to get there?
thakns again

faz

[Woolf555]

http://www.wyndhammotocrosstrack.com/

Not a lot of info. Hoping its open on the day cause its a long drive to find out. Open from 10am - 4pm. No actual number given on Old Geelong Rd for the GPS though. Put in intersection with Wackett St then drive another couple of hundred metres past and you'll see the entrance on the right.

[Wobbly]

If you punch up google maps its at lat 37°51'3.95"S long 144°45'57.31"E

(just punch 37°51'3.95"S 144°45'57.31"E into the search on google maps)

[MarkeeMark]

how do you do the degrees symbol though?

[Wobbly]

Copy + Paste

[Flash]

OK guys if you're heading there from Melbourne it's after the golf course.
there is an oval next door so if you see the oval you have gone to far!

Can't wait I haven't ridden MX since I did my shoulder a year and a half ago!! Only ridden on the dirt 3 times as well!!!!
Wooo hoo!!

[MarkeeMark]

Copy + Paste

Funny bugger! :D

[Woolf555]

When you dropped the 125 there Ash? Was that really a year and a half ago? Faaark! :shock:

[Fazio]

the 125 should be all sweet there shouldnt it?
thats all i was planning on bringing, can thing the drz4hunge would be a great deal of fun there

[Woolf555]

Its what the 125 is built for Faz, bring it along. I'm on a KX125. Ash crashed his YZ125 last time we rode there but it was nothing to do with the bike :lol:

[Fazio]

thats what i figured..
ive got a ice cream container full of spare levers for saturday... getting the feeling i may need them! haha

so who is coming?

[SlickNCGhia]

this sucks, id love to do this but im off doing army shit and the new bike wont be ready to be picked up till the week after.

does juz or faz or anyone want to swap and go off and play soldier while i play chad reed on their bike?

[Fazio]

haha, i dont think so ben .. sorry mate.
what did you end up choosing for a newy?

[SlickNCGhia]

kato 3hunge lol. i was just trying to justify selling the 525 by saying it was too much. a couple of quick rides and i was sold on this one.....sooo light. should be fun

anyway back OT lol

[Flash]

Done another fork seal on the YZ!!! Going to try and get it sorted in time!

[Fazio]

the 300 rather than to 200... should be a blast!!
keep it in the band and try not to hit the trees.. haha

back on topic...
show of hands whos coming?

[MarkeeMark]

me! be there by 10am

[albonator316]

me 2 :D

[rodgerdodger]

Copy + Paste

Funny bugger! :D




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[Wobbly]

Planning on it :)

[shitbmxrider]

Yep :)

On the road rims

[Woolf555]

Shall be there. :)

Ash, how bad is the fork seal leaking? Just weeping or dripping on the ground with it on the stand?

What about the Puzey?

[Flash]

Yeah mate it's dripping. I knew it was weeping a little but didn't think it had got that bad! I'm still keen to ride but might be a little to harsh for my very unfit arms to handle.

The puzey is lowered and soft for Carly I can ride on the flast but no way with jumps it'll bottom everywhere with me on it!!

[SMC690]

What about the Puzey?

Yeah mate it's dripping.

Ooooh, ahhh!

I'm out, I'm going to try and find a dyno that's open this Saturday.

I'd rather get my bike set up properly than crash it in the dirt. ;)

[Woolf555]

What about the Puzey?

Yeah mate it's dripping.

Ooooh, ahhh!



Ha ha, nice. I think Sigmund Freud must have had a category for people like you :lol:

[Woolf555]

Yeah mate it's dripping. I knew it was weeping a little but didn't think it had got that bad! I'm still keen to ride but might be a little to harsh for my very unfit arms to handle.

The puzey is lowered and soft for Carly I can ride on the flast but no way with jumps it'll bottom everywhere with me on it!!

You'll be right mate, just bubba-scrub the jumps and keep it low ;)

[SMC690]

Freud was a coke fiend.

If he did today what he did in his time there would be absolutely no credit to his theories. ;)

Quoted from Wikipedia...

Cocaine
Freud was an early user and proponent of cocaine as a stimulant as well as analgesic. He wrote several articles on the antidepressant qualities of the drug and he was influenced by his friend and confidant Wilhelm Fliess, who recommended cocaine for the treatment of the "nasal reflex neurosis." Fliess operated on Freud and a number of Freud's patients whom he believed to be suffering from the disorder, including Emma Eckstein, whose surgery proved disastrous.[31].
Freud felt that cocaine would work as a panacea for many disorders and wrote a well-received paper, "On Coca," explaining its virtues. He prescribed it to his friend Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow to help him overcome a morphine addiction he had acquired while treating a disease of the nervous system.[32] Freud also recommended it to many of his close family and friends. He narrowly missed out on obtaining scientific priority for discovering cocaine's anesthetic properties (of which Freud was aware but on which he had not written extensively), after Karl Koller, a colleague of Freud's in Vienna, presented a report to a medical society in 1884 outlining the ways in which cocaine could be used for delicate eye surgery. Freud was bruised by this, especially because this would turn out to be one of the few safe uses of cocaine, as reports of addiction and overdose began to filter in from many places in the world. Freud's medical reputation became somewhat tarnished because of this early ambition. Furthermore, Freud's friend Fleischl-Marxow developed an acute case of "cocaine psychosis" as a result of Freud's prescriptions and died a few years later. Freud felt great regret over these events, which later biographers have dubbed "The Cocaine Incident."[citation needed] However, he managed to move on, and even continued to use cocaine. Jurgen von Scheidt speculated that most of Freud's psychoanalytical theory was a byproduct of his cocaine use.[33]

lol, go Sigmund!

Apologies for the hijack. ;)

[Woolf555]

:lol:

This is why I try to read every thread, cause you never know where it will end up or what you'll learn around here!

[SMC690]

I visited his house in 1993 in Vienna in Austria.

He wasn't there that day, he must have been out visiting his dealer. ;)

[shitbmxrider]

Im out.


I got reminded this evening that I am meant to be attending my cousins wedding that afternoon.



I fucking hate weddings at the best of times.

[SMC690]

Just get smashed to pieces and vomit on the dance floor or even better, the brides dress, you won't get asked to any more family weddings. ;)

[Woolf555]

There's a lot of rain coming down at Laverton and showers forecast until mid tomorrow. Maybe not so good for slicks :?

Still going ahead?

[albonator316]

I'm still going!
must remember change of clothes though ;)

[MarkeeMark]

Yeah I'm still gonna head out there and watch you guys get covered in mud. And if it dries up enough I'll back the Ape outta the van for a spin!
Wear work boots for walkin around the pits and track.

Also call the track in the morning to see if they're open on 0421 187 757

track opens at 10am, they'll have a message on their answering machine no doubt by 9am.

[Flash]

I'll go past tonight. But Lavo does dry out quick!

[Wobbly]

I'm probably a 50/50 at the moment - looks a bit wet for the husky and I have stuff next week that means I don't really need to dump it in the dirt. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to really try out the KX forks on the KDX yet, and they seem to be binding quite badly at the moment. May only be a matter of incorrect front axle spacing but will need to look tomorrow morning :?

[Woolf555]

I think I'm gonna hitch up the skirt on this one. It's a bloody long way for me to drive and go through the city to find a flooded clay track, and it looks like it's raining there atm on the radar. :evil:

[Fazio]

gee is anyone going anymore!!!
its only a bit of rain and mud.. if its still open ill be giong

[albonator316]

I'm going :) leaving soon

[Fazio]

just called the number and it still doesnt say if its open or not?

[albonator316]

give it a few more minutes I'd say

[albonator316]

pull that skirt back down and come play dean :D

[Wobbly]

Sorry fellas, I'm out - too many bike issues :(

[Flash]

I'm in werribee and there hasn't been any rain all night still none! The track look dry last night from what I could see though

[Woolf555]

That'd be right. :roll: I've since organised to take the family up to a mates farm and maybe have a squirt around this afternoon instead. Ah well, have fun guys, it might be OK after all. Hope you can get around that giant puddle thats always there before the drop down to the front tabletops. :lol:

[MarkeeMark]

Just spoke to Albonator and no one has turned up to open the track and they're not answering their phone and haven't changed the message.
Fazio is with him and they're heading to Broadmeadows MX track instead on Mahoney's Rd which is open and $30 to ride for the day.
I spoke to Broady and asked about the track condition and he said to wet for motard but should be good 2moro.

[Flash]

Yeah just got back from Lavo not open for some reason! Track looked good though

[albonator316]

well........ what a day :lol:
laverton was closed and stayed there til fazio turned up to discuss what to do next. fazio headed towards geelong to go somewhere out there, I just went to broad meadows track. Was a mud bath.
as you'll see from the pics here:

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee172/albonator316/IMG_0403.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee172/albonator316/IMG_0404.jpg

big jumps = big crashes
I was at the track alone to begin with, went on the little intermediate track to get ready for the the big track. couldn't have been a bigger difference between the two tracks :lol2:

got myself on the big track, only thing driving me forward was my own stupidity, and there was plenty there to use up :lol:
went around twice slow to figure out where everything was then went for it, hitting jumps as hard as I could with my very limited skill and traction. Hitting jumps all wrong and just crashing huge lol, very lucky I didn't hurt myself more I think.
After the last big crash I called it a day. all battered and bruised
Gonna try it again, but at laverton next time, looks like a much kinder track lol

[MarkeeMark]

hahahaha love your work Nick! But next time you go big make sure there's someone there to pick up the pieces after it all ends in mud!

[Fazio]

well after meeting with nick at closed track..
kept on driving and met up with a mate who id planned a ride with.
went to barabool track, no rain up there so it was dry and dusty.

hard pack in some areas and deep sand in others, had a couple fo bike troubles but in all i learnt a heap! got a half a dozen laps in and was rooted.. one section was near impossible to get through on the 125.. so just hit the hard pack bit more and enjoyed the jumps!!!

looking forward to another session with you guys, laverton track looked better by far than where i was.. would be a good ride

[Woolf555]

Looks like I made the right decision after all. I was a bit dubious about whether or not it would be open, with the generic phone message. How hard is it to update it to tell people you're not open. :?

Points for commitment there Nick. Lucky you came out relatively unscathed by the sounds of it! Broadmeadows is sooo crap! :lol:

[Daws]

only thing driving me forward was my own stupidity, and there was plenty there to use up :lol:

Sounds just like my technique on the dirt! I tried an MX track (mostly natural terrain) for the first time a few weeks ago... it's a bit different!

Glad you had fun and got away with only a few bruises!

[albonator316]

yep, you made the right decision there dean ;)
Next time i'm going to go when its dry and try and get some traction to make it to the end of the double and not the start ;)

waking up this morning I discovered all the injuries lol
Bruised right knee
corked thigh, left leg
bruised ribs on right side
can't quite bend left elbow all the way
strained muscles in neck.

somehow I still had fun :D

[Fazio]

dont want it to be too dry nick!
where i went it was hard to get the rear to hook up because it was so dry, they didnt get any of that rain we did...

keen to go again soon though

[albonator316]

I'm going to keep the crf down here longer too, will have to try laverton again sometime.

[Flash]

Hey Fazio the hard pack aint so bad on a 4t!
Wait till tomorrow Nick that's when the pain really begins!!

[albonator316]

can't wait lol
definitely not riding the pushie to work tomorrow

[Fazio]

the plain hard pack was all sweet! got good traction on it... boosted me up jumps and was very nice for a beginer

it was the dry 6 inch deep dust, and sand sections where it was hard.. the 4t were taking it more easily bust still some were having trouble

definately worth doing again though, looking forward to it

[Woolf555]

If you want to get used to riding sand Faz we could go to Frankston next time. At least that one's always open. Not real good for the motards though.