Started off great.. Set a real pace out the gate, to be expected with Rossi leading and Luke toying with his new 450.. Couple of early bails.. No one hurt.. Really nice start tho, fast and fun, great pace, easy trail, enjoyable..
Scotty had a bail and tools came loose, then some strapping went into the rear chain and messed up the chain guard.. we got that pulled off and sorted but he then didnt have a chain guard / follower.. Plus he was pissed at losing his tool setup (opps) just when he needed it !! This was on some good fun single track that was turning into no track..
Then George (georgie ??) had a problem with the KLX.. Wouldnt start and deep into the trail.. Rossi was time constrained and bailed.. at which point we were at the no track point of the trail
And after that the group kinda fell apart a bit.. Frank used the KTM torque tractor to pull george out of the jungle and after some serious indecision we regathered for water.. Scotty then agreed to tow George back to the MX track.. Lew and I were going to try a trail from Samoeng over back to Mae Rim just us, but when we saw at the next junction (which gave me where we were) how far we were out from Samoeng, and knowing the others were going to go Samoeng and back via obkham side, while our cars where in mae rim, we decided to head back to the MX track so I could give george use of my trailer to get the bike home. I didnt like the idea of just abandoning him as soon as he ran into trouble..
I then had what I thought then was a fouling plug but now think is an O ring gasket issue.. Managed to drop my bike while on the trailer and had one hell of a time getting both mine and georges strapped down with the few ties we had.. Managed it all ok in the end tho but was starting to be a comedy of errors by then..
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