Yeah, I'm a dirt bike nut, always have been and always will be.
Santa Claus bought be a honda 50 j when I was about 8, and I've been hooked ever since. Haven't been a day since in my life when I haven't owned a dirtbike.
Current bike is a Yamaha WR 450 07. Picture Of me from February, crossing the swollen Rowleys River on a two day trip from Nundle to Gingers creek. We probably shouldn't have been out that weekend as it was too wet, and we drowned a heap of bikes, but you know how it is. Ya just gotta go, and mud is better than dust.
My wife bought me a white plastics kit for it for my 40th, so that's why it's white and not blue. It's the 4th WR I've owned. I bought one of the original 97 400's, then a 01 426, then a 04 450, and now the 07. None of the WR's has ever given me a problem, so I'll keep buying them until they do. Only other bike I'd buy for trail work would be a KTM.
Before that I owned honda XR's and yam TT's, and before that, two stroke Yam IT's. My work/farm bike is a yamaha TTR 250.
Been from home to Darwin and across the gulf on a suzuki 650 via mainly dirt tracks, been to the tip of cape york with a heap of mates on XR 600's. Done a week long Victoria high country ride.
Currently I have a heap of mates who all ride, mostly Yam WR's, and KTM's, and we do a few organised guided weekend rides a few times a year. This year for example we did a watagans ride out of Corranbong, me going up a hill from that ride,......
and also a Barrington Tops ride out of Dungog and rode to Bulladehlah and back. We also do our own rides probably once a month in our local areas. We have plenty of good riding here being at the foot of the Liverpool Range and just an hour from the coastal mountains and rainforests.
My three girls, aged from 5 to 8 ride. We all race once a month in the cooler half of the year at our local track. I race in the over 35's class. I'd get blown away if I raced against the young blokes.
Being girls, they're not quite as keen as the boys. I hope they keep at it, as I want to be able to take them away on weekend trail rides, like some of my mates take their older sons and daughters away already. All 3 are on little KTM's. The 5 year old is on a 50 adventure, and the older 2 are on 50 SX's.
My second eldest daughter, no 5, hoping to pass someone.
My eldest daughter
See ya's.
