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Mood: lazy

26th January 2008
Other: PEAK DISTRICT
Wind Direction: ALL OVER THE PLACE
Wind Stength: VERY WINDY
Surf / Sea State: NA
Air Temperature: COOL
Sea Temperature: NA
Weather: OVERCAST
Max Speed: 70+ (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 130 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

stevebus organsised a guided trail ride with "overlander trail tours"...met up with the others at M6-j17 at the arranged time of 7:15am and then we drove in convoy to the start , which was a nice cottage in the hills with dirtbikes in the living room.:).........6 of us in total plus the guide who was riding a monster of a CCM 600.....i was'nt sure exactly what to expect and was only hoping that my own monstrous KTM 620 was'nt going to be too much of a handful, especially when i saw the very nimble looking 250's that the others were riding..we did 3 stream crossings.one of which could be decribed as a small river....engine high deep water with quite a lot of flow.....not a good place to hit a boulder on the river bed....long,fast, sweeping puddle filled tracks across moorland, boulder filled lanes, techincal rocky asccents and descents that shook you to peices..the only way up was to power on...and try to avoid the really big stones..rutted tracks about a foot deep with no way out.......the highlight of the day was one of the guys attempting a rocky ascent while we were taking a break...about half way up he just seemed to go flying off his bike and then dissapeared.it was obvious he had come off the bike but we expected him to just stand up....after approx 15 seconds when there was still no sign of him.....we all ran up to where we saw him fall off.....he was now at the bottom of an almost sheer 20 foot embankment with his bike upside down,,,,there was absolutely no way we could get the bike back up......his only option was to drag it down the boulder filled river just a bit further down......he then had to man handle/ride/drag his bike down this rock filled river bed for about a 100 yards until he could find a way out.luckily he was'nt hurt and we were able to carry on....rode faster than i would've liked at times, but luckily managed to stay on the bike allday. excellent session.:)

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