Barry seemed like a good idea to get me on the trails while still awaiting suspension repairs on my Trance, Funnily enough it turned up the day Barry became available lol. Regardless
@yuley95 kindly offered to drop him off, so I still jumped at the chance to show Barry around my local trails of Silvan.
So glad I did, what a funny experience. Awesome work
@Plankosaurus
So I load Barry up on the car for a trip out to Silvan, he and all his 2008 cool must have liked that idea as I got in the car and he'd already had the Stereo set up ‘Loud’ pumping a bit of old school Pantera! I then got to the trails to find he wanted to relive the 2008 glory days and had sneakily swapped my trail helmet for the full face!
So we hit the trails and it instantly becomes obvious that he is not exactly a climber, his 38 front 32 rear granny causing me to bust a lung heading up the steep climbs of Silvan.
Its then I’ve set up on the trail taking a quick model shot of Barry and I suddenly hear from behind me “is that Barry” he was instantly recognizable with his pink grips and cranks haha. Awesome to meet
@CHEWY in the wild, the pleasure was all Barry’s! Thanks for the tow the rest of the way up JJ’s lol.
It’s there things got interesting, Barry in his element. Got to watch the tyres, almost none existent rear suspension, and zero damped very soft fork but otherwise he lapped it up haha. Down JJ’s trail even enjoying some of the bigger gaps. His front brake even started to come good!
From there we took the fun creek side trails and climb up to Lyre Lyre, which has lots of chunky rocks and fun berms. On the climb up it became apparent that you will never feel lonely riding with Barry, there is the constant sound of birds chirping that oddly sound like their under you, then there is also the soothing sounds of being followed by a kids trampoline.
It was on Lyre Lyre Barry had is first little mechanical, dropping his chain.
With no clutch, got to watch the lower ends of the cassette. He loves to stay in the middle range when things get rough. It was a little damp of this side of the mountain and slippery clay, but Barry kept his composure all the way down, hucking all the big drops and even steered me onto the skinny log at the end of the trail.
By the end of it I think his rear shock had even started to free up a little and actually felt like he had rear suspension!
Jump on board, such a fun experience, great work Dale. I can’t wait to see him spread himself far and wide and go on some fun experiences.
Now on to the next victim!
Hit me up if you're heading to any of the east side Melbourne trails, happy to bring him out to meet you. He'll have control of the car stereo of course!
I'm also out at Mulgrave, and think I've got a visit out Geelong way soonish.