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gammie61
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 Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: FORSAYTH QUAD RALLY : MARCH 15th & 16th |
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Its on again. It's a top weekend. Last year about 50 quads & about 80 bikes turned out for it.
The weekend kicks off on Friday night with a countermeal at the pub. A real meet the locals thing.
Saturday morning it's a 1.5 K ride to the motocross track for some time trials followed by wheelie comp & a bit of playing in the MUD.
Then its back to the rodeo grounds (thats where the free camping is) for lunch.
The afternoon is for the gymwheeler. It's kinda like horse sports thing but on wheels.
The locals truck water in to make a MUDPIT in front of the bar that is at your disposal during daylight hours as well. It gets a real hammering after the gymwheeler.
Sunday is the rally day.
For the last few years it has been a 35 K ride mainly in nice sandy riverbeds & over undulating country. There are 5 checkpoints with games for which you accumulate points which determine the winner.
The ride is pretty good fun. It suits all levels of skill. The riverbeds are mostly nice & fast with a few technical spots & occasional shallow water to cool you off. The overland section is a mixture of fast tracks & a slow rocky section to test your skill.
Presentations & lunch are usually over by about 1pm on Sunday. This lets you get away nice and early.
So where is Fosayth you say.
It's between Einasleigh & Georgetown. It has about 100 of the friendliest residents in NQ who put this doo on. Just about the whole town is involved in this thing in some way. They've got a few local riders that know their stuff as well.
Access from Townsville would be via Harveys Range, Lynd Junction & Einasleigh.
Contact Helen on 40625406.
So make plans & see you there
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gammie89
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you may even get to throw roost a police officer. sometimes the local policeman gets out in the mudpit and for $10 you can spray as much mud on him as you like.
last year they had roost piled up around him as high as his knees
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wendy
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| the biggest quad turnout in north queensland awesome . pretty good for spectators, familys,beginers and show offs like james. |
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dillon66
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yer looking at going sounds good
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| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| wendy wrote: | | the biggest quad turnout in north queensland awesome . pretty good for spectators, familys,beginers and show offs like james. |
haha
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gammie89
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| wendy wrote: | | the biggest quad turnout in north queensland awesome . pretty good for spectators, familys,beginers and show offs like james. |
with talk like that ken you better be ready to bring it this year!
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gammie61
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| dillon66 wrote: | | yer looking at going sounds good |
Hey Dillon, you blokes would come straight up through Ballyando & Charters Towers & Greenvale wouldn't you?
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yer mate im pretty sure we would go that way
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Anyone from Townsville thinking of coming?
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gammie61
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Forsayth turned it on again. The weekend involved plenty of riding ,of both MX & cross country & lots of socialising. Saturday night even had a slideshow of the days events & a video shot from a chopper of a group of blokes riding the riverbed on Friday. This was shown on a huge rear projection cinema screen in front of the canteen.
The riverbed ride had plenty of shallow water crossings & the quadriders loved it.
Numbers were down on last year, but about 22 quads & 45 2 wheelers competed in under 9s, 10 to 15s, mens & womens classes in both quad & 2 wheeler for the minimotocross & gymwheeler.
The rally was contested in mens & womens divisions in both Quad & 2 wheeler.
Local rider Colin Mcfarlane took out overall mens quad as well as overall 2 wheeler. The bloke rides like a demon.
Overall womens quad was taken out by Leo Della Bosca from Cairns.
Overall childrens Quad champ was Samantha Zahner.
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gammie61
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winner of the womens mini-motocross, anita lloyd
winner of the mens mini-motocross, james gammie
when more pictures come to hand i will post them up 
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject: Forsayth |
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| how often do they run this event ......... would love to go got a few other quad riders from townsville that will travel out with me next time its on just gotta give them a bit of notice. sounds like a great time cant wait |
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gammie89
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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its on every year around this time, we have been up 4 years running now
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject: Forsayth |
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| is there anything else like that up townsville and surrounds keen as to go on a decent ride with a heap of other bikes |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| gammie61 wrote: | | 22 quads competed in under 9s, 10 to 15s, mens & womens classes |
Where are these people when we are having meets everywhere else???
 Doesn't really make sense to me for them not to be turning up to other races and having a go.
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| SIKMIC wrote: | | gammie61 wrote: | | 22 quads competed in under 9s, 10 to 15s, mens & womens classes |
Where are these people when we are having meets everywhere else???
Doesn't really make sense to me for them not to be turning up to other races and having a go. |
yeah shame they don't turn up to support every race considering it is on their back door step...
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wendy
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| no nerth bars or kill tether required at this event. natural terrain,10/15k on easy to find multiple ways to go oncorse ,wet and dry sand in river bed ,with friendly organizers makes this event a sucsess now for around twelve yrs.be there next year mid march.they even sourced trophies with quad bikes on them. |
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gammie61
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| SIKMIC wrote: | | gammie61 wrote: | | 22 quads competed in under 9s, 10 to 15s, mens & womens classes |
Where are these people when we are having meets everywhere else???
Doesn't really make sense to me for them not to be turning up to other races and having a go. |
It's run more as a social fun event that is attended by some realy good riders who love to compete. Entry fee this year was more than double last year. It was $10 for each day. Last year it was $4 for Saturday & $5 for Sunday. No club membership or liscence required or scrutineering or probably any rules.
There actualy are rules. You have to wear a helmet & shoes & you can't ride before 6am or after 7pm
Some people turned up & started riding as early as Tuesday & intended to leave on Wednesday (thats tommorow) .
Free camping as well.
Last year there were probably 40 plus quads, of all sorts from farm quads to sports quads, on the Sunday rally.
Trying to get ATV ACTION to run an article on it.
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gammie61
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| Dingo555 wrote: | | SIKMIC wrote: | | gammie61 wrote: | | 22 quads competed in under 9s, 10 to 15s, mens & womens classes |
Where are these people when we are having meets everywhere else???
Doesn't really make sense to me for them not to be turning up to other races and having a go. |
yeah shame they don't turn up to support every race considering it is on their back door step... |
There were some regular Townsville blokes on farm quads, about 5 from Cairns & a few from the Atherton & Mareeba area & the rest from out west.
Our trip from Cairns to Gum Valley set us back close on $1000 for 1 of us to ride a maximum of three 10 minute races.
We took 2 cars & 4 quads to Forsayth & spent about $700 all up & we all had 2 days of riding & socialising.
Gum Valley was 10 hours drive from Cairns & Forsayth is 5 from both Cairns & Townsville.
Does that help you understand why it is well attended?
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gammie89
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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not every one is interested in competition or racing.
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| gammie89 looks like yous had a great weekend. Congrats on your win. I understand where you are coming from when you hae to spend 10hrs driving and $1000 to do what we did at gum valley. I have been doing this for a few years now even just to drive to a practice to support quad racing in places that have so called "numbers" but dont show up just go trophy hunting. I see yous had 22 riders which is awesome. It would be great if race meets didnt collide. There are a few of us up this way in townsville so racing up your way is no problem or travel, so hopefully you are able to get something happening there cause we will travel up there. The group of riders that do mx will probly come up and support when they can also as we all try and help each other out at race meets in our areas. |
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thanks landy68. just keep in mind everyone this is not a competition, its a social weekend
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: Great weekend! |
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Yeah it was my first time up there this year and I have to say I had a blast. I was the only Shee up there to show the 4 pokes how to do it! lol to bad about snapping my thumb throttle and being the only one to not finnish on sunday 
I will be going up next year for sure! Lets hope we can get more up there next year. [/img] |
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mattofilms
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:55 am Post subject: Forsayth Video |
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Hello all....
Just a heads up.....
Video of the Forsayth quad rally will be finnished and ready to buy in about 4 weeks.
Will post blog here when finnished, and mabye drop in a couple of pics/short vid clips.
p.s - gammie61 do you mind if I use some of your pics in the video?
(winner of the womens mini-motocross, anita lloyd and winner of the mens mini-motocross, james gammie )
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