Another great SLOW Inc. trip - if 4 X 4 driving is your thing, probably the best trip the club has every run.....a select few of the club elite made the trip from our meeting point in Woodford, to the Bush camping grounds - with only the first 10km of bitumen - that's close enough to 200km of wheeling. And for those who took the Sunday drive - much of it rough bush driving too with only a bare minimum of "smooth dirt" - then you get the picture. It was good to get reacquainted with "low 1". It was also good to see how our TL's S3 just ate the rough stuff.....drive a coiler like JLB drove the Springer and it'd throw you through the windscreen...
It was a brilliant drive and I am very grateful the club has characters like our illustrious trip leader, John "Leyland" Bradshaw - JLB - for his local knowledge of tracks that in part were indistinguishable from cocky's driveways! Epic.
Bill "Heston" Bashers and Kye....cutting through the dust...
A top drive JLB.....
And as all clubs grow, so too do club traditions. And born of the inaugural Kilkivan Classic comes the term, "A little bit Sportage".....this gem is a reference to any soft "attitude" eg. preferring the bitumen of the Bruce Hightway to 200km of bush tracks as the route of choice to camp.....as in, "That's a little bit Kia Sportage, don't you think, Dan?". . Again, JLB coined this gem via Channel 15 and it's stuck.....
A perpetual Sportage trophy and annual title winner's sash will now be issued, with members accumulating points for soft efforts on club trips over the entire year.....
2014 Sportage Tally Count
1. newhue - 2 points - awarded for pulling out of yet another trip 'cos his time could be "better spent". Another shocker from the Oxley stalwart.
2. Carolyn Ho Har, 1 point - proposed by JLB, seconded Scallops - awarded for publicly stating on UHF 15 a preference for the Bruce Highway.
3. Scallops, 1 point - proposed by 123rover50, seconded by Annie - awarded for dust ingress avoidance violation.
4. 123rover50, -1 point - trip hard man.
I thought it particularly harsh to be awarded a point myself for driving with my windows up in all that dust - given I was tail end charlie, but dem's the breaks! Anti Sportage points may also be earned - Keith and Anne have a negative score of 1 for driving an 80 inch in the thick dust with no roof - "We'll be right", was Keith's only comment. That's the spirit - Sportage free zone, this bloke.
Nothin' Sportage going on here....
Met some potential award contenders with clean trucks at the camp ground....but not Annie - she was coated in dust...
At least we all got stuck in in the morning.....
So another great club trip done and very dusted....I look forward to doing this one again next year.....look out for the exciting new range of club stubby holders and t-shirts...."The Kilkivan Classic - Are you Sportage? ......" Newhue - yours is in the mail.
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