Offical DOVW Weekend events.

[Water Boy]

Cant complain about the weather!

[Buller_Scott]

Cant complain about the weather!

its finally. stopped. fcking. sprinkling.

my car's so dirty after that crappy "i've shaken, but it's still dribbling!" style rain we've been getting.

[kaanage]

unfortunately, it's gravel, and i suspect it's more of a fire trail / local service road than anything else.
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the road's washed out completely even further down (so either gravel or sealed 100 years ago):

We rode up that road a few times on pushbikes (road race / triathlon - not mtb) a decade ago and it wasn't that bad (except when on guy's front wheel went between the planks on the bridge and pitched him over the handlebars). It's probably mostly dirt washed on to the road and a bit bumpy but OK if your car hasn't been lowered/stiffened a huge amount.

[Buller_Scott]

We rode up that road a few times on pushbikes (road race / triathlon - not mtb) a decade ago and it wasn't that bad (except when on guy's front wheel went between the planks on the bridge and pitched him over the handlebars). It's probably mostly dirt washed on to the road and a bit bumpy but OK if your car hasn't been lowered/stiffened a huge amount.

ah cool man. i'll just take it easy down that bit.

[Water Boy]

I hope the BBQ was good last night.... Im sorry I wasnt there.

So 3:30pm this arvo at Chirnside park Bunnings.

[fatmir305]

Wheres the factory in eltham?
And what time you guys going to be there until?

[ffoff]

Turn into Brougham st, from Bolton st (corner with Autobarn on it)

[Buller_Scott]

so did people actually make it to the BBQ? i was following tim, who was behind josh - all three of us were lost after roundabouts and u-turns, but i had to bail anyway. hope those who DID make it have a rad time whilst i read psychology text over the next 3~ hours

never had so much scrapage in my life, and im not even that low!

thanks boys for rocking up, and thanks ryan for organising - always good to have a yarn and a laugh, as well as a bit of a brap. thanks josh and tim for installing my coilies - much better car to drive in the twisties now

cheers!

p.s. for anyone who's even moderately low, or who likes being upwards of 40% of the limits of grip around corners, DONT take the road that i was referring to earlier in the thread - me and josh had to idle down that road at <10km/h, it was that bumpy and irregular - josh was scraping his subframe on the road all over the place, and i wasnt much better. just lucky no other cars came up the other way (only 1.5 lanes wide).

p.p.s. great to meet some new faces, and i hope to see you at the CRUISE TO DOVW tomorrow morning!

[theOctopus]

Had a great day guys, really good to meet everyone.

Scott you are right about that road it was crazy ruff, if it was resealed one day it would be amazing, here's a pic of us waiting for you and Josh

[Tim]

BBQ was tops scotty. The workshop there is amazing. Got some great ideas for my own place.

[Water Boy]

Thanks to those who came along today. Big props to Ryan for the cruise route and the Davies for the awsome BBQ.

[Buller_Scott]

Had a great day guys, really good to meet everyone.

Scott you are right about that road it was crazy ruff, if it was resealed one day it would be amazing, here's a pic of us waiting for you and Josh

haha top shot! dammit woody did we take that long! lol

BBQ was tops scotty. The workshop there is amazing. Got some great ideas for my own place.

great ideas as in big $$$$ spent on "god damn i wish i had that!" kind of tools? haha.

so whilst you guys were chillaxing in eltham, i was learning that i had actually undergone classical conditioning today:

when i had my old suspension setup, sharp undulations in the road were actually neutral stimuli, as they elicited no relevant reflexive response from me, given that my car was too high for the neutral stimuli to affect adversely or otherwise.

however, that slow bumpy road down from kinglake "classically conditioned" me in that:
- the bumps (neutral stimuli) now, thanks to my lower suspension, result in me scraping (my car's personal "unconditioned response")
- the now unconditioned stimuli (bumps), leading to their unconditional response (scraping), over time, resulted in my subconsciously associating the bumps directly with a scrapage result.
- the more i scraped, the more the bumps evolved into a conditioned stimulus by association with their unconditioned stimuli, such that eventually, the bumps became conditioned stimuli, or stimuli which consistently produce reflexive, instinctive responses (aka me slowing the fck down).

acquisition, as a process, could be said to be represented by my having driven down that road, and in the process of acquisition, i had also been classically conditioned in such a way that now on, i'll likely be stimulus generalising every time i see bumps - that is, i'll slow the fck down, as opposed to stimulus discrimination, which would be to dismiss any prior stimuli and treat each section of bumpy road on a case by case basis, which WONT be the case, because i'll fck my oil pan, haha.

in order for "extinction" of my now conditioned response to bumps to take place, i'd have to drive sections of road like that, numerous times WITHOUT my car's unconditioned response (scraping) reproducing itself....

but for now, i've been classically conditioned to be **** scared of bumps.

amazing what you can learn when you add "day of driving" and "reading psychology texts" haha!

[theOctopus]

Am i at the right maccas?

[Rob_R]

G'Day guys, thanks for the great day yesterday. Sorry I bailed just as you guys got one of the three BBQ's going. Wife was in trouble with her bung knee. Wanted to be there today but think I might be pushing it with the boss.

Great cruise with a bunch of funny guys. Thanks to Scott for giving me visual indicators via his exhaust tip when to boot it coming out of a tight corner! Never thought a cruise would ever be held up because a couple of cars were too low!! Was good for a stir and a laugh.

Anyway thanks for organising the day. I had a great time and a lot of laughs.

[Buller_Scott]

G'Day guys, thanks for the great day yesterday. Sorry I bailed just as you guys got one of the three BBQ's going. Wife was in trouble with her bung knee. Wanted to be there today but think I might be pushing it with the boss.

Great cruise with a bunch of funny guys. Thanks to Scott for giving me visual indicators via his exhaust tip when to boot it coming out of a tight corner! Never thought a cruise would ever be held up because a couple of cars were too low!! Was good for a stir and a laugh.

Anyway thanks for organising the day. I had a great time and a lot of laughs.

ah... so we'll pre-emptively presume that you've shouted a resounding "yesss!!!" to coming to maroondah dam cruise?