What boards DID you take to Indo?

[Drailed]

Cloudbreak. Absolutely magnificent.

[Beanpole]

Only surfed Lennox twice. First time was with a big east low that lit it up. Friend was living in a house that looked straight up to the point. I drove up from Sydney. Another old mate turned up and we surfed it overhead all morning. Ptretty much everything I would want in a wave.

[Beanpole]

So cranky I'm really glad everyone thinks tuflites are useless crap.......and I'm really glad you've been giving us the rundown on which ones go really good.

[Hatchnam]

Currumbin Alley tends to get a poor rating by many for some reason. Though when it's on, and big enough to link right through, it's an awesome wave. Throaty first section with barrels and top to bottom surfing, into a long sloping wall great for drawing out turns as the wave passes over the bar, then into a bowly fast paced wall as the wave finishes at Lacey's lane.

It's gotta be a 600 metre wave ? And GREAT ON A MINI MAL !!!!!

[Beanpole]

Well it's usually pretty crowded so someone must think it's good. Surfed it last Xmas. Thought it would be less hassle than Burleigh where I'd been surfing. Rip was so insane you could barely make any headway paddling flat out.....then you had to accelerate to catch the wave. Pretty similar to the Pass really. I prefer the take off at the Pass.

[crabmeat thompson]

Currumbin Alley tends to get a poor rating by many for some reason. Though when it's on, and big enough to link right through, it's an awesome wave. Throaty first section with barrels and top to bottom surfing, into a long sloping wall great for drawing out turns as the wave passes over the bar, then into a bowly fast paced wall as the wave finishes at Lacey's lane.

It's gotta be a 600 metre wave ? And GREAT ON A MINI MAL !!!!!

it's my favourite wave ever.

not as good as kirra, not as hyped or agro as burleigh but as busy as both... when it's on, it's a massive playing field and room for everyone. some of those brown dredgers from behind the rock are every bit as throaty as snapper too.

[Trev]

I'm with Hatchy and Braithy. The Alley is awesome.
But far too crowded these days.

[Cuttlefish]

So cranky I'm really glad everyone thinks tuflites are useless crap.......and I'm really glad you've been giving us the rundown on which ones go really good.

This Rusty happy shovel is a blast to ride.
I've got a pretty varied quiver of boards that has amongst it planer/ handshapes by Dick Van Straalen and Geoff McCoy, machine cut/ hand shapes by John Mills (ex Hot stuff) Matt Wilkerson (Larry Bertleman's twinnies shaper), Asian made Al Merrick shape and a Firewire activator as well.
The Happy shovel is a tuflite which is super light that gets ridden when its smaller. When the conditions don't suit it I choose something else. That's why I have a varied quiver.
The heyday of tuflites is done and dusted. They aren't going to put all the handshapers out of work like many used to argue. One of the other big arguments against tuflites/mass production shortboards was that they would halt the advancement of hpsb design.
Well folks what design breakthroughs in board design has come from any of the big players in hpsb design in the last say 15 years?
Talk about stagnant gene pool all on its own.
The rise of the shaping machines used by the likes of CI, Lost, DHD and Hayden just to name a few and their global file sharing to affiliate shapers to produce their boards has done more to get rid of smaller shaping operations imo.
If all the big name surfboard companies along with pro surfing that they rely upon disappeared off the planet tomorrow I wouldn't give a rats arse anyway.

I'm so pissed off with the hordes of people surfing lately I often don't bother and go into the hills and ride this instead...

[Beanpole]

How long is the board cuttie?
I have love Currumbin for a long while. Before surf casts a few of us around Kingy had the Fido Reefs wired so you knew if certain ones were breaking there was a pretty good chance that Currumbin would be getting the swell. It's a classic rivermouth break.

[Cuttlefish]

That one's 6'6".
Gave a Brazzo mate (stall next door at the markets) who's always been on a hpsb a ride on it and it was almost comical to see him turn into a frothing grommet on it. He wanted to buy mine or another 6'6" but I told him no to mine.
He's 80 odd kgs and 20 yrs my juniour so I told him to grab a 6'er and they were selling for $595 new.
He absolutely loves it in the right conditions and says its opened his eyes to new ways to ride a wave.
He used to live in Lombok and he's off over there in a couple of weeks and taking it with him.

[crabmeat thompson]

that is one sweet looking ride.

[Cuttlefish]

More surfers should ride motorcycles.
They'd be stoked with the substitution when the waves aren't co-operating.

[foamy]

Nice bike. A Triumph Scrambler.
My dad used to ride the antecedent of that particular model, the Triumph Speed Twin, back in 1948.

The 1948 version.

[Drailed]

nice bikes lads.

[swvic]

I wrote off my older brother's Bonneville Special in 1998. Think it was a 1976. Crashed it right in front of him. He never really got over it. He's dead now and the bits are all at another brother's house. It's fixable - with money and time. Nice bike to ride. He'd had it for a few years and it was the first time he ever let me ride it

Edit: 1993

[Cranked]

This was the first motorcycle I owned. I was still at school.


And I spent a season working in a motorcycle shop as a mechanic and racing one of these


And got a half page full frame spread on the front page of Revs magazine of me racing at Oran Park.

[Beanpole]

Cranky...you just keep killing it. A man of many parts.
Hey, that Rusty is within my zone of reference at that size....looks great.

[ctd]

You guys need to check out the film 'south to sian' - Indo, mid lengths and motorbikes. It's like they read your minds

Beautiful photography a bit wanky narration but worth it