Djarum Super Adventure Off Road - Cirebon Indonesia May 2002

[JavaJeep]

THIS WAS FROM LAST YEAR BUT MIGHT MAKE SOME INTERESTING READING

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Heading to a Cirebon 6 hours out of Jakarta for Round 2 of the DJarum Super Real Adventure Off Road series.

Tomorrow is scrutineering and driver briefing

Friday : Trial stage

Saturday : Country road stage

Sunday : Trial stage held in Cirebon Stadium

There are 2 classes : Willys with a pre 1972 Willys engine and open which is for modified Willys and other makes.

Heading down to the 'workshop' in a hours time for some final prepararation, then I've got to get all my recovery gear, spares and tools ready so could be a late evening.

AFTERMATH

After 4 days of off roading I got home and fell asleep while sitting on the can talking to my secretary about my afternoon meeting (that I missed).

FrankenJeep made the 150 mile trip (7 hours on the truck and bus infested, potholed highway) competed in 2 sprint events and a day and night adventure trip up into a 10,000 foot high sleeping volcanoe.

I placed no.13 out of 40 after the organizers cancelled the results of the volcanoe trip due to protests on route marking, quite a few got lost and we made up some places. I was personally sitting at 10th and the Java Jeep Team was 5 out of 12.

We were at a disadvantage as we had 3 not 4 Jeeps in our team and we lost some time on the day 1 mudbogger and river winch. While the other teams used Jeep 4 as a winch point I had to winch the other Jeeps (F-head CJ2a and an L-head M38) out of the mud bogger and then go into the bogger climb out with no assistance.

The night of day 1 FrankenJeep was the only Jeep to make it up one really steep part of the trail due to the double lockers.

Day 2's volcanoe trip was the best off roading I have ever done and we were really in the Jungle, we saw around 30 monkeys and the roll cage on FrankenJeep did a great job of keeping the vines and stuff out of my face as we bored a hole in the brush.

Day 3 was a supercross type sprint. The first Jeep completed the course in 1 min 58 secs and then we had a tropical downpour for 40 mins and 60% didn't get more than 25% through the truck due to mud and deep water.

I rolled due to seeing that part of the course (which I walked that morning) had been closed and I was concerned about being disqualified if I went through I a threw to the right up the new part of the course too late. The lockers slid the Jeep to the left and the wheels dug into the deep mud and I had enough sideways momentum to put FrankenJeep on its side (my side), the Jeep was righted on 4 wheels and I rolled again, it was righted once again and I blasted through the closed section of truck which was an absolute bog and completed the course in a total time of 4mins 44 secs including the 2 roll overs.

The M38 bogged 3 feet short of the finish line and ended up with a default time of 10 mins rather than the 3 mins if he was able to finish.

After the comp finished at 10pm on Sunday night (40 Willys Jeeps and 110 open class modified Jeeps and Toyota LandCruisers) we drove straight back to Jakarta, we lost our support vehicle for 4 hours (the driver had a 15 min roadside nap and woke up 3 hours later and we had passed him in the night).

FrankenJeep required a new set of points, a spark plug clean, a clutch adjustment and a new starter.

[JavaJeep]

Day 01 Friday - Start and Trial Stage 01



Budhy's CJ2a



Some of the JavaJeep Team





Yuskar and Ipong in the M38



Start line , 50 Willys Jeeps and 100 other highly modified Landcruisers, CJ7s, Wrnaglers and Suzukis get ready



One of my security guys and FrankenJeep , note lack of Duct Tape !



Our 'Satpams' , I usually take a couple of security gaurds on these trips to stop tools and Jeeps disappearing from the Pit Area



FrankenJeep crossing the start line - 3 days to go !




One of the other team's Jeeps entering the river



Going for it ! . . . and getting some press coverage in the Indonesian National autosport rag Otosport



FrankenJeep gets out of the river , in spite of my efforts we had to winch out due to a slipping clutch

Trial Stage 01 - more river shots













Changing FrankenJeep's starter motor

Sunday - Trial Stage 2
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Another bloody river








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Waiting in a rice paddy - traffic ahead





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Climbing Mount Chirami - an extinct volcano







The ' pungi ' sticks were a major concern in the event of a roll over !





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Final Special Stage









Budhy's CJ2a is bone stock except for an F-head engine and Diahatsu wheels and it does pretty well !



" Can somebody give us a push ! " Sufri [ Nickname : " Monkey " my navigator and mechanic ] having a quick laugh at the situation I had gotten us into , we lost 3 minutes which put the team back to 5th place out of 14 teams



Backing up using the side rear view mirror , I ended up driving through the sludge like I wanted to rather than go around it as the course marshalls directed , no problem once we were back on 4 wheels . Duct tape from trail damage on Saturday .

Over all a fantastic few days of off roading Willys style !

[POS]

Now thats mud!!

[RUFF]

That looks awsome. There must be hundreds of those jeeps over there is there?

JJ by the looks of it you are not originaly from Indonesia. Can you tell us a bit about where you were originaly from and what you are doing over there? I just noticed you were talking about your Security guards and thought that sounds pretty official to me.

[JavaJeep]

That looks awsome. There must be hundreds of those jeeps over there is there?

Yep, There was a lot left here by the Americans after WWII and the Indonesian army continued to buy Jeeps up until the early 70's

Many are still used for daily family transport such as Budhy's Jeep CJ2a

JJ by the looks of it you are not originaly from Indonesia. Can you tell us a bit about where you were originaly from

A small hint. I used to live opposite a certain harbourside Opera House.

Also spent 10 years in Adelaide before moving back to Sydney and then on to Indonesia - been here 4 years.

what you are doing over there? I just noticed you were talking about your Security guards and thought that sounds pretty official to me.

I used to be a finance consultant before investment dried up here. Now I am the Country Manager for a German/UK owned auction company. A few weeks ago I was out in front of a factory I was selling, telling the local mafia and 800 hired supporters to piss off, they were threatening to burn the place to the ground [the 10 cops and 20 marines were behind the factory gate] , we had a mexican stand off for 3 hrs before things cooled down, business can get a little rough here.

[bj on roids]

That looks awsome. There must be hundreds of those jeeps over there is there?

Yep, There was a lot left here by the Americans after WWII and the Indonesian army continued to buy Jeeps up until the early 70's

Many are still used for daily family transport such as Budhy's Jeep CJ2a

JJ by the looks of it you are not originaly from Indonesia. Can you tell us a bit about where you were originaly from

A small hint. I used to live opposite a certain harbourside Opera House.

Also spent 10 years in Adelaide before moving back to Sydney and then on to Indonesia - been here 4 years.

what you are doing over there? I just noticed you were talking about your Security guards and thought that sounds pretty official to me.

I used to be a finance consultant before investment dried up here. Now I am the Country Manager for a German/UK owned auction company. A few weeks ago I was out in front of a factory I was selling, telling the local mafia and 800 hired supporters to piss off, they were threatening to burn the place to the ground [the 10 cops and 20 marines were behind the factory gate] , we had a mexican stand off for 3 hrs before things cooled down, business can get a little rough here.

[AVGAS_502]

GREAT stuff!... thanks for all the effort in posting all those pics! Great to see another perspective...

[CJer]

Good Job JJ looks like you had heaps of fun and not too much carnge

[JavaJeep]

heaps of fun and not too much carnge

There was no shortage of rollovers , probably 10% of the field [15 vehicles] rolled - some nearly totalled and 3 accidents during the transport stages mainly involving motorcycles