2013 Scrapheap Adventure Ride – Back ‘O’ Bourke – March 29-30

It is so much easier to prepare a bike when you can actually ride the darn thing on the road. 4 break downs in 13 ks. Following some diagnosis in the shed I discovered the Honda was vapour locking thanks to a mud wasp nest in the fuel cap breather hose. I hope they enjoyed their flight, compliments to the air compressor. Demus had an issue with the DR but he thinks his on top of it now so we are off for our ride this arvo

Boony

Where did you take the old girl for the 100ks

Strucky

Either can I Mick!! :woohoo: As I will be a sweep rider just make sure that they are all 100% gents as I don’t want to be repairing to many bikes…. :blink: Actually I will watch while you blokes fix em!! :laugh: :laugh:

Good to hear Boony! Glad you got the fuel issue sorted.

I spent the arvo fitting some tyres to one of the NX’s

Then worked out a way to fit the GPS to the old girl

It is a Garmin that I borrowed off Moose. You have to believe their waterproof claim, this is the GPS we retrieved out of the floodwaters, it spent the whole night under water and is still good as gold!

I pulled the old sr out today & fired up first touch of the button. Heading for a short test ride tomorrow but should be all good. I’m looking at going for a decent ride next weekend just to be sure . This year I only have my son with me so I will be looking for a second wing man if possible. Any volunteers
Cheers Andrew

New chain & sprockets went on during the week. I’m leaving the legs off they are too unreliable especially in the dirt.

Charley and I spent the whole day working on one of the NX’s, We fitted a gearsack rack that took some head scratching, some cutting and welding but fitted in the end. But not as near as much head scratching as the non working headlight took! We checked every wire and plug and still no head light, then all of a sudden the bastard would come on for no reason then go off again! As it turns out, believe it or not, it was the starter button that was causing the headlight not to work. On the NX, it has a switch in the starter button that turns the headlight off when you crank the starter, it was this switch that was full of crud and not allowing the power to the headlight! Bloody hell it took some finding, we all but pulled the wiring harness apart looking for a broken wire and as it turns out it would have been a 10 minute job if we had off known about the switch in the starter button. You live and learn! They aren’t far off being ready to rip now!