DRZ400 Rider Near Canberra Says Hello

[GlennMember]

Hi everyone. My name is Glenn and I live in Queanbeyan. I was just told about this site by a friend on http://www.dirtbikeworld.net.

As per the subject, I ride a 2007 DRZ400 (as well as a Fireblade and Blackbird) and I love it! I bought the DRZ as I love tight single trail riding, but I also want to get into longer adventure rides…primarily on dirt firetrails. For example, the Snowy Mountains, the Victorian high country, and the various forests and escarpments along the NSW south coast.

I have just bought some taller gearing and a 28 litre tank for it, and am currently looking into luggage/rack options.

I would love to hear from anyone on here who lives not too far from me and either already does this type of riding, or would be interested in doing it. Ideally, having a similar bike…DRZ, DR, XR, XT, KLX, KLR, etc.

Anyways, Im going to continue searching through the forums, reading ride reports and get myself psyched for another adventure on the DRZ.

Cheers,
Glenn

[ChrisMember]

Welcome aboard the OBT Ship mate…. Lots of DRZ riders here and heaps of adventure rides next year as well..

http://www.obtrailriders.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=56&func=view&catid=51&id=94249

Cheers…

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

G’day Glen, I was down your way last year for the Kowen Forest ride on my DRZ.

Welcome to the site mate, no sure that we have any other members from your area,,,, yet.

[Mick DMember]

Gday Gun,
Welcome to OBT and thanks for the intro. PLenty of friendly DRZ riders on here with heaps of info and the right attitude.
Cheers
Regards
MIck

[GregMember]

Hello Gun, Factoryphil and Adam his trusty offsider are at Queanbeyan and they do a fair chunk of riding down there.

As far as your gearing in the other thread goes ask blokes like Nickj, Boulder, Krusty, Jeffro etc they have a tonne of DR experience with DR’s in singles and open and all in between

TB

[Eric SmithMember]

G’day!

Welcome to Old Bulls. Don’t be afraid… we are all quite normal blokes here…

[Nick JacksonMember]

Hi Glenn Welcome to OBT, I do all types of riding on my DRZ and love it, its very versitile and gearing is a simple change over to have a do it all bike,
For the singles i run 14-48, and for the adventure rides i run 15-44.
I used Bridgestone ED78 rear tyre for an adventure ride and it easily did 3300km with heaps left. In the singles I find the Dunlop Geomax intermediate rear works well, we have a mixture of sand , loam , rock and clay and its good in all of these. I did use a Michelin s12 for the Coffs ride and it was outstanding in the wet but wouldn’t last more than 18 hours :blink:

These work well for me but we’re all riding in different terrain with different riding styles so it may not suit everyone.

Hope to see you on the trails soon

Nick

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