Murphs long way to the Gap and back

[Dwayne OMember]

No worries Murph & Dude

Nice pics there, especially Moto coming back down Razorback :huh: :dry: :unsure: :blink: :laugh:

Hope he is ok :laugh:

[murph the surfMember]

Loops are all put together for when you come up Mal5.1
Perhaps Gotchya could come and do some too??
Bloody hot this time of though
Cheers
Murph

[Rolf GoldbergerMember]

Hey Murph Ill be there with bells on ?

Cheers

[MalMember]

I’l be up there in a few weeks Gotchya. I’ll let you know.

Start training NOW!!!!!

Oh by way good report Murph and cograts on working out photobucket.

Two stroke lads – get some pipe protection BEFORE you go on a Murphsberg ride!!!

[Dwayne OMember]

Wonder what happened to the last pic, Motos Pie Mod ????

Was it a bit rude Murph ??? :laugh:

Mal. I had a pm for a phone call to Murph to assist with the Photobucket stuff, They had it almost licked, just couldn`t quite get the multiple pic thing, so I helped em out

Looks like you are now out of a job :laugh:

[murph the surfMember]

I will have another go at posting Motos pipe mod pic
I hope Moto hasn’t removed it through embarrasment :laugh:

Maybe the pic must stay in the photobucket album??? As I did delete this pic from there??
Its all new to me :blink: :S
Aha cracked it :woohoo:

[Dwayne OMember]

You are becoming quite an expert now Murph :laugh:

Great pic, bet he cried when he did that :blink:

[LiamMember]

Exceptional ride as always Murph! :woohoo:.

You neglected to mention Moto putting Smurphs jersey on some fresh dog shit then proceeding to lie on it :blink: :laugh:.
I look forward to the video footage and Moto’s commentary :laugh: :laugh:.

[NathanMember]

Diddel wrote:

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You neglected to mention Moto putting Smurphs jersey on some fresh dog shit then proceeding to lie on it :blink: :laugh:.

I thought Moto was a pom not German ???? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

too hot to be out there ridin i was at beautiful Copacabana catchin peaky 2 to 3 footers. the only place on the coast to have any decent swell and waves on the day. :woohoo:

cheers
tf2

[TrentMember]

Thanks for another great ride Murph and thanks Dude for sweeping. The boys did what they could to help me and I’m glad you didn’t cut it short for me because I would’ve felt like shit for ruining it.

Big thanks to Moto for coming in and getting me without a slight murmur of fuss.

I rang my wife while I was sitting around but then stupidly left my phone in the back of the ute so I missed her calls and she started to get a little worried. She told me the only reason wasn’t panicking was that she knew I was riding with the old bulls.

Gotta love the old bull spirit – especially when you make a habbit of breaking down in the middle of the bush!

[GregMember]

Whats doing AB, whats happened?

TB

[TrentMember]

Murph the surf wrote:

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That’s awesome! :woohoo: I always thought that it was best to give it a fair bit with those sort of puddles so you keep momentum and create a wake around the bike but the boys were saying I gave it a bit too much curry :p

I’m guessing this may be what caused my bike to cark it but I’m still not sure what the problem is I also ripped the switch block apart when I did my superman but the wires appear to be in tact.

I gave both my bikes a bath this afternoon and kicked the TM over. It sounded as though it had no spark on most kicks then a couple were ok and it fired then idled for about 20s and then stalled again. So the symptom is intermittent spark – Probably a compromised wire somewhere in there and I’ll most likely try and find it myself while sorting out what I’m going to do with that switch block.

I really need to spend some more time on this bike to learn how to ride it without flogging it and myself. I still haven’t mastered use of the rear brake and was often giving it too much throttle (but it’s fun!) and came unstuck on some ruts. Razorback keeps claiming me because I’m not settled controlling the bike and I’m not flowing into the steep section smooth enough. The movie will confirm it for me but I think each time it has been the lead up that stuffed me and the drop just finishes me off and makes it look spectacular.

I haven’t watched the videos yet but will upload them tomorrow and I’m pretty sure it should include my stage dive, Moto’s rock climb, this mud fest and many other great shots.

I’m pretty well convinced that I’m cursed somehow. Don’t get me wrong, I know it could be worse if it was me that kept getting broken rather than my bike but I’m really being tested for commitment with this shit.

Thanks also to murph for leading gary out in the morning. I had a chat with him in the day and he said he was going home to ice it up. I was telling the guys on the weekend that his road bike has been dropped or knocked over about 5 times and he’s only done about 1000kms I think.

Cheers.

[TrentMember]

Trailboss wrote:

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Whats doing AB, whats happened?

TB

My prognosis is weak spark.

It wasn’t immediately after this puddle but a short while after it the bike bogged on a steep incline and I found that it would idle fine but under load it would bog if I gave it pretty much anything less then wide open throttle. We dropped the carby drain bowl out and it appeared clean so I reinstalled it and we kept on. Moto checked the air mixture screw because I thought it may have backed itself out but it was fine. We tried 2 different plugs and still no good. Checked the spark and found it had none. I checked all of the wires and the connections looked fine except I knew that there was two wires sitting free where the switch block got smashed and the kill switch was on there. It would seem they’d be the obvious cause only that the bike ran fine for some time after the switch block parted ways with the bike.

p.s. I laid down about 5 times throughout the day – only good one was the rock drop was quite interesting as I was in the air long enough to wonder if I was going to break something when I landed

[Dwayne OMember]

You sure are having some hard luck of late AB :blink:
You can honestly say that you have given the TM the initiation of fire though :laugh: How many MurphsBergs can it stand,,,

Keep at it mate, you will get it sorted.

[murph the surfMember]

Hey tf2
Your right mate, that must of been the only spot that had anything that looked like a wave, goodonya
Austblue, good luck with the TM mate :blink: You’ll get it sorted
Mal5.1, depending on weather conditions and how much punishment we can endure we could maybe do three days of hard riding :ohmy: :silly:
Cheers
Murph

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