New Member checking in.

[GarryMember]

Hey all,

Name is Garry and I was pointed in the direction of this forum another member.

Been riding near on 25 years but mainly on road bikes. Eventually got sick and tired of picking people up off the road due to their own ambitions outweighing their ability anmd by then had done and seen all that I wanted on the sealed stuff. In late 2006 I bought a Weestrom as I expected to be doing more dirt touring which was the case, but soon enough I found harder firetrails and, well, while the Strom would try it she was a heavy sucker and difficult to pickup.

So a few short months ago I sold her and got a DR650 which has so far proven to be a good choice. Some may not see it as an outright dirt bike but for me she is so chuckable and light (compared to the Strom) that I can’t start to imaging what 120kg of bike must feel like. Besides, I do a lot of open road riding with speeds upwards of 100kmh so the DR is a good compromise bike.

Oh yeah, some other stuff.

I live in the Illawarra so have plent of good forestry roads, tracks and trails pretty close by and I get out regularly to make the most of it and enjoy the views offerred by some of the remoter local areas.

Hope to catch up one day.

Garry

[Anonymous]

Hey Garry, welcome to OBT. The DR is a trusty stead that I’m sure will after you. Coming from a strom I can see how it must feel light! A few people on here having bigger 650 touring bikes now so you may well catch up with them sooner rather than later

[Eric SmithMember]

Welcome Garry! Good to see you made it here! These guys are a great bunch and know their stuff(ing around)! Lot of fun to be had, and some great rides organised.

BTW, Garry is here on my recommendation so play nice with the new member kiddies!

[Anonymous]

Good work ECKS, nice to see you drumming up new members as well as coming on here to take the piss out of everyone else :laugh:

[Eric SmithMember]

Do you mean to tell me that is unacceptable behaviour here? Dang… Looks like I’ll go back where I came from then!

Hang on, under the forum rules I’m sure it says somewhere that all members are obliged to take the piss out of any other member, especially moto! I distinctly remember reading that somewhere…

[GregMember]

It should be in bold print about Moto :laugh:

Oh Welcome Garry, will be some good rides coming up that will suit, should have talked him into the weekend tour ECKS, sure there is an extra spot, birdie tells me someone is going to pull out

[Anonymous]

You’re probably right mate, although I’m not good with rules :p We like you here mate, you’re the only one that writes sensible posts :laugh:

This is also my 3000th post by the way so I’ll dedicate it to you :kiss:

[Eric SmithMember]

Really, Well I nearly had another starter yesterday, a local who I didn’t know rode but who is looking for good places to ride and blokes to ride with. I pointed him at this website but he is not interweb literate. Might be that he will come along on a couple of rides first?

Anyway Garry, the ride TB is talking about is from Zig Zag to Hill End on Saturday, overnight at the pub and back on Sunday. It is organised complete with super-sexy support vehicle driven by moto. Cheap and well organised… sign up mate, you’ll have a ball and the mighty DR will be well suited to it (Won’t it TB?)

[GregMember]

Better than your ECKS ha ha

[Anonymous]

The DR will love this ride and you hit the nail on the head with support vehicle (lets not forget Tracy too). As a first ride and meet with some OBT’s I don’t think you get a better ride.

Oh, and yes, we did have a cancellation this morning

[Eric SmithMember]

Trailboss wrote:

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Better than your ECKS ha ha

You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face once I convince you to come on a Catombal ride TB! We’ll see what’s suited to what then! :laugh:

[GarryMember]

ECKS-Man wrote:
Anyway Garry, the ride TB is talking about is from Zig Zag to Hill End on Saturday, overnight at the pub and back on Sunday. It is organised complete with super-sexy support vehicle driven by moto. Cheap and well organised… sign up mate, you’ll have a ball and the mighty DR will be well suited to it (Won’t it TB?)[/quote]

I would be tempted to join but alas I have already planned a ride with a few others around Nerriga and the surrounding districts so can’t get out. Another day maybe (well likely).

Garry

[GregMember]

ECKS-Man wrote:

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Trailboss wrote:

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Better than your ECKS ha ha

You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face once I convince you to come on a Catombal ride TB! We’ll see what’s suited to what then! :laugh:

Ha ha little man, we will see I will take that as a personal challenge, I might go to the next DBW one what do you reckon, we could put our OLD BULL banner up :laugh:

[Eric SmithMember]

Yeah, why not! What’s the worst that can happen?? Lynching? Hehehe!

Now I’m looking forward to this… a BRP on Fern Gully and Rubble Hill, assuming it survives The Drop! Tell you what TB, I’ll help push yours if you help push mine!

[GregMember]

Hey we could sit at the cars and drink rum and talk about how good we used to be lol :laugh:

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