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As Jeffro said it depends what way you go, I’v done Coffs Harbour Cameron Corner. Rode pretty much bitumen, bit and pieces of dirt to Narrabri then dirt from Narrabri to Bourke through Carinda.

Yes your right its dirt just after North Bourke pretty much all the way to the corner, fuel at Wanaaring but maybe ring ahead to make sure he has some, then fuel at Tiibooburra.

Any of those bikes mentioned would be fine for the trip. As for tyres IMO you can’t beat Dunlop 606’s value for money no need to change tyres at Bourke. One set will be fine.

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Whats the story with Kasey punching out some dude and getting fined $5k?[/quote]

He didn’t punch him out he hit him on the arm…….

Stoner was on a fast lap during morning warm up apparently close to 300kph, Randy De Punet was apparently playing around with his brakes doing about 100kph and swerved onto the racing line in front of Stoner. Stoner belted him in the arm as he went past and then got up out of the seat and shook his fist at him.

I’m interested to know peoples opinions on the Dani Pedrosa, Marco Simoncelli incident… was the ride through penalty warranted or not?

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Thanks for the ride Murph top day 110+ k’s with some great special stages. Now home and relaxing looking forward to watching Moto GP

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You will probably need a puller or a pitman arm remover fork and a bit of heat. Leave the nut on a couple of threads when you apply the heat. Otherwise you may wear it.

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Ok firstly this is not a piss take and I’m being serious, If the mods feel the attached photo is not appropriate please feel free to delete it. With everyone carrying so much gear in there bumbags including me be real careful how you position tools inside your bumbag that are near your body.
Below is a photo after I had been over the bars and landed on my back the force of hitting the ground broke my neckbrace and I honestly thought I had done severe damage to my back. As the bruise developed you could clearly see the outline of the spanners I was carrying in my bumbag in the bruise. That was a fox bumbag that has the tool part up against your body. Now when I pack my kelly bumbag I give myself a bit of padding between the tools and my body.

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sweet thanks for that

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Trailboss wrote:

Take your trials bike BB that would kill it on a Murphsberg

TB

Shhhhhhh I was thinking it could be my secret weapon hahaha………Transports are ok on it as top gear is a huge overdrive the rest of the gearbox is very close ratio though.

Nah I’ll be there on the WR.

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Murph can you put me down for this ride please.

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Trailboss wrote:

On the subject I have a bearing puller that will just catch the bearing lip Badbowie was talking about works a treat, Snap-on dear as :unsure: Pulls the bearings out straight and easy

TB

As TB said there are bearing pullers that do a good job too. Recently I was doing a resto on a bike the axle was that small I realy couldn’t get a punch through to drive the bearing out so pulled out the bearing puller I have. Unfortunately the bearing was that shagged it just pulled the inner race out and left me with a new drama, the outer race hard up against a shoulder in the hub. I tried the old trick of running a weld around the inside of the outer race to shrink it (Normally works a treat) but not this time last resort was the welded plug method, I just cut a bit of flat bar welded it onto the outer race, light tap and out it came. That bearing had been in the hub for 30+ years..

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No you can’t drive the whole lot out. The way I do it is stick my punch or dolly inside the spacer and lever and jiggle it until I can get the spacer off centre to the bearing it normally gives you enough of an edge to drive the bearing out. One side of the spacer should move pretty easily, the other won’t as it is kind of held in place by the casting in the hub from memory??
I think the back has a circlip in there too, but pretty sure the front doesn’t. I’ll check later.

When I have had real stubbon wheel bearings in the past I have welded a plug into the bearing which makes it very easy to knock out from the other side.

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Another little trick we have found to work a treat is to put your Filter Oil in a squeeze bottle (IE Tomato Sauce Bottle). Then you can squirt as much or as little oil onto your filter as needed.

Alot cleaner then any other method I have used and you waste next to no oil either.

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I think a group off ADV rider went through Narrabri this morning on there way to Condobolin for the 750.

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also does anyone know would the clarke tank interfere with my radiator guards???
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Ev on our bikes we are running force radiator guards the original style guards and the later more robust style guards and there is no issue with a clarke tank all fits up nicely.

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Yeah with my standard tank I’m hitting reserve at about 65km so your getting about the same economy as me. SB and I have ran comparison fuel runs with quite different carb settings and fuel economy doesn’t change much. Some guys reckon they are getting 100km+ out of the standard tank we have never come close to this.

Clarke tank can be a bit fiddly to fit. I have installed a stud into my frame so the tank just slides over the stud, instead of trying to line a bolt up in the frame. As also stated you have to run the fuel tap reversed, to me this is no big issue as I have never needed reserve since fitting the big tank. This problem can be solved by fitting a steel frame WR450 fuel tap.

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I was the fittest I have ever been in my life before last years Hattah, and to be honest it did me no good what so ever. IMO Hattah is more about your ability to ride the sand. If you think you have ridden sand before nothing can get you ready for that track.

If you like deep deep sand you will love it. I ran 14/50 on an 09 WR450 with an ED78 rear tyre at times the bike wouldn’t pull top gear the sand was that deep. There was only two real long straights so I probably would have been better running 13/50. Damper is good but you can’t turn it up to much as there are some tight turns on the track.

You will have to know you fuel economy too unless you plan on stopping every lap. Make sure you know how to reload your rolls offs quickly or have a spare set of goggles ready to go. Tear offs were not allowed last year.

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