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Thirsty2454 wrote:
Quote:Moto wrote:Quote:I’m thinking about getting a bike like this play on the streets with….not like this guy but I reckon it would be pretty fun
Cheers for that Moto. That has to be one of the best clips in history. :woohoo:
Nice find Moto! Thanks!
Sorry TB, got a huge silly bugger of a lot of work on at the moment, have not even been in the office through daylight hours at all! Not really enough to make a thread but I have a couple of photos. Not many Old Bulls showed, had a few DBW starters and a few phone-call mates. Bit disappointing the lack of OBT starters really, but I suppose this time of year and all…
So anyway here’s some piccies:
Heading through town with Roy and v8r following, bikes on utes:
Rolling up to Catomal past the iconic Blue Fridge!
Most of the starters (JRD was late!)
At the top of the Drop
Will(?) had a drop on the Drop and broke a clutch perch. Ride over for him.
Ben made it in one piece, somehow! It was not pretty, but style points were not awarded for the day anyway!
v8r and Troy took the “Easy” way around that turned out to be harder than the main trail!
By the time we got to Rubble Hill most riders were shagged… ended up with a lot of photos like this:
Roy
Alan
JRD
Stu’s mate (Sorry, forget your name!)
And me
Chris rode straight up Rubble Hill as usual. A few others also made it, including Mick and JRD. Top effort you blokes! I was too hot and buggered to even try!
We then headed back, but not before a small incident with Stu’s mate on the Husky 300. Coming down a steep downhill he missed the brake somehow and ended up cartwheeling down about a 5 metre drop! Fortunately the bike didn’t follow him and both rider and bike were OK.
And that was enough, I think most of us were done in at that stage and the pool was calling! Beers and a pool on a hot saturday arvo, top stuff!
Wallareen was a bit of a quiet one, with JRD and myself on home turf and Roy tagging along. Not too much in the way of tracks, but what we rode was tops! We made it to the top of Rocky hill and I got a piccie or two to prove it:
Roy
Thanks again to Mick for opening Catombal for us! Great stuff mate!
Thanks to Roy for making the trip, I hope it was worthwhile for you! Onya JRD, good to catch up again! Nice to meet anyone I hadn’t met before. Good to see v8r on the TTR. Get a 13 tooth front sprocket mate!
Till next time!
ECKS
Good riding, good mates, what more could you ask for eh Bruce?
Other than 1000km closer of course! :laugh:
Maybe temperatures below 40°?
I have a new favourite pie in Orange. Whitey’s pies in Sale Street are tops! Good value too. Nice firm pies that don’t fall apart and drip thermonuclear hot filling down your forearm! Very tasty and well worth a visit – I think this might be the start of a beautiful relationship!
Moto wrote:
Quote:Oh man! I really want to come but it’s a good trek out and I will be spending mucho money the weekend before at the HVMCC Pony Express and buying a new dog todayWhat? Hang on, I think you can do better than that, there’s only 3 excuses in one sentance there mate! :laugh:
You’re missing out, this will be primo riding!
Boony, all close to Wellington mate, strap the banana behind the green frog and hit the toad mate!
Here’s the story from the site:
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In the week when they have pulled out of the bullshit world of F1, Toyota have clearly not lost their interest in motor sport; Joe Gibbs Racing built up a motocross “concept” bike for them to display on their stand at the high-profile Las Vegas SEMA car show !
The Yamaha heritage of the bike is evident, hardly surprising as the two firms have a long-standing relationship going back nearly half a century; Yamaha have been involved in numerous Toyota projects over the years, indeed the 2000 GT, the mid-60s sporting coupe which launched Toyota on the world market, was built by Yamaha.
At the turn of the millenium the link was cemented further when each concern took a 5% share-holding in the other, and Yamaha are currently contracted to develop an environmentally-friendly micro-car for the world’s largest car manufacturer.
The bike which appeared at Vegas was built up by Joe Gibbs Racing. Gibbs, a previous Washington Redskins coach, has been a prominent figure in Nascar for two decades and stepped over from Chevrolet to Toyota at the start of the 2008 season; the team entered supercross last year with Josh Grant, immediately winning Anaheim I, and have added Bercy winner Justin Brayton to their team for 2010.
Brayton was still racing an 09 YZ450F in Paris, though the team will presumably come with new bikes at Anaheim in January; but an immediate switch to a Toyota brand name is presumably a trifle premature, even though they could use the one-off 12 month “prototype” clause to get around the AMA production ruling.
Black carbon fibre body panels and highly-polished engine and lightened frame immediately strike the eye, and the PR mentions extensive use of titanium and other exotic metals which, together with the brittle-looking frame (aluminium is only as strong as steel with a significantly larger section), probably take the bike under the minimum weight limit.
The engine, basically an 09 YZ450F with after-market internals, is, like Yamaha’s 2010 power unit, reversed and features EFI, but there the similarity ends; on the JGR concept bike remains forward-slanted and utilises the team’s Nascar knowledge with a fan-driven forced air intake and extrusion cooling system.
Look closely and you will notice the absence of a kick-start; the starter is also “air-driven”, whatever that means exactly. The customised look is accentuated by the integration of the Toyota logo into the brake discs.
Will it ever hit the market and provide a 5th Japanese manufacturer ? Wait and see, but a niche market for “something different” has always existed – this is Aprilia’s aim – and a limited production supercross run – it is doubtful the bike could stand up to the strains and rigours of outdoor racing – comes infinitely cheaper than F1 !
Author: Alex Hodgkinson
