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happy b’day bob, the years have been good to you, but shit the weekends have done some damage :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

hatto

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not good news TB, guess that rule you out of B,Bay apex, Hope you get well soon

cheers Hatto

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and a bed friday for billt please hatto, you organizatiable mayhem loving freak :laugh: :laugh:

Don’t stress guys, there is 12 confirmed and 12 beds, so you can have a bed. I will gladly give my bed up to the next person to confirm for this ride

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the Batemans Bay Apex is on tomorrow and sunday, so I guess you missed it

Its a charity ride

bit late to organise that one then

You still have time, next weekend not this weekend

cheers Hatto

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the Batemans Bay Apex is on tomorrow and sunday, so I guess you missed it

Its a charity ride

No it’s next week LC, They aren’t full yet, Hurry up and enter

Hatto

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Your a tosser Hatto Plain and simple

That wasn’t very nice was it especially seems your so generous with your tools and spares bag

No its simply timing I can’t commit to anything after the first week of Nov too much work on.
Would love to go
Anyway you could do without me anyway I’d only stir too much shit, and you would probably only have too fix my bike , I don’t have a good track record of riding with you maybe 3rd time lucky
cheers
Bob[/quote]

Hows the clutch Bob, have you replaced yet, I prob am a tosser, stiring is all good, if we have to fix your bike on our 3rd venture,4 or 5th I’ll try to help out if I can – all good. You, lc, and dan should be coming down for b’bay apex.

Oh, I’ll take you off the list

cheers Hatto

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Morning mick
Hows the no fags caper going, I hope you are still on track

hatto

Interesting question Hatto

Do they make nappies in your size TB??

To answer your question Hatto, I have had some good days and some bad. :blush:

Keep with it mate, you will be better for it

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I cant commit, because of my new job I cant get holidays until next year and im already gonna take some sickies if necessary to go to Bathurst

thanks lc, will catch up soon – you in for the bay

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Hatto dude

I would liked to be added to the ride list cause

‘lifes an adventure and I must live life’. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I would like a bed Friday night,

Dude

Hey dude
great news, can you PM me so that it makes it easier for me to keep track and I will add you to the list of definates

cheers hatto

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llewdaert wrote:

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Hello Truthful answer from Scott is the money, :unsure: I got another expensive ride coming up to Cams corner which makes my decision easy…. and $500 skin plus getting there and other costs is probably cheap but and good value but not to me.Sorry for my honesty, :dry: $500 for one nights accommodation is dear, and I would rather follow one of my mates for free, even if we get lost, and stay in a cabin [frozen stiff ].

thanks for the reply scott, all the answers help for future planning, no need to be sorry for honesty, thats exactly what i’m after

cheers Hatto

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thanks for the reply menace, you must be busy because 2009 was 12 months ago :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

good stuff

hatto

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Hi All
I need some feedback here guy/gals about this ride.(now before anyone takes offence, I am just after feedback/answers)

I’m having a hard time with this situation

We have posted up a ride for the high country looking for expressions of interest, we get alot of positive feedback with 35-40 replies (count me in/extremely keen)

So we organise it, and now we only have 13 replies total(both for and against)so I am trying to find out why.

Is it the distance that you have to travel for the ride ???

Is it the cost of the ride ???

Is it the weekend availability ???

Is it because it’s a tour company (or specific tour company)???

We want some discussion on this, because if we don’t know the reasons behind, than we can’t address in the future.

A lot of time and effort goes into organising these things, and on this one we have tentative bookings for accom, meals etc, because we thought we would easily get the numbers based on the responses received,now it looks like it’s not going to happen and I hate leading people along and then cancelling out.

So please tell me your thoughts(good bad whatever) again it’s not having a go at anybody, we just don’t want to make the same mistakes when organising again in the future.

Don’t be shy, be truthful

cheers hatto

Hi Hatto,

I’ve looked at this ride many times and gave it a lot of thought as am always keen to ride, especially somewhere new, and would have been a good chance to meet some Old Bulls.

Ultimately the decision was not to go though which was largely made on the basis of the cost and duration. I just felt that the cost was a bit high for 2 days riding and 1 nights accommodation. Especially when there would be two of us going. I notice that it can now include the Friday night accommodation which is a great idea. Unfortunately not enough to change the situation for us though, $1000 for a weekend – just too much I’m afraid.

I know only too well how challengning it is to organise things, especially something of this magnitude, and to get people to commit so thank you for the effort you’ve obviously put in and I hope that it still goes ahead. When I read all the stories that will come out of it I know I’ll be wishing we’d been there.

Hi Cathi, thanks for the reply, thats another reply for the cost issue. I enjoy organising rides (or trying to help out others organising them)but this info is very helpful for next time. I’m not in it for praise, I do it because I love to go riding with different people and different places, but as I said it’s no good me organising rides if the people I like to ride with can’t go. For instance, If the feed back tells me that people only want to ride 1 day, not cost to much, and is close to home, than I will organise that type of ride

cheers and thanks

hatto

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yeh Hatto you probably do :laugh: (ive now got two spares as well)it is a M10 nut with a step down head ie 13mm across the flats instead of 17mm as there is no room to fit due to the close proximity of the triple clamp surrounds (if you know what I mean :unsure: )also cant use a nylock either has to use loctite

Ollie

i always carry locktite (red)

cheers hatto

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This looked like a job for hatto and his trusty tool chest – wish i was there, I have bolts that would fit that ollie

hatto

I dont know Hatto I carry a big selection (Ollie I think was impressed by what I carried on me) and I couldn’t help him Even if I had my trailer kit there (I rode out) I wouldn’t have had one it was strange thread. I reckon it was a cheap set of bar adapters, witworth thread from Aldi :laugh:

TB

Thats where I got my spare set of bolts from :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

The ones I carry are from a husky, a mate broke a set on the way to araluen

hatto

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How tight is out Aldi team gasser rider????

He is so tight his was the only bike that ran out of fuel :laugh: :laugh:

He is so tight he uses cable ties to hold his handle bars on :ohmy: :ohmy: :laugh: :laugh:

TB

Hmm it was a case of improvise or dont ride,I decided to improvise I tried to find a nut that would fit,even tried the one off my utes power steering box.

The fuel situation was a bitch probably because the bike was shared and did more laps than the others. Letting someone else ride my bike is not a case of being tight id say its a case of being generous,unselfish and making sure a fellow trail rider has a good time and not wasted travelling 500 km for nought

carry on Rex :laugh:

I see you used Beagles KTM cable ties, I know he says green all the way but you can tell but the pretty orange cable ties he keeps in his wagon that he really wants to go to the dark side.

Either that or he will update to his new green meany

This looked like a job for hatto and his trusty tool chest – wish i was there, I have bolts that would fit that ollie

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