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Honda dealers should be able to get XR stuff easily enough.

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Is Mick doing a birthday ride this year? It could be on that weekend

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gavb wrote:

Jethros landing area. Yes he flew. If anyone goes past here please look for his watch. He realised too many km later to go back.

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Yeh that’s where I came off, I was looking at the water and where I wanted to cross and concentrating on when to pop the front wheel and by the time I looked up it was too late to go to the open side of the tree. With nowhere to go I tried to pop the front wheel over it but failed and the down I went.

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Here is a bit more video, it has taken 4 goes to get it to upload to utube, not sure why though.

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Are you sure of the date? My calender has the 11th and 12th of March as Sunday and Monday.

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EAGLE`02 wrote:

Good ride by the looks of it mate, nothing like not being quite sure where the hell you are going

That’s half the adventure

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Beautiful Country

As we headed further into the mountains the roads narrowed somewhat and became steeper with more twists and turns. I was having a great time with the exception of right hand bends, for some reason I was struggling to turn to the right. I never felt comfortable with the front end and it felt awkward even putting my leg out. On one corner I ended up drifting of the edge where it slopes away quite steeply and was covered in leaf litter but somehow managed to keep it upright and carry on but that only made me feel worse on the following right hand corners. Left handers were no problem, I could feel the front shifting around under me and wasn’t bothered by it but as soon as I felt the front start to go turning right I would panic and back off, straighten up and nearly miss the corner.
I was also having some minor bike issues, I had a similar problem once before where it wouldn’t idle and whenever I hit the steeper, rougher sections the bike would cough and fart. Last time the problem went away mid ride but this time it stayed with me the whole way. Fortunately there weren’t too many rough steep sections so it was only the not idling that was a pain in the you know what. Around 1.00pm I noticed that I had no instruments display, the bike was still going ok except for the coughing and farting getting a little worse but then it started to get a lot worse to the point where if I tried to give it any more than about ¼ throttle it would backfire and die then eventually just died. We pulled over and checked all the usual DRZ problem areas but apat from some dirty connections everything seemed ok. We then tried bypassing the ignition switch which got the headlight working but only just. Tryhard thought the battery may have died so we hooked up some jumper leads and the lights and instrument display all came back on an I was able to start it. After we disconnected the jumper leads everything looked to be working fine but as a test a switched it off then on again and again there was no power. We decided the battery must have died and so headed for Wauchope to see if Mud & Tar were open to get a replacement battery. On the trip into Wauchope the bike was running good again with none of the misfiring and when we got to the bike shop (and they were closed for the Boxing Day holiday) the battery was fine again. I think the dirty connections were stopping the battery from getting charge and it eventually went flat from the starting and lights which are what caused the problem.
By this time it was 1.30pm and we hadn’t had lunch, as Lotsa headed off again I assumed he would find somewhere to eat but no, back out of Wauchope we go and into the forest (don’t know where, I accidentally deleted the GPS log from day 1) and just kept riding. There was really only 1 stop all afternoon for about 10 minutes, the other stops were only for a minute or 2 while Lotsa and Gav worked out the next trail to take.

Not too many more photos, mainly video for this ride from me, too busy riding to take pictures,

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I can’t imagine paying all that money for bikes just so I can push and pull them up dirty great hills . Too much like hard work for my liking I reckon. Well done guys again.

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A big couple of days in the saddle, Wednesday from 9.30 until 7.30 and no lunch, Thursday from 9.00am until about 6.30. Even longer for Gavb who rode to the start point from the central coast and Tryhard who rode home with Gavb. Plenty of video, too much to all go on here though. It will take a while to edit and upload.

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I recognise some sections from the birthday ride, the section that runs along side the creek that starts around the 3 minute mark in the first video and the hill at the 7 minute mark in the 4th. They were part of the arvo grade 3 ride.

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I am off until the 3rd, going to Port Macquarie for a couple of nights and home on the 2nd. Riding with Lotsa by the looks for a couple of days and may try and squeeze one in before that to get my “eye” in again so to speak.

Whatever you do peoples do it safe, no point rushing to die. Merry Christmas to all

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I’m in Lotsa.

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Good stuff TC, you wont miss that kickstarter.

Unless the battery goes flat :blush:

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That will work for me whistles

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Happy Birthday Kram, have a great day mate

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