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I would like to thank those that thought of the idea to rally at the Motorcycle museum.. I thought it was a great gathering and the museum and the spread they laid out was awesome.. Thanks go to the Museum staff.. The caravan park was terrible and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone…
Here we are ready to go…
As we were scooting along I noticed Chris T in front of me looking down at his left side.. I thought it was a chain issue.. nope gear selector was gone.. Oh my now what.. I rode back past the last 2 wide bends in the road figuring he must have used it going in or out of the bend.. Sure enough the bend behind us lying on the side of the road was a bright shiny piece of alloy…
Boulder as always was the first to jump in and quickly on the case to secure it to the bike..
Here we are at St. Albans looking for something to eat and or drink however it was closed..
Moving on towards Laguna, Boulder notices that Nicks plate is about to fall off.. All secured..
Boulder needing some fuel not far from Laguna..
Water, Food and a re-fuel near Laguna..
We arrived at Laguna and the boys had a beer as we met up with Eagle.. Here we are getting ready to depart..
Finally around 2 p.m. we made it to Kitchener.. What a Pub and what a great publican.. He let us camp in his court yard and make use of his showers.. We drank most of the afternoon away and had a great feed early evening.. Jeffro dropped in to see how we were traveling..
Around Dusk I pulled my tank off to clean the petcock as I was having high speed surge issues.. TB reckoned it was a clogged petcock.. Good call as that was exactly what it was..
Boulder blowing the petcock clean and me being a goof..
Some shots of the camp..
After a hot night and some sleep we awoke early and packed.. Soon Lotsa, Mickp, Gavb and Tryhard arrived on time and we headed out.. We rode in pairs and Gavb picked up the rear..
Nick returning from a re-con for a blocked off road..
A break and some thinking..
TB having a look to see how steep a down hill was..
Gavb having a sticky beak..
Unfortunately I managed to not take any more photos..
The surge problem occurred again and on the way into Dungog it totally gave up and I pulled up onto the side of the road.. Boulder and some of the other boys pulled up and it was determined that I had no fuel getting to the carby however when placed on reserve she flowed OK.. She fired up and into Dungog we went.. I noticed that the bike would no longer idle when coming to a stop.. At first I thought it was the fuel issue but soon learned it wasn’t..
Upon arriving at Krambach, Booney and the Tamworth boys had already arrived and food was the mission at this point.. Soon after the Wauhope crew arrived and we were all ready to make our way to Nabiac..
My bike wouldn’t start, however a roll start got it going.. Eagles bike wouldn’t start either.. After some troubleshooting he gave it a roll start and she fired up.. We arrived safely at Nabiac and everyone headed to their sleeping accommodation..
Most guys stripped down and showered.. I just stripped.. Funny thing though.. I was in such a hurry to strip off the gear and I just threw everything onto the top bunk.. Later that night when I removed it all and crawled into the bed it was soaked.. I must have pinched the mouth piece on the camel back and it drained in place.. I just flipped the mattress over and then happy days..
The night at the Museum was great.. Great food, great people, great atmosphere.. What more could we have asked for.. They put on a ripper meal and played all these old motorcycle movies from the 70’s and 80’s.. The museum itself was pretty amazing.. In the morning we all returned for brecky and that was a great spread as well..
During the evening I decided I wasn’t going to fight the bike back on Sunday in the heat.. I wasn’t far from home and figured I would take advantage of being close.. My good mate Craig(OWL01) picked up my trailer and drove north.. I offered a spot and delivery to Eagle for the next day.. We laughed and joked as some OWL’s and a Eagle traveled home.. Upon arriving at the Eagle nest we were led to a most excellent setup.. A nice workshop area laid out great.. All tucked under the house.. The main garage area had huge eye-beams you could use to pull motors out of cars.. Very nice setup Eagle!!
I got home around 3 p.m. and shared a drink with OWL01..
All in all I had a great time as usual with an Old Bull gathering.. Cheers to everyone who helped out throughout the journey especially Boulder as he was always quick to jump in and offer what ever he could..
Trailboss wrote:Krusty wrote:No trailer of shame at all mate.. got home and it wouldn’t even roll start.. Its called a dead bike…Its not dead Krusty 😆 its just hard to start mate trust me it will go and go for a day. Like Boulder said they push started bikes with no valve clearances for days across SA. They are harder to start when cold because the valves are cold and aren’t heat expended and do take an effort to get going but trust me it would go.
At least its home
hope you shouted Owl 01 some stubbies :laugh: we must off passed him somewhere :huh:
TBNo Worries.. It could also be the shit fuel issues as well as I haven’t cleaned it yet.. :angry: I’m gonna try again when I put the stock tank on..
Will do ride report tomorrow and post the photos tomorrow..
OWL 01 had a lag at the Eagle nest as well as lags and Bundy’s at my place.. I must say one of the highlights for the wekend was seeing the super duper man cave buried under the Eagle nest.. :woohoo: Dream setup..
ugh I just got home from work too, as I had to go fix the issues from Saturday morning..
chris72a wrote:Krusty wrote:Don’t like it. Why fix what wasn’t broke?How do you know it wasn’t broke we were miles behind on versions for software, new software includes things like security fixes, bug fixes etc, I don’t want my server being hacked due to this site not being updated, it had to be done as you would know new versions things change sorry you don’t like but that’s the way it is.
Chris.
No worries Chris.. If there were security issues of course you needed to update.. Letting everyone know one of the reasons for the change was a security issue..
I still don’t like it.. 👿 very clunky compared to the old layout and it now has that silly web 2.0 look and feel..
Will have a deeper scroll around..
Time (this was awkward on old as well) can you make it the actual date.. Threads say 1 year 2 hours 46 minutes..
Why not just the actual date and time?
Will try and add a bit more constructive stuff..
SteveRed wrote:
Quote:Krusty wrote:Quote:Hi Steve…Your more than welcome to use my DRZ400E for rack development…
Thanks for all the info you sent late last week..
Well we will need a bike just for that so if the offer stands I may just call it up.
Thanks Krusty.
Yup offer stands.. PM me or I think one of the emails I sent asking about those Wolfman Summit bags included my mobile number..
Cheers…
Dickie wrote:
Quote:Is Tee N Cee a sponsor?, the guys rung the other day to tell me the kid’s stickers were ready. Just finished reading Krusty’s post so I asked him if he had any OBT stickers. He seemed a bit stunned but was like I’ll have to look around. So hoping something turns up in the mail on Friday. No mail Thursday’sThey are not a sponsor in the direct sense.. But they do support us is varies ways…
When they know you are an Old Bull they will use the empty space on the sheet they print and add the standard Old Bull Stickers to the run in order to fill the dead space is my understanding..
When they did mine I got about 4 or 5 Old Bull stickers that were printed during my kit printing..
Cheers…
Hi Steve…
Your more than welcome to use my DRZ400E for rack development…
Thanks for all the info you sent late last week..
good on-ya mate!!!
Krusty is jealous.. :woohoo:If and when I get mine one day you can give me all your mods.. :laugh: I always preferred the black when I browse and dream..
Not ready for Nabiac eh..
singletrackmind wrote:
Quote:micknmeld wrote:Quote:EAGLE`02 wrote:Quote:Yeah,
Coming along nicely there Gaz
All these stories & projects lately affirms DRZ`s on the map well & truly for a great allround bike :woohoo:They seem to be a very versatile bike. Although, after reading several years of ride reports,their electrics seem to be their achilles heel.
Biggeral would also agree with that.
STM
Yeah mate yeah!!
If you can’t afford 2 bikes, 2 regos and 2 green slips and all the toys to go with both then the DRZ is the pick for both modes of riding.. My utimate would be one for each mode but minister of finacne won’t allow it.. YET
Boony wrote:
Quote:I just put the standard gearing on, 14/47,, I run 14/50 in the bush, I just google earthed out route for saturday and its windy dirt road for most the way, so 120kph wont be getting done to often, I have had the DRZto 160 using this standard gearing before.160 on standard gearing, now that is insane and I would never subject my Dr. to that.. Talk about a screamer!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Grip heaters? hahahahaha :laugh: :laugh: Not sure you will need them in 30 degree heat.. :laugh: :laugh:
EAGLE`02 wrote:
Quote:Ok,
Thought I`d give the campout ADV syle thing a go on friday night instead of softing it in a pub room :laugh:
Might as well seeing I have a set of bags on loan & possibly a pair coming secondhand soon
This will give me a basic setup ready for the next steed whenever it arrives :dry: :huh: soon I hope
Am still travelling light (no cooking gear or extra spares etc)
I do have a tent, fly, camp mat, sleeping bag, clothes, towel and some extra fuelLooks most excellent Eagle..
Interesting concept with the home made rack… Your gonna love it!!!Nickj wrote:
Quote:Mine have a rubberback too mate but once you get dust and dirt behind it’s like sandpaper!!I’m going to try the sheepskin and hopefully save the side of the Tenere !
I put the old plastics on
which are plenty scratched up.. Cheers…Good choice Kev..
Have a look at Krusty’s Banana and Gaz Banana.. Lots of good ideas and stuff there..
Cheers…
Trailboss wrote:
Quote:That was everything was it? The all the changes, the artworks you had added and the try this the try that’s that they e mail back and forth? And fitting mate? That’s cheaper than mine :laugh:Mine are nearly 4 years old and done heaps of work, never get an once of love just a squirt of truck wash and pressure washed. None have peeled or come up
TB
Yes everything.. They did an awesome job..
A few bubble(got out) and creases around the weird shaped parts but all in all good job.. I hope they can last all of Krusty’s offs..
:laugh: :laugh:
