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I knew you were bored and needed something to do!! :laugh:

Well after getting back to the hood OWL02 parked his bike and OWL01 fired up the XR and we went for another ride.. This time to North Sydney as My computer room aircon at work was alarming.. Its f*&^%ed and I’m waiting on the emergency call out bloke.. OWL01 has abandoned me and headed back.. Looks like I will get to try out the front headlight this evening…

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I stripped it back, mainly all the plastics and tank and got me an air box cover, then gave it the muc-off treatment.. It looks even better now.. I will eventually do even more of a detail cleaning i.e.; baked on dirt to exhaust and some gooey chain lube stuff along the top of swing arm and crud in the suspension linkage etc.. I think I will ride, crash and burn her for awhile and then get a whole new set of plastics and let Tee and Cee cover em up..

Tasks done so far

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Removed the fat ugly rear unit (brake light and indicators) and put on an Acerbis thingy with LED tail light.. There was some old mini indicators that was in the box of stuff and I put them on the rear frame about half way on the rear fender, looks alright and does what I wanted..

Removed most all the stickers.. Now you can see the tank fade :laugh:
Replaced Clutch and Brake Levers
Replaced Hand Grips
Replaced Plastic portion of the EGO Barkies
Adjusted cockpit
Added GPS mount
Added new wiz bang rear tail bag with new tool roll and pack..
Added my front fender bag.
Completed inspection

Still to do (today)

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Flush radiators
Change Oil and Oil Filter
Adjust Chain
Adjust rear sag (TB don’t know it yet but he will be doing it today )

I ran into a few surprises or difficulties however you want to look at it.

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Bolts holding on the Bash plate seemed to be over tightened and I stripped the allen key holes.. She is sorted though after I gave em the message with Mr Grinder and Mr. Drill

The Front sprocket cover lower bolt snapped.. Not sure what I am going to do yet.. It was very very tight and I think inserted cross threaded.. I put a bit into undoing it and the bolt snapped clean off leaving a small amount sticking out..

The 2 phillips head screws holding the throttle housing on the bars were stripped and wouldn’t allow a good grip to undo.. Mr Grinder and Mr. Drill sorted that I replace with some nice allen key holed screws..

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Some photos from today before I tore it down and made some adjustments…

As Purchased

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menace wrote:

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get off the mushies ya round eyed hippy :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Whats wrong with a little mushies.. :silly:

Under mine………..

Politicians :X

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZN1puUwH0c&NR=1

solo solo!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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Just shits me… Bloody grubs….

From a garage?? Sounds to me like they knew about em or have been watching the house..

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Nickj wrote:

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:laugh: :laugh: I just realised this trip has a pommy and a sepo on it. Sounds like the making of a joke
TB

:laugh: and both pommy and sepo on 400’s 😆 I can imagine how that joke will end up :laugh: :laugh:

Hmm… I guess we or shall I say I will be the jester of the trip for our fellow court…

I’ll provide the GPS cords for the location we will hold our effigy burning and sacrifice to Molech.. :woohoo: :woohoo:

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Trailboss wrote:

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So has anybody looked into those luggage loops yet? I am still debating what to use whether it be my soft panniers or I use of of those soft loops as we dont need to carry so much

TB

I spoke to Mal yesterday and he has gotten a Giant Loop Mohave in for a touch and feel session.. I plan on paying them a visit on Saturday morning, hopefully before I come to your place

What are the suggestions for water?

When does Boulder get back from the pre-run?

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Received my Old bulls T-shirt yesterday… Very nice quality and very satisfied.. Thanks Chris……

Cheers…

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I was looking at a set of these today.. The price jumped up for some reason.. The kit is now $122

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congrats mate!!!

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yes operator error……..

I have thought about the KLX450 Corey however would it survive a 2800 K trip to and from the corner as easily as a DRZ or XR? Out of all the long distance desert type rides I have read about.. I have never seen much of any other bikes than DR650, DRZ400, XRxxx and the likes..

How many cross country rides like the one we are doing in October have the various high compression 450’s done? I’m talking amateur not Race events.. How many tour companies offer these same bikes on their tours?

My choice in bike will be about all around functionality as well as cost.. Did the XR400 meet my criteria.. Yes it did.. However I want to try something new and I also want the magic button…

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white rocket wrote:

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not sure if thats a backward step or a sideway step is a banana better than a xr400?klx450 are fairly cheap and go hard like bruce said

I think sideways..

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Trailboss wrote:

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go back to America then :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: just joking

No Way.. even with crap roads and a crap polly system Australia is still a better country!!

Can’t beat the true blue Aussie mate!!

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100% about money 0% about saving lives IMO..

The roads in this country are shocking.. They are not wide enough and no where near 1st world standard.. If you have ever been over to the US or Europe you will know what I mean.. I have been to Syria and other places in the middle east and the roads are even better there and they are supposed to be 3rd world..

The Australian road fatality is because of shit roads, cheap cars and poor driver education.. Germany is the country to model on..

In the US the state of Arizona has just removed every speed camera in the entire state because since they installed them the road fatality has gone up not down.. Plus they admitted it was about revenue raising and was also considered an invasion of privacy..

Nothing we can do about it as the governments will always do what they want not what we want..

Funny how we never have any money for our infrastructure needs but they always have money to kill people in far away places..

Like Ollie………….. Disgruntled….

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