[Geoff ForshawMember]

Another great vid by Speilberg! :laugh: Well done TB great stuff!!

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Well it was a ride that I had been looking forward to for some time, and it didn’t disapoint. With so much variation of tracks and places to see that normally, without a bike, you would never see.
I was going to trailer my bike to St Albans and meet TB there for lunch but decided to ride instead as it was a cracker of a day. Met up with TB had some lunch and a couple of beers when the Wigster turned up on his new Triumph Tiger for his maiden Adventure voyage, and I was sure he was going to be in for a treat and a treat it was, hey champion :blink:
I set up camp in the park opposite the pub and soon the rest of the crew followed suit. It was a great night to catch up with the old bulls that I hadn’t seen for a while and have a few more beers and share a yarn or two.
Day 1 of riding and I was up at around 5am wanting to get away early, however it was not to be as it had rained overnight and packing up wasn’t as quick as I had hoped with all the wet gear so I didn’t get away till around 7am. With the GPS loaded with the route I was on my way.
It was a great days riding with everything thrown in from rain to sunshine, open and tighter trails agreat mix.
I was riding solo for most of the morning, which was a good thing from a navagation point of view as it kept me on my toes which is good practice for when I do the Longest Day Ride in December. Then I met up with Boulder, Fish and Fish Finger, which was fantastic, for the later part of the morning till lunch at Capertee where I decided to push on and do the Glen Davis road loop followed by the Turon Gates river run. Absolutely awesome ride and a great part of the world for riding. Once through I met up with the Wahchopians, stopped and chewed the fat for a while then made a bee-line for Red Hill then on to Bathurst. It was a 410km day of great riding, unfortunately I still had some work to do as the Adv rear tank that i had made had cracked its mounts and was hitting on the rear sprocket and chain and was leaking fuel. Luckily i had fitted a fuel tap to the rear tank which meant I could isolate the fuel leak. :ohmy:
Fortunately for me Boulder had a spare fuel bladder which I borrowed for Day 2 (Thanks Boulder, you are a legend mate!) So off i went to my parents place, who happen to live in Kelso, lucky again, to remove my rear tank. This is where I discovered that I had another issue which I must monitor closely for day 2. The seal between the engine and gearbox was leaking and transferring gearbox oil into the engine :huh: I only discovered this when I checked the engine oil later that night and it was about half a litre over full. So from then on around every 200km or so I had to transfer engine oil back to the gearbox :dry:
Off to bed around 9pm that night with day 2 to follow.

Cheers,
Lefty

The camp set-up

The Boulders with Ace and Eags at Zig Zag

Oops! I’m Leaking :ohmy:

[Geoff ForshawMember]

Great intro TB. Looks like you have the hang of this movie stuff! I think you need renaming to “Speilberg” :laugh: :laugh:

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Jeffro wrote:

Just looking through the route on the computer and worked out how we missed getting Fuel at Bylong. The route went right at the T-intersection but the fuel was a few hundred meters down to the left.

Yes mate, I did the same thing then when I saw you and MT I headed towads Jerry’s Plains and got fuel there. It was noted on the route instuctions and I read them the night before but it was one of those things that get overlooked sometimes eh. :unsure:

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Nickj wrote:

Jeffro wrote:

http://youtu.be/4Z4GoHkpwaU

:ohmy: Very lucky mate !

Yeah very lucky mate! I did a similar thing there actually but with the lighter bike was able to stop.

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Great ride with some great people, guys and gals, thanks for a great weekend.
Thanks for tthe organisation from TB great job champ!
Thanks to Boulder for the loan of his fuel bladder (Which I will post back mate, please PM me your postal address)
Total Kms for me for the whole weekend was 1160km :ohmy:

Fri/Sat 510km
Sun 650km

Lost over 3kg :huh:

More Later,
Cheers,
Lefty

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Hey Fuchsy,

Mate I just recently got a Garmin 62s and are doing my 1st Navigation ride on the weekend. I will let you know how it goes. You can buy the mounts from Advenure Moto for these. There are many type and alot of opinions out there and I am sure you will here alot more about this to make your choice.

Cheers,
Lefty

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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I get your point but f@#% me it seemed to be an odd statement. :unsure: :laugh: :laugh:

I think you need to get the regulator or something looked at champ! :blink:

Catch up tomorrow night for a beer eh!

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EAGLE`02 wrote:

Trailboss wrote:

As FF said Eags she will meet us all at St Albans as she is finishing late so dont wait at Bucketty

TB

All good mate

Could you PLEASE grab me a couple of spare headlight globes from Suttos tomorrow ??
Just found mine is on the way out :pinch:
Will ring ya tomorrow morning ,,,

Cheers

Hey Eags,
How the f#%& does a headlight globe go on the way out? :blink:

I thought they worked or not!! :dry:

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LC4skin wrote:

I just use any old ‘dot 4’ stuff or whatever the manual suggests and change it once a year. Hydraulic clutch fluid once a year too if you have one. (Its not brake fluid, its a special clutch fluid)

Some bikes use a mineral oil type clutch fliud and some don’t. Check your owners manual or it will be written oon the resevior. If I remember correctly Dejay had this issue last year at Micks. He bought a new clutch master cylinder and was told it had to use mineral hydraulic oil. :ohmy: This was not correct and it was meant to use brake fluid. It ruined the seals, wouldn’t bleed and he had no clutch for the weekend, luckily he had a rekluse. :huh:

If only we had looked at the resevior cap before we started to bleed it. :whistle: :blush: It stated “brake fluid”

A dozen beers before we started to bleed it didn’t help!!!!!!! :blink: :blush: :sick:

Cheers,
Left

[Geoff ForshawMember]

AP Racing PRF 660. This is a high temp racing brake fluid that is compatible with all Dot 4 or 5.1 systems. It is not silicone based. DO NOT USE Dot 5.0 as it is silicone based and will destroy your seals and lead to brake failure.

Lefty

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EAGLE`02 wrote:

Or in Lefty`s Van :laugh:

Horrible thought :pinch: Kinda reminds me of RiderX & Mudflap in the ute back at Sunny Corner :S :blink: :dry: :sick: :sick:
That was HORRIBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lefty’s van is only suited to Lefty :laugh: :laugh: Or I could be kept warm with someone of the female variety :woohoo:

Nah I might even be camping at St Albans yet I will see how the weather looks

I got my spot tracker today all set up and ready to go. I even told the minister about this one. :whistle: :laugh: :laugh:

Can’t wait should be a cracker, catch you all friday.

The Left one

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Trailboss wrote:

Lefty wrote:

Yeah mate good for ideas for sure. Old mate has the 22lt Acerbis tank on also. Might have to look into that down the track.

Need to be careful because of the oil cooler :blink: The first tank (not sure of the brand will find out) we fitted to the 530 had to be ditched because oil cooler hit on it. (think it was a safari :blink: )

Here are the side stands I was talking about yesterday Lefty. Heaps better looking than the standard one for climbing on and off in adv trim :laugh:

Here as well

While I was searching those I looked at racks, trouble is as we discussed access to the fuel tank will be your issue but here are some ideas, you would be better having old mate that made the tanks make one around the filler? Did he make you loop retainer?

http://www.promotobillet.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24_82&products_id=455

TB

Thanks TB. Those Promoto Billet stands and Racks are definately the business as they are CNC’d from 6061 Aluminium just like My Bullet Proof Design Raditor guards.

As for the front tank a 22lt Acerbis, I beleive will fit with the oil cooler. Not a Safari though.

Cheers,
Left

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Well done in the A4DE Mal great effort. Also great vid mate.
Hope to catch up for a ride again sometime,

Cheers,
Lefty

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Jeffro wrote:

Jeez Lefty, that sounds like a lot of unnecessary work. You, your gear and the 6kg of extra fuel would still be 20kg lighter than the average bloke

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Funny you should say that Jeffro. I weighed myself at Nick’s and with all of my gear on including backpack full with tools,3ltr water, neckbrace and spares I was 85kg!!

:laugh: :laugh:

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