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mickp wrote:

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Have a good ride And remember they are an adventure bike not a motorcross bike :laugh:

TB

Good advice TB :laugh: :laugh:

Wayne, Got to work on Sat. and gain some brownie points on Sunday before I head down to Ken’s on Tues for a few days riding around the Alpine countryside.

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I wish I was riding Alpine country. Hang on, not now, it’s too cold. Later in the year I’ll get down there. Maybe November.

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Trailboss wrote:

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I am planning on getting up to pick my bike up this weekend from Cooranbong. Have decided to ride home Salina’s not overly impressed but :laugh: I reckon I can do it, it bends to a sit down ride postion

Have a good ride And remember they are an adventure bike not a motorcross bike :laugh:

TB

Glad to hear you’re mending TB. A bit of a ride won’t hurt it.

I have to keep reminding myself the DR650 is not a KTM450.

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Trailboss wrote:

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The support vehicle is going straight to Condo from Tamworth. Everyone riding will need to get their gear for the support vehicle to Condo. Also we need to carry as much of our own gear on the bike that we can to reduce the load on the support vehicle. A smallish bag, your drinks can go in the couple of community eskies with your food. Who is driving out to Condo from through the Blue Mountains.

The reason I ask is Moose, Mick (if he gets permission to go) and myself are riding out from my place. We need someone to pick our swags up as they go through so we can ride

Any takers?

TB

I can go that way. It will just be MickP and myself so I should be able to fit all your gear. Pick up sunday morning. You’ll be gone by then if your riding.

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Trailboss wrote:

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The tyres you start with will be the ones you will need to finish with mate, we wont have the room to carry spare tyres on the ride (I only ordered 2 to use one elsewhere, cheaper for 2 :laugh: )

A Set of Bajas on that sort of riding will do the mileage.

Note to all going

The guys that are going to need to do and oil change mid ride will need to send there oil and filter to an address we will provide at Tippoburra. You could freight a tyre with your oil and filer. By the way package you oil so the freight company cant see its oil :laugh: or they may refuse to take it being flammable and all

TB

6000km between services. Don’t ya just love DRs.

I preped the DR this afternoon for the ride Saturday. Cleaned the air filter……..that’s it. Everything else checked out fine.

I might be a Suzuki convert. [size=1Not….go the KTM][/size]

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Nickj wrote:

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Will 2 complete sets of tyres be the go for this trip ,I have never got more than 1000km out of a set and still felt confident with them, but thats riding different terrain to this??

I was also talking to my local bike shop up here and she suggested a good gel seat addition for this trip, anyone else thinking about seat comfort, or is that just for the soft pommy !!!???

An Air Hawk is on the shopping list.

As for tyres, I’ve put a set of Pirelli MT21 front and back on the DR and hope to get some Ks on them to test them out.

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(PS The sepo has sold the XR and his bling bling maybe well known DR will be on the ride)

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Does this mean I won’t have the only DR650 on the ride and I’ll have someone to help carry spares……I mean , ride with.

I had a look at the Giant Loop bag at Suttos about a month ago and it’s the winner for me so far and selling for $395 there.

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Jeffro wrote:

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At this stage I’m in Gav, will probably need more info on the start point though, street, nearest intersection or something.

It’s braithwaite park on the map gav. i’ve always called it woodburry park though, being local n all.

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Yarramalong+Rd,+New+South+Wales+2259&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=37.831179,56.162109&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FR9LBP4dO_AFCQ&split=0&hq=&hnear=Yarramalong+Rd,+New+South+Wales+2259&ll=-33.275041,151.398811&spn=0.008665,0.021887&z=16

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Murph the surf wrote:

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Sorry to hear about your big off Wayne. We’re getting too old for injuries. Hope all heals well mate
Cheers
Murph

Too true Murf, I know I don’t bounce like I used to.

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Thanks fellas

Getting it screwed or plated on Friday and maybe back at work after Easter

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I turned up at the parking lot to find Diddel, Justo and GavB waiting. Some quick intros and a chat and we set off. Went through Ourimbah State Forrest ST and a bit of fire trail and ended up at marble hill where there were some running repairs.

Marble hill

Diddel had a coolant leak, hope you sort that out mate

GavB with a bit more liquid metal on the case

looks like gav is trying to set it on fire with a petrol soaked rag

Ready to roll again

At the quarry we bumped into BMW Dave who had his two kids roaring around. We had a chat and organised a ride in the near future and then went down the hill to Yarramalong for fuel.

Up towards the letter A
Diddel

Gav B

Justo

Then down to Watagan Cr Rd and up to the top of the ridge towards Millfield.

On the way down I was having a great time sliding in and out of corners until I high sided. It was lights out for a little while but lucky I was in good company because they told me that while I was having a snooze they went off and did a short loop and then poked me with a stick until I woke up. Nice fellas.

This is the result

After I got my bearings we rode to Millfield for a latte. The wife got rung to pick me up because I had ‘bike trouble’ and the guys were kind enough to wait around to load my bike on the trailer.

Sitting around at Millfield
Justo

Gav and Liam

A perfect example of the male species complete with broken collarbone and goose egg on the melon.

The wife arrived with the trailer and was relieved that it was only me broken and not the bike. Thanked the guys and took off to Gosford hospital who within two hours found I wasn’t dying and shoved me out the door. I hope they plate the thing.

We were only 130km into the ride so I would have preferred to bust myself up at leased until we got through Pokolbin SF because we missed some great trails.

The gear is all washed and I’m prepping the bike now ready and waiting for the next ride, whenever that may be.

lotsa

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See everyone tomorrow. Ready to ride 7am sharp.

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have a good ride Jeffro

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Of course no hard core dirt biker would ever consider drinking such a woosy drink as a latte but if you ponces want one I suppose we could make an exception.

I’ll have two sugars with mine

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I’d just like to say a big thank you to the organisers, caterers, helpers and riders for taking part in last week end.
I had a great time on the trails and off, chatting to Old Bulls I knew and hadn’t met.

Thanks to all.

Cheers
lotsa

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Diddel wrote:

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Yes please.

You’re in Diddel

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