[Bruce CurtisMember]

That’s Jaunita a former supermodel who used to ride a KTM without a helmet or any other protection, her plastic and dental surgeons have worked day and night to restore her former beauty…….. unfortunately she spotted Boony and Menace in a man embrace, ala brokeback mountain style just before the bandages came off and her terror was such that all their work was in vain.

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chris72a wrote:

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Agreed did you write that yourself?

Yes Chris I did, it’s what I do.

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Aarochild wrote:

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do i just ride whats avaliable through mates?

hard for me as not many bars differ round here

im 190cm and have a slightly larger reach…?
just want good reasonable stearing responce and comfart …dont know how to judge:dry: :huh:

Pester your mates and others, easy to judge whats comfortable….does it ride comfortable after 10 mins or so? can you turn corners and control the bike in other than just standing?

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

Didn’t anyone else look behind the scenes, recently at the world economic forum our current government was lauded for it’s response to the GLOBAL economic crisis, iniated and perpetuated by the right wing american powers of greed and avarice. We are but the collateral damage in a huge problem unseen since the great depression. Which if nothing else taught us not to shut up shop and tighten the purse strings, but to spend and spread the pain over a longer timeframe, better to spread than condense.

I feel sorry for anyone who only sees the here and now, not the history or the probable outcomes from this WORLDWIDE disaster, fer crrikeys sake I pay my GST and Income taxes to help rejuvenate the infrastructure run down by the Baby Boomers self indulgent governments and their selfish need to amass wealth and now their bloody hugely funded retirements, don’t you stop and wonder why things got to here?, think about it we are paying for the previous generations mistakes, as too did the builders of dreams in the immediate post war years, then their offspring, our parents reaped the benefit of their forefathers toil. Unfortunately because of thisw My generation, and the next lot, the Ys as well must toil to allow the “whatevers” to reap.

Such is the capalist system, the country least affect so far by this is a high spending COMMUNIST country, funny that eh?

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

I currently have a Troy Lee Pressure suit, very open weave and very comfortable

pluses are

*Cool and airy
*Easy to hose down on the washing line, comes up clean everytime
*Excellent arm and shoulder protection
*Spine protector brilliant and is exactly the same as the Dianese one and is virtually unwreckable, and has saved my back big time just recently.
*Wide kidney belt
*I am a XL-XXL in everything and it is an XL-XXL and fits perfectly
*Comfortable as

Minus’ points
*Zipper broke after 18 months of every weekend use, $40 for a new wide one
*Open weave can get snagged on lantana, then again what doesn’t
*Velcro on kidney belt is getting a bit “smooth”
*Needs better and harder plates in chest area.
*relatively expensive, but then all TLD stuff is, but is always good quality.

My regular riding mates have mostly gone through two sets while I’ve had this one, they have 661, O’Neal, Fox and UFO, and all hot as hades.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

As Mick said Renthal are the standard in fatbars, I had a nice set on the 300 in a high KTM bend with risers, but after careful study and deliberation of my style i decided that i like corners more than straights, so for the YZ I run low flat RM bend in a fatbar with no risers and suits me fine.

very very personal choice handlebars are, and don’t do the “shed test” try riding with different bends.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

I prefer the Dunlop D742FA (if still around) and my next will be a Michelin M12, because it is already hanging up in the shed waiting to be fitted. The dunlop doesn’t last real long, but having said that i do like to throw the bike around a bit.

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See if you can talk to Wildman Benny (he’s a member here) cause he is doing this cameray, photoy, videoy thing for a crust these days, and has taken some awesome footage of us through his.

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We used to thoroughly clean and then boil our chains in Duckhams grease, sprocket were hardened steel, and they lasted a fair while, with the advent of “O’ringed” self contained lubricant chains for pin to roller lubrication it negates the need to worry about getting lube in manually, but no-one seems to think about roller to sprocket lubrication, I have heard people saying that if you lube the outer rollers it forms a grinding paste, possibly, but to my thinking it also gives a film of lubricant betwix the two hardened steel surfaces as as the movement is less rub and more roll, wouldn’t it make sense to continue to lube the roller to sprocket contact area as well?

I do and I don’t get anywhere near the wear I read others do, but I am a very old bull in terms of ride time, so maybe I am wrong and clinging on to old practices no longer relevant, in a modern world.:unsure:

How did your rollers fail Moto, clean it with the wrong compound and broke the O’ring materials down or sumfink?

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menace wrote:

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cause they dont want to be on an inferior bike, i dont blame them.

they want to die so they can be on a kato in thier next life…..

higher ground is the theory:laugh: :laugh:

Ah so explains the frames on KTMs they snap so they can come back as baked bean or beer cans.

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menace wrote:

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youll be right mate….it takes power to wear them out:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Oh now I understand why my KTMs chain and sprockets hardly wore at all in 100 hrs of riding the ring off it.

Thanks Menace for clearing that up

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there are 2 points there….

1) KTM factory sprockets and chains are just plain tuff:laugh: Ahh this explains the broken hubs on some KTMs
2) you ride like a sloth:P Damn those three big toes are a bugger to get boots to fit and keep getting the way too, also explains why I keep trying to put myself up trees

Again thanks oh sageful one Mr Menace, so why do they chain and sprockets of the same brand and type wear so much faster on my YZ?

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

menace wrote:

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youll be right mate….it takes power to wear them out:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Oh now I understand why my KTMs chain and sprockets hardly wore at all in 100 hrs of riding the ring off it.

Thanks Menace for clearing that up

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Boony wrote:

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What relevance has this to dirt bike riding I ask????????????????????????????????

a picture of a motorcyclist in new riding gear is fairly relevant methinks young Boony, is much better than a picture of a motorcyclist sans’ riding gear isn’t it?

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there thread turned

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singletrackmind wrote:

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Is is not necessary to change the front sproket at the same time or does it not mate to the chain in the same way?

Front sprockets wear out really quick, and because mostly three to six teeth engaging at any one time have a much smaller effect on chain distortion.

I usually go through 3-4 fronts before rear and chain.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

Why and how could this turn bad, pray tell gentlemen.

After seeing that trick Camo gear I want some too, not necessarily in those sizes tho’

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