[Bruce CurtisMember]

Thanks Dick, no Rat here at all honest question as there may be some obscure trick I am unaware of, like renewing plastics with heat gun etc.
Just ordered new set on that info thanks heaps.

bruce

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I have another query while we have you attention Dick, is it possible to bend Straight radiator hose to emulate a OEM hose?
Reason I ask is I have a good supply of straight hose hanging on my shed wall, and the young fellas KX60 needs new hoses.

BC

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Trailboss wrote:

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Bump(s)

Are easier to control with Pivot Pegz.

BC

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One my old man taught us

16 sticks of gelli, placed 5 ‘ in the ground and simultaneously ignited will leave a REALLYREALLY BIG hole in the ground which fills up with water and is cool for ducks, oh and it throws eels around the paddocks for miles.

And having your uncles pick you up at school on a Z1R makes turns you from a dirtbike outcast into the coolest yr 7 boy

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Some more to add Mick

1-eight shot cannons (firecrackers) don’t need you stand above them and relight.
2-The lady next door is NOT lusting after your virile young body.
3-Bunsen burner taps WILL light and become flame-throwers
4-Huntsman spiders can and will bite you
5-Wolf spiders too
6-The key to washing your fathers mega$$$ chev powered drag car is to NOT drive it into the creek.
7-253 powered HQ utes can take off very quickly in carports
8-David Brown tractors are not bulletproof
9-Geese are vicious when they want your lunch
10-so are pigs
11-The way pigs “do it” does not a pretty picture make as examples for sex ed
12-And no the girl up the road does not want to do it “like that” in fact she’d prefer not to do it at all apparently
13-Bush lemons taste great when you forgot to take lunch
14-muddy old damns with a dead animal in it will not kill any kid who goes in it.
15-eels bite
16-so do horses
17-If you shoot a BB gun at a fencepost, it can come back and hit you in the forehead.
18-Blue heelers from next door do not respect your authority
19-David Brown 990s with a blade cannot dam a creek
20-Next door neighbours and the council don’t appreciate dams in the creek.
21-10 year olds aren’t covered by workers comp
22-Cockatoos bite
23-Not all Asian kids know karate, but occassionally one does, and is really good at it.
24-Hospitals like kids
25-Some strange adults DO have boiled lollies.

[Bruce CurtisMember]

You’re pure evil XY, pure evil I says……

BC

[Bruce CurtisMember]

TB made me laugh out loud, Mick i might add a more northerly perspective on what seems a similar childhood

micknmeld wrote:

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20 Things I have learnt the hard way as a kid,these are all life experiences that have shaped who I am. Life hands out many lessons,feel free to share some of yours,it could be good for a laugh.

1. Do not try and catch a falling cat. They have spikey bitsHowever your fathers landing net is OK
2. Do not try and catch a pup that has just been hit by a car. They too have spikey bitsOur pups never fell, they jumped up
3. Do not jump off a fence into long grass. Snakes live in long grass. They alsdo live on big open flat rocks that you are about to jump onto from the creek bank
4. Do not run around like a lunatic after being bitten by a black snake.Also true for a brown snake, and also not much help to run around before getting bitten yelling “SNAKE” they apperently don’t like that either
5. Do not try and rub the front tyre of a dragster on your mates back wheel. Or a ten speed racer
6. You cannot jump a dragster over 5 garbage bins, you wont make it.The ten speed made it over, the landing was the problem
7. Do not ride a dragster in speedos, they dont handle real well.You had speedos, that is child abuse
8. Do not try and carry two drums of petrol on a bicycle.Or a motorcycle
9. Do not drop a paint tin with a hammer in it onto your brother’s head from a great height.The hammer by itself is much better
10. Even the smallest molitov cocktail makes a big explosion.so does a 1 gallon tin
11. Chlorine and brake fluid mixed will start a fire.I for real was never game enough to try it, but we did throw a tin of Ramset charges into a bonfire whan I was 8
12. Horses are stupid creatures that I was never meant to ride. No not stupid, but still I agree on the not riding them bit
13. Do not try and wheelie a YZ80 on the road.RM80s had the same problem Mick
14. Drinking Flag ale and Port from a flagon makes you spew like Linda Blair.And so did farmland roase claret in a 44
15. Do not put two pins in a power point and short them out with a metal ruler.Ok that is way outa my league of “childhood scientific testing”
16. Do not upset your brother who has scissors or a sharp pencil.You will get stabbed. This also holds true with the hammer mentioned
17. Boat ramps are slippery.So are oyster beds
18. EH Holdens will start in gear.You know they still hadn’t fixed this problem by the HQ?
19. Do not get in a tractor tube and let your mates roll you down the road. Mmm My stepgrandad tried that in the tractor itself, Tractor-1 Grandad- it was anice funeral
20. Do not jump the 6 feet from the shed roof to the chook pen roof Holds true for tree branches too

Gees Mick you had it easy as a Kid, lucky bugger….

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Menace, he travelled half of the entire east coast just to ride with as many groups of OBT members as he could.
What an Ambassador, and a top bloke to boot.

BC

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Nothing beats good planning and common sense.

BTW I’m after epirbs for work (due to lack of common sense!!) might start a thread later on what people are using.

BC

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Having been a “lost soul” not 3 months ago in the pouring rain in a huge group of three, I empathise with you AB, on the vest idea, the buggers are ony around $7-$10 and a simple LARGE L or S in heavy black marker should do the trick methinks. Here at work I have just issued all my supervsiors with new vests with a big SUPERVISOR on the back, did joke about maybe a target as well, so when contractors or the public wish to make an enquiry it is easy to identify the right person, and that is what you want here, maybe a big “TRAILBOSS” for Greg would be suitable though……….

And it sux getting lost as it’s getting darker and you’re cold and worried about fuel and if the boys are nipping around looking for you and which way they’re headed, last time though the buggers just stayed at the utes and waited for me to backtrack and as TB said last known sighting, then follow the fresh tracks.

BC

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Chris build a possum box and put it in a tree, Possys are great little critters to have around, they keep quite a few other varmints at bay, and they are terrotorial too, for years at our old place we had the same mother possum bring her young around when we had tea outdoors to grab a snack of some fruit and veges, she was very quiet and used to us and the dogs.

Boony I’m from the country too, and you don’t shoot possums, it’s like shooting owls or magpies just not on, I prefer to leave the 12 gauge to shoot pesky noisy yellow overweight Suzuki riders, countrie’s become overrun with the feral mongrels believeing they are real bikes with power and handling and such it is much kinder to put them out of their delusional misery, and they hit the ground with a satisfying “THUD”.

BC

I really wouldn’t shot a DRZ rider with a 12 gauge, when a 22 would suffice….

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Hey Chris (or anyone else savvy enough) any idea why OBT makes my laptops CPU go into Hyperdrive and overheat?

Actually being honest here, go to almost any other sites it’s fine, come here and within 5 minutes it’s slow as a wet week and needs switching down for ten, then I can be on it all day, but as soon as i go onto OBT same again…

wait on it’s a hint isn’t it… Mmmm

BC

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Eye protection is one of my little Soap box operas

Years ago was riding out west as part of a group of roadbike riders, I passed a mate at around 240 klicks he was doing 180ish with a pair of sunnies on, my sticky rear hoop picked up a bit of gravel and it smashed his sunnies. At the Inverell hospital they picked hardened plastic out of the muscle around his eye, he was a lucky lad.

Me I have only one functional eye, the other was stuffed in a botched cancer operation, now try this put a patch over one eye and go riding, now ride tight S/T, see how many trees and things you wipe out with the blind side, notice how long it takes to adjust to shadows and recurring light, how hard it is to judge distance, me i would do almost anything to get that sight back, maybe I could get some of my old speed back then.

I’m like TB but for different reasons (he’s just a fetishist… )
I have shaded safety glasses for foggy or wet
Oakley crowbars with a variety of and including polarised lense for everyday stuff
Oakley overglass ones in a heavy tint (I don’t wear glasses but they’re roomy)
Thor Ally in a moo cow pattern with tint cause they’re cool looking
And Menace has seen these, my “Harley rider” bug eye goggles (like swimmers ones) that are pretty fog-proof

I’m sorry but I reckon betwixt us TB and I would have 80 years + experience of riding and riding mishaps and goggles are up there with helmets, before gloves and boots for sure.

Bruce Cee

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micknmeld wrote:

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Mr Blue wrote:

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Hey Mick, I need a new grandmother, got any for sale?….

BC

Matter of fact I do, although the stitching seems to be coming unstuck on her too… :laugh:

It’s not one of those high mileage substandard units you bring in by the containerload from O’seas is it Michael?

I am only after one low-mileage dinky di, grandmother, or in a pinch a kindly great aunt would do.

BTW everyone Buy Micks boots they’re excellent value.

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Please tell me that is a bloke in drag, Boulder it’s you isn’t it?

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