[Bruce CurtisMember]

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

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

Careful TB he might pay you in MXRetreads….. :S

Ollie never accept alcohol from a honda rider, they’ll drink anything……. :laugh:

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

You two are like itchy and scratchy when it comes to tyres…

“Great Tyres”

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Trailboss wrote:

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Mr Blue wrote:

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Tb that’s a bit of a jump, nah the 300 isn’t what I’m after, yeah a Tenere’ that’s the ticket……
interesting jump of faith

BC

Nah its a case of the 650 does everything without drama and I love it, havent really found myself holding people up anywhere, whats the cost of fitting the gear I have on it, what about all the spares, and I love riding it. What do you buy Blue, a 450 four stroke that will wear out in 15,000kms and cost me 3k to rebuild, a two smoker that does nothing for me, help me?

The Tenere is for Salina and I more then anything and I want to do some weekend rides like leaving Parkes and blasting west as fast and as far as I can in one day, camping at a creek and riding back the next etc shit like that

TB

When you put it like that, all you’ve done is reassess the situation and after a second look, makes sense to me… which in itself is a worry.

The Teneres’ a beaut bike a mates got one and i have a huge soft spot for them.

CR500RE (rego version) would porbably be more your sorta 2T anyway wouldn’t it?

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Trailboss wrote:

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Well I read all the tests (well 2 actually :laugh: ) both stated that the Husky 300 smoker was the most brutal of the 300 smokers, so when offered a go on Mal 5.1’s I was itching. I was disappointed with the power, I thought it was very tame and ran out of top end. Maybe it was coming of a big 4 stroke, sure it handled and stopped and did the rest of everything really nice but the power left me wanting. And ask Mal I didnt spare it whilst I was riding it :laugh:. The Husky was the bike I looked at buying this year, the ride hasnt changed my mind but I have decieded to buy a new Tenere later in the year to update the NX for Salina and I to use.

TB

Sorta my thoughts exactly TB, while an avid 2T nut, I find the enduro motors a little “doughy”, I like supercross style snap, I spent a year trying to get my 300 to be like an MXer, with some tweaking the earlier (much stronger too) KTM300 engines can be snappyish, but not like a RM or YZ 250 that’s for sure.

Tb that’s a bit of a jump, nah the 300 isn’t what I’m after, yeah a Tenere’ that’s the ticket……
interesting jump of faith

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BTW Mr KTM250exc, my posting that the 300 is a LAM doesn’t mean I reccommend it, Far from it, TBs suggestion is the more sensible and also remember Blokes are being killed every week on trailbikes, mostly mid-aged on bikes they couldn’t ride when they were 16.

Menace if the KTM is “firebreathing, snorting etc etc etc” beast, what does that make the YZ?….

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Dusty shoulda asked him if he wants to come out with some slow old trailriders for a few laughs….

well done

[Bruce CurtisMember]

I’m starting to think , maybe we should have a head count of those who qualify as Fat, fortyish, and Bald…. :blush:

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Many moons ago a group of mates and I arranged to go camping out the river taking our dirtbikes along the dirtroads, easy firetrails and stock routes, problem was my Cr250 was in pieces, looking round my bike shed, seeing as the lads were taking Yz465s,490s and a couple of 500s, the RM125 was out, so i settled on my trick Cafe racer RZ350, 425cc big bore, flat slides, pods, adjustable ign, handmade pipes/silencers and clipons. Took a young mate as pillion who wanted to tag along. On the way out it was nice and steady followed the landrover ute carrying our gear and gentle on the throttle.

Two days later after a fair bit of partying and bench racing we set out for home, the red mist was in full swing by the time we hit the smooth gravel road section the big dirtbikes didn’t stand a chance, I thought I was King Kenny on the TZ750 Flattracker, fishtailing everywhere, corners sideways, speedo saw 190 a few times on straights, all up until an uphill positive camber hairpin… I gassed it on the apex and my pillion finally panicked and sat up… the ensuing highside was not pretty, he was unscathed, I was totally scathed and the bike was worse, one by one the other boys pulled up laughing their guts out at me.
Something about “dirtbikes for the dirt, roadbikes for the road idiot”.

That bike copped hell from me for a few years and always came back for more, wish i still owned it.

So I guess the funniest thing in hindsight was me on a full house cafe-racer on the backroads and firetrails on the upper reaches on the clarence river.

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Austblue wrote:[/b
Don’t get me started on you old pricks! :angry: :woohoo:

Like the silly old p###k that cut across the traffic and caused me to lock the brakes up into the gutter then flipped me the bird when I tried to get him to pull over and exchange details. Or the grumpy old tradie that went crook at my missus because she called him out for something simple when I was stuck at work. You grumpy old p###s need to change your diapers more often and you’d enjoy things a lot more I reckon.

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young dickhead :p[/quote]

Yeah sorry bout that the other day Blue,was listening to Alan Jones on the wireless and thinking about my superannuation when I wandered into the wrong lane in front of you, I was trying to indicate with my free hand that it’s a sunnyday out there and watch out for the seagulls by pointing up with the only finger that’s not crippled with arthritis.

Me mate was talking ’bout this silly young sheila that told him there was an emergency at her place and to get over there pronto, when he got there she couldn’t tell him why she’d rung him or why a plumber was needed to fix a fuse, surely her useless young hubby coulda done it. So when he told her he’d be sending an invoice for time she said they won’t pay, so he told her all about her heritage and what he thought of it…..

Pretty bad day all round eh?….

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ktm250exc wrote:

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Thanks for the advise MOTO … I gotta go with the 250 because I am going to be on L plates and I want to fully register the bike. ( Im pretty sure that the 300 is not listed as a learners beast )

I just looked at the latest list and the ’08 300 exce is listed as a LAMs bike, crikey even the evil 380 is listed

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Trailboss wrote:

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Mr Blue try a Pirelli Scorpion rear if you please. I could organise to drop it of
for you maybe to save the $10 freight as well as having the other thing for you.
Sutto’s still have them on special and you opinion would be valued

TB

Mucho graitious for the tyre offer kind Sir, but I have several tyres hanging in waiting and am trying to watch the shekels for a while to try and make some progress on our house restoration work ( which has stalled somewhat.. :dry: )and maybe procure another bike (Duke 900ss) in the next 18 months.
But bring the other item with you as it is indespensable (that’s what I told Mrs C. anyway) and good cheer for both shall be well recieved.
I’ll try a scorpion for sure after I’ve worn these few out first.

Dude when you get a new tyre after that thing you’ll think all your christmases have come at once, I know I would.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

Hello young fella, glad to make your virtual acquaintaince as it were……..

Hook up with Menace, he’s excellent value on and off the bike.

Bruce cEE
Psst TB didn’t you say we had already filled our quota of token mexicans already..? but I wanna keep this one too, they’re so funny to look at and they talk funny too

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Dude that tyre in the photo is passed shagged for I, the bike would be so so slippery under power be faster to get off and run…..

Eagle you’re kidding about 4.5K on those tyres aren’t you, looks like you’ve done one ride on that, you must have terrific thorttle control or they are super hard #1 AOK UHT Longlife compunds…….. :ohmy:

I like Dunlop 7 series for the rear.

I’ve currently got an MX retread on the rear, value for money and predictable in loam, sand and harder gravel surfaces, but after one ride some of the knobs are torn off, so how long they last I’ll find out when my riding season starts again.

Bruce

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Hey Ollie you just described me in that litany of issues…..

Nah it’s just the way it is, and some of us were like that, I can remember going riding with a couple of older mates when I was 16 I had my gear and bike and some fuel and my wallet, thought we were going to be going to a track for fun (servo down the road, Instead we ended up at woop woop at a private farm. I was reliant on them for food and drinks etc.
Was all good though they understood as they hadn’t imformed me of what we needed or what we were actually doing.
Sometimes communication is needed for the uninitiated, he’ll know better next time now won’t he?

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