[Bruce CurtisMember]

They are more hard edged than the RMX250s, essentially a 6 days special that got carried on for another 5 years, in that model they took a yz250 and pulled it down, revalved the forks, rear end and installed a WR gearbox from the last of the WR250z’s, it was rumoured that the squish and carby were setup different.
There is a couple of older blokes up round Kilarney that used to have them and swore never to part with them.

Almost bought a mint one 3 years ago for 5.5k.

Oh and they carry the all important adr plate

[Bruce CurtisMember]

that’s the bugger Aaron, they are a top bike and would give many modern bike riders a very big smile.

did you buy it?

I love them beasties… for a good reason too

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Like TB says undervalued and very capable bikes the RMX….

[Bruce CurtisMember]

I’ve got a Garmin Dakota, toughest unit ever … touchscreen and takes a flogging… again a johnny appleseed purchase

[Bruce CurtisMember]

there is the watered down “negotiated” version of our original proposal, the 2×1 hour sessions are a sticking point for many of us, having said that we have more green councillors outside of byron and inner metro areas, did you notice the good bit Michael, the pro-forma for light competition?

that is a leap forward, some of the rest well… at least they acknowledge the legitimate pastime and for that I am very grateful to Cr Lindsay Passfield for his valiant attempts in the face of “the environmental warriors” that have almost single focus on stopping any fun, but growing weeds…

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Scotty wrote:

Old news. Look here: http://www.obtrailriders.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=26&id=92952&Itemid=75

and here: http://www.byronnews.com.au/story/2010/10/27/noise-complaints-force-family-to-stop-riding-bikes/

I’ll tell you something a bit hilarious about the online comments in the Byron news site… the lady who refers to the loud “Car” from Casino every day is way way mistaken…….:blush:

It is in fact both my VTR and two another blokes’ Ducatis that she hears, all bikes are probably within the sound limits but they tend to Boom and echo through the valleys.

Oh another fact, the original complianant against Jack and Kylie has also been warned about excessive noise from his ride-on, but seeing as it is deemed to be “in direct pusuit of agricultural activities” he thumbed his nose at it….

[Bruce CurtisMember]

micknmeld wrote:

King STM wrote:

I take it that even if the huggers get this through it has no affect on State Forests and our access there.

STM

If they can get legislation through that directly effects private property usage a concerted push by them could also end in a blanket ban in state forests/crown land too, in a worse case scenario.

This is the ting Michael, the legslation has been there for years, was probably a late friday night sitting one, passed under the radar….

It is existing laws that force this to happen.. MacQuarrie st greens

[Bruce CurtisMember]

King STM wrote:

I take it that even if the huggers get this through it has no affect on State Forests and our access there.

STM

No however due to the pressure being applied by local huggers of vegetation, the NPWS has just donated to the local police command several trailbikes and will escort them to known spots of frequency by riders.
There is an active “No licience, No ride” campaign which is fast spreading word…

Remember NPWS is Forests NSW controlling body.

This doesn’t but it doesn’t help… Numbers and voices Lads and Lassies, numbers and voices… that’s what counts

[Bruce CurtisMember]

OK-misconceptions.
A historically important Psychologist once said
“the bigger the lie, the easier people accept it, and if you repeat that lie often enough it will become accepted truth”

The Council has a clash of lifestyles, tree[strike]huggers[/strike]… sorry changers, and traditional landowners, the area is only around an hour and a bit from Brisbane so it makes an affordable weekender or retirement for the ex-cityites.
The council MUST uphold state laws, as over the years the state government in a bid to cut their own costs and exposure has abdicated their regulatory responsibilities to local government.

This set of laws are federal and STATE laws that the council is obligated to follow to the letter, if they don’t they will be dismissed and replaced by an administrator… again STATE law.

The initial complaint was handled very well by council officers, they mediated, the made arrangement in times for riding and noise levels and frquency, all was agreed. Now teenagers being teenagers sometimes don’t abide by the formal agreements and ride up to a dozen 4T Mxers with Vance & hines etc exhausts around the TRACK (to say it was an earthworks storage area was plain old lies, it was a beaut setup of a private MX track.

So upon several remedial attepts it became a stalemate, and council was FORCED by the law to uphold the law.

To blame someone for doing their job to the necessary level, while representing the larger community is more than unfair, it is unjust and a form of harassment.
Anyway the council has attempted to clarify the whole issue by enabling a management plan. The original plan as put to gether by some senoir staff was rejected and the councillors themselves came up with one, and i am the first to say it is not what was envisaged, but to be fair, the tree[strike]huggers[/strike] sorry fruedian slip there… changers were well represented at the meetngs and letter writing campaign and cornering councillors (who are just policitians of the usually lowest ranking) whereas the Bike riders, even thought there is an estimated 2000 in the area were nowhere to be seen… this actually dismayed the senior staff as it made them look like fools.
If you want these laws changed.. and yes I know Chris S, and he is one of the vocal ones, who appreciated some of the work done by staff to streamline event approval and take it out of the councillors hands, but effectively him and others were outmanouvoured by the wowsers and TBaggers, the “it will be right Jake” attitutde doesn’t work in the dface of these organised and vocal group.

You cannot blame council, when the very people being “corralled” couldn’t even be bother to turn up en-masse to a few meetings or even support an informal working group to act on their behalf.

I don’t agree with the likely outcomes it saddens me, but I have repeatedly put my job on the line for this and now am supporting another local endeavour that has more merit and wider appeal, and even better MONEY and well known public firgures behind it, as my energy is not to fight a lost cause for people who don’t care, but will whinge after the fact….

Change the laws?
Lobby your local STATE member….. then and only then may things change

[Bruce CurtisMember]

xy-transit wrote:

i read you store your washed out empty camel back bladder in the freezer it stops ecoli from breeding/ growing.

blow the bladder out with compressed air and hang in sunlight for a bit works for me, salt wash as well is a good thing.

WTF have you been doing with your camelbak Mr Transit, E Coli are found in the lower intestine and can only survive for short periods outside a warm blooded mammal…

On second thoughts please Do NOT tell us……:blush:

:sick:

[Bruce CurtisMember]

A good heat gun should be in every dirtbikers shed.

used carefully they can restore plastics, both scratches and colour fade

for 2T bloke(ettes) this very same heat gun is the BEST way of burning your pipes out, real fireworks stuff without damage or risk of damage to pipes including nickel plated ones.

and they are very helpful for applying stickers and fitting tyres with stiff sidewalls in winter as well.

So heat guns ladies and gentlemen is todays handy hint.

[Bruce CurtisMember]

same as me
both at age 4
here Brenton is at almost 6

big Sis

[Bruce CurtisMember]

I suppose the point being it was Steve MacQueens, and he was well Steve MacQueen..

and the Commuter was yours’ Eags, and well you’re Eags……
No doubt to some of your loved ones and friends you’re remarkably cool, and a remarkable character, (especially with the new steed) but come on man he was Steve MacQueen… STEVE MACQUEEN,

THE STEVE MACQUEEN….and he rode a Husky 400 a 2T at that, in the early seventies that was enough for Legend status by itself.

[Bruce CurtisMember]

pete the wulf wrote:

micknmeld wrote:

Mr blue is it a CT70 or a Z50, I still can’t believe you can register a Z50.

CT70, wrong wheels and fram for Z-50, the ADrs were much easier back then, my uncle had a Z50 registered, parked alongside his panhead harley…….

One of my neighbours had a CT70 when I was a kid, a real no-where bike, the CT-90 was a better farmhack, and the Z50 was a better kids minibike.
they go forever except the rims quite often rust badly

[Bruce CurtisMember]

micknmeld wrote:

Not exactly from a farmer’s shed but actually being ridden around by a buck toothed goomer tenant at my in laws property on the weekend.
Dunno what model Honda it was, but it has been fitted with a 125cc china bike engine,the oil cooler is hanging by a bit of string under the fuel tank and it just flapped about , it had no air filter, the exhaust was held on with tech screws and the thing went like the clappers. It also had areally bizzare handle on the head set I presumed may have been some sort of steering dampner in a former life.

CT70, mid seventies era, handle thing you described may actually be the one that allows the handlebar (such as they are) to fold down and lock up. Seeing as many of the chinga motors are a direct copy of the honda laydown singles makes sense they’d be a bolt in.

As for the XL, my old man had a succession of XLs on the farm, and even with a headlight I preferred nightriding on my MXers….. XL350s…. Shudder……..XL500 with the “tuck under steering” Noooooooooo

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