[Bruce CurtisMember]

Professionally i am not to be biased, personally I’m pleased it’s here, it’s just what the town needs a bit of a spark and excitment, with a few million $$ every second year being thrown at the locals. before this all we got was Casey Stoner and Mick D visiting one of the local bike shops their mate owns every so often…. or a B&S ball type of thing.
PS professionally I can’t be, but personally I’ve had gutfull of the whinging non-local greenie extremeists
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[Bruce CurtisMember]

micknmeld wrote:

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Bruce the WRC is even stuffing me up. One of my major clients who I am suposed to do some work for this week, has gone AWOL because of it.He has booked a whole page in the paper and I cant find him to see what he wants to put on the page.

Just put “gone to the rally, be back next week, unless he’s agreenie in which case put on his page
“Screaming local loonie gets locked up for being a pest in Northern town and meets new boyfriend in grafton gaol, from now on to be known as “Mrs Bubba” paper looks for replacement advertisers”

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Not bad Al, except the MT43 is actually a full on trials tyre, and yes it does have better sidewalls than the X-11 and from many reports from those who’ve used both better grip in shale/rocky stuff as well. I found it wandered a bit, but it’s two biggst downfalls are
*Swampgrass and absolute swamp country, the boys with knobbies found traction…I was stuck spinning with no forward motion.
*Cornering, they suck bigtime at speed cornering, too square and too something not right here feeling.

But for the likes of what the boys posted up on Murphs ride probably the antz pantz,

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PS: I ran mine between 6-8psi with 2 alloy rimlocks, no creep nothing, stiff carcass probably didn’t hurt either.

[Bruce CurtisMember]

I’ll tell you where it’s not slow today…Kyogle Northern NSW, I have seen so far today
12 police trailbikes at once…go the heavy old DRZs’
14 Roadbike coppers
Riot squad cars x4
Special something or other cars
and reportedly 400 coppers all up in a small country town, I dare the young lads to play up at the pubs tonite..

Famous, or at least familar sorta I saw him on TV faces everywhere, and money changing hands likes its???? well money really.

Not the weekend for a ride in the ranges methinks, get run down by a rally car for your troubles, or booked by a bored uniform on a DRZ.

Look out Kangawallaroos and all other hugable furry critters, the greenies are gunna save yous too from the big bad cars.

BTW the WRC decider event is being held in Kyogle this weekend, apparently it’s a pretty big deal, I wouldn’t know I’ve only spent 2 full weeks on it so far this year and not even a free ticket to be seen. But then again that would be wrong to accept one.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

I ran a Pirelli MT43 on the rear of my 300EXC for 8 months, i will be honest enough to say it gives much better traction on everything wet or dry other than grass. Monos with no effort, hillclimbing made me look good (and that takes some doing too) but corners at speed like a hippo on XTC, braking was abismal and to be honest didn’t suit my riding style cause after all i am a throttle jockey from the 70s and 80s I turn and steer from the rear, lightswitch power is what i understand. It also played havoc with my steering angle because of the 100% profile and the bike would tuck under everywhere, but on those slow technical rides it was like cheating.
Two of my riding mates still run them and love them, and i agree with a previous posterer, we ride similar stuff to that Murph and the largest bikes are 300cc 2Ts, in fact the quickest I’ve seen is Robo on his YZ125wr thorugh the ugly stuff.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

Gee Duffmans’ lite beer only weightloss program has certainly kicked in, by the look of him one good pelvic thrust and he’ll snap in two.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

The seat bolts are good enough to hold our fat carcasses up, so they’re well strong enough for lifting the back of the bike around.
I used an unused shoulder strap off a laptop softcase, cut to length, melted the ends to aviod freying and put two brass eyelets in it, works like a bought one.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

Mick yoda would have to have an adjustable frame, to reach pegs too short would he be …yes

[Bruce CurtisMember]

My Warlock (YZ) has a beaut one, soft hand grab bit with “Dell” written on it….

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

I’m afraid something got lost in the translation for me, sense to me it made little of very much.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

An uppercut is a very archaiac “gentleman Jim” blow not oft witnessed in todays boxing matches.
a virtual uppercut eh old chap… anyone want to come up here and land afew on the buggers who are grafitting the signs and roads every night, todays effort cost $4k to remove. Be glad when the rally has finished and the nutters can go back in their THC shells.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

One of my younger brothers imported a full godzilla into NZ a few years back and had very few hassles, he’d wanted one since Jimmy Richards raced them when he was a little bloke (not very little now i tells ya) very desirable car too poured several years of his life into it as well…pity it got confiscated under their draconian ‘hoon” laws and auctioned and the government reaped the profits, whole affair broke his heart.
One of the blokes here at work his son imports “drift” cars and parts into brissy and it was he who got me thinking about the best way and the next few bikes and baubles for the family pastime.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

That’s why it was such an issue on roadbikes doing big kays as generally you sit on the highway at a fairly constant speed, and 110kph is the speed most coppers will turn a blind eye to.
my Isuzu V6 suffers a nasty little period at around 2200 rpm which is around 80 kph in 5th response is doughy and the engine is dull, but get over 2500 again and it comes back into it’s own, although it also could be amapping issue as well as they use avery agricultural ECU.

Wikeds’ beemer if used on firetrails could spend time at constant rpms as i know that’s one of the advantages some of the big4T riders tell me they have over 2Ts the ability to cruise on transport sections.

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

T/B have you ever heard that harmonic distortion can lead to this sort of wear, as i was told many years ago that kawasaki had made a gross mistake on the old GPZ900r (the first “ninja”) and engineered the primary harmonic period at around 3500rpm, which was 110kph on standard gearing, and this led to abnormal valve train wear?

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[Bruce CurtisMember]

loony888 wrote:

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for good chainsaws and cutting chains, go for a husqvarna! i hear they make pretty good bikes too…..
tee hee!!!

as for the bike chain, i use chain wax on my road bikes religously, but on my TE i use crc 5.56. it gets sprayed almost everywhere after being washed and the chain cops it as well. so far it seems to be working well, and with putting it on after washing, it has time to dry and the excess drips off long before it gets in the dirt.
i used the duckhams oil on the stove when i was a kid and my mother tore strips off me, told me to use the bbq, then dad tore strips off me! duckhams is marketed in australia by bp i think and it’s still available apparently. only for non o ring chains though, and i think i may go for a non o ring chain and see how it goes, if it’s strong enough for the 450.

paul.

Hello Paul, I have a sneaking suspiscion you know a hell of a lot about the husqvarna marque too… , tells us if you go to the old style chain and lube and how it goes, cause I’m tempted to if it’s the go.

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