[Scott SouthwellMember]

Trailboss wrote:

Scotty wrote:

If you’re anal about bike weight Bob this will hurt, 129kg according to Yamaha’s own specs. Thats with 7 litres of fuel. Your current WR will be a fair bit lighter than that even though it carries more fuel. 129kg will surely make the new WR the heaviest 450 on the market.

It will also be interesting to see what the race teams do, I think most enduro teams at the moment are running the YZ. We’ll have to wait and see if they go for the WR or stick with the lighter YZ.

A lesson learnt last weekend is claimed bike weights mean nothing Scotty. We used Leftys digital race car scales and weighed all the bikes there and the results in my opinion arent even close to what they are printed as.

Actually 129 kilos with 7 litres of fuel is OK Spuds 06? steel frame was 130 neat full of fuel. Even if you add 4 litres of fue to the 2012 WR it would only be 131 odd kilos and Lefty 450 weighed 129 full of fuel

TB

I’m with you when it comes to being sceptical about claimed weights. Its stands to figure than if Yamaha are claiming 129kg it could weigh even more. :ohmy:

[Scott SouthwellMember]

If you’re anal about bike weight Bob this will hurt, 129kg according to Yamaha’s own specs. Thats with 7 litres of fuel. Your current WR will be a fair bit lighter than that even though it carries more fuel. 129kg will surely make the new WR the heaviest 450 on the market.

It will also be interesting to see what the race teams do, I think most enduro teams at the moment are running the YZ. We’ll have to wait and see if they go for the WR or stick with the lighter YZ.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Trailboss wrote:

Yeah wasnt directed at you mate sorry just saying. If the local cops cant catch a local kid on a pit bike I would have thought that sort would have been known to them :S

anyway rand over

TB

Cops most likely can’t catch him as they don’t try to hard. The problem with chasing these F-wits is if this happens during the chase the cops with be pissing in a cup and getting their arses chewed from high above. Said F-wit will then sue the cops and get a 6 figure payout.

Meanwhile F-wits like this are running rampant everywhere.

I dealt with a similar F-wit recently who came off a KTM450. No helmet, no shirt just short and runners. The F-wit had bark off him from arsehole to breakfast time but nobody actually seen the crash. Bike turns out to be stolen and F-wits story is he was walking down the footpath when somebody else run him over on the bike then ran off. He will be explaining that to a magistrate who will no doubt let him off.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Defiantly like to get the RMX in there. It is registered now. I was over that way on it last Tuesday.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

micknmeld wrote:

Forget detective, go for Inspector.

Detectives have a boring office job with way to much paperwork. Not for me.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

mal5.1 wrote:

KTM_Rules wrote:

Looks good Mal. You will have to show me sometime, then we can link them all up!! 👿

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: yeah right, like I’ll remember where we rode. :laugh:

I’ll make sure sb comes along when I show you. I know some good fire trails out there.

Awesome country in that area. I remember the ride you lead us though there a couple years back Mal. I have been over there a few times since but don’t go in to deep for fear of getting lost. Looks like you have found even more singles since then.

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KTM_Rules wrote:

Day 2 Sunday – Sunny Corner Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlPzqIvGOzE

Haha, how about Holeshot cruising up that hill cool as a cucumber on the DRZ with all the KTM’s struggling behind him. :ohmy:

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micknmeld wrote:

Scotty wrote:

Mick, some cracking shots on the new Nikon. By the looks of the pics I’m going to say it’s a new Nikon D3100.

Good one Scotty! I know how you know! Tell what lens and shutter speed, I was using and you will really impress me then!

I’ll take a stab at this photo of Chicken.

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii418/trailboss6502/DSC_0235.jpg

Lens I’ll go with 18-55mm VR. Shutter speed 1/1600 or 0.000625 second. Would you like me to add aperture and ISO?

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Trailboss wrote:

Scotty wrote:

Trailboss wrote:

– The bike weigh in and Toes putting 5 kilos of lead sinkers in Nickj’s air box adding 4 kilos :laugh:

TB

Wow, toes can defy the laws of physics,

Yes Scotty a typo Glad you got a lot out of the report :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Have you made detective yet :laugh:

TB

TB I actually believe Toes can defy the laws of physics. I seen some of the places he got his Vstrom at Bargo.

Mick, some cracking shots on the new Nikon. By the looks of the pics I’m going to say it’s a new Nikon D3100.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Trailboss wrote:

– The bike weigh in and Toes putting 5 kilos of lead sinkers in Nickj’s air box adding 4 kilos :laugh:

TB

Wow, toes can defy the laws of physics,

[Scott SouthwellMember]

For me the best deal in there is the EC250ELC. $10599. cheaper, lighter and faster than the 4T.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

+1 on this. I haven’t been on an OBT ride for a while now. Between work and kids I need to plan long in advance if I want to ride weekends.

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Nickj wrote:

Although Honda don’t seem to consider the bike that ABR tested to be very capable off road the ABR tester seemed to think it is , which I thought interesting as so many bikes are claimed to be good adventure bikes and don’t live up to expectations !!

I think the 800 is called the “Crossrunner” and the 1200 “Crosstourer”. The wheels seem to show the true potential of the two. The 800 has cast wheel which look to be 17′ front and rear while the 1200 gets spokes and looks like a 19′ front.

Certainly two interesting bikes although I much prefer the styling of the 1200. I do love the sound of Honda’s V4’s. With a good pipe they are definately the V8 of the bike world.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Turns out there are two different bikes. The one pictured up top is the VFR800X. This bike is listed as a sports tourer and uses the old VFR800 v four motor.

The link is to the VFR1200X Cross Tourer which is the new loosely defined ADV bike and uses the motor and frame from the new VFR1200F.

Reading the article its sounds like Honda don’t really expect potential buyers do see much off road work. I seems the Cross Tourer is aimed at those riders that want a comfortable long distance tourer, with the image off an ADV bike.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Trailboss wrote:

Scotty wrote:

Just to add to the CC oversight is it just me or does the bike in the picture in the first post look very different to the one in the link?

I am sure it reads that is the mags bike and they have it in an off road setup, well thats how it reads to me

TB

Still looks shit loads different. The one in the link has a smoother looking fairing, spoked wheels and USD forks.

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