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Go a ktm 300 mate. They are light, fast and strong and beat any four banga. Either way it has to be orange I reckon. We all know that on reputation alone KTMs are untouchable. :laugh: :laugh:

typical ktm rider only just catching up with the pack. Dusty Al already bought a bike a couple days ago. I know your on a ktm but try to keep up man.

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Every few months they come through the auction at moorebank the cops sell them after a few years sometimes they have new bars most are ordinary but sometimes a good one turns up I have seen some with low ks and they are all regoed bidding between $4000 to $5000 or a little bit more depends on the condition you cant testride but if you ask for the key you can start them up to listen for unwanted noises mainheimfowles I think the website is check it out

I would avoid the ex-cop bikes unless you pick on up seriously cheap. We have two at work that I can tell you hav’nt been serviced in the last 2 and a half years and more than likely won’t get done till there replaced.

Choppa found out the hard way about cheap cop bikes when his stopped on the Hill End ride in 2009. Burn valve ment a top end rebuild.

By the way I think Choppas DRZ is for sale. It’s now got a fresh top end a steering damper and lots of other bling. There is a thread on here somewhere of its build up.

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Thanks for your input scotty im looking at a drz400 07 model in sydney has the suspension done front and back it has only 2500 hundred ks on the clock for 6 grand ono.

Thats sounds like a good buy Al. The suspension work is the first and most expensive thing that really does need doing to a DRZ. After that its just bash plate, radiator gaurds and the kind of this you would do to any bike.

Scotty it has a bash plate radiator gaurds high rise bars pipe plus all the adr gear.

I might just go and check in the shed. Sounds like someone has advertised my bike on Ebay. 😆

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Looks to me like KTM300 buyer now just get a choice of colours. Personally to me the blue is much nicer.

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Thanks for your input scotty im looking at a drz400 07 model in sydney has the suspension done front and back it has only 2500 hundred ks on the clock for 6 grand ono.

Thats sounds like a good buy Al. The suspension work is the first and most expensive thing that really does need doing to a DRZ. After that its just bash plate, radiator gaurds and the kind of this you would do to any bike.

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The DRZ is also heavier than it should be but I don’t even notice the weight. In reality its not that much heavier than most 450’s.

I keep seeing this theme about the DRZ being so much heavier.. I had a look at the specs for the various flavors of enduros and the DRZ is not much heavier..

DRZ400-E = 119 Dry
WR450F = 113 Dry
CRFX 450 = 122 Wet and 113 Dry
KLX450 = 126 Wet – Dry???

I’m sure with a little out of the box thinking the DRZ400 can be lightened up from its stock standard weight..

Krusty that dry weight of 119kg for the DRZ is for the US spec E model. Here in Oz with all the extra ADR gear, and about 14 litres of liquids it comes in at around 138kg wet ready to ride. That being said I was able to remove 7kg of ADR shit and if I got serious I recon I could drop another 2kg, Suzuki over do it in this area, biggest blinkers ever to grace a motorcycle. The mirrors weight 500g each.

Ready to ride the DRZ is probably about 8-10kg heavier than a WR/CRF etc ready to ride.

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Bigger al, I’ve got a DRZ400, had it for the past two years.

The good points are there initial purchase price is a shit load cheaper than anything else out there, they have good usable power, easy to ride, easy to maintain and rock solid reliable.

On the bad the suspension need work for anybody over 70kg. The DRZ is also heavier than it should be but I don’t even notice the weight. In reality its not that much heavier than most 450’s.
There been plenty of times when I’ve been able to stay with the lighter bikes I single tracks.

I was at the poker run last weekend along with a few other DRZ’s and had no troubles with any of those trails. In fact my bike had road/long distance gearing on it as I was too lazy to change it and I was still doing the hills in second gear.

Speaking of road gearing when I first bought the DRZ my car got written off about a month after. I was without a car for about 6 weeks while I waited for a new. During this time the DRZ was my only form of transport and it did the road miles no problems.

Al although the DRZ is not as powerful, fast and light as the 450 enduros out there it is more than capable of riding the same trails with a competent rider and some common sense.

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I was packing shit just watching that!

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STM if ya go to that page and look down the bottom there are links for 2011 WR’s. They look unchanged and 450 still got header pipe coming out front of motor so no reverse head.

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Flu, cough cough

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There is a massive issue even with the current system, all CTPs for bikes are overpriced in the scheme of legitimate payouts for ROAD accidents, we are actually paying for the dweebs on pitbikes and the likes who hurt themselves at the local oval, this is wrong.

the current federal government hads a paper on increasing the medicare levy 1% to cover all this sort of thing across the board, of course insurance companies don’t like that idea as they would have no legitimate reason to up our premiums without quaestion as is the case now

just a dumb question what has ctp got to do with unrego pit bikes the insurence companys are not going to pay a cent to them if there not insured so what has it got to do with the price of it .would not you be better of paying your cpt than a larger medicare levy unless your like me and have 4 kids and don t pay it

There is a pool of money that part of all our CTP goes into (a large portion actually) that pays for medical and lifetime support for persons injured in recreational motorcycle and Quadbike accidents who are uncovered by anything else. We actually pay for this through our Road registered CTP, and believe me it is a major part of it. This is why the proposal to draw this pool of money out of the Medicare levy is far more appropriate, as most of these people have little to nothing to do with legitimate motorcycling.
So why do we as a base of a mere 160,000 legitimate motorcyclists in NSW pay for this alone?

Can somebody show me where the statistics are that show it’s pitbike riders who are the ones ending up in hospital injured.

I work in an area where pitbikes are a massive problem, every bogan with a baby bonus has one and ride them around as there main form of transport. I personaly have never been to an incident where a pit bike rider has been injured, and we investigate EVERY accident where somebody has been injured, including pit bikes. If anybody presents at a hospital with an injury from a motorbike, car, truck, buggy, ect we get called whether registered or not, even on private property.

Im sure there are pit bike riders out there getting injured but they would still be the minority.

That being said I can’t count the amount of road bike riders ive seen scraped up of the road.

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Not sure about the new system but to be honest I found the old system a bit silly. A 300cc 2 smoke make a shit load more power than my drz400 but they pay less. How does that make sense?

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So is the springs to soft on them? The nx is to soft and heavy for anything other than a fire trail but its great for touring on

Hey XRTRAILHACK maybe you should see what these blokes do on there NX650’s. Bit more than fire trail touring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWxDbjj7dFo

All they did was ride them through water and open trails? Everytime the trail tightened or got hard they fell off or carried the bike up. I’m sure people do ride them hard but that video wasn’t a great example!

Nice bike TB, it looks tidy. I like the color too. Welcome to the Yamaha ownership club

I’ve seen hard core enduro bikes man handled over lesser territory than that (even KTM’s). So if where they took them big bikes does not impress you than maybe you should enter the next Erzberg, you’d be a shoe in for the win.

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So is the springs to soft on them? The nx is to soft and heavy for anything other than a fire trail but its great for touring on

Hey XRTRAILHACK maybe you should see what these blokes do on there NX650’s. Bit more than fire trail touring.

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Looks sweet TB. Pretty much set up ready to go. Wack on ya bags and GPS, replace front gaurd with black YZ unit and head for the horizon.

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