[Scott SouthwellMember]

Not trying to bag any bikes out, I understand high perfomance race bikes are going to cost more to maintain. It’s just those figures blow my mind. If I had to spend that to keep a bike going I wouldn’t be riding.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

At $15 a litre, thats over $30,000 or $1 per km just in oil. Yeah I can see how KTM’s are cost effective. Makes me feel like a complete tight arse. The poor DRZ is expected to do many more km’s on a litre of oil. My calculations may be wrong, i’m no accountant and not known for my mathimatics but that seems excesive.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

33,104.38 km, 816 hrs 26 min, 2186.44 litres used. That equates to about a litre of oil every 15km. You must do lots of short ride or carry heaps of oil around. I used to have a hyundia excel with 400,000km that didn’t even use that much oil. :laugh:

[Scott SouthwellMember]

I,m supposed to be heading to soldiers point on the 10th, otherwise I would be there.

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Husky610 wrote:

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Yeah, to go over the top, you could do your sand run from Noosa, hop the ferry over the river then run the beach to Rainbow/Inskip, onto the next ferry and hit Fraser at Hook point..( the Bottom end), then the long run upto the top point. That would be the run for the brissy end of QLD. Take a long weekend because the run upto Rainbow is full of other spots to check out to.

This is the kind of run im thinking of with maybe an overnight campout on the island.

What would be the best time of year to do such a ride? Thinking of still being warm enough for a swim but trying to avoid the peak tourist seasons.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Fitted one of these to the DRZ today. does’nt fit as nice as the standard filter. needed to be stretched out over the filter cage. Seamed to have smaller side walls than the standard one resulting in a smaller filter area. Seems to seal against the base ok but once again the surface area where it seals is smaller than standard. I was going to get a couple of these for Hillend ride but not so sure know.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

700cc, 80HP 2 SMOKE, FAAAAAAAARK. Not sure my testicals are big enough for such a beast. Good luck to those who can tame it.

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Trailboss wrote:

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Scotty wrote:

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Another DRZ rider. Would domination is getting closer

Lucky its only would domination, I would hate for them to take over the world! :woohoo:

TB

I’m going back to the thread were the DRZ smokes the sixfitty on the hill. I was much more happy there.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Another DRZ rider. World domination is getting closer

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Talkin of QLD rides, I won’t be making this one but I have always wanted to do Fraser Island. Maybe sometime next year a ride and campout could be the go up there.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Tyre selection might of been an issue here. Nah what am I saying, go the DRZeee.

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Better get me on that list. woo hoo!

[Scott SouthwellMember]

Throw my name on that list dates pending. Most of January no good for me. If ya looking for someone to throw up a date 31 Jan/1 Feb or 21/22 Feb both good weekends for me. Would need to confirm soon so I could lock in dates with the rosters bitch.

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Yeah you guys would have covered most of this area on the way to Orange. There are so many more trails out there to explore but some of them I didn’t want to tackle aloan. Found some new stuff back in the pine forest though. How good is the dirt under pine trees.

Hope I can swing a few more weekend rides in the new year.

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Trailboss wrote:

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No mate, I will wait for you, Chicken and I will be organising this one, Crash will be there, wild horses I reckon couldn’t stop him, this one will be pretty special as we have done parts of it but its trick ride and we will book the rooms at the pub before we leave, and have a fuel ute at the pub

More details in the new year

TB

That sounds like a great ride (wish I made it to this one, working weekends sux). When ya get a date sorted let us know that way I can go and suck up to the rosters bitch to lock in the days off.

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