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moto wrote:

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It’s European isn’t it? Austria, the last time I checked was in Europe. Is thei section to make shane feel better about buying a VOR? :p

What’s wrong with having 2 special sections?

Feel better????

Each time I ride it everyone around me makes comment….

on the size of my great erection!!:lol:

I lurve the VOR!!!

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I thought this was the numbers thread!

Moto you have way too many topics running, I don’t know how you keep up.

Unfortunately I must regretfully advise that I am unable to attend due to family issues.

Having said that, my non-attendance may allow me to stock pile my rums and beers for the Christmas do???

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Forgot to add that a while ago I built some helmet/mic set ups and noticed that when riding the wind noise killed any voice comms. So I moved to a throat mic which solved that problem. Offroad helmets are terrible with regard to wind noise so if you’re looking at kit like that I would suggest the throat mic or that ‘head bone’ thing the coppers used to use (dunno if they still do).

Radios’d be a benefit on the flat lands but if you’re up to your arse in creek water at the watagans and the crew are three valleys away your little radio is unlikely to help. Better to have a switched on sweep and leader who knows when to send someone back to help.

Communicating with a crash truck on a big ride I’d suggest a commercial or amateur (sp?) handheld capable of at least the legal 5 watts, if not more!

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I’d argue that if you have time to look at the speedo you aren’t going fast enough! For what it’s worth the Vor has no speedo and the gearing is in Italian so I won’t tell you what it is.
as for Mr. Rossi, well, I heard on the grapevine he takes it up the bot bot. Or at least he will when he gets back to good ol’ Italia!:laugh:

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I’ve used mine only a couple of times on trail rides and once at a cross country thingo…money better spent elsewhere I reckon. Each to their own though, some people can talk on one all day long…

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Would this ride suit a beginner with unknown skills?
Lad at work has jagged himself an XR and wants to go out next weekend. I forgot about this one…
Perhaps we could make it a baptism of fire? I wouldn’t mind buying a cheap XR!

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jtb2879 wrote:

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Micknmeld, You know what I know! Read it on an ABC news site.

Vorboy, Maybe you should have used scotch filet as bait?

Funny you should mention that, all I could think about as we ate our minute steaks and snags! Seems the yabbies didn’t take kindly to our offerings! Well, that is they took them but never hung around! It’s off cuts for those buggers next time.

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jtb2879 wrote:

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Menindee to White Cliffs is nice as are the rest to Hillston.

Menindee to Ivanhoe perhaps?

Cops at Indee pulled a brother out of the Copi to Menindee Lake interconnecting channel recently… lets just say he’s no longer an oxygen thief!

Yes, that’s what I meant. Indee to Ivanhoe.

The regulator at Pamamaroo near the main weir was open early this week and there was a bloke with a hand line and a stubbie fishing off the outlet where the concrete is!

BTW had no luck with the nets at Louth even though some old bloke at the pub reckoned they were running.

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Road report having just travelled from Bourke/Louth/Tilpa/White Cliffs/Packsaddle/Broken Hill/Menindee/Ivanhoe/Hillston/Lake Cargellico.

Road from Wilcannia to White Cliffs is all tar. Must be true, my mum said so. I never went along it though.

Road from louth to Tilpa (western side) is nice and smooth and mostly straight.

White Cliffs to Packsaddle is crap with large holes filled with bulldust…and not a few gates!

Tilpa to White cliffs is okay except when you hit the National Park, then the road becomes gorgeous!

Menindee to White Cliffs is nice as are the rest to Hillston.

Packsaddle to Broken Hill is mostly tar and they are currently working to tar the bits that aren’t. I can see a bitumen trip to Tibboburra a reality very soon!

Just got back today, dry trip! Need to blow the dust out of the truck now!

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micknmeld wrote:

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chris72a wrote:

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Couldn’t resist 299 posts had to get to 300, Mick are you by any chance selling a set of pw50 bars theirs a set on ebay at hastings.. Isn’t that where you are. Just bought a pw50 and 80 sticker kit for the PW’s.

Chris.

Nope it isn’t me selling the PW bars.
Speaking of trailers, as some of you may know my brother Ant, left for Melbourne on Tuesday towing the KTM530 and the KTM990 ADV on a brand new bike trailer. Well he rang me in a flap yesterday morning as one of the brand new high quality tie downs on the 990 snapped (rated to 300kg) and Ant was lucky enough to look in the rear view to see the big girl hanging out over the side off the trailer,ready to take the final tumble out over the side. The footpeg was all that was holding her in!!
How lucky was he? Considering he had been driving all night and it happened just after day light, if it had happened during the night the first thing he would have seen would be the shower of sparks as the big Kato self destructed on the highway!!!

I took a trip to Adelaide last year, 2 bikes on a rental trailer. When I got back home in the early hours of the morning I found that because the tie downs had been crossed over, mine had worn half way through! That was the one on the inside of the trailer so if it had’ve let go she’d have gone over the side…in the dark! It was also probably the only time I haven’t tied the barkbusters of both bikes together. Live and learn!

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chris72a wrote:

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Shane, so at 7*5 you can’t fit your bike in straight, how much do you miss out by.

Chris.

The rear gate is open about an inch and a half at the top, so not much. 8×5 would have been the go, but I thought 7 feet was enough…I was wrong.

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Must be trailer-buying season! I picked up a 7×5 and was bitterly disappointed to find that the bike wouldn’t fit in straight with the gate shut! On an angle easy but I wanted it straight FFS! Ended up fitting some off cuts of alloy channel I had laying around and welded some chain and hooks onto the gate to hold him up in transit. I’d be freaking out man! if I’d grabbed a 6×4, but if I did, I’d take off the front panel and run some channel up the guts and onto the draw bar.

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“It” would be more likely to pin you!

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Funny. I used to say that. Then I sold my XR and bought something with a button.

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At first glance I thought it was one of those 100th Anniversary uskys!!!

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