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“Grabbo said”
Day 2

“soild day mostly gritty sand with small and medium size dunes, no big ones, just kept it steady still adapting to the terrain and the GPS, running about 60% my normal pace, but still a long way to go in this rally so wandered along a bit today, prelim results have me 14th for the stage and only 10mins 16secs back from the leader, so that puts me in a top 20 start tomorrow with 1 min start intervals which will help with the dust. Bike is good, though still a little fluffy in the mid range…….got a few of the usual top 10 Dakar boys around me so should be able to settle in ok in the next couple of days……in all, feeling good so far.”

Sounds good :woohoo:

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EAGLE`02 wrote:

Will be a great wekend whatever is dished up,,, always is wherever we go

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

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Yeah the Fluidynes are a lot better than the ebay Chinese ones

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Cheap ones are crap they crack around the tanks. I have a set of PWRs and they are awesome, well made. PS I dont know why Glen had trouble getting his to fit :whistle:

Well made, strong and Aussie. Oh yeah much more expensive then the Chinese ones you should compare the quality :huh:

Just my opinion

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Dust, dust, dust will be the issue if we don’t get rain the day before. I recommend riding in pairs (remember no single riders) if your in a group bigger than two space out and keep an eye on one another at intersections. Its not a race, leave time between pairs, honestly more time will be lost missing turns than on the trail. It is a real navigation event this one, it has more turns. It will require you to zoom in and zoom out, more GPS skills. I will do a quick school on navigation on the friday evening when I have finished loading the last GPS.

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boulder wrote:

Snatched the last room at Woodstock Hotel :cheer: Can pack a bit lighter now.

Who is going in your group Boulder? I need numbers to home give the publican please

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pete the wulf wrote:

Can anyone help me ?

PTW

Knowing you well Pete, NO! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Not even with this problems

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Honda Team

http://www.redbull.com/en/motorsports/offroad/stories/1331580275761/team-hrc-ready-for-dakar

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Dakar day 1 results

http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2013/us/stage-1/rankings/stage-bikes.html

Fish 0.5 secs faster than Grabbo :ohmy:

Smith faster than them both

More results

http://gaps.dakar.com/2013/dakar/stage-01/aso/ukie.php

Go you good things

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Went to the Woodstock Pub today for lunch and met the publican, damn nice bloke. The place is super bike friendly and he will if there are 20 to 25 of us put on a band!! :woohoo: So lets get 20 plus peeps should be a cracker night.
He asked me to go upstairs and take a look at the rooms, I said seen one pub seen them all champ he really wanted me to so I did, and what a surprise :woohoo:
All the beds new! All the bed linen new! The bathroom new!

Beer garden, swag area, tent area and bike parking up against the small retaining wall

If you are going please let the pub know even if you are camping, he is really trying to accommodate us and the route is a cracker I promise its better than the last one

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Just spent two days using my 3 and I have to say its ok, I find a few things disappointing and am loading footage now to see how it is against my old hero 1080 should be interesting. More later about the 3

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I have worn my cool vest under my pressure suit armour and it works great maybe even a little to well when starting out STM :huh: Have you tried it? It feels weird but works
I didn’t take it with me today :blush: , did 660kms and it was the hottest conditions I have ever in my 44 years ridden a bike. Out at Woodstock and Wyangla it was too hot to ride. Hosed myself down at the pub in my gear, was good for 15mins, drank 9litres of water (filled and emptied my camelback 3 times), 3 powerades, 1 V and two lemon lime and bitters today

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Spud.m/m wrote:

I also got one for xmas…..
Got some sic footage today with some good mates..

Pitty its in slow mo and skipping every 5 seconds…..SPEWING…. 👿 👿 👿 👿

Back to the book…. 👿 👿 …spud…

By the sound of that Spud it could be your computer is fast enough for the footage my old PC at home does the same yet runs fine on the laptops and Mac

Could be your memory card if it isn’t a class 10

Give me a ring if you get stuck mate

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Do we are pre running the route backwards, all has worked perfectly thus far. It’s some old some new to Oberon mostly normal stuff from Hampton to Wisemans but that can’t be helped as there are only two ways over the mountains. The Tiger is so different to what I am used to but I am enjoying the change . We did 200 kms to here with very few stops. Interesting that the fuel light on Tiger has been one for the last 30kms :blink: that’s around 220 for a tank although if you watch the helmet can when I put it up there has been some right wrist action :whistle: Stats for the half day

Clubby is riding a new XR250 L

Fuel injected like next years CRF will be

Nice little bike (for your grand mother)

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It’s explained in the first post here last minute chance as Steve hurt his foot Araluan was canned!! Thought here is a perfect opportunity to pre run. Lefty I saw you heading down the coast the other day so how could you go?
I am on the tiger and am having a ball, it’s not a Tenere but it phat on the dirt road spinning up wrecking a tyre :laugh: sideways spinning up :laugh:

At Hampton pub

Clubby and Steve

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