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King Crash wrote:

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As for Friday night at the pub….at least you’ll then have a good excuse for folding under pressure from Mal!

Crash

Me :laugh: here is a picture of your last ride with Mal5.1, thats you on the ground with your bike not me sunshine The Rydal ride I never fell off

TB

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Maybe grab some new bolts of Steve as those have been stressed

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You are as funny as fart in an elevator Crash oh sorry “King Crash” (I knew you when you were pleb Crash :laugh: )

Its on a saturday Crash sure you can make a saturday, should go up friday night and go to the pub and have some rums, what about that plan King?

Now if we are going through photos of attention seeking riders, like blokes that go for multiple magazine deals and huge web hits etc

like this swapper for example all Hail the King and his name sake :laugh: :laugh: “Crash”

Now thats a King Crash :laugh: And to think a little pressure by Chicken on an old 600 caused all this 4 times he rode past the camera man to get a photo legend says

* Will believe your going when we drive up friday night

(I have lots of King Crash photos :laugh: )

TB

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On the subject Boony if it has been loose for a while and caused fretting on the mounting surface for the sprocket you will never keep them tight again :huh:

If you do them up f*#king tight as someone said you can start the bolt stretching and they will come loose even quicker. Locite, good bolts and replace them every other sprocket and make sure they are tight but DONT stretch the bolt as they will loose their re-tension ability and keep coming loose or snap

TB

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Thanks Mal for the heads up your a champion I have one of those chains in my set and I reckon your right they would suit the moto-x boys. I was thinking about one for Camerons but will use a X ring now instead

Boony ALWAYS check your sprocket bolts, loose bolts break hubs and hurt riders check them everytime you do your air filter

TB

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Here is the radar for Woomera at 512kms it shows our area

Here is the Mildura radar it has Ivanhoe to Menindee in it

TB

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Boony wrote:

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Nickj wrote:

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That doesn’t sound very good

how quickly does it dry up out their once the rain stops ??

think about it nick,,theres no slopes for the water to run away???? can take a fair while to dry out,,,yous will be fine.

Boony it actually drys very quickly out there, a little sun and wind. I was talking with Boulder about this today and he said 4 days and the roads were open for them to drive on when they got grounded at Tibaburra two months ago. That said we dont need anymore rain especially the final weeks before the ride.

TB

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Next meeting to discuss the final points of this trip will be at Berowa (Address to be PM’ed later) on Sunday the 26th of September at 10.30am. It would be best if as many of the people going attend this or be available for a conference style call at some stage

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Yeah I will be there on the saturday with Crash if I can drag his sorry arse out for a ride (shit sorry King Crash :laugh: )

I can lead a couple of good loops from there if you wish or am happy to follow

TB

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KatGirl wrote:

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“wash the bloody bike girl and lube the chain”

I thought the bike was clean…. but not to your standards!!! OK… will get an old toothbrush and go over the bike and find some lube for the chain…. man you’re a hard task master.

Not for me, for ol mate that gets the bike in Perth you dont want any grief from him He will be giving it the once over before you get there wont he :dry:

TB

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I actually stripped the clutch assembly pulled the plates and inspected them. They measured up ok but I forgot to photograph them out and only remembered the camera when I had tensioned down the pressure plate

Was a great day, cheers for the bundys Kat you didnt have to I enjoy working on bikes (hell I got to or Mick’s bike would never get done ). Kids will be looking forward to racing you at pacific park :laugh:

TB

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KatGirl wrote:

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Today was another day to spend with my trailbike but this day was going to be different. I wasn’t riding her…….. I was going to get dirty and strip her bare with the help of our OBT HONDA expert – TB.. I learnt today that TB’s stripping skills are amazing!!

I turned up at 9am at Blaxland and got to meet TB’s better half Salina and the two boys (Lachie & Kerian). After a cup of coffee and a ‘long’ chat with Salina (TB was in the carport clanking lots of tools to confirm his readiness) I was off and ready to do some stuff that I had no idea of. The bike came off the trailer and moved into position.

So first it was replacing the front brake pads and wheel bearings. I’m so glad the bearings were replaced as the new bearings were fully enclosed. The original had the bearings exposed…. Not good with expected dust and sand sections of my ride.

Then we moved towards the back…. and did the pads and bearings. The pads were defiantly on the way out ….. I must love my back brake. The bearings needed TB extra grunt skills to get them out but finally they popped out.

After that I went with Lachie to check out the ‘boys shed’. I was given the royal treatment in the explanation of the KTM and Honda bikes the boys ride. ‘Fully licked’ and hanging to go riding with them at Pacific Park some time soon. I’m sure they will give me a run for my money.

Then things became a blur but I promise I only had one bundy and coke by then…. TB was another story….

We did the following (TB did – I watched/prodded/asked “why”/ and generally got in the way/plus handed tools once I knew which tools):

Lubed the clutch cable
Lubed the throttle assembly and cables
Greased all the leaver pivots
Cleaned the mud out of the airbox and replaced the filter
Wired the grips
Replaced the front sprocket
Cleaned and checked the bash plate
Checked the folk seals
Replace the spark plug
Inspected the clutch plate
Did an oil change and cleaned the oil filter
Replaced a speednut on the right side cover.
Checked spokes
Tried to fit the Pivot Pegs on but not the right ones for the bike. Back to the drawing board.

In amongst this Salina provided an awesome lunch which was supplemented with …… yes…. Bundy and Coke and some wicked brownie’s that were begging to be eaten but alas my will power stayed strong….. I just wish I had the same will power when it comes to Bundy’s.

Then we got to do the valve checking twice. The first time was to demonstrate how not to do it. The benefit was hearing the engine and confirming it didn’t sound right so off it all came and another check of the valve clearance. Sure enough the second time was successful.

I only had to do two runs to Penrith for bits (front sprocket & speednut for back side cover). That gave TB some breathing space as there were times I was invading his personal space whilst he worked away.

All finished at 4.30pm with bike on trailer.

After giving TB a big hug and sloppy kiss to say thankyou I felt elated that I learnt so much about my bike, got to get dirty and now feel totally confident the bike is ready for the trip.

Monday it’s off to get crated and shipped to Perth.

Thanks TB for your guidance, technical skill, patience, laughter and for being a bloody nice bloke to give your time to me today. If something bloody well goes wrong I’m blaming you but I suspect she will purr like a pussy cat all the way to Airlie Beach.

Thanks also to Salina for opening up your home and I know I could seriously enjoy some girlie chats with you in the future.

Thanks to Lachie for taking some of the action shots today.

To Lachie and Kerian – watch out … when I come back I will kick your arse around Pacific Park.

Photo’s coming…. Just uploading to photobucket as I type.

25 Days to go…..

And after all that remember to wash the bloody bike girl and lube the chain :laugh:

TB

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Christ we did more then that didnt we :ohmy: :laugh:

Thank god you went to Penrith when I pulled the clutch out, getting the side cover back on was a pain in the arse :dry: I took photos of the clutch but not me doing wheelies on it

TB

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Yeah Boulder it needs to stop raining soon mate here is the road report current as of 9.21am this morning

ROAD DESCRIPTION STATUS COMMENTS

BARRIER HWY- BROKEN HILL TO WILCANNIA SH8 OPEN –
BARRIER HWY- WILCANNIA TO COBAR SH8 OPEN –
COBB HWY- WILCANNIA TO IVANHOE SH21 CLOSED –

COBB HWY- IVANHOE TO HAY SH21 OPEN –
IVANHOE TO BALRANALD MR67 CLOSED –
IVANHOE TO COBAR MR416 CLOSED –
IVANHOE TO TRIDA SR18 CLOSED –
IVANHOE TO MENINDEE MR433 CLOSED –
MENINDEE TO POONCARIE MR68 (C) CLOSED –
MENINDEE TO BROKEN HILL MR66 OPEN –
MENINDEE TO WILCANNIA (EAST SIDE) SR10 CLOSED –
MENINDEE TO WILCANNIA (WEST SIDE) MR68 ( CLOSED –
WILCANNIA TO TILPA (EAST SIDE) SR1 CLOSED –
WILCANNIA TO TILPA (WEST SIDE) MR68 (A) CLOSED –

WILCANNIA TO WANAARING SR5 CLOSED
WILCANNIA TO WHITE CLIFFS MR435 OPEN
WHITE CLIFFS TO MUTAWINTJI MR428 CLOSED –
WHITE CLIFFS TO MANDALAY SR6 CLOSED –
WHITE CLIFFS TO MONOLON SR4 CLOSED –
TILPA TO LOUTH SR2 CLOSED –
TILPA TO TONGO SR3 CLOSED –
DRY LAKE ROAD SR7 CLOSEED –
SPRINGDALE TO CULTOWA SR20 CLOSED –
CULTOWA TO TREVALLYN SR22 CLOSED

Basically the only thing open is the bloody Hwy (Dubbo to Adelaide via Broken Hill)

STOP RAINING :angry:

TB

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Boony seriously give Mal at Sutto’s a ring he has owned them and knows them and if you buy it you will be dealing with him a fair bit anyway (if you want the right bits cheap ). Yeah they do vibrate all the 640’s do it was the only thing I was worried about as Chicken and I looked at the last model 640 adventure.

LC4skin has one closer to the one your looking at as well I think, did you know they are only 625cc :blink:

TB

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