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Well after a discussion with Dave on the phone he understands I would have wished to burn the bikes as I said even if they happened to be Hondas

A couple of points cleared up

It is no reflection of Dave and his ability as a tuner or KTM owner

It was agreed I had stated it was a 2nd hand bike at the start of the thread and I had a better run over the years with other 2nd hand bikes

It was also agreed it had done a million hrs, and I had never disputed that in the entire thread

Dave is still rebuilding the MA50 which I am very happy with because he is the KTM mini bike king

And Dave may have gone off half cocked, I hope I can say that Dave :huh:

And it wasnt my comment that set him of.

Now back on topic

Dave will be sorting shortly what exactly has gone wrong with the little MA so we can have it ripping for Kieran again

TB

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axel wrote:

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. Being chased by 650s makes me nervous

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Ha ha

We couldn’t meet back up because I hadn’t written your number down sorry Axel :blush:

We did singles behind the olds and over the back into the bush and the pines.

I would have shown you a heap more over there on the northern side if you know where to access it, maybe next year after my shoulder is back to new and I can throw the bike around a little better as I am to nervous about damaging it more at the minute

Thanks to the dubbo boys for what was a great days riding

TB

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mal5.1 wrote:

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The 2010 A4DE will be held from 8-11 April and will be based at Portland NSW

WTF!!!!!

Where are they going to put everyone… There is only 2 pubs in town for accomodation. Bathurst and Lithgow are 25 mins away.
The small surrounding towns may do alright out of it though.

But I’ll be there anyway. I would have to really as I live close by. Donna has already put her annual leave form in to be my pit crew.

I will give you a hand Mal if you would like

TB

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Yeah two banger all the PPE wont as it should, pays to have it for sure

I checked the bash plate out today as I thought thats got to be bent in someway because it was a hard hit. Well I have to give Whipps bash plates a huge rap because I hit that tree bloody hard and it isnt bent as all.
The plate protects everything, it is easy enough to removed yet mounted well enough that it has never come loose. I thought the impact may have bent the mounting bolts but no everything is sweet. Two thumbs up Whipps like all their products

TB

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Did you get hurt Boony?

TB

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Maybe that’s the next caption photo, nice jersey Fes

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Not a problem WB , I dont think it will cause you any grief based upon our phone call but

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Nice looking ride Bruce, very all about the business I really like that, although the site stickers not so much :laugh:

TB

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Oh the incident with the tree I have to say I am so happy I wear Astrisk knee braces because the impact with the tree was fairly large and sent me flying with no time to warn Dan via the intercom that there was in fact a man down :laugh: as is the rule. The right hand knee area of my pants showed a hard impact but this morning inspection of myself or my brace shows no sign of the incident

Astrisk Knee Brace Report

The other thing is the steel toe pad for the alloy rear brake lever was bent and snapped of at one end with out the brake snake that I had fitted I am sure the alloy lever would have bent and snapped for sure costing me a small fortune (but less than a KTM for sure)

TB

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Moto wrote:

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Diddel wrote:

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Mixing oil at 40:1 I in my mathematical wisdom devised that 0.25 or 0.025 x no of litres gets how much you add.
Tolerances are like chipper stuff so don’t stress to much.

It runs at 60:1 which is 16.66666666666666666667 ml’s per litre Like someone else mentioned I’ll do a little chart. It doesn’t detract from the fact that I have to have a little chart and piss about with it in the first place though!

And that will be so easy to work out when you stop at a servo to top up and add 7.6 litres

Easy eh :laugh:

TB

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There are spots still available for this ride for anyone interested

Also start has been changed to 9.30am start location to be PM’ed later

Ride Details

I am doing a ride starting at 9.30am from just outside of Orange. Saturday mornings ride will consist of all pine single trail, after about 3 hrs then a pub lunch in town and refuel, we will then ride back out to another pine forest and bush for a couple of hrs of all single trail.
After which we will ride back to the cars (parked at my parents property) fuel up and put on our back packs with clothes for an overnight stay at Hillend Pub, we will then ride to Hillend via a mixture of fire trails, dirt roads, one big long creek crossings and the Bathurst / Hillend Bridle trail.

Overnight Stay Hillend and refuel

Sunday leave Hillend after fueling at the servo, travel out through Long Point crossing via fire trails and twin trails to Mullion Creek where we will have fuel stored. We will then spend a few hrs riding in what I think is the best single trails I have ridden, Moto, LC, Champo and I really enjoyed them when we rode out there in April

Ride is a grade 4 at a grade 3 pace

See Here

Numbers will be limited

1/ TB
2/ Kylie D
3/ Dan D
4/ Chicken
5/ Novice
6/ Mal 5.1
7/ Crash
8/ Rocket
9/ Scotty
10/ Mal (Sutto’s)
11/ Mal’s Mate

TB

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How good was it today

Fun Bits

Meeting Axel, Grant

Catching up with Rocket

Riding with Big Bob Ball Buster you are a funny unit

Sweet single trails oh so sweet

Damp and slippery under foot nice

Chasing Rocket and Axel, couldn’t get past Rocket (no passing places) to play with Axel but holly Christ Axel seemed fast

Hitting the tree and finding no damage to me or fiddy :laugh:

Counter lunch, puff pastry steak and kidney pie with mash and a bundy

More and more sweet dust free singles and not rutted and rooted

The bridle trail on the Hammer with Dan the Man

Doing a massive wheelie

Being able to duck to the olds and use the welder even though no one was home (cheers Gabba)

A Happy punter at the end

Two dirty dirty girls

Bring on next weekend its going to be the best weekend

There are some spots available

TB

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Adrian wrote:

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I am having thoughts of buying a neckbrace.I only ride bush and dont push all that hard.Do i really need it?What are the pros and cons?How much do i need to spend and what brand?All advice recieved with many thanks.

Sorry didnt answer your question

Pros

No broken neck
Able to walk
Can still feel your dick

Cons

None

Cost, but against the pro’s :blush:

I dont think it matters how hard you go you can still fall of.

All the above is my opinion only

TB

[GregMember]

Adrian trying having a Look Here

Or Here

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Dave you have issues and should have them looked at, see no smiley face added

You accuse me of “I love Honda/I hate KTM” glasses but what does any of this have to do with you. It isnt your bike, its not your workmanship you arent KTM so why are you so worked up

So unlike you to go of half cocked with the facts all arse up
Go back and reread the posts and you will see how I said it is a good thing

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something that handles and goes
TB

I know its a 2nd hand bike thats why in the first post I said
Trailboss wrote:

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its a 2nd hand bike calm down its not about you

TB

The reason you only just found out about the 85 is because I only drained and measured the oil that same afternoon I mentioned it

I haven’t asked you to take any responsibility for the 85 and wont be I understand 2nd bikes etc nor did I ever expect you to be responsible for it, you did all the talk not me

Please put the 50 parts in a box and I will take it home dont fix it

What I expected from these bikes was only the sort of run from all the 2nd hand bikes I have always had, I have only had one new bike in my life myself and the kids dont ride well enough to thrash them. We had CR80’s, RM’s60’s, MR 50’S, YZ100’s that went for years with no maintenance at all, none at all so maybe I expected wrongly something similar from these bikes

The only other 2nd bike I have ever had that gave me this much trouble and failed a main brg was my KTM 250XC two stroke strange eh

Dave if I cant be upset at the fact these failed because the kids dont have their bikes going well then I dont know what to do but you dont have to worry about it nor should you be going of unless the KTM Glasses are on

This has nothing to do with you expect you where rebuilding it which has nothing to do with the whole thing has it? No it doesnt

TB

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