DB1K - Dusty Butt 1000 2013

[NordieBoy]

Oh my god!

Woodman!

Your face! What happened to it!





Oh, it's just your nose

[timg]

Well that was an epic DB1K.
Many thanks to Ryan and his band of helpers for once again organising an fantastic weekend. You guys rock
Struan was also everywhere helping us all out. Thanks mate.
Matt, thanks for organising the pre DB shake down ride again.

It's rather ironic that I spent quite a few $'s building my version of the ideal Adv bike for last years DB only to discover on Matts Chch to DB ride that the bike was way too tall for me and I didn't feel confident or competent enough to tackle the challenge sections on it, which had been my intention. This year I bought an XR250L for about a third of what I spent on the KTM with the intent to do the challenge sections for the first time. So on my 'girls bike' - thanks Buddha#81 this old fart knocked off the complete DB including all the challenge sections My bag of old bones sure does ache today though - legacy of a couple of minor spills. The wee Honda didn't miss a beat for the trip, didn't use a drop of oil, just needed fuel and chain lube. It mightn't be fast or flashy but it got the job done with no fuss or bother and coped with everything, even when it seemed the deeper Awakino river crossings were almost over the seat it just plugged on through. Thanks Roger and Lee for your company and for putting up with a slow old fella and being such great riding companions.

Great to catch up with the regular bunch and some new faces. Can't wait for next year.... Cheers.

[cromagnon]

Finally did the dusty butt! After a couple years of missing out due to timing/bike issues.

Thanks to CooneyR and team for putting on such a great event. It was an awesome ride. Went on quite a few roads and places that I had never been before.

Got back to chch at 10pm last night after a long day, 15 hours after setting off in the morning. Slept well.

Highlights: Views of light over the hills on the first morning, Carricktown, Omarama saddle, Black Forest.

A few photos...

[mattsdakar]

I finally got home this morning at 02:00!
We left Fairlie Saturday morning at a leisurely 10:00 and had our first beer at Cave, then at Waimate, then at Waiho forks..at this point I noticed my radiator leaking so with a bottle of water we carried on over the Awakino spoting a couple of abandoned bikes on the way, after a drama free crossing we arrived at the fantastic Omakau Hotel at 21:30..just in time for dinner, out gracious hosts Mike and Stacey cooked us the best steaks ever then we carried on socialising to the small hours.
In morning one of our group riding a KTM 950r decided he was pulling the pin for what appeared to be a blown head gasket, while I headed to Alex for Radiator stopleak after unsuccessfully trying to plug small leak by removing some finns from radiator and plastering offending area with needit but to no avail.
Stopleak didn't work so my ride was done, I limped back to Omakau where my buddy was propping up the bar and we got on it until his brother arrived from chch witha recovery trailer...what a hero.
In meantime had been speaking to Ryan and had arranged to bring the abandoned KTM from Awakino back to chch for a fella who to my amazement was back in TAuranga when I called him at 20:00.

Gutted about the radiator, the only time I put bike down was on shingle fan at Glenfalloch and that was no worse than a stationary steep off when I didn't have any terrafirra underfoot on an incline

Oh well there's always next year.
Funny thing that happened while we were killing time in Omakau was I went on to trademe via my phone and low and behold, XR650R radiators for sale..auction closes in 2hours,,$128 buy now...perfect was meant to be..have tried sourcing them in the past on were only available from Oz for about $350...sweet!

[gpcustom]

This was my first dusty and I was blown away. no injuries or offs . Everyone was helpful and friendly. When my riding buddy Mark (coldcomfort ) didn't want to do the awakino he jacked up for me to tag along with some other fellas. Thanks Mark. Sorry I cant remember there names KTM 450 black jacket yellow high vis strips / Honda xr 250 & Yamaha 250 I think thanks for letting me tag along. we also hooked up with Bushy and Paul both on dr 650 on Sunday.
Also hoked up with 2 ktms in kurow a 690 & a 990.

Both coldcomfort and myself had no issues with the KTM's no break downs / flat tyres they worked like clock work

apart from broken side stands

BRING ON 2014

[_Shrek_]

made it home about 1600 after leaving here with Off-spring on Thursday for shaky town.... we covered 2486k's

then the CHCH - Fairlie ride Friday.... was a bit of humour

then DB1k only did the main ride with no challenge's... 1st day no off's got abit untidy here & there

2nd day left home & arsed up going down hill around tight turn on cow shit then on the Lammermoor's twice more as there are pic's

great ride with great mates (& son) cheers guys

highs for the weekend
all the rides
catching up with old & meeting new
The Food Friday night
& all your efforts R & Team

lows
when you pull over to let people past & they shower you with stones, rocks etc....
braking two head lights in our group in the process

[cold comfort]

Once again, huge thanks to Ryan et al.for an epic event. Always good to meet a few new faces and hear new stories. Gratitude once more to Struan for his white knight support for all and with fuel for us at Moa Creek. Thanks too to Bushy for the Dunstan gate opening (due to the lack of KTM side stand). Minimal injuries too. Only one off and still able to sit down to write this.
Still some unfinished business re the Awakino but couldn’t manage it with only one eye (the other being full of dirt) and had to miss the Omarama saddle due to a flailing chain. My riding companion was in fear of losing his head, fortunately there was little danger of him being behind me long enough. (I really wanted to change those sprockets anyway, and replace the mirrors, and fix the sidestand....). At least ONE of our KTM's was ridden in spirited fashion.
So cheers GPCustom for the company and 5 star accommodation at Alex. 2014? Maybe. It is addictive.

[timg]

Hey TA - where are the video's???

[cooneyr]

...Kiwi ingenuity, even though I don't see any #8 wire anywhere at all...

Just figured out too an hour to fix that TTR suspension. Me thinks that Whatstoner should post a pic or two of the shock when he gets it out. Something is not quite right about it(!) but at least we got it ridable and he finished the the ride and then rode back to Chch.

.... Mr Dusty Butt Ryan & his wing man Carl: .....

So why is TA all grubby and me clean. Its not cause he was following me. Thanks for showing me where not to ride TA

Cheers R

[Adux]

What an excellent but challenging weekend.

For a first timer on the DB1k the whole experience was great, only did the main route this year but myself and riding buddies (all first time DB1k'ers) were lamenting our decision not to ride the challenges and were discussing next years event even before this years dust has been washed from the bikes.

Thanks Ryan and all those who helped to make this weekend such a success.

[Transalper]

Ha ha, the video is here infront of me, I've been reading the reports but watching some of the video right now.... until stopping for this reply.
Got over 4 hours of DB but really only going for the Awakino including the end this time and Lammermoor in sunshine instead of snow. Oh and a bit of a 'watercrossing/stuffed that up' highlight thing, those are the 3 I'm think of making.
Lost my memory card from Matts ride Friday but think I only recorded the shingle scree bit then anyway.

So it was a beaut ride this year, some good stories and tails told and hope some more to come.
Thanks to those who gave me a hand when I needed it, not too often luckily and to Ryan for your company both days, the push up the Awakino and giving us all another round of the Shoei DB1K.
I've begun to enjoy the ruts along the tracks riding the WR250 but the loose rocks still not so much.

Yep, almost had a Woodman moment with a deeper than expected little brown puddle, is how I got the dirty look while those close behind didn't. Got a bit of a rinse off in a couple of big splash fords later too.

[abarnes]

Well that was an epic DB1K.
Many thanks to Ryan and his band of helpers for once again organising an fantastic weekend. You guys rock
Struan was also everywhere helping us all out. Thanks mate.
Matt, thanks for organising the pre DB shake down ride again.

It's rather ironic that I spent quite a few $'s building my version of the ideal Adv bike for last years DB only to discover on Matts Chch to DB ride that the bike was way too tall for me and I didn't feel confident or competent enough to tackle the challenge sections on it, which had been my intention. This year I bought an XR250L for about a third of what I spent on the KTM with the intent to do the challenge sections for the first time. So on my 'girls bike' - thanks Buddha#81 this old fart knocked off the complete DB including all the challenge sections My bag of old bones sure does ache today though - legacy of a couple of minor spills. The wee Honda didn't miss a beat for the trip, didn't use a drop of oil, just needed fuel and chain lube. It mightn't be fast or flashy but it got the job done with no fuss or bother and coped with everything, even when it seemed the deeper Awakino river crossings were almost over the seat it just plugged on through. Thanks Roger and Lee for your company and for putting up with a slow old fella and being such great riding companions.

Great to catch up with the regular bunch and some new faces. Can't wait for next year.... Cheers.

Many thanks Struan and the guys who helped me out at start of friday ride when a wheel bearing let go, first one in 35 years I might add.
Mate and myself came up from Dunedin and then rode up the road from Geraldene to meet up with the boys from CH CH etc and about 2kms of meeting them that was it but after a quick phone call from one of you boys I was picked up and dropped of in Ashburton where I got bearings replaced and made it back to Mayfeild 5 min before first of group arrived so was able to gas up and get a beer in hand before the bikes arrived.
Missed out on entering DB (a bit slow) so after arriving at Fairlie we headed back to Geraldene and loaded up and headed for Nasby to catch up with mates for a sat and sun ride which zig zaged all around Mackenzie and Manitoto so sorry to the boys that I seen checking route sheets when they passed us going different directions etc around the country side.
Once again thanks for help and will get entry in earlier next year.
Ps have heard of a few other ktms that wheel bearings let go in weekend one at Palmerston and after a phone call to his partner she drove from ch ch to drop of a spare wheel then drove back, well done.

[Woodman]

Oh my god!

Woodman!

Your face! What happened to it!





Oh, it's just your nose

Well, after me and Umopom were being riding Gods over the lamammoors (fav part this year) we were coming down into the paddocks when i missed/cocked up a corner where there was no run off but rather big rocky mounds of shit and tussock. Managed to ride over one, but the front dug into another one and spat me off and i landed on my head about three metres from where the bike landed. After ascertaing that my neck wasn't broken because it went crack, I flipped up my helmet only to notice that there was an awful lot of blood around. The internal sun visor which i had in the down position had come down and sliced a chunk off the end of my nose and then sliced another chunk off the side of my nostril. Got back on and found Umopom who started playing nurse when a 4x4 came along with a real Nurse in it who patched me up with steristrips, and we recruited her husband for next years DB. Lovely couple and a big thanks whoever you are

The lady said i should ride to Dunedin to get it looked at properly and get stitched but Umopom said that I had a lot of riding to get through first so off we went. It took me about an hour to become a riding god again.

The KLR didn't sustain any damage at all that couldn't be kicked back into shape.

Got home yesterday arvo and went to A&E, and after 5 hours they put in 3 stitches, told me the scars will be permanent and sent me home.

Great DB by the way, probarbly the best yet.

[_Shrek_]

Got home yesterday arvo and went to A&E, and after 5 hours they put in 3 stitches, told me the scars will be permanent and sent me home.

Great DB by the way, probarbly the best yet.

well the scars wont do any more for ya looks they may even improve them

good to see you monday morn still in good spirits cya next time

[Kokopelli]

well the scars wont do any more for ya looks they may even improve them

good to see you monday morn still in good spirits cya next time

Yes, but while he snored normally on Friday night, Sunday night it sounded like a broken bag pipe. Had me scrambling for the ear plugs within 10min.