DJ in the Big Red Land. Again! [Archive]

ducatijim

20th March 2010, 20:36

Hey guys, and gals......go-on, tell me if you are all over this?

In Adelaide right now; got darkie free yesterday. I have to wait aoiund for a few days while some beaurocratic wheels grind, I'll stay with my mate Taffy till I can set out for WA.

A guy in border control yesterday, while inspecting my tent etc, thought I would put my bike on a TRAIN to get to WA!!!! He was astounded I would actually RIDE the 2900km I have to go to get to Scaddan, via Kalgoorlie( Totally NOT for pleasure-I have to go here just to renew my WA REGO!!).

C U dudes.

NordieBoy

20th March 2010, 21:57

I take it WA isn't West Auckland?

How many refuels is 2900km?

Crisis management

21st March 2010, 07:47

Have a good one Jamie, the 990 seat better be more comfortable than the 640, my arse is sore from just 500kms.....typing standing up!

clint640

22nd March 2010, 07:04

Hey guys, and gals......go-on, tell me if you are all over this?
.

Hell no! Have fun over there & post up plenty of pics of sunny Oz. What are your travel plans this time?

Cheers
Clint

offrd

22nd March 2010, 18:19

How many refuels is 2900km?

I would say 10 going by mine, perhaps 12 for Jamie?????

ducatijim

22nd March 2010, 22:42

Yeah, I think 10 fills will get me there!

My first planned big adventure this trip was to be the great(?) Nullarbor, however today happened and all thay has changed.

You see, I spent an unreasonable part of today trying to navigate my way aroung SA's biggest carpark. Some folk, particularly locals here, call it,....Adelaide.
I call it unreasonable. !1/4 hr to go 20km across town this morning to drop darkie in for service....but wait.........it gets worse=

3 hrs to do the return trip to pick her up this arvo. I didn't bother with pix cause only the numberplates are differant to NZ.
Bring on the open road, soon!

shafty

23rd March 2010, 00:03

That would make for a very expensive rego Dude.

Good to see ya still got the call of the horizon! :scooter:

Bass

23rd March 2010, 11:53

!1/4 hr to go 20km across town this morning to drop darkie in for service....!

Did they get her sorted out properly?
How's she running now?

ducatijim

23rd March 2010, 21:46

On the road agin!

Yay, got all the 'trivia' done and dusted and will saddle up and free meself of this Giant carpark once and for all in the morning.

RAA and Customs were great, folks are real helpful I've found, Darkie is chompn at the bit....so......................................... ...........

Its............................................... its............................................... .................................................. ............................................

.....off to................................................ .................................................. .................................................. ................................

Port Augusta in the morning. Yay. I will try to find 'something' even 1/2 interesting to photo, Promise.

ducatijim

28th March 2010, 23:17

That went well.

I did photo some good shit and when I get all my shit together I will post some up here;its hard to be organised elecktrickery wise, when living outta tents etc.

Get to my permanant digs 2moro so can get set up and tell some stories, for now, here in Norseman, I am off for a shower and then the pit.

Goodnite all. ( oh yes, swimingly is wot its gone so far, bloody swimingly!)

NordieBoy

29th March 2010, 06:36

oh yes, swimingly is wot its gone so far, bloody swimingly!

A bit wet is it?

:D

ducatijim

12th April 2010, 23:47

I had something really interesting to share, but Im buggered if I can understand how to post up a pix attachment-all I get is this bloody stupid URL entry box-

WTF?

offrd

13th April 2010, 05:39

Click the attachments box, top row, 5th along. Fonts.. Sizes. A. Smile face. Attachments.

Took me a while to find the bloody thing too!@
:scooter:

kevfromcoro

13th April 2010, 06:35

crazyhorse

13th April 2010, 06:59

Sounds like fun all the same....

kevfromcoro

13th April 2010, 07:09

Yeah power is a bit of a problem on the road..
all my gear runs on recharge battries.
still need to get to caravan park every few days and charge everthing up... <and have a wash>
a bit of stuff can be charged of the bike...
Does anyone know if i can charge up a laptop... of a 12 volt outlet..?
Think its possible......

Eddieb

13th April 2010, 07:32

You can get little solar powered units that should charge a set of batteries ok, use all that free sun.

kevfromcoro

13th April 2010, 07:58

Thanks eddie...will look into it..
Made a few mistakes.. when i started out....
Bought a tent that ya couldnt sling a cat in..... bought a bigger one.. its a bit heavier... but heaps of room..
Also my camera is a big bulky thing.. takes good pics... but to big to carry in my pocket.
Its on the tank bag....
Should of got one of those little pocket ones.....
Ita all a learning curve.....

ducatijim

15th April 2010, 00:23

Bit of a trip allright....
Big outfit his ozzy init
Watcha upto in Perth. dj.
I just bought an outerstate bike,, just going through he process of changing the plates.
Bit of a hassle.
Not like NZ......

Yeah Kev, they have some dumb rules round vehicles over here eh? You would not belive the shit I had to go thru just to extend my CTP for the rest of the bikes time here( 7 months). You would think I was after a free pass to shag Mrs Rudd.

I work in the Wheatbelt driving the huge seeders putting in next seasons crops. I will post a pix once our rig is fully assembled( next week), so Im not in Perth but 700km away near Esperance.

My interesting pix?

Have a look at this and tell me wots wrong - cause it is wrong. IS-

a) my beer belly too big, or-
b) my penis too small, or-
c) is this how I feel about the WA DPI ( NZs LTSA) ?

shafty

15th April 2010, 00:35

U R taking the piss?

kevfromcoro

15th April 2010, 06:15

Esperence.. heard its a great place...
Nice beach..
Much work out that way?
Shes a bit hard to find this side.........
Got a bit coming up.... but its not for another month..
Just getting ready to go up to the HU meeting in cooroy...
Going to be interesting...

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/meetings/
3 day campout... not to keen on those crocs though.... wont be setting up my tent by the lake...
Cheers...KEV

BTW............ pic is ok...........

offrd

15th April 2010, 21:49

.
Does anyone know if i can charge up a laptop... of a 12 volt outlet..?
Think its possible......

DSE do a unit that will run?charge laptop off 12v, but it draws quite a bit of current!

ducatijim

15th April 2010, 23:13

So maybe there is nothing wrong.

Well, thats a relief(?)!

kevfromcoro

16th April 2010, 05:29

So maybe there is nothing wrong.

Well, thats a relief(?)!

not to sure what you mean??

SPman

16th April 2010, 13:51

Nice beach.. if you don't mind all the lead oxide .......... last time there, the missus couldn't breath proper.....it was the lead, apparently! Nice away from the town, though.

ducatijim

17th April 2010, 00:19

if you don't mind all the lead oxide .......... last time there, the missus couldn't breath proper.....it was the lead, apparently! Nice away from the town, though.

Yeah, that was a bit of a wee problem for a while. No longer load that stuff out from there but are still cleaning up the town of the stray lead.
Still, who wanted to live forever anyway

ducatijim

19th April 2010, 00:05

Not really 'adventuring', but went for a ride with the Esperance branch Ulysses today( yes, I am that old kids!) - met a guy at the pub last nite-he was oggling the skimpy with me and we got yarning, as you do in these situations, and he told me he was in from 'out east' for a shag and a club ride, well, rather nicely he invited me along on the ride( the wheeled 1...no offer on the other kind?), ans as I had bugger all else better to do I accepted!
About 20 bikes, all the folk very friendly and welcoming, unlike some branches in NZ, and lo and behold there was another 990- Darkie had a mate! The ride was not much of a story-200km straight flat road to Norseman and 200km back( with a stop at the local for a couple of coldies and a random chat with a nice young thing on a Ducati)
A good day had by all.
Some pix 4 U-

Bass

19th April 2010, 08:48

NordieBoy

19th April 2010, 10:17

Also, that other 990 looks like it's fitted with a Trailwing (or have I got that wrong?).

Correct - about being wrong.

Not sure what it is though?

ducatijim

21st April 2010, 12:14

What's the big red machine in the background of the first piccy for?

Also, that other 990 looks like it's fitted with a Trailwing (or have I got that wrong?).

I thought it was impossible to put a Deathwing on a KTM as they are immediately rejected and spat off.

Mate, that red machine is a Miller( same brand as the silverwheels spreader I was driving) Nitro boom sprayer-high clearance for over crop work and a boom of somewhere round 120' width.

Wrong....stock Pirelli Scorps. Right bout KTM's reaction to deathwings thou!

Too busy now to post much but may get a pix of the whole rig today as I start seeding.

drbandit

22nd April 2010, 21:20

Dont do anything we wouldnt do.....

Be In touch

ducatijim

24th April 2010, 14:35

Now this is wot I call a BIG PUSSY-

480 Hp, 25 tonne, uses 60L diesel/hr and rides like a bloody dray!

ducatijim

24th April 2010, 14:39

And this bloody thing was lying in the sun on my back porch this morning-

NordieBoy

24th April 2010, 19:43

All we find lying around are these little buggers.

205376

Vicious though, they'll have your leg off if you give them the chance.

kevfromcoro

25th April 2010, 07:31

And this bloody thing was lying in the sun on my back porch this morning-

Wat was it DJ ?
I had a run in with a King Brown a few weeks ago..
Seen a few snakes here.. most are ok.. get out the way
But that Brown was a right testy cunt of a thing..........

ducatijim

25th April 2010, 15:33

I belive it was a snake Kev, and brown. I didn't bother to enquire about its parents!

( I know, that will do me sooo much good at a&e when the bastard bites me!)

kevfromcoro

25th April 2010, 18:16

I belive it was a snake Kev, and brown. I didn't bother to enquire about its parents!

( I know, that will do me sooo much good at a&e when the bastard bites me!)
yeah the brown i saw was a nasty cunt... had a crack at 3 of us.....
the gardener turned up and hit him on the noggin with a spade.
still snapping his jaws trying to bite something
think the taipan is worse.....
dam snakes... hate them....
had a big one here the other day.... but he was ok...
a constrictor i think.......

drbandit

25th April 2010, 21:23

Thats why we live here... dont have to mountain bike over those things

ducatijim

9th May 2010, 23:39

Hi team, sorry for the lack of dilligence here, I have been too busy to adventure since my last post and my boss doesn't give us notice of a weekend off till late friday and by the time we get home around 6 its way too late to set out anywhere too far afield.
Today was little differant but the small adventure trip delivered big rewards-I overnited with the other guys of my crew in Esperance and set out at 0930 this morning for Cape Arid on Isralite bay.
Even though it was only 150km from Esp before I headed into the Cape Arid NP, for the 30km of washboard each way( in typical NP fashion their acess routes are designed to keep people AWAY not welcome them into their parks!!

ducatijim

9th May 2010, 23:53

The trip out to the start of the tracks was not as boring as expected, there were some corners and wee hills( really!) and of course I was interested in where they were in their farming season compared to my district so the journey went quickley.
I also scoped out a future plan to take a vague track from near here right up to Balladonia on the Nullarbor = next time!
30k of gravel after the seal ends, then the track of corrugations( remember Bass? too fast/too slow/just right?)....I tried the slow approach first, as I do, and that was loostening my fillings....aarrgh. I contemplated turning round....don't want to quit but, however I remember well the last time I went bush without anyone knowing ;I nearly perished from getting stuck in deep sand and running out of water....still vivid in my mind. Then I applied Bass's well tryed style and got up on the pegs and 'pressed-on'. Better!
Came across this wee guy crossing the track ahead of me, by the time I stopped and got the camera out he was almost into the scrub. I coaxed him back( that is I pickedhim up with my gloved hand and placed him in the road for a pix-he again applied some speed and was about to vanish before the pix, so, this pic came about-you could see the resignation on his face i reckon 'bloody tourists'!!

ducatijim

10th May 2010, 00:09

As usual in this country, you never see the sea until youre about to tip into it, but it was spectacular to see, beautiful white sand with huge seas breaking onto the shore one way and super smooth big boulders with spectacular breakers the other way. There was a good keen bloke there, well not there but his ute, boat trailer and boat tractor were there, along with 3 barrels of paua shells, not sure where the previous inhabitants of the shells had gone. I could not see their boat from up on the rox either so they must have brought a catch in and gone out for more?(differant?)
Took some pikkies and then set out back again, this time up on the pegs and getting along at 80-90kph I felt fully in control now and loving it! I am unloaded however and this contributes no small amount to the handling I bet!!
At the end of the NP track I decide to take a wee short cut that proved to be a battle of overgrown scrub and quite deep sand with a long sloping climb right at the end before getting back on the road....that climb had me focused I tell you! ( very bald Desert on back!!).

ducatijim

10th May 2010, 00:17

Anyone here ever driven 1 of these?
Its nearly as old as my wife and doesn't ride nearly as well.:yes:

!!

Bass

10th May 2010, 13:23

Anyone here ever driven 1 of these?
!!

Actually mate, I have, but it was only briefly and 40 years ago

No more electrical issues with the bike then, I presume?

clint640

10th May 2010, 14:26

Anyone here ever driven 1 of these?
!!

Is that what the boss gave ya to drive after you complained about the hard ride in the big crawler?:shutup:

Cheers for the update, good to see the Darkie getting out & about again. :yes:

Clint

SPman

10th May 2010, 20:22

Anyone here ever driven 1 of these? An old Acco International - there are still a few of those floating around the country areas... sort of the successor to the old WW2 Ford 4X4.....The lizard looks like a Bobtail or Blue tounge - we get those around the house - a good sign apparently, meant to keep the other snakes away and we haven't seen one in 4 yrs, so...
We've got a mate in Esperance who I think is in Ulysses - train driver - rides a BMW 1100, got a few BSA's as well - Spitfire3, Goldstar 500 and a couple of others.

ducatijim

10th May 2010, 21:47

Actually mate, I have, but it was only briefly and 40 years ago

No more electrical issues with the bike then, I presume?

Thought that might just be the case. This 1 is 42 years going on 43 yo and goes amazingly well, doesn't stop so well but!! Need to get off the 'power'(?) way before any turn. And, miss that downshift-ur toast!!
Did u not get my email re Darkies eles?

Grubber

11th May 2010, 08:24

Anyone here ever driven 1 of these?
Its nearly as old as my wife and doesn't ride nearly as well.:yes:

!!

Actually yes i have. Drove them in the early 80's when i was living in Brisbane. They call them a Butter Box. Hot as shit inside and oh yea...when the motor goes bang the smoke plumes come through the internal bonnet and fill the cab to the point where you can't see shit.

Bass

11th May 2010, 08:40

Did u not get my email re Darkies eles?

Yes, I got it. Just checking that it was the ultimate fix and that there have been no reoccurrances.

ducatijim

11th May 2010, 23:20

Is that what the boss gave ya to drive after you complained about the hard ride in the big crawler?:shutup:

Cheers for the update, good to see the Darkie getting out & about again. :yes:

Clint

Yeah, right Clint.....I wouldn't dare critizise his precious Cat! Doh, wot an anti-climax.......I thought Cat was the pinnacle of heavy machinery?
Pinnacle my arse!!

NordieBoy

12th May 2010, 09:21

Pinnacle my arse!!

Sounds painfull...

ducatijim

15th May 2010, 13:30

Sounds painfull...

Youre right Nordie, the Cat is a pain in the arse; it rides like a dray hopping over even the small rocks in its path!

ducatijim

2nd June 2010, 22:55

I got outta 'jail' on sunday 30 May....wot a feeling to ride down the drive of the 'Lort Heights correctional facility' on my bike and without the rest of the chain gang!
I had big plans, as I often do, but once on the hiway I found no desire to explore so headed straight to Kalgoorlie for the nite.
Dead.
Thats wot Kal is on any sunday, just plain dead.
The Hannan Hotel had cold beer, a room and some fellow bikers to yarn with...fantastic!

ducatijim

2nd June 2010, 23:06

'Spose I shouldda mentioned that Paddy Hannan was the first to discover gold at Kalgoorlie? Hotel was named after him I guess?
There was 250 pubs at its height. There are now about 20. Brothels are down to 2 from about 120!!:yes:

I was only there for a mine tour. Ok, so I like stareing down big holes......wot of it? I don't smoke.:sick:

The KCGM Fimiston site to be exact, good tour, interesting details which I forget the details of right now. Suffice to say that at 500m deep, they are still bringing up wood and rail iron of the origional miners, and will do so for another 700m and about 6km!

NordieBoy

3rd June 2010, 07:20

The KCGM Fimiston site to be exact, good tour, interesting details which I forget the details of right now. Suffice to say that at 500m deep, they are still bringing up wood and rail iron of the origional miners, and will do so for another 700m and about 6km!
The original miners must have worked it for a fair while?