Wires Ride Sunday 28 June

[honda_power]

type "Wires Road, Komata, Waikato" into wises.co.nz

[xen]

You'll be sweet Reckless, Wires is a good track in itself & you can see if you want to carry on & do gutbuster which is quite long

Yeah its not too bad in the rain, its already wet there

Yeah honda_power and krasher all good to come.

I don't mind the off topic stuff, only stay in this sub forum and its not like theres that many posts.

[honda_power]

sweet as. how long are the gas stops? the yz is quite thirsty, and has std sized tank

[jt119]

dont no about gas stops wish ther was more smoking ones thow mite pay to take a cpl of letters for the yz if our going to do the gutbuster aswell

[cave weta]

If its pissing wet and miserably cold I will give it a miss- Ive had 3 days on the bikes this week and its only wednesday! Im out again in the morning at 7am

[K6K]

We took a yz down there a few weeks ago. The wires and gutbuster is only 15k approx so gas should be fine. I would soften up the suspension on the YZ as much as possible...some of the rock sections are tricky and if you bounce off something the wrong way 'cause your forks are too stiff you can get off balance, loose momentum and once you stop getting moving again can be difficult. I would also recommend a new or near new soft compound tyre...the rocks will chew it up but on that sort of track you need it. My new Mich S12 was pretty stuffed (one side at least) after one loop of the wires and the wires and gutbuster the next week. About 20k maybe!
I can also recommend from personal experience to make sure your headlight is working, and when I do it next time I'm taking a backup headlamp too. A couple of guys got stuck in a few places and a tea kettle overheating 450 delayed us enough for it to get dark. Riding when you can't see sucks all the fun out of it.
Wish I could do it this time but I'm flying out to Aus that night. Have a good one guys!

[honda_power]

its 15k long and takes until dark?!

cheers for the advice, will do that... suspension is set quite hard at the mo.

I was thinking one of those eXTra's... they last last forever and get decent grip at 8 or so psi

[honda_power]

dont no about gas stops wish ther was more smoking ones thow mite pay to take a cpl of letters for the yz if our going to do the gutbuster aswell

well ill be driving 100k's or so, so might as well do the whole thing. cheers for that. I think I might take a litre or two just in case

[jt119]

just put a small vid on youtube look up [gut11]

[xen]

cheers man, nice indication of the trak

Its slow as going up the rocky hills and thru the bogs. Don't want to be out there when its dark so check your bikes well

[Reckless]

Wish I could do it this time but I'm flying out to Aus that night. Have a good one guys!

Thanks for that K6K gonna replace the blown bulb in my headlight tomorrow.
my exc size tank should romp in and re tyres read below!
Thanks again for taking the time to post.

its 15k long and takes until dark?!

cheers for the advice, will do that... suspension is set quite hard at the mo.

I was thinking one of those eXTra's... they last last forever and get decent grip at 8 or so psi

I went in to Triple X to get some Pirrelli Scorpion extras and came out with their next soft tyre down the mid soft Scorpian XC. I originally wanted the lasting of the extra but Steve said this would last really good and grip much better! Been out to Thunder and The sandpit 3 times. The roots usually start to have a go at them but they've still got the manufacturing nipples on, even in the centre knobs and all still square and sharp. I'm very impressed with the grip as well!
The S12 I had on before shit itself in about 6 rides. I think they produced a bad batch as well.

BTW: Don't go to 8psi unless you have heavy duty tubes.

Good vid thanks Jt looked dryish though! But still managable I reckon!

[K6K]

I thought the eXTra was a dual sport knob tyre?...e.g. a tyre that would not be destroyed on tarmac? Pirelli states it is for all conditions...hard med soft. I would worry about how much traction I could get with it especially on a track like the wires (or any offroad during winter really)

Here is the Doc info sheet for the tracks for anyone interested.

[chrisktm]

I'm pretty keen. Daff can you give me a call with details? My phone is dead due to mega phone bill after the city scramble!

[camchain]

You jokers willing to take on the wires in the wet are tops in my book. I'm afraid and too unfit for mucho bike manhandling. I'll wait to hear the reports, take plenty of pics!

Just watch those Pirelli Xtras with low pressures, ran mine at 8 psi and cords came apart inside tire, was close to a snakebite flat (even with HD tube). Have noticed I'm not the only one to have had this happen, still a good tyre though. S12s and rocks/hard stuff are a bad combo.

[dafydd roberts]

After yesterday we need to be starting at 09.00 to allow for getting stuck and de-watering bikes and dragging bikes out of bottomless ruts, There has been some heavy traffic with drilling up there, so the track is cut up with some deep bog holes and the water has given the gut buster a good hammering can all 2 smokers bring a spare plug.

As for depth of water allow up to the top of your rear sprocket and if you take the wrong line seat height so any 4 strokes need to put the breather pipes up.

Otherwise should be a good ride.

And its $5 for the DOC box and well worth it.

Will see everyone who is going on Sunday.