Australasian Safari 2010

[Eddieb]

My intention is to step up in 2011, at this stage i'm planning on riding a DRZ400 with all of the nessary mods. Most of the peices i made for the 640e will swap over fairly easily, all of my nav brackets, roadbook, bash plate with water holder etc all be made locally, maybe if someone is interested in doing a parralell buidup i could make multiple copys of the tower/fairing etc.

Fisrt step in the buildup is to sell the 640, someone out there's gotta want a 640e thats only done 1000km/16hrs since it's last service.

So why sell the 640 and go to a DRZ? Presumably it would be cheaper to use the proven bike you've already got?

[Woodman]

So why sell the 640 and go to a DRZ? Presumably it would be cheaper to use the proven bike you've already got?

Would you say the same thing if it was me and my bike?? hmmm

[Eddieb]

Would you say the same thing if it was me and my bike?? hmmm

No, it was a KLR to start and then it was Woodmanised.

[topo]

So why sell the 640 and go to a DRZ? Presumably it would be cheaper to use the proven bike you've already got?

A couple of reasons really. Firstly, i've reached a level on the 640 where it was becomming a limiting factor in advancing my off road skills, it's just too heavy to keep up with the faster guy's on the rough stuff and the speeds i found my self on the open stuff (public accessed tracks) was starting to worry me bit.

Secondly, the drz is a great trail bike that requires somewhat less maintanance than the highly strung enduro type bikes and is a proven platform for doing the safari, there have been a number of drz's hapily finish in the top 20 so it should be sweet for me.

I can also build up a used bike for training and setting up, then buy either a new or mint condition bike to swap the gear over proir to the event, without spending too much more $$$$.

Just a good value bike that can do what i need really.