DB1k 2011 official thread

**Underground** · 16th January 2011, 17:25

Woohoo ! Finally got a clutch that works in the Africa Twin (and a fresh shock

)
Heading away on Tues ....cant wait.
Ryan did you get plenty of these stickers printed ? I wouldnt mind a couple.

**cromagnon** · 16th January 2011, 17:29

GPS units without a compass can only work out the direction when the unit is moving, so I wonder if the 60csx pointer was basing the direction to the next waypoint more off the direction you were last travelling rather than using the inbuilt compass.

**Transalper** · 16th January 2011, 17:37

we took it off the bike and recalibrated it while there but made no difference.
I'd need to take it home and have a serious play with it to work for sure.

Thepom started getting the hang of things when he started reading the distance to next indicator as well as the map. Before that there were a few u-turns

Easier to see where you should have gone once you gone past it based on the map alone.

**NordieBoy** · 16th January 2011, 18:08

Originally Posted by cynna

if you put 2 more tubes in the top corners then wrap the sheets around those you will see more of the chart and it will flatten it out rather then rubbing over the middle piece of your container

Put some drinking straw over those tubes too. Nicey rolley...

**NordieBoy** · 16th January 2011, 18:12

Originally Posted by Transalper

we took it off the bike and recalibrated it while there but made no difference.
I'd need to take it home and have a serious play with it to work for sure.

Thepom started getting the hang of things when he started reading the distance to next indicator as well as the map. Before that there were a few u-turns

Easier to see where you should have gone once you gone past it based on the map alone.

When I set up my GPS route for the first DB I put a waypoint at each intersection and another one 100m up the road after the corner.
Then the GPS would always point me in the right direction at the corner even if the road snaked around eg. Direct line from corner to next waypoint is NW but at the intersection you need to turn E.

Or something...

**Transalper** · 16th January 2011, 18:16

Your way would probably be as close as you can get to roll chart navigation with a gps but quite different to the way we been doing it.

**cooneyr** · 16th January 2011, 20:24

Originally Posted by Underground

Woohoo ! Finally got a clutch that works in the Africa Twin (and a fresh shock

)
Heading away on Tues ....cant wait.
Ryan did you get plenty of these stickers printed ? I wouldnt mind a couple.

I had 60 printed and will try and have another 20 printed before the event. Will only be one per rider at the BBQ this year. If there is enough demand I might get another print run done afterwards if there is enough demand. Please let us know at the BBQ if you want a second one.

Cheers R

**Eddieb** · 16th January 2011, 20:26

Originally Posted by cooneyr

I had 60 printed and will try and have another 20 printed before the event. Will only be one per rider at the BBQ this year. If there is enough demand I might get another print run done afterwards if there is enough demand. Please let us know at the BBQ if you want a second one.

Cheers R

I want a 2nd one.

**Padmei** · 16th January 2011, 20:53

Originally Posted by Transalper

we took it off the bike and recalibrated it while there but made no difference.
I'd need to take it home and have a serious play with it to work for sure.

Thepom started getting the hang of things when he started reading the distance to next indicator as well as the map. Before that there were a few u-turns

Easier to see where you should have gone once you gone past it based on the map alone.

My 60csx does the same thing. It's bloody annoying cos I'm not sure what it's actually signifying.
Anyway on with DB talk.

**Transalper** · 16th January 2011, 20:59

DB talk, yep... just finished changing wheels and dropping a tooth size on front and moving my little panniers back a bit.
More or less got rest of me gear sorted (in my head at least) and really hanging out for it now.

Wonder what we'll be doing next year.

**_Shrek_** · 16th January 2011, 21:03

Originally Posted by cold comfort

Jeez, that's a man sized lunch box there Shrek. Sure there's not a ham sandwich lurking under the paper?

can't have bread, it's for my venison hocks

**ADVGD** · 16th January 2011, 21:12

To prep the bike for the DB1K I had planned to go for a fish in the High Country and rack up a few KM's breaking in the new gearbox and rings, but it was too windy for fishing so I decided to go for a trail ride. The plan was for a nice easy paced ride to just work my up and down the gears and bed them in. Started off gentle but it ended up getting a bit more adventurous and drowned the bike once, then after all the bollocks of tank removal etc was done and got it going again, I ended up having a pretty big spill at high speed and ended up mangling the headlight grill, bending the windshield frame and cracking the windshield, breaking 2 of the new indicators, smashing the glass on 1 of the 2 new mirrors and slogging out the elbow in the other, snapping the clutch leaver, ripping the tags of my AirHawk, bending all the pannier frames, mangling the pannier boxes, trashed my plastics, and my faceplant into the gravel scratched up my new Airoh S4 helmet visor

All my hard work and money spent prepping the bike for the DB1k was undone in a matter of seconds, and I hope like hell my neck comes right soon as I can hardly turn my head, un-fricken-believable

On the plus side, the box and motor are running sweet, but I'll be a busy boy fixing it all back up again in time for Matt's run to Fairlie on Friday

**Transalper** · 16th January 2011, 21:21

Shit man, you got to look after ya stuff and not be breaking it and especially not yourself on the build up to the big ones

**_Shrek_** · 16th January 2011, 21:34

Originally Posted by ADVGD

To prep the bike for the DB1K I had planned to go for a fish in the High Country and rack up a few KM's breaking in the new gearbox and rings, but it was too windy for fishing so I decided to go for a trail ride. The plan was for a nice easy paced ride to just work my up and down the gears and bed them in. Started off gentle but it ended up getting a bit more adventurous and drowned the bike once, then after all the bollocks of tank removal etc was done and got it going again, I ended up having a pretty big spill at high speed and ended up mangling the headlight grill, bending the windshield frame and cracking the windshield, breaking 2 of the new indicators, smashing the glass on 1 of the 2 new mirrors and slogging out the elbow in the other, snapping the clutch leaver, ripping the tags of my AirHawk, bending all the pannier frames, mangling the pannier boxes, trashed my plastics, and my faceplant into the gravel scratched up my new Airoh S4 helmet visor

All my hard work and money spent prepping the bike for the DB1k was undone in a matter of seconds, and I hope like hell my neck comes right soon as I can hardly turn my head, un-fricken-believable

On the plus side, the box and motor are running sweet, but I'll be a busy boy fixing it all back up again in time for Matt's run to Fairlie on Friday

start eating anti-imflamatories for the neck, & for the rest good luck

but as I read on I started to

not for what happened but have done that myself in the past, cya friday