DB1k 2011 official thread

[helenoftroy]

Fantastic fantastic fun! I love every second(well...almost) of it!
timg! you are my hero! the best riding buddy!

I am so lucky I get to do this with my boy Sam/Casualty - hes hyped,and had a blast!
Budda#81,ADVGD,cynna,whatastoner & thepom,,,,thank you!!!!

[Buddha#81:Me]

Hey, heaps to do but here's a taist........I'll do a write up in the next few days as a noobie point of view. Thanks to Ryan, family and his helper to put this togeather, you lot are fooken legends.

Thanks to the Pom, Sam and Col for the company, help, advise and laughs!!!! I'll be back to get my beloved Motard down and dirty again for sure!

[jezzaNZ]

Yet another epic weekend organised by Ryan, cheers mate. Apart from the Husky shedding a couple of (not too viatal) parts on the Dunstin (cheers Tim for recovering some) and my luggage (vital), it was an awesome ride. Thanks also to Struan, always the glue that holds things together.....and remembers to pack a bottle of port....Jatz, hope you and the famly made it home safely?

Great seeing some old faces and meeting new people also. Book me in for next year Ryan.
Jez

[cold comfort]

Huge kudos to Ryan, Mrs Coonyr et al for a great weekend. Definitely hooked and already looking forward to doing it a again. My tour was a little truncated due to some navigational oversights (note to self- keep up with own roll chart and cross check GPS instead of lazily following others!). Rescued x2 by Struan, hauling my sorry ass out of a ditch and supplying fuel at Poolburn (gotta get a bigger tank). His list of devoted fans grows apparently. Cheers to Aslan and others for the company/adventure too.

[XF650]

Congratulations to the 1 Dayers - what a massive achievement.
In fact well done to everyone that finished all of the route - that's a heap of ground to cover, either way.

The XF went well, considering I only got it back together late last week. So if anyone saw it laying down, I was only checking for oil leaks (thanks all you lifters). However the speedo did stop working early on & it's indicative of Ryan's excellent route sheets that I didn't get lost, even without the km check.

Highlight for me was the blast accross the Lammenmoor Range, something new for a lot of us. Only low for me was the river crossings, where I wished many times I was on the DT230.

A combination of my emergency stash & help from the locals at Poolburn meant that 10 bikes didn't have to ride back to Alex for fuel. This gave us time to tackle Omarama Saddle, where surley the river crossings are a "challenge" route in itself?. Regretfully we still ran out of time to ride Black Forest within the 2 days.

Thanks again Ryan (and your understanding family). A big bunch of Dusty Butter's are very grateful for your time & effort.

Not many pics - too busy picking up my bike.
1) TimG & HOT above the Carricktown Track
2) Slop in the box (not mine)
3) A posse of dodgey looking DB'ers eyeing up a mob of sheep in the Maniototo
4) Padder's with his sick GS at Lawerence, still chirpy.
5) Jezza tending to Rogson's Freewind after it's swim in Omarama Saddle

[Waihou Thumper]

Very Nice Struan, nice brief write up mate, it sums it up. Picture 3 does it for me, that is what the South is all about! Well done all...

[jezzaNZ]

A couple of snaps with the Polariod.....

[JATZ]

Stunning ride Ryan and helpers, you really have taken it to a new level, although we didn't complete the route I am working on plans to nail it next year.
We're still in Fairlie tonight after doing Black forest/Haka and McKenzie's today. Proper write up to follow when we get home.
BTW Padders... I think you may have done the seal when you had schmitty airborn coming off a bridge on the Beaumont track, I was right behind you and I swear the poor old girl was at least 8 inches off the ground

[jon34]

Absolutely fantastic ride Ryan and helpers, I take my hat off to you guys!
My riding buddy lost his shoe with his cell phone inside when his top box came open on the McDonald farm to Old Dunstan Road section, please PM me if anyone has found it.
Thanks once again Ryan

[joshkies]

so how meany times did thepom crash this year???

[Padmei]

BTW Padders... I think you may have done the seal when you had schmitty airborn coming off a bridge on the Beaumont track, I was right behind you and I swear the poor old girl was at least 8 inches off the ground

Yeah I thought I was on the KLR for a mo.

It wasn't till Ihad to drive thru Chch today that I realised just how beautiful the Deep South is. I could really happily spend a week just cruising thru the back roads & checking out the sights.

I'll have some great memories to churn over as I headback to work tomm.

It was good to finally meet some familiar names & catch up with old friends too.

[Woodman]

Well got home bout 5 ish tonight, great road ride home too.

The DB was fantastic, cheers Ryan and co, what a fantastic event. Saturdays route over the zigzag was quite unexpected and just incredible.

Sunday started good until a puddle jumped out in front of me and drowned my bike. The dewatering was fairly straight forward, but we couldn't get it to suck fuel. Tried everything including a complete redesign of the vacuum petcock. Eventually discovered that when woodman first took the tank off he put it on the ground so the fuel outlet got full of dirt . Cheers Joe and Ryan and Shrek, and especially Andy and Paul for working so well as a team to get me going again. If I ever do a paris dakar you two will be my first choice for pit crew. Sorry for messing up your second day as well. We got into fairlie at 11.20 after doing Black Forest and a lot of gravel in the dark. Scaryily fun.

[_Shrek_]

1st up & to Mrs Coonyr for letting R sort this & to all the others who put their time & effort to make this what it was cheers Guys

left here runn'n late, picked up Monstaman from Tarras, arrived Fairlie late arvo, gear & bed sorted big to Helenoftroy for letting us crash the night, then off to the pub to find a heap of Kber's jabbering about their ride that day, it just made the adrenalin run abit faster for what we were about to start on,

it was geat catch'n up with old & new faces & the one's who i've been ayk'n with over the past year or so

up feed & gone by 7am with TR, Mm, JMJ (team KB) so that we would get to Alex with time to burn, only to find ourselves back in Fairlie the man with GPS hadn't reset it had he anyway an hour later we find ourselves on the right track which by this time was cut up from all the others that had gone through before us
then I decided to see if my beamer would climb a 1m bank after giving it to much juice (no pic's)
we got to Kurow to see a large number of rider's there enjoying lunch & company the foot path resembled a laundry-mat with all the gear drying in the sun

then it was off ova the ski field & I thought this an't that tough, then around a corner or two & it just got better & better & with a bit of help from TA, Mm & JMJ got through the roughset bit on the way up got through to the hut where we meet up with a few others & a decision was made wether to carry on the tec part or take the other way so five of carry on the tec route the xtra in team KB was ADVGD, well I thought that the 1st part was tough...... never mind, got to see some pretty incredible country & with the encougement from my mates got through that section with only two wee spills then to Alex drop off ADVGD, (top bloke) then on to Roxburgh to cold beers, hot showers, a cooked BBq & pudding, then down to the shed to do some fix ups JMJ's gear lever & remove broken bits off beamer then crash
(did some maths)

bike 261 Kgs (with gear)
Shrek 144 Kgs (in bike gear)
no wonder I was nakard & that was just saturday

[Buddha#81:Me]

so how meany times did thepom crash this year???

Rode with the koozer for two days and other than the odd shakey moment I can't remember an off?

[Skinny_Birdman]

Mrs B and I didn't quite manage a full 1000km, as we couldn't quite keep up with our navigators on the fast bits we baled at Naseby on Day 1, and at Paerau on Day 2 (went back thru Danseys and Black Forest). Still managed 900km which is a real achievement for Mrs B. I am very proud of her. She breezed through the really tough bits we encountered (ie the big fords, slippery grass, forestry) and only had one small off in the mud of the Dunstan Trail, in which I went off in sympathy, conveniently solving my dilemma regarding the loathsome Givi screen on my Transalp, which has now been stylishly modified to about 1/4 its original length.
Thanks to CooneyR for setting up another awesome route, to his family for enablisng him to keep doing this, to the other route setters, and to XF650, HOT and TimG for patiently waiting for us time and time again, and for providing much needed encouragement.