Northern Gravel Adventure Riding Club

**nic** · 16th October 2011, 17:41

Thanks for a great weekend guys and girls.

Always great to ride around the coromandel and I thoroughly enjoyed the muddy struggle to the goldmine and back.

great to meet lots of new faces too

**Squiggles** · 16th October 2011, 18:09

Originally Posted by Waihou Thumper

Eddie had a few teething issues with the DR650.

Details?

**Shewolf** · 16th October 2011, 18:37

great weekend guys and girls - thanks to all for making it and especially the encouragement getting through those mere 150 metres today to the Gold Mines.

Carnage and mayhem clips to come...

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**Eddieb** · 16th October 2011, 20:34

Originally Posted by Squiggles

Details?

The joys of doing an Adventure Ride on a new bike build without having had a chance to test ride it first and iron out all the bugs.

So in no particular order:
A brand new 90 degree fuel filter that didn't seem to be flowing properly, combined with a very minor leak from one of the hose clamps onto the filter. Remedied on the way to the start line by ripping off the entire fuel line and replacing it with the fuel line from my old DR that I had fortunately had a bit of last minute foresight before leaving Wellington and had scavenged off the old bike and thrown into my topbox.

Incorrect air/fuel setups meant the bike ran fine at very low revs, and at full throttle, but couldn't pull the skim of the top of a cold porridge anywhere in between. It couldn't climb any hill and keep speed up and wouldn't run smoothly. This combined with the fuel filter meant at one stage the bike would barely do over 70km/h.
Basically the bike was getting too much air for the carb setup. I'd had to refit the stock carb with stock jetting after finding leaks in my FCR when I went to install it. This was mostly remedied by a roll of insulation tape from the gas station in Coromandel and some cardboard from the Whitianga Hotel, which were used to tape up 75% of the airbox opening on Saturday evening. Not perfect but good enough to carry on with.

And the best one:
An adjuster nut coming loose on the accelerator tension adjuster on the carb, sliding down the accelerator cable and jamming the cable at full throttle, seconds before peeling into a 90 degree 50km/h corner.
Remedied by slapping the builder about the head for slackness and making sure the nut is done up DAMN tight.

**Eddieb** · 16th October 2011, 22:01

Sorry CW, it has to be done

This is the face of a man selfishlessly assisting bikes over a slimey clay hump and being roosted in the face in return by a DR650. I knew I'd capture something with that rear facing camera.

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**Shewolf** · 16th October 2011, 22:10

classic

this never happened

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sF7jeiYQ_w/iframe>

**rhino_343** · 16th October 2011, 23:29

Gday blokes, my mate Sean and I will be in NZ for two weeks of riding from the 24th oCt to 7th Nov... you fellas have any rides planned in this period of time that we could tag along on? We'd behave I promise!

**Shewolf** · 16th October 2011, 23:30

Getting up the hill, some sort of good luck dance ritual that really helped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVzu5h_7IXU

**Shewolf** · 16th October 2011, 23:38

sure thing, we have a learners+Hardouts Adventure weekend 3-4th November at Rangitaiki (just out of Taupo) visit our Facebook Info page for details.

If youse fullas ride as well as you play rugby you'll fit right in

Originally Posted by rhino_343

Gday blokes, my mate Sean and I will be in NZ for two weeks of riding from the 24th oCt to 7th Nov... you fellas have any rides planned in this period of time that we could tag along on? We'd behave I promise!

**Shewolf** · 16th October 2011, 23:54

Into the tunnel and girly squeals of delight. Girly squeals of fear come later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huZabY_ziRs

**.chris** · 17th October 2011, 00:17

Was drunk after the rugby so decied to mash this together while I was re-hydrating.

**Shewolf** · 17th October 2011, 16:11

Originally Posted by .chris

Was drunk after the rugby so decied to mash this together while I was re-hydrating.

**Shewolf** · 17th October 2011, 16:27

Africa Twin gets frisky

Getting up the hill, some sort of good luck dance ritual that really helped.

Into the tunnel and girly squeals of delight. Girly squeals of fear come later.

Robert on the Dommie

Nic giving it some

Garth showing how it's done

Eddie's bike well dirty now

Ians magic moment

Bugger, we've got to go back again-!