Canterbury Trail Rides?

[F5 Dave]

Bummer.

Pull every connection . Probably just water in fuel and airbox (guess you had filter removed).

Good luck.

[Kickaha]

Bummer.

Pull every connection . Probably just water in fuel and airbox (guess you had filter removed).

Good luck.

it had 1 litre of water to 4 litres of fuel in the tank, in a bike with a conventional fuel tank we might have been able to drain the water off, with the 690 it'd be dark and I'd have hypothermia before we got it done

[diesel pig]

it had 1 lite of water to 4 litres of fuel in the tank, in a bike with a conventional fuel tank we might have been able to drain the water off, with the 690 it'd be dark and I'd have hypothermia before we got it done

I was going to joke about you being hard on the gear. But I wouldn't want hypothermia either. I think you made the right choice.

[SVboy]

Whereabouts were you? Yes, I can see you were in a river.......

[SaferRides]

So yesterdays ADV ride didn't go so well, made some poor choices and turned the 690 into a submarine, it went about 25+ metres underwater and lucky to get it back at all

It has been running as we undrowned it at the scene, it would start but I couldn't keep it running, so an obliging hunter dropped me and the bike at Ashvegas and Brent Gregan sorted me from there

I hope the bike is OK. How did you get it out of that much water?



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[Kickaha]

Whereabouts were you? Yes, I can see you were in a river.......

South side of the Rangitata, we'd been up just short of Mistake flat and that was the last crossing on the way out, entirely my fault for making a series of poor decisions, reasonable good ride but a bit of boulder bashing and rough tracks

I hope the bike is OK. How did you get it out of that much water?

That was where it'd stopped floating downstream as the current got less, the guy with me took the pic just before he got it upright and then we both pushed it out

bike is stripped with fuel tank out, given all the plugs a blast of contact cleaner, I wasn't far off fitting a new pump and fuel filter this just accelerated the process


I'll take my Beta 300 next time

[dangerous]

latest vid from my 15yr old... half way through he puts the camera on me, im to old to keep up wth the wee fuker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cc0lj54rx8

[F5 Dave]

Well finally my thumb seems to be healing. But I'm missing a Trials day tomorrow as wife away. I'll be doing berm buster with new tyres.

Odd thing is rear brake stopped working in storage. Took it all apart except for caliper which wasn't leaking.
Master looking ok.

Rebuilt it with spares I had and reverse bled it with dirty big syringe.
But to no avail. Have the suspicion Beta rear calipers are positioned to hide a new moon at the top of caliper.

My Ripco vacuum bleeder had finally seized. A cheapo chinesizium one was ordered. Felt flimsy and the gauge didn't even return to zero.

But it pumped up and sucked a whole lot of bubbles out almost instantly. Kept going to be sure but lever is firm. Result.