Tales from the Emporium

**NordieBoy** · 13th August 2007, 20:00

Looks like the Wiroa Gorge winds around itself for a week or 2 and you can exit out onto Kerrs Hill.

Wonder how much is CHH and being logged though.

My bro is having a look at a road legal TT350 this weekend so may be up for showing us some tracks sometime.

**Transalper** · 13th August 2007, 20:35

Originally Posted by warewolf

....but I know a few spots I don't want to take either bike without someone else along to help push/drag/ring 111.

Well you know what the r in cooneyr stands for don't you.... it's rrrr rescue!

**cooneyr** · 13th August 2007, 22:26

Originally Posted by Transalper

Well you know what the r in cooneyr stands for don't you.... it's rrrr rescue!

Tha'ill be $20 each go from now on

Maybe I should get a bigger bike so I need help picking it up to - Hmmmm super enduro would be just about heavy enough I recon. How many $20 does it take to may $22k - thats lotsa dropping guys.

Cheers R

**NordieBoy** · 13th August 2007, 22:35

Originally Posted by cooneyr

thats lotsa dropping guys.

Remember - If it's not caught on camera it doesn't count...

**far queue** · 14th August 2007, 21:27

I haven't been on here for a bit and the thread has moved on, but anyway here's the sprockets I'm running ...

I'm running 44 on the back and 13,14, or 15 on the front depending on the ride. 15 is great on the open road and Lees Valley sort of rides and 13 is great in the tight muddy bush stuff at the Waimak. 14 is a jack of all trades. They're all 520 sprockets and I'm still running the original 525 chain.

The bike's done just over 15000km now and the chain still seems fine. My first 13T sprocket was shot after 2742km, my 14T is about had it after 7065km, and the 15 is fine after 5417km. Oh, and my rear wheel bearing is shot and I think my swingarm bush is heading that way too. I'll fix them soonish.

**NordieBoy** · 15th August 2007, 10:12

So your 15/44 is about the same as our 14/42(or 41).

With the type of riding I do I think I'd be interested in (14-15)/43.
Slightly higher geared than the 14/41 for normal use but still capable of doing anything I throw at it and a 14t for when I intend to go more "bush" than seal.

So in summery I think that 14-15/43 would be more useful to me than 14-15/41.

My chain feels like it's wearing unevenly.
I have no ides of the treatment it got in the first 7500km of it's life.
I think I'll stay with 525 as I've already got a new 14t front hanging on the wall.

**NordieBoy** · 18th August 2007, 20:21

Just a little note...
If my brother ever asks if you want to do a loop mostly on gravel roads and it'd be fine for the DR650 or KTM640 with baldish rear tyres...
Run, don't walk to your nearest lightweight dirt bike with good knobblies.

That was the fcukin scariest downhill section I've ever done. 6 odd river crossings including one we had to push through, uphill muddy slippery snotty stuff, downhill muddy slippery snotty stuff and gravel roads.

We found my DR needs the rear suspension revalving and that it can do wheelies on a bald tyre on a slippery muddy track (with the appropriate pilot).

The SuperTrapp is noisey bouncing off the limiter in the forest.

The ATC2K was coming up with card vibration ERRors (spare card and only had a smear of vaseline on it).
The ATC2K doesn't like low light levels.

We headed off at about 2pm and got back at 6pm over 130km later.

Some of the bits would have been freaky on my XR let alone the DR.

**cooneyr** · 18th August 2007, 23:43

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

.....That was the fcukin scariest downhill section I've ever done. 6 odd river crossings including one we had to push through, uphill muddy slippery snotty stuff, downhill muddy slippery snotty stuff and gravel roads.......

So where are the pics?

Sounds like fun

Cheers R

**warewolf** · 19th August 2007, 00:00

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

If my brother ever asks if you want to do a loop mostly on gravel roads and it'd be fine for the DR650 or KTM640 with baldish rear tyres...

Yebbut it was fcukin FUN!

Granted, a bit more rear tyre would've been nice, but I was pleasantly surprised at the performance of the front IRC TR-8. Wa-a-ay better than I remember any TKC80 doing. Seemed to me if you rode properly it worked well: if you over-rode the front it would let go, but if you stopped fighting it it would grab hold again. With the TKC80, once it was gone, it was game over.

**NordieBoy** · 19th August 2007, 13:21

A bit more rear tyre would have been nice for the very first bit, the downhill, the uphill we moved the tree off and that long straight uphill in the trees with the speed robbing water rut at the bottom.
Not to mention everywhere else bar the seal on the way there and back

I need to drop the rear ride height as well. It's a little too twitchy in the front

If you ever have a tyre in dire need of rooting then give my bro a call.
Oh, and the chain's not too flash now either

**NordieBoy** · 19th August 2007, 14:05

This will show the area covered by the ride.
The Legend doesn't pick up very well in the trees though and being in the forestry there were some trees...

Google Earth KMZ here