Tales from the Emporium

[cooneyr]

Time to do something to make it easier to stand without being so hunched over.

2.5cm down and 2.5cm back.
1cm thick steel...
It will hang down a bit but only as much as the shock linkages.
Any rock that gets in it's way will have the bruises to show for it.

Haha - I knew that was comming. Saw the posts on Adv Rider yesterday. Let me know what you think. This is one mod I'm thinking of giving ago and can easily do in the shed as home.

Cheers R

[NordieBoy]

i like the idea of putting the pegs lower as it will improve the seating position for those gifted with long legs. incl myself. feel its wee bit buched up at the moment, also i guess it will lower the center of gravity a bit too esp. when standing. Wats the reason you want to put the further back? would you have to mod the rr brake and shift lever?

The DR pegs are quite close to the bars and I find myself holding the bars quite close to my body which dosn't feel as stable as I'd like esp. compared to my XR250.
I'd also like a little more weight over the rear wheel when going up steeper hills.

How about adjustable ones then

[NordieBoy]

Haha - I knew that was comming. Saw the posts on Adv Rider yesterday. Let me know what you think. This is one mod I'm thinking of giving ago and can easily do in the shed as home.

Cheers R

It was first posted a while ago and the other option was the MaxKool style cutting/welding the pegs but that just lowers them and isn't reversable.

Don't like the idea of using 6mm alloy though
I think the original used 1cm steel.

And I found an old CAD drawing of my Nordie dash and thought "that was fun, hmmm, I'll give it a burl."

[cooneyr]

The DR pegs are quite close to the bars and I find myself holding the bars quite close to my body which dosn't feel as stable as I'd like esp. compared to my XR250.
I'd also like a little more weight over the rear wheel when going up steeper hills.

How about adjustable ones then

With the adjustable ones make sure the head of the bolts holding the plates to the frame don't clash with the peg risers. You might need spacers (couple of washers) or a bolt head grind to get around this.

The other positive I see about this is that the pegs should be further out from the bike and should support my size 13's more evenly rather than just the inside 30mm or so.

Cheers R

[marks]

They is already rizzed pretty much as far as they can be with the stock cables...
That was Project IXV
Seated the bars are at the right height for me but standing I'm hunched over too much.
It's the peg to seat distance that needs tuning now.

Hmmm a DR650 with ape hangers....

Is the little slide in mount cable tied to the bars for your vid camera?

[NordieBoy]

Hmmm a DR650 with ape hangers....

Is the little slide in mount cable tied to the bars for your vid camera?

eTrex Legend mount.

[NordieBoy]

With the adjustable ones make sure the head of the bolts holding the plates to the frame don't clash with the peg risers. You might need spacers (couple of washers) or a bolt head grind to get around this.

That's where the 2.5cm down comes in.
You should be able to have them directly below and still clear the bolt heads.

The other positive I see about this is that the pegs should be further out from the bike and should support my size 13's more evenly rather than just the inside 30mm or so.

Yep. The slightly wider stance is a bonus too.

[NordieBoy]

RK 525 XSO

About 8500km and it's shot.
Dead.
Gone.
It's an ex-chain.

First noticed it having problems coming back from the Mangarakau ride with jatz when I was hearing a lot of noise and feeling the vibes through the footpegs and it took 2 steps on the adjuster to re-tension it.

After tuesdays 250km ride around Nelson with marks it needed 3 steps to re-tension and has a few tight links.

The DID x ring that was on the bike when I got it did over 30000km and never got this bad.

[NordieBoy]

My little bro says it's about time we went around the spooners again as the last time we did it was my first ride on my XR250 and Shane was on the Nordie and we did over 100km of pure(ish) gravel and forestry roads/firebreaks/bogs/shell piles

[NordieBoy]

I got up bright(ish) and early(ish) on tuesday and headed off through the Maungatapu to meet marks in Pelorus for a hot choccy (with 2 marshmallows) for a day of riding.

The Maungatapu was a bit slippery in the 6-7 deg temps but we got back to Nelson without issues.

A quick stop at home to check tyre pressures and drop off some luggage and we were off...

We headed off around the Coastal Highway to Apple Valley Road, Old Coach Road, Riverside, Chings, Waiwhero, Rosedale, Orinoco (my first complete bike slide due to diesel), Mt Arthur, West Bank, Sunday Creek, Dovedale Hill, Church Valley, Pig Valley, Wairoa Gorge and back home via the Port Hills.

Temps went from 6-20-7 deg through the day.
250km in 6 1/2 hrs of cruising and taking photos.

I had to take out about 2 hours of gravel as we didn't have time.
As it was, we only finished at about 6:30pm.


A good fun day mate, glad you could stop by.

[NordieBoy]

Looks like that if you want to "hunt" in the forestry around the Spooners Range you just need to drop in to the guardhouse at the MDF plant and ask for a "hunting" permit (dunno about cost).

Remember to sharpen an end of a tyre iron for sticking pigs though

[NordieBoy]

New RK 525 XSO chain went on today.
Whites want my old one back to have a look at it.

Much less vibes through the footpegs now

[NordieBoy]

Went for a tiki-tour up Northbank Road with the intention of maybe finding out how to get up past Lake Chalice to Mt Patriarch but only got as far as Pine Valley/Mill Flat before I had run out of time (5 hours riding from NSN-NSN as it was).

The first 3 shots are from Mill Flat and then from Havlock and the Maungatapu Summit.

[tri boy]

Ow cum you get sun rays dancing on water, an I git f00king fog n rain.
you got some kind of connection wit da weather gods DR boy?

[NordieBoy]

We have an understanding.
They give me good weather when I need it and I don't publish the nazi orgy photos.