Pampera V DT230

**DZL** · 20th August 2003, 09:28

Going around that farm with the dad Roy is more my (relaxed) style, but the place always has something else just a bit tougher when ya ready for it . .. . they also have a rough bush farm higher up the mountain which I hope to wangle an invite onto. Roy is a nice chap & always keen to encourage interest in trials riding .. . . we might even see a local Greybeards or Twinshock trials scene start . ... eeee I aint arfe chuffed that the place is only 45mins from Chez DZL.

That toughgoing TS90 agin more expensive bikes is a hoot. Reminds me of Gary Wentz doing adventure rides on this most scrofulous old mudbug with bits wired on etc, & him waxing guys on whizbikes in the bush AND along the metal . .. him with THAT dry grin!

Same thing as when one year I went to the Far North with John Kuriger from Manaia. He's a dairy farmer, rides the oldest Mudbug in Noo Zild, practices twice a day by doing feet-up power donuts on cowshit-slippery concrete. His road/adventyre scoot is a scruffy old R100 Beemer, & he shit vast numbers of 'enduro' types by zapping thru offroiad sections where the 'hard men in lycra' were getting stuck. When he started feeling he needed some extra traction he scrounged a length of bailing twine from a cockies shed & knitted up a set of 'chains' for the rear, then went & waxed some more guys. All this with a big floppy sheepskin that had slipped over the back of the seat & got just as muddy & daggy as a live sheeps rear, made his bike look even more mind-boggling to the guys he shot past!

te he te he te he . ..

bROOc DZL

**4skins** · 20th August 2003, 09:53

Hey, you thieving bastard, where'd ya get that avitar photo?

**DZL** · 20th August 2003, 10:11

. .. but occifer, I just FOUND it, honest I did . .. .

chuckle chuckle smirk ;-)))))))

**SPman** · 20th August 2003, 19:14

Originally posted by Mitch
Hey SPman

I will be out at Woodhill this Sunday 24/08/03 at a family day, will have either the Pampera or EC200 or maybe even both. Why don't you head out and have a go???

Sounds good. Is that one of Greg Powers events?

**Mitch** · 20th August 2003, 19:28

Originally posted by SPman
Sounds good. Is that one of Greg Powers events?

Yes it is. I have only done the Motorcycle trader one before and apparently the tracks Greg sets out are abit easier (for you SPoldman

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I will have both the EC200 and the Pampera out there. Those staying after the BBQ are going to get a nasty early shock hehehe Might have to ride through my place on the Pampera to wake them up

**SPman** · 20th August 2003, 19:38

All I have to do now is find exactly where it is (old and going gaga y know)_

**Mitch** · 20th August 2003, 20:03

Get your sorry old ass to the BBQ and i'll draw ya a map

**DZL** · 22nd August 2003, 23:28

Hey Mitch, speakin of sorry arses, howsabout posting a nice big version of that Avatar of yours someplace (PLEASE!), I'm getting eyestrain peering at that thumbnail & my eyes arent much chop anymore anyway!

;-))_))_))_ <- me, drooling again!

**Mitch** · 22nd August 2003, 23:54

She get's abit blurry when I enlarge it tooooo much

It's abit better though.........

**DZL** · 23rd August 2003, 00:00

. . if ONLY we could read that fine print at the 'bottom' it might lead us to the site where the original came from . . .. then we could see if those are her hands ~ or some 'demons'!

;-))

**Mitch** · 23rd August 2003, 00:06

DEMON'S

That is his tail wrapped around her thigh

That was why I liked it so much................ You must be careful mentioning my pic DZL!!!!!!!!!!

Got the last guy into all worlds of shit. LMAO

**DZL** · 23rd August 2003, 00:40

. . sounds yukky .. the shit, that is . .. otherwise I'm FIRE-PROOF!

;-))

**DZL** · 12th October 2003, 15:34

ZO, got my new Pampera a while back, been too busy having fun riding it to report . .. . bloody magical lil scoot indeed, tho as I'm the full 100kg block I'll be keeping the DT230 for anything faster than walking speed as the soft Pampo suspenders would be bottoming too easy when going faster . .tho for smaller/lighter/shorter folk it would likely be a good allrounder if ya had a few alternative sprockets to gear it appropriately.

I've prolly never had SO much fun since my first bike, & I usually get out on it a couple times every day ~ around my lumpy acre of bush-garden & around the backstreets to any bit of dirt I can find to explore (it 'looks' road-legal!) . .. . I've fitted much taller bars to fit me, geared it down some, & moved the footpegs back 3", which gives more room, improves the balance, & makes it happier to turn tight (steering bumps I've ground back as well) .. .

.. . .it had been pd's at the dealer with fuelmix using "Maxima synthetic Castor 927", WOW that gorgeous smell of Castrol 'R' rides again ~ as soon as I can use up all my existing oilstock I'll be getting a 44 of this stuff for the Pampa, the mower, the chainsaw, cooking mebbe? ;-)) Aromatherapy for petrol-heads huh!

I wasnt at all surprised to find that the whole shipment of Pamperas had sold very quickly, & I was lucky to get one that had been assembled & sitting on the floor of a sth island dealer, but Craig Bailey at Hawera managed to get ahold of it for me, next shipment wont be here till nearly xmas ~ speal nicely to Santa NOW if ya want one!

Cheers, BrooC, gotta tear meself away from Bathurst for a while & go ride . ..

;-))