Show us ya DR650!

[Bass]

Kaituna, tough times - there's no getting away from it, but it might just be a new beginning.
My experience is a few years ago now but over the space of a year I got: -
1. A divorce
2. A sports model conversion (vasectomy)
3. Made redundant

Honestly, I solved all my personal problems in a single year and I've never looked back.
I hope it turns out as well for you in due course.

[GaZBur]

Cranked over and scraping pegs both sides.

[junkmanjoe]

nice what ya running on 5mm wide bead.
hows the raceing going on the dr.
ya kicking ass on it mate.

[Paladin]

Cranked over and scraping pegs both sides.

Pah! I was farther over than that on D606's comin over the Rimutaka's Sunday afternoon!

Well I can dream anyway! Damn chicken strip needs to be a tad smaller on that darn rear tyre!
I'll get that damn thing eventually, I will, I will , I will!!!! I'm just not quite used to the D606's yet;
that's my excuse and I'm stickin to it!

Nice goin there GazBur - looks like you just have WAAAAAy too much fun on your DR!!!!

[NordieBoy]

Cranked over and scraping pegs both sides.

One side at a time hopefully
Got a flatslide on it yet?

[TLDV8]

Pah! I was farther over than that on D606's comin over the Rimutaka's Sunday afternoon!

I think if you managed to touch the DR down on stock wheels and D606's it would get ugly very quickly.

I have gone back to Plan A,shouldn't have wasted NZ500 on springs and emulators plus freight and tax here.
Hopefully these will clear the tank and might only need .46 springs and a little damping work,at least if they fit they will be adjustable.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SUZUK...Q5fAccessories

This plenty far enough for me.

[Paladin]

I think if you managed to touch the DR down on stock wheels and D606's it would get ugly very quickly.

I have gone back to Plan A,shouldn't have wasted NZ500 on springs and emulators plus freight and tax here.
Hopefully these will clear the tank and might only need .46 springs and a little damping work,at least if they fit they will be adjustable.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SUZUK...Q5fAccessories

This plenty far enough for me.

Yeah I was kidding around, hence the Wink smiley!

I haven't yet grown balls big enuf to try scrape the pegs on my DR with D606's on it!

[dino3310]

Damn chicken strip needs to be a tad smaller on that darn rear tyre!
I'll get that damn thing eventually, I will, I will , I will!!!!

Why .

[Paladin]

Why .

Exactly!

Like I said in the post, "I can dream"; in reality I don't have big enuf balls to go for havin my DR over that far on a public road and certainly after the whole spine injury fiasco I'm more likely to crank the bike over less rather than more - using 50% of the rear tyre's chicken strip will do me I think! Got two little girls at home that need their daddy in one piece!

[dino3310]

:thumbsup:

[GaZBur]

Nice goin there GazBur - looks like you just have WAAAAAy too much fun on your DR!!!!

One side at a time hopefully
Got a flatslide on it yet?

No flatside yet - have softer tyres now and they are wearing better due to less sliding. Dunlop GPRa10's 110 front and 150 rear. Am back on full knobs now as I was on an adventure ride weekend with the OMCC to the Brass Monkey working bee. One other DR650 there too, sorry no photos as I was at the back, covered in dust. Whole day on gravel roads, either dual purpose tyres are better on gravel or I am just a pussy on the loose stuff! Will find out how much of a pussy this weekend at the OMCC Gravel Hill climb. Guess I will have to harden up a bit. Only scrape one side at a time and only one bin this year so far - on the road and at an embarassingly slow speed.

[NordieBoy]

only one bin this year so far - on the road and at an embarassingly slow speed.

Slow in general or slow for your bike.

I was tootling along at 120 and...

[GaZBur]

Slow in general or slow for your bike.

I was tootling along at 120 and...

Slowwww... About 25kph but due to the steepness of the road and the slipperyness of the plastic peg and axle sliders the skid marks went for a decent way. Bruises take forever to come out when they are on the bone and you are an old bugger!

[cynna]

info please.
with the old xr600 plastic tanks, stickers didnt or wouldnt stay stuck to the plastic for very long, something to do with fuel vapours going through the plastic.

is it the same with the plastic safari tanks.
the safari seams to be quite thick plastic.

any thoughts.

i read somewhere recently( maybe in adb) about washing your tank with white spirits or something - i didnt take much notice there was an article about transfers i will see if i can find it

[TLDV8]

Ohlins as well!!!!!! You are really getting serious about this now.
Has it done the job for you and did you do anything with the front end?

Neil,that whole episode was crap from the time i payed a NZ$2200 deposit site unseen to the time i finally received it last year.

It is the same suspension package you and Jamie purchased.

I was never told it had been sent so it was sitting in customs in Brisbane and came close to being returned to sender by 3 days.

My postal address was not on the package so could not be sent the paperwork/contacted. (i had made it clear regards the PO Box)

Payed $90 for tracking post but was not told the tracking number yet there was time to be posting on KB (archive post tracking) the day it was put in the post.

It was only an inquiry to see how it was coming along that alerted me that it had been posted weeks earlier.

It took another 4 days for the tracking info to be sent,without it i could do nothing because it also was the package ID.

The value on the customs docket had been inflated (why ?) over the actual cost so i got reamed on duty/GST,the shock had 2 turns of bubble wrap and was in what was basically a paper bag.
It came with no build spec sheet.

When i finally got the package,the race tech springs and emulators were simple over the counter items which i could have got from the US for a lot less and done via their online spring rate calculator(exchange rate was over 90 cents AU to the US$)
There was no set up info which is why i went this route after all the hype on KB.

The Ohlins shock was defective and would have been when sent,i had it regassed at my own expense,it leaked out within 2 days.
I was then told to send it to the Ohlins agent in Victoria over 3000 kms away.

Wait for it i had to pay the cost to send it ie NZ$100 for the regas and post. (fully insured with tracking for obvious reasons)
Lucky for me the return post and repair was not charged to me.

I had taken the time to wrap the shock in cardboard then bubble warp, then put it in a box with packing so there was no chance of damage.
On its return the shock had been jammed into the corner of the same box and all of the packing used to push it into that corner.
The box looked like it had been dragged behind a car and did the shock no favours.

All in all it cost me over NZ$2700 for a old model shock,fork springs and emulators.
As you might have,the shock is borderline unless you are carrying a major load,for dayly riding it is bone jarring and the damping way off.
The set up info repeatedly asked for,the point of the whole exercise was never supplied,all i got in the end was a sorry that must have been a nightmare for you.

All in all it is something i try to forget about but am reminded every time i ride the bike (my only transport bar the treadly)
$hit happens.

The end.

There is little i can do about the shock,it was so expensive it can not be on sold,i would be lucky to get half what it cost.
I will set this RMZ450 front end up myself with any parts needed coming from the US,the shock i will live with,it would be to much of a hassle to keep swapping springs even if that worked. maybe i could put a bag of cement on the back for around town.



The good news is it is the dry season now so it is around 32C every day with low humidity.
A new chain and sprockets go on the DR Monday then a good going over for a extended ride starting in a couple of weeks,parts unknown but starting with coming down the gulf into Borroloola then Mt Isa south.

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