DB1k 2009

[marks]

Ca-CRUNCH...
No more gear shifting.
Metal fragments in oil.
Pining for the fjords.

Got CrazyFrog's little beast round here to change a tyre on and I'll use that

sorry to hear that.

stick a sheepskin on that drz or it will melt your butt.

ride safe and take LOTS of photos

[timg]

Hey folks, good luck for tomorrow & Sunday for the 2 dayers. Hope you all have an enjoyable and safe ride. Look forward to the stories. No doubt HOTties antics tonite will provide a good few.... hope she hasnt got Casultys tequilla again

[warewolf]

Nice to see everyone at the bbq, and amped about the ride! Thanks to all the helpers.

Sorry to hear Ryan's corner claimed another rider... 426crasher. Hope you recover well, mate. Oh, and Meri wants to know, are you changing your username to 427crasher??

Found: 1x Capital Coast Adventure badge; free to good home.

[far queue]

Thanks for not making me feel too out of place at the BBQ guys. Good luck with the ride and have a good one.

No doubt HOTties antics tonite will provide a good few.... hope she hasnt got Casultys tequilla again

Actually she was very well behaved tonight

[Moki]

Good luck guys! Ride hard (but safe) and have a most excellent time!!!

[bishxt]

Hope the scheduled 3 Jan event's going well - Grant & I had to go for an early ride due to work commitments and did the 1 dayer starting on the 2nd (04:55) ... of course it took to the 3rd (01:30) the finish! Thanks to CooneyR for such a good road book, we didn't actually do a U turn once. Pretty interesting weather on the Friday, Southerly gales at top of the Black Birch Track - does anyone know how high that hill is? we were up in the clouds. A northwester on the Rainbow that had us riding the bikes by hanging off, and of course the rain from about six'ish. The highlights - the Mangatapu saddle in the dark and then the return trip over the Porika as it was getting dark. Fortunately Grant had ridden most of the tracks before but they were all new to me... I definitely be taking the bike back up to do some of them again. Be interested to hear how the scheduled 1 and 2 dayers went.
A few snaps from the day!
Cheers Bish

[magicfairy]

Jim (Balrog, the artist formerly known as Busajim) has just gotten back. All his group are home safe. He'll no doubt do an update after some food, shower and a sleep.

[CrazyFrog]

Big day out, great riding with bugger all dust, but now I too have a dead bike, my KTM suffered engine failure of sorts at 10pm, 100km from finish.
Will pick it up today from the farmhouse where I left it, and start pulling it apart in next few days. Looks like I'm back of the DRZ for a while.
Okay boys, start posting your crash stats, we know there were (quite) a few.....be honest!!!

[zeRax]

i had 2 slips, one at nil going up altimarloch station road on soft stuff, lil too much throttle to slip round corner, 1 being a clown at the bottom of altimarloch at the gate leaving

got pushed off road twice up near top of altimarloch, so fucking windy, wasnt anything but had to chillax my energy and brace the wind before i moved it back on road, saw you up there too!

and my bike fell over and mushed my handguard while it was on its side stand attending a gate, biggest piss off of all !


Ryan where art thou?

[buggsubique]

Crazy, sorry about yer bike mate, gutting I'll bet.

BLenheim lads are back over the hill now, sleep in in the morning and my wife working this afternoon have meant a hasty retreat back home.

Big thanks to Ryan for the planning, Colin for the BBQ hospitality, and Jim, Kyle and Jeff for the riding! Jim especially for navving us around the last 150km when we were all a bit over it!

I relied purely on GPS to get me around (dangerous I know) but it worked pretty well, esp the turn waypoints. A couple of 50m turnarounds though...the price for not running a scroller.

Very happy with how the DR-Z went - 1000km straight stopping only to put gas in the engine. Of course an oil change at the start and another now will keep the "Reliable" in d-R-z.

Great to meet everyone and thanks again! Buggs

Oh, and no spills, a couple of close ones though... Here's some rather average photos - no action shots sorry, just the boring stuff.

[zeRax]

oh man, ultimate gay photo

[Peril]

Good to see no one else has had a major off.Was quite scary watching 426crasher come to grief.Just lucky my bike decided to play up again,or else he would have been by himself....Had mine on the trailer,turned off northern highway to head towards Hanmer/west coast,get over the bridge just past the pub and the side stand breaks in half leaving the bike on a 45 degree angle dangling on the right had side ropes.As I was fuming and contemplating riding it,Tony came past and helped me and wifey out.We both rode up to Hanmer where I noticed a fairly serious oil leak from the Tenere and a lot of oil on the back tyre.
It got so bad through Rainbow,I had to stop and look at patching it up.Turned out I now have a major crack in the right hand clutch casing running from the back of the case,over the kickstart shaft and just starting into the clutch housing.Fucking great! After Tony had his off (And I hope you made it home ok!) we had to cruise out with me feeling quite bad as I couldn't open gates with only half a sidestand.
We parted ways at St Arnaud at around 3pmish,him heading toward Murchison and me towards Nelson,very carfully as oil was again getting on my back tyre. Dumped the XT at my dads friends' place in Atawhai and will pick it up when we leave,or maybe I should burn it.
Anyways,hope you all had a good ride and I'm quite annoyed I missed it.Maybe next year or maybe Waitangi weekend....

[cooneyr]

Well this run turned out to be quite eventyful. Firstly it was successful for a number of riders but not all. The majority of the 1 day riders finished safe and sound (and tired). News that I'm aware of (correct me if I'm wrong) and some of it is a repeat of earlier posts-

• 426crasher managed to find "the" corner and has hurt himself on the way up to NN on the 2'nd resulting a retreat to Chch. He made it back ok and was off to A&E on the 3rd. I've not heard results - any news 426?
• Peril had bike issues on the way up and was unable to join us.
• Javahead lost a bag of goodies on the Mangatapu which apparently is in the "Smurf" following the 2 day riders. Nordie can you please contact Javahead about returning it.
• MattDakar managed to have an off on the Mangatapu and has most likely broken his right thumb but completed the ride anyway. Any updates from your A&E visit this morning Matt?
• the XR650R rider (not a KB'er) had an off on the way to SH1 near Blenhiem and manged to scratch up the bike, wear a hole in his jacket and had a graze on his arm. Finished the event.
• There were a few who got caught by the hole on the Mangatapu resulting in offs or pushing.
• HOT managed to drown her bike in the deep crossing at Onamalutu. Obviously people got it running again cause I saw it in the Rainbow.
• It was damn windy on top of Altimarlock (almost 1694m from memory) resulting in some being blown of bikes, crawing around, hand signals, and other tom foolery.
• MotoRad-ical got a puncture on the way up Altimarlock from a 2 inch nail. Funnily enough he had TKC80 tyres on which to the best of my knowledge is the only tyre that has got a puncture on the DB1k to date. Solution - TKC80's are not allowed to be used on the DB1k from now on
• Transalper's DR650 has a serious gearbox (we think) issue. This happened in the Rainbow about 60km from Hanmer at the Sedgemere Huts. After El Scooto and I pulled up it was noticed that his XTZ was leaking raidiator fluid. End result, the two of them go to hang out at the Huts with a bunch of cycling and 4wd "girls" for 6 hours while MotoRad-icle and I went back to NN for a 4wd and trailer. All of us pulled out and DNF'd. (1 out of three finishes for me is not bad - right?)
• Crazyfrog has a engine issues and pulled out at Tapawera with Javahead giving him a lift back to NN. Both DNF'd.
• I've heard that there had been a number of minor offs but no details yet. Feel free to add the incriminating evidence.
• Tuckerbag also managed to find "the" corner, laid the bike down and managed to break some ribs. He has flights home on Monday and his bike is apparently parked up at a farm near Lake Rotoroa to be collected later.
• topo attempted to to the DB1k in 2 days instead of 1 due to his broken thumb (few weeks ago) but at the end of the 1st day had had enough and came back to NN.
• I can't spell Mobil. To be corrected along with a couple of road names for next years run

Despite the mayhem and DNF's it would appear from talking to those at Lambretta's this morning (about 24 inclduing partners turned up) that most really enjoyed the challange. I'm enthused to organise a run again next year (yes you will all come back for more punshiment LOL). Thankyou all who helped and participated. It was great to meet many new faces and hear the stories. I have a few photos but I cant post them till back to Chch.

Lastly, I'm going to track down the Rainbow Station Manager (I have his contact details following my crash) to talk to him about putting up a sign at "the" corner. I have some contacts in the roading industry as does El Scooto so hopefully we can get a proper sign otherwise we will make one with some paint and plywood. Assuming we get permission we will return to install it sometime in late Jan/Feb. I personally know of 3 (including myself) that have come off there and sustained serious injuries in the past couple of years and I've heard stories of others. Time to do something about it.

Cheers R

[426crasher]

Looks like you all had a great ride and i'm still a bit pissed at missing it. Well my DB1k didn't last very long. As peril has just posted it turned out to be an eventfull day. After i left Blair at St Arnaud i took a steady ride to Murchison to gauge how i could ride. With things getting a little sore and numb i decided to press on down to Springs where it started to chuck down with rain. From Springs to Chch was total agony as my back pack was pulling all the time on the shoulder and the wr seat was finally taking it's toll on the arse. Finally got home at 8.30 where wifey had to peel me off the bike. Text Ryan to tell him i was home and he rang within a few minutes, nice one dude and a big thanks to Blair for being concerned and sticking with me to St Arnaud. The final outshot being that i went for an x ray and ultrasound and have a broken shoulder blade,torn tendons and a ruptured muscle. Great!! Out for a month they recon. The only damage to the bike is bent brake lever when it blew over in the wind when we stopped to look at Blairs oil leak. Hmmm Waitangi weekend......

Cheers Tony.

[426crasher]

Just read Ryans write up and it looks like it was a fairly eventful ride for some and sorry to hear tuckerbag "found" that f*****g corner. Get well soon. There will soon be enough of us to have a big ceremony there soon. I had a bit of go at the guy at homestead about the corner and he told me it catches plenty of people including somebody towing a boat!!! Looking forward to more reports.

Hey Warewolf i recon if i had to add one to my user name each time i had an off i'd be riding a gs1200 by now!!