Db1k 10 sbc

[Racing Dave]

There is an irony worth watching. RD (an older gent) on a young buck of a bike and El (a young buck) on a older gent of a bike. Combined age of bike and rider is probably about the same.

Indeed .

[cooneyr]

Indeed

Hey I was trying to be polite I could have called you and old basted!

I realised afterwards that the combined age of El and his bike is probably closer to 65 so that statement is probably a bit harsh.

Cheers R

[Racing Dave]

...but all will be revealed in January.

Cheers.

[Skinny_Birdman]

Hey I was trying to be polite I could have called you and old basted!

I realised afterwards that the combined age of El and his bike is probably closer to 65 so that statement is probably a bit harsh.

...but all will be revealed in January.

Cheers.

So you're really a 16 year old schoolgirl? Wow, it's normally the other way around....

[Skinny_Birdman]

Have been thinking and talking about the ride over the weekend, and I just want to clarify: When a bike throws a terminal spaz on the day, in the absence of a sweep vehicle, are we a) All going to stand around and wring our hands until 24 hours is up, b) All going to ride off into the sunset and leave a lonely looking rider standing in a cloud of dust and a pool of oil, c) Going to abandon the bike and take rider on pillion to next town, where we leave him to the tender mercies of the toothless banjo-plucking locals, or d) something else? I guess that the idea is to keep the group together on the day, so it is as well to discuss this in advance.

[Willdat?]

I was almost convinced to do the sbc on a modified version of my Shanyang, but maybe next year. The plan is to build a 50 cc adventure bike registered as a moped, possibly based on a 125 2 stroke frame etc.

If anyone has something suitable let me know...

Well I basically bought this bike without needing to build one, a 2003 Suzuki SMX 50, currently undergoing reliability trials, but if all goes well I should be there 2011 as we've got our first baby due Jan 2010!

[cooneyr]

Have been thinking and talking about the ride over the weekend, and I just want to clarify: When a bike throws a terminal spaz on the day, in the absence of a sweep vehicle, are we a) All going to stand around and wring our hands until 24 hours is up, b) All going to ride off into the sunset and leave a lonely looking rider standing in a cloud of dust and a pool of oil, c) Going to abandon the bike and take rider on pillion to next town, where we leave him to the tender mercies of the toothless banjo-plucking locals, or d) something else? I guess that the idea is to keep the group together on the day, so it is as well to discuss this in advance.

Option C. Or if possible/pratical we will tow the bike to the nearest farmers shed/ then proceed with option C. Also my wife and El's fiancee will be hanging around in the general area with a vitara and a trailer so if we tow the bike/pillion the rider to the nearest road end they could come and pick the person up.

Also El and I were talking over the weekend and we are seriously contemplating starting the run after the BBQ on the Friday night (around 8pm so a couple of hours of light to get into the swing of things). This way we should be in about Lawrence at morning and have the rest of the day's worth of light to let loose. Means the night section is being done when you are freshest i.e. least stuffed and then you have light to help out when your are most stuffed. From experiance with 24 hour orienteering events the sun comming up and things warming up is a great boost to moral. This is similar to the Grand Challange (and other thousand milers) apparoach I believe. Only issue is fuel but I'll look into options.

Cheers R

[cooneyr]

Is anybody other than El and I interested in the idea of starting late on the Friday night rather than early on the Sat morning? Fuel is still a major issue.

If you do a Sat morning start fuel will not be a problem except for Omarama closing at 8pm (dont think people will get there by then) but Otematata 29km away has 24hr fuel. Means the longest leg is 200kms (previous fuel stop is Cromwell which has an BP open till 12pm. Cromwell is at about the 750km mark so if you do a 40kph overall average and you leave at 5pm you should be there just on 12.

Cheers
Ryan

[zeRax]

starting at night could be a goer,

i think im gonna run my hid spotlight on my head :P, providing i dont get 22000 volts or whatever shoot into my neck, i think it'd be the tits for being able to see where im going o_O

[Transalper]

That might work well so long as you have clear air ahead.
It will make things like really bad fog if you're in dust... if the wee bikes can make dust

[richyrich]

Well see - it will have to haul around 130kgs of rider and gear. Not sure it was ever intended for that. Should be a fun play bike in the mean time.



The old thing was driven by the need for cheep bikes and making it a challange. El Scooto managed to find a really tidy old smoker and we have not seen anything like it since. Besides this whole idea is his so if it is going to be a challange, it should be a challange for him - crazy bloody idea

You dont have to have an old bike, its just that there are very few options for a modern road reg 125. The NXR125 is about the only "trailish" modern 125 that is road regable. There are way more 70's and 80's options. I would have got something older but this was cheep (repo deal) and it should be OK for my wife to get into riding a bit more.

Just get whatever you can aford that you think will be up to the task given your level of skill at keeping it going. There is more kudos for riding an older bike or a smoker and heaps of kudos for riding and old smoker

Cheers R

you can buy a new ktm exc125 that is road legal,now that would be cheating.

[cooneyr]

That might work well so long as you have clear air ahead.
It will make things like really bad fog if you're in dust... if the wee bikes can make dust

you can buy a new ktm exc125 that is road legal,now that would be cheating.

Yep that might be cheating just a little!

Cheers R

[Skinny_Birdman]

So where are the fuel issues if we start at night? I think I'd rather start at night. Do we need to place some caches?

[cooneyr]

So where are the fuel issues if we start at night? I think I'd rather start at night. Do we need to place some caches?

Issue is Kurow/Ranfurly/Lawrence. We will be going past these places between about 10pm and 6 to 8 am and they are all closed at this time with no 24hr fuel. Thinking of putting a cache of fuel down on the northern side of Danseys Pass which is about 1/2 way to Lawrence. Roughly 200km from the start and 200km from Lawrence. I've got a couple of options to consider for Lawrence but still working on this.

Cheers R

[Skinny_Birdman]

A bit quiet 'round here, innit?
Well I'm off to Deutschland for Christmas with the outlaws on Monday, but I'm all set to go with bike now (unbelievably) warranted (will wait until the last minute to rego) and with bark busters, pack rack and topbox fitted. I had to crop the levers quite a bit to fit the bark busters, which I thought might be a WOF issue, but apparently not.
I hope to find some kind of sheepskin thing to cover my gel seat cushion (long haul flight two days before - can you say DVT?), and if I get a chance this weekend I'll give the poor little thing an oil change, which I haven't done thus far.
So how is everyone else's prep going? I see we have gained another entrant in richyrich? Anyone been out pushing the envelope?