Db1k 10 sbc

**Padmei** · 19th January 2010, 17:56

Hey Tuckerbag glad to hear you made it thru without any broken body parts this time - special award time??

**helenoftroy** · 19th January 2010, 21:51

Originally Posted by Padmei

Hey Tuckerbag glad to hear you made it thru without any broken body parts this time - special award time??

He sure did!!
Tho I gave him the waggly finger nurse/mother type lecture when he showed up on Friday!!

Tuckerbag,you did amazingly well....Deb & I couldnt believe it when you rocked into Omarama 6th!!!
So good to see you down here ... awesome effort!

**Underground** · 20th January 2010, 09:24

Congrads you SBC guys ,and I must comment on your good gatemanship on day one tuckerbag .we would arrive at a gate and my automatic gate opener would be preparing to dismount when the mighty 125 would broardside to a stop beside us with tuckerbag making one of those rugby tackle leaps for the latch and we'd be through and on to the next one.
Interesting how you got through the locked gate when you'd forgot the combination

**El scooto** · 20th January 2010, 16:48

Alright here we go.

So started off all good. Get to the first incline and discover I have the slowest bike in the ground by a galaxy mile, I think to myself 'it's gunna be a long night'. Due to the pace or lack there of, Alex and Kyle carry on leaving Ryan to tag along with me. Finally starts getting dark on the downhill side of the Haka pass. So far so good. Get to the cattle yards further down the track and my lights are all but f*#ked. Who would have guessed a small 6volt battery was not going to last the distance! So it would only put out what the magneto would give it. I could just make out where the road was if I was lucky. From there on Ryan kindly rode side by side with me so I could steal some illumination. Not great but worked ok. Got to the first fuel dump in Duntroon and notice the overflow hose from the carby was leaky. Proceeded to pull it apart at 1am by torch light. Carried on to Dansey's Pass still side by side. Sometimes due to the twisty road Ryan would end up about 20m ahead. I knew there was a corner but couldn't see the road surface at all so managed to bin it because of the windrow in the centre. TWICE in about 5 corners. (thanks Carl for picking up my mirror!!) Started making ok time again and then about 1km out of Ranfurly Dorris blew her foufou valve. Well actually she managed to blow the spark plug completely out of the head. WTF!!! The thread was pretty nackered. Jamed it back in and got to Ranfurly and parked up by the pub for closer inspection (pub closed 5am). Ryan put some aluminium foil tape on the Spark plug and jammed it in again. We decided that it probably wasn't the best idea to continue at this point as it was more than likely to happen again. So we bailed on the road to Alex. Popped again after about 25-30km and Ryan towed me the rest of the way. We had to wait until for the Honda shop to open and get a heli coil put in the head. So game over. We did do the Black forest road though which was good.

In conclusion. Dorris was probably not the best bike for the job. Also depressingly Ryan's XLR125 did a very good job of towing me at almost the same speed I could go under my own power!! Will be looking for another bike for next year.

Anybody want to buy a 1973 LT3? It's a classic you know

Cheers

**Waihou Thumper** · 20th January 2010, 17:38

Well done that man for the gonads to do it in the first place on the lil' blighter

**Skinny_Birdman** · 20th January 2010, 19:57

Originally Posted by El scooto

Anybody want to buy a 1973 LT3? It's a classic you know

Cheers

Anyone wanna buy my XLR? I've only used it for two weekends.

**cooneyr** · 20th January 2010, 21:24

Hey bro, it was a fun night anyway - cause I didn't crash, my headlight put out more than one candles worth of light and I had enough power to more than 1st gear up the hills LOL.

**Transalper** · 21st January 2010, 10:51

Originally Posted by Skinny_Birdman

Anyone wanna buy my XLR? I've only used it for two weekends.

There you go El Scooto, just buy this one. hardly used. Probably reliable enough to do it again and a perfect match to cooneyrs one.

**TuckerBag** · 24th January 2010, 16:10

OK, just to be a geek:

My NXR125 did about 3700km over the 6 days around the DB1k
Lets just say I averaged 75km/h
Lets just say I averaged 8000rpm
I have no idea how accurate those figures are but they are probably ball-park-ish

This calculates out to 23.7 million engine revolutions. (maybe someone should check my maths)
Now that is a small bore challenge!
Any advances on 23.7 million revs?

**The Duck 01** · 24th January 2010, 16:31

Originally Posted by TuckerBag

OK, just to be a geek:

My NXR125 did about 3700km over the 6 days around the DB1k
Lets just say I averaged 75km/h
Lets just say I averaged 8000rpm
I have no idea how accurate those figures are but they are probably ball-park-ish

This calculates out to 23.7 million engine revolutions. (maybe someone should check my maths)
Now that is a small bore challenge!
Any advances on 23.7 million revs?

And your body looked pretty farked on the late night ferry sailing. Legend i say.

**Padmei** · 24th January 2010, 17:32

Wow i heard on the rado yesterday that Shane Bond was gonna earn $3000.00 a ball or $18000.00 an over. I thought THAT was a big number...

**TuckerBag** · 25th January 2010, 09:53

SBC = Salaried Bowling Cricket?

**Crisis management** · 26th January 2010, 06:22

Originally Posted by TuckerBag

Yeah, chain came off mid river

. Others on the spot helped me out and I was rollin again in no time with one broken rear spoke.......
Also did the Molesworth/Awatere on the way up.

That was us, I'm not sure we would have believed that was a 125 if you had told us, you were keeping up a fair pace, well done!!
We went left at Hanmer (in a round about sort of way) and did the Rainbow to Murchison, hope you enjoyed Molesworth!

Cheers
Iain

**Woodman** · 26th January 2010, 21:02

Originally Posted by TuckerBag

OK, just to be a geek:

My NXR125 did about 3700km over the 6 days around the DB1k
Lets just say I averaged 75km/h
Lets just say I averaged 8000rpm
I have no idea how accurate those figures are but they are probably ball-park-ish

This calculates out to 23.7 million engine revolutions. (maybe someone should check my maths)
Now that is a small bore challenge!
Any advances on 23.7 million revs?

personally believe that 8000rpm is a bit light. my reason for this is that when I passed you just prior to lawrence i was convinced from the noise coming outta your bike that it was a 2 stroke.

Bloody impressive effort.

Do you realise that at 23.7 million revolutions that the piston has to come to a complete stop and and then start again 47.4 million times.