DB1k 2011 official thread

[joshkies]

well ROD and me finished the one dayer, are sick of river crossing lol had a great ride no trouble at all did 1180km in 21 hours 15 min.

Great job ryan and helpers what a ride

[dino3310]

that is by far the best one liner (even if it took two) I have ever seen on a forum

10 points

your getting better with age Fran

[RedKLR650]

i wonder how the muddy butts going
ole huey seems a bit upset

Apologies for the delay in posting this, I popped up to Fairlie on Friday night to catch up with some of the crew and got this pre-event shot

Cheers, Stu

[dino3310]

nice one Stu, Stu nice one.

i noticed only 1 KB beanie

[thepom]

Good on ya Josh,thats a time to beat.......anyone....eerrrr...anyone...?

[Buddha#81:Me]

wooooooooooo foooooooken hoooooooo, I'm a convert. Sore, tired, stoke and need sleep.......be back soon to fill ya in!

[thepom]

And next year I,m taking the monday off too as I now am going to work.....tired and aching but still buzzing......cheers to ryan and all the guy,s I rode with for a great time

[NordieBoy]

Apologies for the delay in posting this, I popped up to Fairlie on Friday night to carch up with some of the crew and got this pre-event shot

Cheers, Stu

Good stuff.
Points for the first one to name them all

CooneyR, you've created a monster!

I remember when...

[cooneyr]

Good stuff.
Points for the first one to name them all

CooneyR, you've created a monster!

I remember when...

Your not wrong. First year there were 9 . . . . this year there were 70!

I'm back at work, I'm nackered, got a good "visor" suntan (windburn) and I'm going to be lucky to keep my eyes open all day.

No pictures from me but bits of goss that I know of

• 3 drowned bikes
• 2 bike not going anywhere for a bit
• 1 serious injury (hit a sheep and rider now has broken pelvis and leg)
• 1 not so serious but couldn't ride injury
• 4 guys completed the one day ride
• some loved the 1st challenge others though it was a MX track
• Zerax is a machine. Still has the most completed 1 day rides and just completed another one. Two of these have been on 250cc bikes.

Big thankyou to Ms Cooneyr, Ollie and In Laws for all their tolerance and help. Thanks also to Transalper, ADVGD, XF650 for their significant contributions to getting this ride of the ground plus thanks to everybody else who also helped no matter how minor your input.

Keen to get feedback on the route and roll chart/GPS file plus see pictures etc.

Cheers R

[Monstaman]

Got back at about 11.00pm ish last night cos Woodman had an epic fail with a puddle (or fuddle ... fucken big puddle)

Did Black Forest last night for the first time but still haven't seen it cos it was very black.

Got home at 3.30am this morning, happy as, tired as and a grin you could not tow off my face with a bulldozer.

Gotta work today ... stuffed ... gonna be a l o n g day.

Pics later

[_Shrek_]

Got back at about 11.00pm ish last night cos Woodman had an epic fail with a puddle (or fuddle ... fucken big puddle)

Did Black Forest last night for the first time but still haven't seen it cos it was very black.

Got home at 3.30am this morning, happy as, tired as and a grin you could not tow off my face with a bulldozer.

Gotta work today ... stuffed ... gonna be a l o n g day.

Pics later

I got back here 0415 pulled up in drive way turn car off woke up 40min later, couldn't got straight to bed something to do with smell

just had coffe brought to me now Mrs S has gone to work & I can follow later (top girl )

write up later etc...

[Padmei]

Kia ora everybody on this magnificent Monday!!

Wow what a weekend. Friday was good, Saturday was fantastic & Sunday was a true adventure.

As most of you know Schmidtty my beloved BMW project blew either a gearbox or final drive seal on the way from Alex to Lawrence.
Although initially disappointing to be out of the ride I looked at the half full glass (no- not of oil) & it actually could have been way way worse. The nice bloke at Fox service station let me park it dripping oil in his workshop & hopefully Struan (that bloody beautiful hunk of manhood) will be able to pick it up & either deliver it up to Chch or Nelson in the next couple of months.

I was lucky as the bus to Dunners arrived about an hour later & hooked up with the Chch bus. 7pm I was safely in the arms of my beautiful wife & lil ponies

Despite the bike shitting itself the riding, scenery & comraderie were legendary & I am already counting the minutes til next year where I'll be back with bells on.

Please please Ryan can we do it down South again- please???

So for a pack of ghey DR, pretentious KTM, meathead Honda, riders you're all a bloody good bunch.

Thanks for a great weekend

[cynna]

ive got a week off to recover. got back to chch just after midnight - was not a fun ride high with a blown lo - beam on the xr and dirty contacts lenses which blinded me whenever i looked at oncoming headlights. had to slow thepom down and just focus on his taillight without looking at anything else .....

had a bit of a nightmare trip - started off by getting a metre and half of fencing wire wrapped around my rear wheel. got to get starting issues sorted. came off 3 times once in a hole in a river where the bike went under. overall broke my luggage rack, roll chart, indicator, bent barkbusters, hole in bash plate. thanks to the guys i rode with for your help and for waiting for me

thanks to Ryan for another excellent weekend

[whatastoner]

Thanks Ryan, another magnificent weekend. Got back to CHCH 2330 safe and sound.
To the posse I rode with, you made the pain bearable, and the pleasure... well
Respect

Mark

[mattsdakar]

Well what an awesome weekend, yet another great Dusty Butt
The ride certainly lived up to it's name, no rain meant lots of dust.
Great to see alot of the regular KB posters in the same place to put a few more faces to names.
The boys had a pretty uneventful Friday ride down thru Orari Gorge with 20 odd followers, no crashes or breakdowns but some great riding.
Saturdays ride was a blast, full credit to guys like Shrek who managed to get his hulking great BMW 1150 over the Awakino section, I'll admit that I certainly found it challenging in spots, I had one epic fall where I launched the XR at almost full throttle 30metres down a bank after being knocked off line by a rouge rock and unfortunately grabbed a handful just as I was ejected, luckily I had a reasonably soft landing involving about six feet of skydiving one high speed shoulder roll then another six feet of flying then another two somersaults. Luckily bike only suffered smashed mirrors and indicator, could have been soooooo much worse!!!!
We stayed in the pub in Alex and had a few to many fanta's so didn't get away before 10 but managed to catch most of the guys up by Omakau, rode with two guys on Husaberg 570cc and a KTM 950se so there was no muckin round (apart from beers in Omakau, Omarama )!
Great to see lots of happy riders and I'm sure most will be back again next year.
Thanks again Ryan, legend!
Sorry carried camera whole time in breast pocket and didnt take one photo, doh!