Tales from the Emporium

[madmartin]

i think i got the locked account one and that was spam too... checked my account via the google based log in and nothing out of the ordinary.

It's a little long winded but there's a part of the Pay Pal website that you can forward your spam mail to.

The real issue is if they've sucessfully spent your coin, how did they do it? Trojan in your machine or have you been buying stuff from hacked or dodgey traders?

[NordieBoy]

Haven't bought anything via PayPal for over 6 months.

Got my money back today, PayPal found in my favour

[NordieBoy]

Right...

Just been playing in Hira over the weekend comparing knobblies and trials tyres in various types of terrain.

Did a loop on Sunday with cheap knobs on and again today with Pirelli MT43's front and rear.

I'll run through the terrain types as they appeared in the ride (vid to come)...

Hardpack dry(ish) clay - no excess wheelspin from the trials tyres.
Hardpack wet rocks - knobs spun up, slid sideways and were generally all over the place.
Wet pine needles/mud/roots - knobs didn't like the roots...
Loose rocks - trials tyres were nice and stable, tracked true, knobs were very skittish.
Steep loose downhills - trials don't dig in under brakes as well.

The trials tyres just gave so much more confidence and comfort. Much more paddling and sitting with knobs on.
Up the steep, long climb out of the Gun Club Valley to Isolation, my heart rate got up to 165bpm with knobs and 135bpm with the trials tyres...

[NordieBoy]

2 cameras makes it more interesting but doubles the workload on the trail and at home...

[NordieBoy]

That whole bit down there is full of exposed roots and as I treat the throttle as a linear device rather than a switch, I don't have much chance.
NordieBro however...


I do like the LED's.

Thinking of replacing the headlight with an alloy blanking plate with 4 of them mounted in it.
The headlight is 35w, the LED's would draw 12w. Just need to check if the headlight circuit is AC or DC...

[NordieBoy]

Oh dear. The headlight is currently 6v 25/25w ac.

That means there's a bit of work to run LED's off it...

Rectifier (only needs to handle 12w), smoothing capacitor...

Ok, so not a lot of work...

[NordieBoy]

Oh well, the rain has put paid to snow hunting. May as well go get some oil and have a go at swapping the new DR engine in.

I mean, how hard could it be?

[gav24]

I got that you'd bought that motor on TM but I thought it was a "just in case" motor. What's up with the current donk?

[NordieBoy]

It's 95,000km old. Runs fine, but well overdue for a 3rd gear replacement, top end overhaul, base gasket...
Doing about 20,000km per year...

[NordieBoy]

It lives! It fcuking lives!

Then you find that the one engine mount bolt you didn't install as it holds the bash plate on, won't fit until you rotate the whole engine backwards 3mm.

And that takes a whole fcukin hour...

Off up the Maungatapu for a test ride now...

[Padmei]

OK when do we start worrying?

[NordieBoy]

You should always worry.

It's a good thing you didn't come. There was snow

[Eddieb]

You should always worry.

It's a good thing you didn't come. There was snow

I hope there was pics

[NordieBoy]

I hope there was pics

Pics AND video...

[NordieBoy]

I've been banned for a week from AdvRider!
Apparently you're not allowed to post links to copyrighted manuals.
The catch was, I only posted a link to the DR650 wiki page and the person would then have to find the download link on that page themselves...