Dusty Butt 2015: 14-15 February

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hey I,ve been riding with you and you don't need no training mate ....you ll do the awakino easy mate...hey what gps you using ?..

Cheers kenny. I have a Garman Montana 650. It was recommended, It's great and TA recommended it as well. I can read it easy without glasses, a 4" screen and you can zoom it much bigger, easy as.

[Transalper]

Flash knows the Awakino, this year he'll do it without sweating and go on with plenty of energy and time up his sleeve to complete the day and get dinner before sunset.

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Flash knows the Awakino, this year he'll do it without sweating and go on with plenty of energy and time up his sleeve to complete the day and get dinner before sunset.

Thanks for all the faith Kenny & Carl. I have a lot to live up to now, lets hope you're right.
Finished prepping the bikes today and we will have no problems, WR is new with 549 km's now, so nothing worn out yet and not been swimming yet so bearings all good. Changing tyres on XT last week i found main sprocket bearing on wheel about to collapse. $10.50 and a new bearing in place. All other bearings perfect. Removed DB killers from the arrow mufflers and wrapped spark arrester mesh around them and refitted them, a test ride and they are not too restricted,WR has a factory spark arrester so now we are sorted and safe.

[pete-blen]

Changing tyres on XT last week i found main sprocket bearing on wheel about to collapse. $10.50 and a new bearing in place.

next time replace the sprocket carryer bearing with a double row deep groove ball race..
need to machine the carryer deeper & shorten the interal spacer...
bearing & cush rubbers last 3 times as long...


good luck... have fun...

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next time replace the sprocket carryer bearing with a double row deep groove ball race..

need to machine the carryer deeper & shorten the interal spacer...

bearing & cush rubbers last 3 times as long...





good luck... have fun...

Yes i have heard about that, it may have been you that told me. I think i will do that in future. Still running original cush drive rubbers @ 26,000 km's.
Thanks Pete should be fun with my older son on board.

[thepom]

as we were leaving skippers canyon last week on the Bannockburn bike week Col said he felt and heard a bad noise from the rear wheel. On inspection his bearings were shot....we were lucky we were close to queenstown so we knocked the bearings out and managed to get two in queenstown and fit them by the side of the road and another next day at Cromwell.....for the price of a few bearings can save a lot of trouble if you are in the middle of nowhere....

[Woodman]

as we were leaving skippers canyon last week on the Bannockburn bike week Col said he felt and heard a bad noise from the rear wheel. On inspection his bearings were shot....we were lucky we were close to queenstown so we knocked the bearings out and managed to get two in queenstown and fit them by the side of the road and another next day at Cromwell.....for the price of a few bearings can save a lot of trouble if you are in the middle of nowhere....

I always carried spare wheel bearings on the KLR after having to get trailered home one time.

[pete376403]

Any suggestions how to make a spark arrestor to fit into a GSXR muffler? (Is there any form of scruitineering?)
Otherwise may have to refit the original KLR deadweight

[Woodman]

Any suggestions how to make a spark arrestor to fit into a GSXR muffler? (Is there any form of scruitineering?)
Otherwise may have to refit the original KLR deadweight

Just stuffed chickenwire in mine. Not a gsxr one, but same principal applies. No scrutineering the previous 5 DBs.

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Just stuffed chickenwire in mine. Not a gsxr one, but same principal applies. No scrutineering the previous 5 DBs.

True no scrutineering but we sign up knowing spark arrester's must be fitted and we must carry fire extinguishers. I'd feel like shit if a fire started and i hadn't taken the necessary precautions. There's been fires all over the country this summer. We need to be very careful

[flashg]

Any suggestions how to make a spark arrestor to fit into a GSXR muffler? (Is there any form of scruitineering?)

Otherwise may have to refit the original KLR deadweight

My original XT 660 tenere muffler that weighs heaps did not have a built-in spark arrester. Yours might. Good luck getting it sorted

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We are off to the Nitro Circus shortly. Might pick up some handy tips to help me through the challenge sections haha

[pete376403]

i will be carrying an extinguisher. The standard KLR exhaust does have a US Foresty approved arrestor in it, the GSXR can apparently not. Googling now to see about making / buying something suitable

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i will be carrying an extinguisher. The standard KLR exhaust does have a US Foresty approved arrestor in it, the GSXR can apparently not. Googling now to see about making / buying something suitable

I went to Briscoe's and bought a stainless sieve cut it up and made mine from that, but the tenere runs twin arrow mufflers with db killers, pulling them and wrapping was easy. Maybe harder for you but best of luck.

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Might have found a way of crossing rivers and staying dry