KTM Capital Coast Adventure 2008

**Crisis management** · 18th March 2008, 09:24

Originally Posted by upshift

it ain't laying down a lot of power to the road (it's an F650) and mostly only carrying around just me at 75kg. And no doubt tyre pressure of course which I tend to keep around 24-26 psi.

Originally Posted by Oscar

Tyre pressure is critical.

Thanks guys, Upshift, the DR is similar to the F650 in size / power and I'm running 25 psi but maybe I'm also a bit throttle happy.....

Oscar, I don't know if a higher pressure would make a great difference in my situation but I'll see if I can get a definative answer regarding the correct pressure.

I'm currently running a Pirelli M21 so that will be an interesting comparison.

**Oscar** · 18th March 2008, 09:51

Originally Posted by Crisis management

Thanks guys, Upshift, the DR is similar to the F650 in size / power and I'm running 25 psi but maybe I'm also a bit throttle happy.....

Oscar, I don't know if a higher pressure would make a great difference in my situation but I'll see if I can get a definative answer regarding the correct pressure.

I'm currently running a Pirelli M21 so that will be an interesting comparison.

I run the Pirelli (MT21?) on my 640.
It's a great tyre for the DR - I wouldn't be bothering with TKC's if I were you.

**Oscar** · 21st March 2008, 18:16

4skins (organiser of KTM CCA) gets married tomorrow...

**merv** · 21st March 2008, 18:40

Originally Posted by Oscar

4skins (organiser of KTM CCA) gets married tomorrow...

Yippee, all the best to 4skins and orange roughy

**car** · 26th March 2008, 20:28

Originally Posted by Oscar

4skins (organiser of KTM CCA) gets married tomorrow...

Ah! That would explain the new hairstyle.

**merv** · 26th March 2008, 20:38

Car you joining us on the ride with your 200? You still got the Kawasaki?

**car** · 26th March 2008, 20:53

Originally Posted by merv

Car you joining us on the ride with your 200? You still got the Kawasaki?

I sold the 750 in the end, for various reasons. I wasn't planning on riding the CCA this year, despite 4skins' taunting me now and then with very tempting pictures from earlier outings. Money's too tight for steak at the moment and, I'm having sufficient fun building on my n00b skills with a couple of half days in Akatarawa every month, that I find it hard to justify a hundred and some bucks to sleep in a tent ten miles from my comfortable, wife-warmed bed.

(Yeah, I'm talking it down because, secretly, I know that getting half-cut and collapsing in a tent the night before hurling me and my bike up a tree is *exactly* the kind of boys' outing that I know I'd enjoy...)

**merv** · 26th March 2008, 21:05

Mate give up the steak and eat mince for a while and you're a Welly boy, forget the tent, stay and keep the missus warm and just ride over to Plimmerton School in the morning ready for the ride, that's what I'll be doing. That's what I've done for all three of these (except first two were at the Police College)and when I finish the ride I just cruise on home have a shower and then go back to the dinner.

**Transalper** · 28th March 2008, 11:32

Originally Posted by Transalper

Well, finally printed an entry form out, plan to post it tomorrow.

Gezz I'm slack, but yes the entry now actually is in the post... and I have everything I need ready to go.

**merv** · 28th March 2008, 12:53

I'll send my entry in this weekend I reckon.

Re-cycled showed me a wedding pic of 4-skins today and Oscar I understand you were the best man - would we ever doubt that?

**Oscar** · 28th March 2008, 13:13

Originally Posted by merv

I'll send my entry in this weekend I reckon.

Re-cycled showed me a wedding pic of 4-skins today and Oscar I understand you were the best man - would we ever doubt that?

I was the best man.
There was little or no choice when you consider the calibre of the other men in the room.

**merv** · 29th March 2008, 09:05

So I rolled my WR out the garage today about 8am coz I needed to go get a WOF to make sure its all legal for the CCA. The weather man said no worries, there might be showers later this afternoon, so I'm in my best dirt bike clothes i.e. jeans, sports shoes and off I go. Well stuff the weather man I'm a few kms from home and it pisses down this morning and still is - you know that fine very wet rain.

Passed WOF no sweat, but now I'm back home, jacket & bike dripping in the garage and I'm walking around with a wet crotch in my jeans - fanatastic.

I'm only telling you this to bump the thread eh. Make sure you sign up and we'll see you at the CCA

.

**car** · 3rd April 2008, 09:51

Originally Posted by merv

Mate give up the steak and eat mince for a while

Child number three will be arriving before the year's out, so mince is all we got, man.

and you're a Welly boy, forget the tent, stay and keep the missus warm and just ride over to Plimmerton School in the morning ready for the ride

Well, 4skins made me an offer I couldn't refuse, and then he dragged me home "the back road" last night, so my arm's duly twisted. The missus has approved my day-pass, so I'm all set.

that's what I'll be doing.

What, keeping my missus warm?

**Crisis management** · 7th April 2008, 18:38

Bump, mainly cause I felt like it.

Now, who's travelling down from the metropolis to the country village?

Routes, plans and possible meeting places?

Any takers?

Just to clarify that, I have a plan that involves a few places I want to ride and am planning on doing that solo and at my own pace but wouldn't mind meeting the odd body at various places, preferably ones associated with the imbibment of beer.

Part one of that plan is overnighting thursday at Howards Lodge in National Park
Part two is meeting others (Clint, Rosie?) at Ohakune lunchtime friday