DB1k 2009

**NordieBoy** · 7th January 2009, 08:15

Originally Posted by marks

so are any of you wallys actually going to string all the excellent photos together with a story and do a proper ride report with INLINE photos - not anal attachments????

It'll take me a week but I'll get there...

So you're not in to anal attachments?

**Aslan** · 7th January 2009, 08:25

Nordie - you got any hints on how to insert my pics which I have on Photobucket and Facebook please?

**marks** · 7th January 2009, 08:28

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

It'll take me a week but I'll get there...

I'm sure it'll be worth the wait

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

So you're not in to anal attachments?

no - I ride a KLR not a DR

**LISTERJAG** · 7th January 2009, 09:36

Thanks Nordie, I don't consider I "ditched my friend". We were not far from home, there was a fair chance he was in front looking for me. I needed to get to cell phone coverage or a computor to look at his SPOT tracking in case he had stopped.
If you have a better idea about what I should have done I am happy to learn.
Did you sort out mounting a sheepskin seat cover on the DR?

**marks** · 7th January 2009, 11:37

Originally Posted by LISTERJAG

or a computor to look at his SPOT tracking in case he had stopped.

is it available in NZ? how much? where? whats coverage like????

these and many more questions await you.....

**LISTERJAG** · 7th January 2009, 11:52

Originally Posted by marks

is it available in NZ? how much? where? whats coverage like????

these and many more questions await you.....

Sure is! I think he paid around $350-400 and then another $150 odd for the US satalite tracking. Available from ORB stores.

**NordieBoy** · 7th January 2009, 12:28

Originally Posted by LISTERJAG

Thanks Nordie, I don't consider I "ditched my friend". We were not far from home, there was a fair chance he was in front looking for me. I needed to get to cell phone coverage or a computor to look at his SPOT tracking in case he had stopped.
If you have a better idea about what I should have done I am happy to learn.

That was Plug's comment and should be taken in context with the winking smiley.

Originally Posted by LISTERJAG

Did you sort out mounting a sheepskin seat cover on the DR?

Yep. Insulation taped my 650 one to the DRZ seat. Dunno if it made much difference as it still hurt.

**cooneyr** · 7th January 2009, 12:35

Originally Posted by marks

is it available in NZ? how much? where? whats coverage like????

these and many more questions await you.....

Also look up Personal Locator Beacons (PLB), not to be confused with the marine oriantated EPIRB though they are very similar. Do a web search on the +'s and minuses for both SPOT and PLB. There are a few sites around that compare them. A good place to start looking at PLB's is here (this is the offical multi agency goverment site). SPOT's international website is here.

Wifey and I just went out and purchased a GME MT410 PLB as it connects diretly to the emergency services and doesn't rely on an intermediate private company. Down side of the PLB's is that it does not sent "OK" messages, doesnt track your progress for others to see in real time and you cannot sent a non emergency "help" message (good for when you break down but dont need emergency services). Down side of SPOT is it is more reliant on good satalite reception, as it uses a different set of satalites which dont cover the whole world.

In ammerican dollars the costs are almost the same over about 5 years. This being the case the GME MT410 cost us about NZ$600 from Burnsco Nelson. Pricey but it will be carried for everything from tramping, alpine climbing motorcycling, "caging" to boating.

Cheers R

**Peril** · 7th January 2009, 13:00

Back home now and pulled the clutch casing off to get repaired and decided to show you all how bad this crack was.
CRC Minute Mend held it together ok till I got to Nelson,but I wouldn't have wanted to start the ride with it like this.
Pretty sure it's due to the kickbacks the bike has started to do since changing the CDI and fiddling with the pulser coil.
Now I have a decent excuse to spend $350 to fix the electric start once and for all - To the disgust of my wife who thinks I should "get rid of that heap of shit"

**LISTERJAG** · 7th January 2009, 14:03

Yep. Insulation taped my 650 one to the DRZ seat. Dunno if it made much difference as it still hurt.[/QUOTE]

How did the DRZ perform campared to your DR650?

**NordieBoy** · 7th January 2009, 15:31

Originally Posted by LISTERJAG

How did the DRZ perform campared to your DR650?

It went well but for every part of the ride bar Mt Arthur (the judddddeeeerrrriiinnnggg) I'd have preferred to be on the 650.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...postcount=1081

**zeRax** · 7th January 2009, 15:49

lmao fran, your 3 step helping plan, wahahha, so true @_@

**buggsubique** · 7th January 2009, 16:01

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

It went well but for every part of the ride bar Mt Arthur (the judddddeeeerrrriiinnnggg) I'd have preferred to be on the 650.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...postcount=1081

Ah, you're just used to labouring the low revs... the DR-Z needs revs kept up.