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BLIZZO

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  1. Well she's been a few years between haircuts with this old jigger. Finally decided a few months ago to get stuck into it so rolled the bike out of storage and up on to my motorcycle hoist. I figured the easiest thing to do would be break the restoration down into stages for a few reasons, first being getting the costs past the minister of war and finance but also to not burden myself with too much at once. I figured if i can work on "stage 1" which is get the bike back to a restored rolling frame wont take too much money and wont wind up with the thing in a million bits for ages and losing bits and pieces. I started stripping the bike down and making a list of things to order which quickly started adding up. Had a shopping spree on Siebenrock and got new fork stanchions, brake rotor, brake pads, spokes, headings, rubber driveshaft boot, fork seals and a few other bits and bobs, pretty much everything to get it back to a rolling frame. I'm currently tidying up the rims and have a big ole box of bits to drop to the vapor blasters. Im pretty glad to be sorting this thing now as the frame is certainly pretty crusty, its all surface rust but wouldn't take much more to turn to a pitted mess. I'm still pretty sure that I wont powder coat the frame and will do a bit of research to see if i can find an outfit that does baked enamel, if not just a normal enamel out of a gun will probably be the go. Engine out and on the bench, spot the missing bits here, i havn't removed anything other than the front cover. Bike ran fine but certainly wasn't going to have any working lights! Wee bonus I found when pulling it apart, a cool old metal tyre pump inside the frame tube. Does anyone know if this is a genuine BMW pump or just some old bump someone has poked in there back in the day? next task is to keep stripping the frame down, make any repairs needed, then blast and paint. Engine will sit on the bench until the frame is back together then that will get pulled apart, blasted, some minor engine work and go back together. thanks stage 2 i guess. Stage 3 will be the spendy part, paint, decals, seat recover, instrument repair, new rear shock, find a new ignition switch (didn't have one as it was stolen and recovered) and probably put a wedgetail electronic ignition kit in it. At least i have started now!
  2. Just noticed you mentioned it does use danseys pass, just didn’t look like it on the map
  3. Also day 4, should def change the start of that from ranfurly to Kurow. Pansy’s pass from naesby to Kurow would be better than the current route. F people wanted to be hectic (would be a fun challenge) could always try some Over Mt buster / awakino saddle. It’s hard enough on a dirt bike and support vehicles can come but would be a notable achievement that’s for sure.
  4. Man I’m so keen for this! Have ridden most of these roads either on the dusty butt or on other SI trips on the Africa twin, will be amazing on small bikes. I’ve just picked up an old ct125 that will be perfect for this. ive got a big work trailer that has bike chocks, had 5 big bikes on it plus 2 on the Ute for dusty so the trailer would likely fit 7-8 small bikes plus 2-3 on the back of the Ute. If people could get bikes to palmy then I can be freight and we can just split ferry costs, should work out cheap, can take 3 people also of keen for the drive. I’d just smash palmy to fairlie in a day, I’ve done it on a drz400 so I’m sure a v6 ranger will be much more comfortable
  5. She's been a while since ive updated this. Have been a bit busy playing with bikes that arent exactly oldschool. A few things have been added to the stable since the last post and a few sold off. The Dommie went to a good home and old mate was super stoked. I purchased this choice old CT125 thats currently in Hogans shed that i need to get further north if anyone is heading up with a ute or trailer. Even to blenhiem will do. I was meant to get it when down for the Dusty Butt, ferry cancellation ruined that. I grabbed an XR100 of @Chris.QCR which is super rad. few wee jobs to get it going and moving and used it at garlic masters which was hella fun. Last winter I added a new DRZ400 to the stable after thinking it was going to be my dream small adventure bike, which it kind of was at the time. Dropped about 5k doing heaps of mods to make it adventure friendly and used it on a 600km "one big day" adv ride in raglan and then appx 2500kms in 4 days for the Dusty Butt down south. Went great and I should be really happy with it but I rode a KTM exc for an hour or so on the ride, and was kinda converted. Oil change frequency goes out of your mind when something can slap a full ear to ear smile like the KTM did, and that was an older model 2013, the new ones are even better, so, when i got home the DRZ got cleaned and slapped onto trademe and I payed AFC motorcycles a vist and came home with this. 2023 500 exc-f. Have ordered bunch of bits to adventurise it, larger acerbis tank, seat concepts seat, fastway footpegs, new plastics to keep the OEM ones fresh, steel sprocket, XRC dampened bar mounts, stiffer fork and shock springs which i already biffed in. Should make a pretty sweet technical trail adventure rig. Already planning out some sweet west coast mining exploration routes which should be sweet.
  6. fizzing for this now! If anyone needs a ride up from southern north island hit me up, imm be heading up thursday arvo / after work maybe. Have space on ute for another bike. Rogeeee
  7. Hey mate, so ive not had much luck up here finding anyone that does baked enamel, what is the name of the outfit you use in chch?
  8. What’s the meetup point / time this morning? Te araroa?
  9. Yea I’ll enter tonight, was on the fence due to some family sickness. now I face a bike dilemma, today was the first chance I’ve had to do some prep, and the inlet to carb manifold on the trombone is crumbled, so it’s out, unless anyone has one handy they can bring to the start. my CT is fucked and in bits. Only running things in the shed are kids bikes and my drz400, so I might have to be a punishing medium bike barry if I’m still to come Soz
  10. if anyone else would like to offload some accomodations, i too would be interested, or ill steal some floor space somewhere
  11. yea to be fair i havnt done the coastal rode for a few years so i could be keen for something different. will save the trombone falling to bits on corrugations anyway, it always seems to fall to bits when i use it on rough gravel
  12. Yea ive done all over 5 years so why the fuck not. Not sure what bike to bring along, my back tells me i should bring the CT185 again, but I have taken a different bike every eastcape, 2017 - CT110 2018 - ST90 2019 - GP125 2020 - CT185 2021 - XR250 2022 - ??????? The trombone was the first bike I built, and its never done an eastcape, so parts of me say I should take it. Its currently still also broken from garlic masters. Maybe its time for an ass punishing on that Also who here has Cardo's? keen as for some quality shit yarns during the ride this year
  13. yea thats always gunna be the way, you could do any grade 5 trail in NZ on a CT110. You cant rag on big adventure bikes for having a hard time of technical trails, its not what they are designed to do. 200KG+ adventure bikes are designed to eat tarmac miles easily and effortlessly, be fine on travel roads and occasionally do some grade 3-4 type trails, albeit slowly and difficulty, they are not made for technical terrain. I think people see Chris Birch sending his 1290 on grade 5 tracks and think its possible, but we are not chris birch. The the moped riders had come across people on lightweight adv bikes (KTM 500EXC, 501, DRZ400 etc) they would have been showered in stones and seen how much fun the riders were having. All bikes are a compromise, a CT110 can easily do offroad yes but its doesnt give you the adrenaline rush of something with power, it will also suck if you want to do long road sections linking trails. TL:DR - not one bike does everything well, so you need to be like me a fill your shed with 8+ bikes so you have a range to choose from. A freinds howty towty mum recently asked my why on earth i have so many motorcycles when you can only ride one at a time. I replied with "why do you have a closet full of shoes Cheryl, you only have 2 feet"
  14. I wouldn't call a 390 a big heavy bike, its about as small as "adventure" bikes go but it does make me lol with the popularity of adv riding these days the amount of people starting off on bikes not really suited for newby's to the world of motorcycling. Back in amazing days of the 70s/80s/90s a 250cc was a typical sized adv bike for getting offroad as well as touring, that seems to have at least doubled now. I'm all about big bikes, but i didn't learn to ride on them. I was watching a video on the NZAR page about some dudes on a new T7 with all the trendy gear and another on a DR650 riding oldlins rd and making it sound super knarly with "rock walls" and shit. I've been in there plenty during mancamp and its a piece of piss, people in stock rav4s doing it and shit, old boys on R80 bmws. We have had guys that have never ridden a bike before ride it on CTX200s etc. There seems to be so much keeping up with the jones' in the bike world now where you need to have the flashest bike, these 390s are case and point. She should be riding a $2500 Yamaha XT250 super sherper, would learn so much more skills and not be almost dead because of one single rock that she locked on to.
  15. Porika track takes you to a cool lookout point over the entire lake then winds down to the lakefront. Braeburn track is less of a track and actually just a gravel road. If short of time we may just turn around at the lake.
  16. Ah dumb yea that’s a highlight of the ride, ferry team might need to leave Nelson at sparrows fart
  17. We are on the 7pm ferry on Sunday so checkin will likely be 6, so will be trying to get back a bit earlier. Might split off with you chris. What part of the ride are we missing if we do that?
  18. looking at that UC student card in the guard post we must have been at UC at the same time!
  19. I’m used to being in the road at 5:30-6 on rides. I could sleep in takaka and still get back to you catching zyz in ya maggot sack Bartholomew
  20. I think he means $40 for the tent site at top ten jim soz, posted this before I saw other replies
  21. pretty high tech system. we stripping i bag and tag then in small lots in zip lock bags. then before planting i separate all the bags laid out over a couple of workbenches with a bit of masking tape naming what bag they are out of and a ruler nex to them for scale. once i photograph all of them they go in a bucket for planting. once back the jigsaw puzzle commences of separating them all back into their little bags. actually way easier than it sounds. He changes more for seperate bags but not a heap, on a big bike i might give him two lots, one for frame and one for engine etc.
  22. A few things, I’ve done it a few times before I wouldn’t want it on this frame - it’s only well protective if there is zinc powder primer underneath, this makes it even more thick - it hides frame numbers - on a bike I that’s not as special it would be fine, this thing is very rare and quite valuable now, so for originality paint is best. - powder is difficult to remove and any chips can get moisture under them and can’t be touched up as easily - powder doesn’t flex well, and these featherbed style frames are notorious for flexing - becuase powder is so thick it cracks when you torque nuts against it like cheap spray can paint can. they are the main points anyway. It’s also just a bit of a bitch to blank off all the threads and any bits with a tight fit wind up with issues
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