Skip to main content

1,000 k round trip.....


Jeff (ME109) from the BoxerWorks forums went for a 1000km ride with his one of his sons last weekend. Here is his ride report....

Saturday morning about 8:30 I wound the trip meter around to 0000 and headed of for a three day ride. Monday afternoon I pull into my garage just as the trip meter rolls round to 0000. Not bad 'eh?

I took my eldest son Jordan aged 15. He is great to have around on a bike trip being very helpful and fun to be with. He is also getting bigger and heavier on the back of the bike.

First night we stayed at picnic point on the NSW south coast. 18 Wapengo oysters hit the spot before T bone steak and veggies.


Second night was in the mountains by a beautiful stream where we enjoyed lamb rump steaks on the bbq plate. Sitting around a fire after a meal listening to the stream and hearing the sounds of the evening is truly a wonderful thing with a 3/4 moon setting the scene. I should have bought another bottle of red.

My RS has developed an incontinance problem with oil and fuel, sigh. There is even a weep of oil coming from the starter cavity drain hole!! WTF? After replacing the rear main seal twice in the last 4 weeks and still having oil leak issues I've decided to adopt a new approach. I don't give a ....!

Other than that the RS pulled beautifully for the whole trip and is a joy to ride even when it is loaded to the max.

There were heaps of bikes about this weekend and we spoke to lots of motorcyclists heading in all directions. The motorcycling brotherhood is alive and well.


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tuning 40mm BING CV carburetors for BMW motorcycles by ear.

Steve Doyle has put together this great and simple guide to tuning your Bing carbs. No need for expensive tuning equipment. So over to Steve...... Any feed back on this How To please email me and I will pass it onto Steve. There are 3 common methods to syncing the carbs. They will all work 1. Shorting the plugs. http://bmwmotorcycletech.info/synchcarbs.htm and http://www.airheads.org/content/view/216/98/ 2. Using a manometer of some sort. Carbtune, Twinmax or home made http://www.airheads.org/content/view/183/98/ 3. Using your ears. No comprehensive articles that I could find.. In the spirit of learning to service and tune at home and after lots of reading, I decided that for me the "by ear" technique might be the most useful, as it doesn't require any special tools and can be performed anywhere. There is no risk of electrical damage to the bike or the one doing the adjusting. It was very difficult to find a comprehensive description of the procedure, so using the combi...
4 comments
Read more

On a Sure Footing....

I love my BMW. More than any other bike I have owned. This doesn’t mean that it is not without its blemishes. Take the hair trigger sidestand. Known to fold up when an Alpaca herder in the Andres sneezes and the bike is in Australia. Many a BMW owner has found their bike on its side on the ground. Fairing broken. The sidestand has folded up into the raised position. Why? Because it likes to. Once the smallest amount of weigh transfers off the side stand it will fly up. Also if you have an RT type fairing as mine does you can not put the stand down when sitting on the seat. Well I can’t with my short legs. I have to clamber off the bike while holding it up right and then use centre stand. I don’t trust the sidestand. This Video shows how vicious the original sidestand is. Click on the play button. That all changed yesterday. I fitted a SureFoot sidestand . Moto-Bins in the UK supply these. They are of a very sturdy construction. Comes with full fitting instructions and 2 new...
1 comment
Read more

Ride impression of the Yamaha MT-03.....

Yamaha have realeased their new 660 based single. The MT-03. See I so want one....MT-03 The bike can be had in Europe but not here in Aussie land. I have asked Yamaha Australia if they will bring them in. They said "No plans at this stage to introduce the MT03 in to Australia." To rub salt into the wounds, axxess , the forum admin guy at http://forum.monoconnection.nl/ got to ride one. NOOOO!!! So unfair. He translated his ride impression into English for those of us who will not get to ride this. Thank you mate for doing this for us. So lets see what he has to say..... Saturday 16 February I could try the Yamaha MT-03 at Gebben Motors. I could try a brand new red 2008 model. After a short instruction and a warning because of the new tires we were ready to go! The first thing I noticed was the enormous wide steer and the upright riding position It gave me a feeling of absolute control and power! The seat was quit hard but not uncomfortable at all. Unless it was still freez...
7 comments
Read more