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Tommys Wonder Out Yonder South West Adv ride
The Planned Crusty Tassie Adv Ride hit a big pothole with the COVID lockdowns, so Tommy did an Outstanding job of Organizing 2 week alternative Adventure ride through our South West. The numbers throughout the ride varied between 2 and 8, we lost one rider for awhile in the dust, went up one big hill, killed at least 2000 March Flies, had one major break down, one flat tire, one flat tent, one lost tent, one clear ROTD and one clear SOTD.
MickKal -Thanks to Tommy for organizing a great adventure ride down south, I had planned to just do 4 nights but ended having a phat old time and stayed for 5 nights until we reached Bluff Knoll. For me the forests around Pemberton and Walpole were the highlights with some mint winding tracks along the rivers amongst the massive trees. It did get a bit hot on the first few days so many beers and rums were needed at the days end that may have resulted in a few sore heads in the morning. Also there were a few mechanical issues but luckily for me the trusty 500 never missed a beat for the 2000klm I did over the 6 days. So now its probably a good time for an oil change. Jacko - I had to pull out of the down south ride because the throttle slide on my carby broke again. all was good till then with lots of great camping spots and really nice trails all over the place. on thursday morning jnr and i climbed up bluff knoll then i split and headed home. with the throttle closed the bike was doing 85ks witch was ok on the open road but became very tricky in stop start traffic on the freeway. i had to use the kill switch to control speed with brakes on hard all the way. but i made it home safe so alls good. i could buy another slide valve from kehin or suzuki but its the same overpriced crap. i found a guy making them from a higher grade ali so ill have to wait for it to arrive. in my opinion all these fcr carbs should be recalled and fixed, this wouldnt be tollerated on cars and to make it worse the broken piece gets sucked through the engine. anyway guys have a good second week, i wish i could be there. i put a photo in the gallery. JNR - Yes a HUGE THANKS to Tommy for setting up a great ride with a awesome bunch of blokes & everyone who came along thanks for everything, it’s great when something goes wrong & there’s always one person who pipes up & says.... I got that & problem etc is fixed & on we go, or if it doesn’t get fixed we sort something to help the person out . All the riding was awesome for me cause whatever it is I just love being on the bike & I wish I could still be there but family first & the Covid thing didn’t help the dates line up for everyone but it sounds like everyone enjoyed it while on the ride. A big thanks to all the partners & wife’s that aloud us very lucky blokes to do what we love when we want & they let us miss Valentine’s Day etc with a pinch of salt . We were lucky to get a small spot to stay at the caravan park in Bremer bay as they said we are soooo busy & it’s mid February & no school holidays so the future looks difficult to even find a camp over spot in WA & when I was going hm I’ve never seen so many caravans heading out from Perth to get away as no one can go over seas . Anyway to you all a big thank you from me & see you out there again soon Jack - Tommy’s ”Wonder out Younder Covid Ride” was an absolute blast ! Thank you Tommy for planning, organising and leading us through some of the Best Trials WA has on offer. Unfortunately, I was the first to retire with a terminally ill KTM690 on day two. An electrical fault rendered my bike dead at the time, so trailering it back to Perth was my only option at the time. Once back at home I got working on it and cleaned every connection in the wiring harness. The bitter sweet moment came 8 hrs later when I was down to the last connection “the mapping switch”, and holy behold this was it ! Unplugged it and the dash lights came back to life, plugged it back in and Farrrrrk the bike now runs ! So I conclude the mapping switch developed a fault and shut the computer down. Something neither of us suspected or tried at the time. Great to hear everybody had a good time and the trails continued to get better the further South you went. Safe travels to Tommy and Pounce who are still exploring the South West like true adventurers, Tommy & I got back home safely yesterday, not without incident though Pounce - I got a flat rear, which TC changed in record time & I'm pretty sure I'm the first of us to ever loop out a fully loaded 690 with it then landing on top of me. Big thanks to Tommy for the huge effort setting the ride up & everyone else for the fun bits in between.                                                 |
