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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: popeye on January 02, 2013, 11:09:24 am
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Good luck to all the Australian riders in the Dakar.. I think there are 5-6 of them....
Go Ben Grabham on the KTM..
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Yep, got a good group of riders there this year.
GHR have a good team in.
Alas no Kiwis.
Geoff Oholm in a Landcruiser, he's from up you old ground popeye.
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Yea, go the boys.
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You home yet, Tatey?
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Last night, went back to Griffith for some more of that lovely Italian food.....fark its hot in Qld, we did 5200km all up....had a ball...I'll write a road-trip blog up one night soon after I unpack all the pickings out of the van.
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Dont forget Matt Fish on the factory Husqvarna team too.
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TV coverage....
Eurosport 9.00am AEDST 6/1/13
SBS 5.30pm AEDST 6/1/13
Hope the Bully Frontera finishes this year!
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if you use Facebook this link should get you to the page for the Bultaco rider
https://www.facebook.com/david.lahey/favorites#!/BultacoDakar?fref=ts
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I'll write a road-trip blog up one night soon
Excellent, but you keep your distance from now on!
My wife keeps going on about what a nice bloke you are...... ::)
:D :D :D :D :D :D
As for Dakar, I'll admit that I was way off when I said the event was doomed when it moved to South America.
It's still reckon the massive bikes of the 80's were the coolest, but it's still one hell of a race. 8)
For example:
(http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr37/Tony_T12/PharonsWeb.jpg)
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I'm also keen on seeing how well that young (World Champ) trials rider Laia Sanz goes this time.
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Tony
I have a soft spotfor BMW's..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOKAwnCwQg0
But like the fat elephants as well
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Thanks a heap for that link. ;D
That's the era of Dakar that I love most!
They don't breed 'em like that anymore. I reckon it was '86 when Gaston Rahier broke his collarbone and 3 ribs, but still finished the following week of the event!!! :o
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Actually, that video shows the year it was really close between Cyril Neveu on the Honda and Hubert Auriol on the Cagiva.
At the end you see Auriol arrive at the end of a stage and I think he had both legs broken from memory. :o
Still riding though! ;D
FWIW, the one rider I'll be following is Franco Picco.
Google him sometime....... ;)
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Rod Faggotter, Longreach, CWQ. Go son !!!!!
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Your wife has impecable tastes Tony.......where did she go wrong? ;D ....and she makes a lovelly cuppa tea.
My painter has just changed the color on a 07 690 KTM factory Dakar bike from the original Orange to the Gallouese (farked if I can spell it) blue....it looks awesome...I restored the exhaust back to new on it and a few other things......ill try and post some pictures of it.....80 hp std...94 db at idle on the twin exhaust (no noise retrictions out there), carbon fibre everywhere, footpegs big enough to hold an elephant, the engineering on the bike is amazing...no wonder they keep winning.....this bike is definately one for the poolroom now.
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Matt Fish, water boy for husky team, 3rd in second stage--how good is that.
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https://www.google.com.au/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=979&bih=466&q=dakar+xt&oq=dakar+xt&gs_l=img.3...3484.7015.0.8072.8.8.0.0.0.0.478.2326.2j0j1j3j2.8.0...0.0...1ac.1.m8hkTiGJxk8
Some classics amongst this lot Tony T. Gotta love those Gouliouse??? Yamaha's
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Yamaha rider Rod Faggotter leads the Aussie charge at Dakar after nine stages and a handful of gruelling special tests. Faggotter, who sits two points ahead of KTM’s Ben Grabham, lies 16th overall with Grabbo 18th. The rest of the Aussie contingent is also on the limiter with Honda’s Todd Smith finishing fastest of the green and gold battalion in the ninth stage with a 17th, moving himself up to 42nd overall, while Warren Strange is 31st overall and Matt Fish is 126th.
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Yep...unfortunately... Fishy's job as "water boy" is having a great impact on his "race"...he has had to tow in the SpeedBrain lead rider at least once.. and I think also swapped a back wheel early on also...
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Bit sad as Fishy looks to have the speed. Must have lost an engine too as he has a 15.00 penalty.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-28/interview-warren-strange-and-jamie-morgan/4486678?section=sport
$200,000 and your in and get used to the pain.
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That's a good interview!
Interesting how these guys were over the Dakar at the end of it and dont need to do it again versus other guys that keep going back (like Pavey) They must love the challange and hardship?
Can you imagine going to the minister for tourism and finance and suggesting that we need to invest 200K to do the Dakar. ???
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Yes fantastic piece of Aussie journo 8)
Dept tourism and finance you say XC83...first you've got to get past the ongoing trainer riding of 15 hours or so a day :o ;D