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General Discussion / Re: How active are you ?

« on: June 24, 2015, 12:16:34 AM »

I'm only 25, not particularly fit, I smoke, nothing really wrong with me other than stuffed shoulders. Some nerve damage, loose ligaments and dodgy cartilage in my left shoulder, which has been out four times at last count. The right one's much the same but to a much smaller extent. It's been out once.

As for activity, I play cricket in the summer, ride dirtbikes and work as an auto dismantler. Officially I have half an hour for lunch, but more often than not it's stop for a bite, a drink and a dart then back into it.

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Yamaha / Re: Semi-budget vinduro basher, 10/'81 IT250J

« on: June 05, 2015, 02:40:37 AM »

A few photos of the DT. It's not much at the moment, but I'm aiming to have it mostly together by Christmas. I have most of what I need, I'm missing a carb, airbox, seat, rear guard and top end off the top of my head. I'm probably not going to use this frame either, it's in good shape aside from the missing rear loop, and I do have another frame I could flog the loop off, but I can't weld to save myself. I still haven't decided whether it's getting a 125 or 175 motor; I love 125s, even DTs, but I can't help but think that a 175 would have a slightly easier time of hauling my weighty arse about
Plan is for a playbike, basically. Autolube, aftermarket muffler, trials tyres, short gearing etc. Something to get out and putt around on, climb stuff, pull wheelies etc. 

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Yamaha / Semi-budget vinduro basher, 10/'81 IT250J

« on: June 05, 2015, 02:40:03 AM »

I bought this thing in Oct. 2013 for the princely sum of $700; it wasn't much to look at, but it had good bones. It turned over freely, selected all six gears nicely and the shock had damping, all the parts that weren't on it were with it with the exception of the lights and silencer insert, so I bought it. It needed crank seals, a base gasket and new fork seals, among other things.


New fork seals, new base gasket, a bit of air in the tyres and some assembly later, and we had a runner.


Did the crank seals, patched up a split that showed up in the tank etc.


Took it to Cookardinia, had a blast despite the five fouled plugs, one dead plug cap, blown fork seals and epic 1hr wrestle-a-thon involved in changing the rear tyre.


Did the top end and threw a new front tyre on it


Threw an original headlight shroud, complete with bog tin lid glued in the hole, and a set of handguards I pinched off my brother's XR600 on it, swapped the upper triple and forks for YZ125K ones and took it to the YamahaIT forum ride in November



Bought and fitted another tank


Ditched the bog tin lid for an actual headlight, an old 12v/11w foglight that came in a box of truck parts my uncle saved from the skip at his work. Also fitted an ugly gooseneck taillight off my brother's XR600; it didn't stay long though, it's got an MCS XR4 one on it now.



My brother fitted Pivot Pegz to his WR426F, so I got the OEM ones. 20 minutes on the bench grinder and I have decent pegs


I was given an IT-J rear brakeplate with the brake cam sleeve pulled out of it a while back, I was over the YZ465 brake's shenanigans so I decided to fix it up. Quick tap with the persuading stick to knock the sleeve loose of the crud on the brake cam, quick buff on the bench grinder, a bit of bearing retainer on the outside of the sleeve and press it back into the plate with the bench vise, and voila. One properly working rear brake. It actually stays adjusted, which is something the YZ465 brake never managed to do.


A few random pictures
Next to the DT175H I'm slowly doing up


I discovered quite by accident that if you hit this at the top of 4th it'll send you into orbit


This hurt. I was stuck under the bike for about 20 minutes until dad showed up to rescue me; the position I was in was super awkward, I couldn't get enough leverage to even move the bike, let alone lift it off me.







I think so far it's cost me roughly $1k on top of the purchase price. Good cheap fun in my books

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General Discussion / Re: Not VMX, who does guns???

« on: June 04, 2015, 11:49:08 PM »

They were my grandfather's, which is the only reason I have them. Sadly, Brnos, especially ones as nice as these two, are well out of my price range

No.5


Fox II


CMC .222


Tikka .17 Rem


.303


The little Brno Hornet would have to be my favourite; It's lightweight, accurate, packs enough punch to put down anything I'm likely to come across while I'm out and about on the family farm (it's a rare thing to come across anything bigger than a fox or feral cat out here) and is just so damn handy. Not to mention that it's cheap as chips to run; it absolutely loves the Highland/PPU ammunition, which was $16/box the last time I bought some. I mostly reload for it (and all my centrefires, with the exception of the 6.5x55 and .303) though, 10.5gr of AR2205 behind a 40gr Winchester .22 mag projectile seems to be the hot recipe.

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Introductions / Re: Hi, from CW NSW

« on: June 04, 2015, 11:23:56 PM »

 
Already dealt with, it's got an MCS XR4 on it now. Page 11, top left:
http://mcsonline.com.au/Catologue/ch_2.pdf
Doesn't fit very well, but it's exponentially better than the gooseneck. I'll have to get some current photos, the bike's currently in a mate's shed in town.

I was at Cookardinia last year (you'll notice the oil splattered all over my left boot and on the front tyre; that's the blown left side fork seal I ended up with after hitting the ditch just past the big stump out the back at warp speed. Twice. Haha)


And the YamahaIT Forum ride in November



So if the VTR rides are anything like those ones I'll have a ball

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Introductions / Re: Hi, from CW NSW

« on: June 04, 2015, 09:20:07 PM »

That's the plan. I was planning on making it to the last one, got as far as reserving an event license but I couldn't organise transport in time 
Cheers mate

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General Discussion / Re: Not VMX, who does guns???

« on: June 04, 2015, 06:44:35 PM »

This'll be a great second post... haha
Shooting's my other favourite hobby, behind dirtbikes. I have a Brno No.5 .22, a Mossberg 802 .22, a Brno Fox II in .22 Hornet, a Tikka M55 in .17 Remington, a CMC Mountaineer in .222, a 1941 Husqvarna M38 sporter in 6.5x55, a 1917 Enfield Lock No.1 MkIII .303 sporter and an old Laurona 12ga U/O shotgun.

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Introductions / Hi, from CW NSW

« on: June 04, 2015, 06:37:41 PM »

Evening gents. I'm Josh, I'm 25, I'm from Parkes, NSW and I ride an '82 IT250J.
I was originally looking for another DT175G to replace the one I blew up when I was a kid, I loved that bike... Anyway, the IT came up cheap enough so I bought it instead. It was rough, but mostly there sans-lights and silencer insert and had nothing major wrong with it (crank seals, base gasket was blown, forks were stuffed, tyres were crap and the chain and sprockets weren't flash).
It's now got a 1mm over top end (apparently it was worn badly enough to warrant skipping the third oversize entirely), YZ125K forks/upper triple and a custom (read: homejob; it's a good one, though) silencer that I was given for nothing. I have suspension (43mm front end, emulators and 0.48kg springs; shock's getting rebuilt, revalved and sprung to suit my weight/pace. So heavy and slow ), tyres (I scored a pair of Motoz tyres at Cookardinia last year, the front went on my brother's WR426 but I still have the rear. I have a Kenda Carlsbad for the front) and cosmetic stuff to go and it'll be finished.

As I bought it- October 2013


And now-ish; the ugly gooseneck taillight has since been replaced by an afermarket MCS one.



Some of you may have seen it at Cookardinia last year; it was the one rattling like a tin full of nuts and bolts in a paint shaker with the IT200 headlight ocky-strapped to the front.

Once the IT is finished I'll be looking for an XR500/pre-'90 XR600 or a pre-'90 TT600; after spending the last couple of weekends on my brother's spare bike (a '91 XR600) it's safe to say the big-bore 4T bug has bitten, hard... lol.

Anyway, that's me.
-Josh