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« Last post by steptoe on October 10, 2024, 10:24:46 AM »
Bloody hell Australia is a big place we’re now in Esperance 4 enormous days and we’re still going, Day 3 was pretty awesome crossing the “bite” and the Nullarbor, it’s a whole lot of nothing but interesting in the same time, the cliffs of the bite make you feel tiny, The 970 to Eucla on the WA border was done with a cross tail wind which disappeared and turned into a hellish headwind for the next day Day 4 After Maggie Mae didn’t want to start for whatever reason, the best part of 2 hours with phone calls to XSiverrol and Christian with a multi-meter showed nothing really and she just decided to start , must’ve been a loose connection in a plug, which morphed into a starter circuit issue and now having to cross the poles on the solenoid to make her run The scenery seemed to change with the soil type, trees and grasses changed with the going over of the next rise, temperatures were surprisingly cool considering we were riding on the same longitude-ish line as Sydney , between 12 and 32 by the BMWs , The head wind was punishing, 60 kph gusting to who’d know 🤷♂️ , The Beemers have power programs in them to deliver more power with less fuel, all Maggie has is a gear box, so down a gear we went, because of the tall diff and 18 wheel the load on the engine is greater even with less revs, all I could do was go down into 4 th which was still only 4500 rpm travelling at our speed, the revs obviously went up but the throttle closed to under 1/4 throttle, haven’t fueled since so it’ll be interesting to see how that works. A morning off here to have a bit of a rest and bo-peep, then off to Wave Rock for tonight From this point I think the experiment doesn’t work, the load on the motor burns any idea of the fuel savings I thought might happen, although we are only 4000 klm into a 12000 k trip, it might come into its own north through WA and the NT but it’ll only be the 4 days, An interesting thing I did find though, even with that gearing I still tapped the gear shift to make sure I was in top, so it’s not so much the gearing we’re looking to replace but the sound of the higher revving engine        
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« Last post by Jonesy :-) on October 08, 2024, 06:44:42 AM »
Sounds like your having a ball mate.
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« Last post by steptoe on October 07, 2024, 09:56:38 PM »
Day 3 Cobar to Port Augusta A great cruising day for the 870ish klm , let her have the fuel today for a very short stint , omg , I have no idea what top speed is, but we took it to 6500 rpm and it had almost reached the original end of legs but still had 2500 left before redline to run, the lads said the puff of smoke as it went through the power range was huge🤣 A great brekkie in Willcania cafe and a pic in Broken Hill, then a beer in Manna hill, told us about a really old tree and a rail bridge to stop at I’m running a Michelin Road Classic on the rear and at 2300 klm still is not squaring off yet, so I’m super happy with that. If you get a chance to, Horrocks Pass down into Port Augusta is a brilliant short set of corners to finish off a good day, so good we went back and had another run Probably the biggest day tomorrow at 984 klm to Eucla on the SA/WA border       
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« Last post by steptoe on October 06, 2024, 09:59:30 PM »
Toowoomba to Cobar, 963 klm of I am never selling my bike,,
Fair dinkum this machine just keeps purring, charging at $1 and twenty cents she’s ticking over at 3850-75rpm still on the idle circuit and over 300 klm using 800 ml more fuel than the 2022 1250 GS that is running with, and owing $1 and thirty five cents she used 2 .a bit ltrs more, absolutely stoked with these numbers as the BMW’s have variable timing and sundries,
Charging at the rate of $1 and thirty five cents she’s running at 4100 just in the mains circuit ,
It’s been a pretty uneventful day, except for the car overtaking a road train on broken lines but on a right hand bend with 4 motorcycles on it, he was shown several birds but I dare say it’s water off a ducks back to the driver,
even though it’s dry out here, it holds its own scenery, so many places along the way without a single object to obscure the view, you could follow the earth’s curve in any direction you looked, hundreds of emus, mostly behind/inside the vermin fencing, it must be a good season for them because the number of chicks was high,
and of course all the goats south of Bourke,
Another 870 tomorrow aiming for Port Augusta
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« Last post by AussiXS11G on October 06, 2024, 08:05:06 AM »
hey mate - great to hear that the mods are working to your expectations 
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« Last post by Steve D on October 05, 2024, 10:39:12 PM »
Hi Steptoe, the trip sounds epic and makes a 3,000km trip down to and around and around the French Alps in a week look a bit tame - although I doubt your trip will involve quite as many hairpins.... Will you be changing the oil in Freo?
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« Last post by steptoe on October 05, 2024, 10:07:42 PM »
Day 1 was an easy 430 klm to Toowoomba to a many years family friend where the 4 of met for tea and a couple of grown up beverages,
Leaving home around 8 heading over for a coffee to another dear friend who we all know and love in Ev, the whole run was nearly over before it began with an exceptionally close call with a feral pig that came out of a cane field, hard under brakes and missing it by cm’s, I could clearly hear him squealing as he realised at that moment he may have lived his last day as he accelerated over the centre line, disappearing into the blind spot under my knee,
Tell me about the bike I hear you ask, I actually don’t think it has run as smooth as it is that I can remember, wether it’s the fact it’s literally just ticking over, and not running at the usual 4000 rpm, I’m not sure, I also have 90 grams of balance weights rolling around inside the tyre, that’s definitely doing something
The very first 106 klms used 7 ltrs which I wasn’t expecting, running at around 15.8 kpl, making the tank range around 420 which is a little worse than the 17 inch, I started thinking that even with it running at 3100rpm at 100 the torque curve was actually going to be using more fuel than I expected.
The second fill after cruising steadily for 360 klm only used 17.8 ltr which bought the tank range up to the 500 I was expecting to start with. Once we’re on the open flat plains tomorrow I would expect the fuel range will increase a little more, the pipes are running black, so a plug check will happen in Cobar tomorrow night and maybe a tweak of the fuel screws, time will tell
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« Last post by Jonesy :-) on October 05, 2024, 12:11:37 PM »
Travel safe mate
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« Last post by steptoe on October 04, 2024, 09:59:54 PM »
Thought a run to Freemantle for tea on a Saturday night might be a good run, all part of this years National Blackdog ride It’s a Friday night,4th October, Maggie_Mae is in as good a condition as I can make her, and is packed. The lead up to the run,, This is the run that the experiment with the XS750 18” wheel is being used for, being fitted to its matching 750 already installed diff, as we know the 750/850 diff is taller which drops the engine rpm down, with Evs’ help over a couple of weekends, we’ve managed to centre the wheel using a 3mm spacer against the drive spline, which in turn means we’ve lost 3mm of spline contact, but I’m not planning on drag racing her in this configuration so it won’t be a problem. Another couple of spacers on the disc side, 1x 6mm under the disc to centre the original disc in the calliper arm and another one to fill the gap against the swing arm and you can’t tell it doesn’t belong in there, the biggest issue that I could see here was the 18 has a solid drive spline mount, whereas ours are rubber mounted, I wasn’t really sure how much of a harmonic vibration I’d be dealing with, but as it turns out it’s hardly noticeable, there is a slight vib there but it won’t be an issue as the rest of the bike is running so smoothly so after a short run with the 18 wheel, the engine rpm looks like it’ll come down to 3480rpm @100kph, which will hugely increase fuel range getting it a long way from the 4000 rpm where the mains start kicking in. Along with the wheel, after 21 yrs, a new clutch pack assembly has been fitted also , and just because, I’ve fitted LED daylight running lights to the front of her, The Plan 5 days over, 6 days home Leaving on the 5th and be back home on the19th The plan is tomorrow I ride to a mates near Toowoomba to meet up with the other 3 mad hatters that I’m running with who also don’t have the time to take off work to do it at a leisurely pace Day 1 is Toooomba to Cobar, around 963 klms,, Day 2 is Cobar to Port Augusta, just under 1100 klms,, Day 3 Port Augusta to Ceduna, another 900ish day, then the next 3 days are almost half days, Ceduna to Esperance, 600ish Esperance to Wave Rock, 450ish then 400ish into Freemantle a bit after lunch on Friday Spend Friday afternoon through till Sunday morning in town, then launch it up the WA coast to 80 mile beach, across through Kunanara, to Katherine in the NT over to MT Isa and over to the coast and home, with a spare day coming across the NT if we decide to have another day off the bikes by then, close enough to 12000klm in 12 days of riding. I guess we’ll find out soon enough  
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