Circumnavigation of Oz

Awesome Marty,
All looks great, love the handlebar protectors, you going to thankful you got those.
Heading out tomorrow morning if your keen?
Going early so just text me
 
marty push on from cocklebiddy and camp at madura pass-my favourite stopover from brissy to busselton-watching the sun go down over the nullabor is awesome-no way would i stay at yalata-youll see why
 
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twinweb said:
marty push on from cocklebiddy and camp at madura pass-my favourite stopover from brissy to busselton-watching the sun go down over the nullabor is awesome-no way would i stay at yalata-youll see why
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Thanks Paul, what’s with the new handle?

Now we have 3 riders and 2 support cars, I think we will be camping as much as possible, not staying in towns. Towns for food and fuel only. Wlodek and Paul in the first support vehicle with bike trailer, Brent in second support vehicle with camper trailer for old blokes with one leg, no not me, the other one legged Cutler.
 
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Madura Pass is a good call for stopping the night.
Probably the most interesting place on the Nullabore. And the only 2 corners for a thousand kms!!
Wlodek called a couple of months ago threatening me with a visit sometime in the new year.
Be good to catch up with all you blokes
 
Marty, I am sure with your ever growing entourage you have it all in hand but in case you haven't come across it - highly recommend downloading the WikiCamps App. Costs about $8 and gives you enormous amount of detail about places you can camp all over the country. You can search specific areas and load your own filters if you wish, ie free camping or with toilets etc. Good to also read the reviews.
Lot of free rest areas these days that have toilets and a lot of small towns even have free camping with toilets and showers close by tapping into the very busy caravan / camping explosion happening these days!! Also makes it easier to find the hidden gem, quiet campsite beside a creek that might be a bit off the highway.
Always good if you don't need to take out the folding shovel too:D
 
Don't think version 1 is going to work, not enough leverage. Working on version 2. Slow progress, swapped out the normal m8 nuts on the inlet manifolds for nyloc ones. I'm trying to avoid the wiring loom...........
 
martymoose said:
Don't think version 1 is going to work, not enough leverage. Working on version 2. Slow progress, swapped out the normal m8 nuts on the inlet manifolds for nyloc ones. I'm trying to avoid the wiring loom...........
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Plenty of improvements can be made on the std loom, Marty. In the middle of rewiring the SFQ. Waiting for bloody ever for pvc conduit tubing!!
 
When mine burned to the ground, pvc tubing acted like a dynamite fuse, lighting up everything in its path. Sad to watch, and listening to the horn getting weaker and weaker until it stopped was the point I deemed the bike dead.
 
chrisk said:
When mine burned to the ground, pvc tubing acted like a dynamite fuse, lighting up everything in its path. Sad to watch, and listening to the horn getting weaker and weaker until it stopped was the point I deemed the bike dead.
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:oops::oops::oops: That's a bloody awful story, CK!! I reckon if it was on fire, it was gonna burn, pvc or no pvc!
 
martymoose said:
Don't think version 1 is going to work, not enough leverage. Working on version 2.
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Well, it's on the wrong side for a start ;)

That's a stumpy little lever arm on the shifter shaft. Looks like it's been cut down to about half its original length. The trouble with really short lever arms though is that any slack in the linkage gets magnified.

Therefore, I'd suggest rather than move the heim joint at the pedal end closer to the pedal pivot, the better solution would be to extend the selector shaft lever arm. You may have to alter the angle of the arm to get the optimum 90° between arm and link rod.

The other option is to install a quickshifter :)
 
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