Ode to off-season

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As the quest to ride subsides, due to the mind losing sight of the roostertails squashed by the weather in the Northeast, the quest to ride heats up, due to the mind starting to focus on tails of another kind :wink: :wink: .

I'm thinking about boring out the 350 to a 400, fixing the head I blew up last year, finally finding a pair of tripleclamps that fit the new forks sitting in my living room, actually hooking the headlamp up to the stator, order some new jets for my whooped dellorto, camchain, piston, leaky gas tank, etc... The list seems to go on an on and on.

Ah, the off-season. Where, if you DO go riding, and you fall, the frozen tundra beneath will feel like the road. Trail bikes aren't meant for the road, right? Neither is my face, shoulder, or knees.

To all the Aussies getting warmed up, F$&k ya'll!! And I say that with the kindest regards.

Christmas is coming, and luckily I don't have a woman right now that I have to drop (what little) money I have on!!! So the Berg gets it. She doesn't complain when I throw her in the mud. She always smiles when my rides are short. She always starts, even when I kick her twice.

Time to get the hands dirty, oily, muddy, cut, scraped, burnt. There might be the chance of one more moto this year (oily fingers crossed). But, my friends are roughly equivalent to chicken *****.

Happy Holidays everyone. See you on the trails next year!!!!
 
Hi Parkso,

Winter is riding season downunder. It tends to get hot down here, 38c right now, just on lunch time and a total fire ban. Winter is preferred, but I ride all year round anyway. Went out 3 weeks ago out of Tom Groggin into Victoria in snow and ice and rain. 170 mountainous km of slop and wet rock. 2 hours to cross the Gibbo River, the spring thaw. Oz, the land of contrast.

Cheers
Steve
 
Don't let the winter get you down. Before you know it spring will be here so you better get crackin on the Berg. I have been waiting all summer to ride and now our riding season is finally here. It usually runs from October to May as the desert is way too hot in the summer.
 
why stop at a 400? ask dale what is the largest piston the liner can be bored to take. older pistons should be going for a song!

regards

Taffy
 
steve said:
Hi Parkso,

It tends to get hot down here, 38c right now, just on lunch time and a total fire ban....

Cheers
Steve

That aint hot, mate. Come up here in July or Aug and we can ride in 46c, now THAT'S hot. :lol:

Parsko, we are enjoying 65F high temps this week. Clear blue skies, little to no breeze. AHHH, the desert in the winter :lol: :lol: :lol:

You northeast guys need to join us in Moab in March, come on down!
 
Ode to offseason

Ouch, 46C is HOT!!!

I am tossing the Moab thing around in my head, but that is quite the trek. I will start accruing 3 weeks vacation in '05 though!

It is a great idea!!! I was possibly thinking of doing something similar in the Northeast, maybe in Penn or NY. But, I don't know any good places to ride there yet. BMG does do there thing in Canada, and I might have gone this year had I known. I think there is only a handful of us loyalist here in the NE. I'm sure there are a few hidden dudes...

Taffy, I know the only changes I would need to do to convert to the 400 would be the piston and jug. I happen to have 2 spare jugs beside the one I have installed, so that is the easy part. I might be able to go to the 450, but I might need a new rod. I don't want to split the case if I don't have to, since everything is fresh this year. I also don't have an oil pump, so I am hesitant to push this motor too far. I would like to keep it running as an antique once it is replaced.

Toodles
 

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