1 Germans sampling West Australian summer Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:35 pm
rawdonball
Gold member
I have even more respect for these machines after completing a ten day circuit in the South West of WA. My ex Uni mate from Cape Town days and a friend of his are both elec engineers and we know how little feel they can have for things mechanical - don't we??? The one was entrusted with my '85 k75c and the other was only allowed on my DR650....
I rode my '85 RS and mate from Rockingham brought along his late eighties (I think) RT. We were regularly getting fuel consumptions of slightly better than 5litres per 100km with the two '85 models and the only heartsink on the whole tour was due to one FICU PLUG working loose on a particularly bad section of corrugated dirt road approaching a caravan/camp site at a beach east of Albany. Of course I have convinced myself that the clip cannot have been properly engaged....
We treated them (the Germans) to an out an return ride on the wonderfully firm sands of the 22km section of beach between Esperance and Cape Le Grange (I've never seen sea that blue!)
Admittedly - none of the bikes was made to carry much more than the one rider (Franz is a +100kg beer drinking Bavarian and I am the same - though in my case it must be the Boer Wors...)
So come on Gents (and ladies). Why go to Ireland? Come and help me with the job of justifying ownership of five K bikes to my wife of 33 years (coping with the POX VIRUS in the last 3 years has been tough)
I rode my '85 RS and mate from Rockingham brought along his late eighties (I think) RT. We were regularly getting fuel consumptions of slightly better than 5litres per 100km with the two '85 models and the only heartsink on the whole tour was due to one FICU PLUG working loose on a particularly bad section of corrugated dirt road approaching a caravan/camp site at a beach east of Albany. Of course I have convinced myself that the clip cannot have been properly engaged....
We treated them (the Germans) to an out an return ride on the wonderfully firm sands of the 22km section of beach between Esperance and Cape Le Grange (I've never seen sea that blue!)
Admittedly - none of the bikes was made to carry much more than the one rider (Franz is a +100kg beer drinking Bavarian and I am the same - though in my case it must be the Boer Wors...)
So come on Gents (and ladies). Why go to Ireland? Come and help me with the job of justifying ownership of five K bikes to my wife of 33 years (coping with the POX VIRUS in the last 3 years has been tough)
__________________________________________________
'88 K100RT, '86 K75C, '05 Yamaha TTR250