Nice! Your bike looks in good nick. Some VERY interesting outfits there. Wonder why the remote radiator? Out of the way of the leading link maybe?
Sean.

Very subtle, DY. Ambient, picturesque, engaging, and well told. Where you been hiding? Give us more.

That cooling pan attached to the final drive in one of the first chair pics is an Airhead oil pan upside down! Ideas, ideas. Tres cool.

Great Shots Dee Why and thanks for posting. Interesting looking machinery - yours stands well amongst the crowd.
88KE

great post dy

some awesome machinery and scenery ...a spectacular ride in all

good onya for getting the urge to take that long route and share the ride with us all in here

thanks

Superb post Dee Why . Is that Jorgensens Heinrich /5?
Great trip well told , more please !

Thanks Dee Why, all good stuff.

BTW, I like your 'blue' themed camping gear.......I've just bought blue guy ropes and pegs to go with my 'blue' theme (I even have blue washing up liquid!)

Paul.

Excellent report Dee Why. Great story and great photos.

I like the idea of the chook cookers over the cylinders of the airheads! Not only chooks, you could do a roast perhaps and a nice pie for dessert!

Great photos and info DY. It is great to see that there are sensible, like minded people out there having fun.

it is true Deewhy, Oz seems to take on an almost Mad Max genre when putting together an outfit.
first hand observation of " Beetles" K100 rig at the Karuah rally recently proved this .


one can only surmise that due to their remoteness and road conditions , that such an outfit is deemed necessary.
these guys depict one of the true images of our broad uninhabited land. glad to hear you enjoyed such a trip.

maybe a group ride to south Oz sometime to bring the forum message to our fellow K bretheren... and to sample some of their southern hospitality.
of course an outfit would be needed to represent the forum, one with character to appease the SAK's.

groverK wrote:it is true Deewhy, Oz seems to take on an almost Mad Max genre when putting together an outfit.
first hand observation of " Beetles" K100 rig at the Karuah rally recently proved this .


one can only surmise that due to their remoteness and road conditions , that such an outfit is deemed necessary.
these guys depict one of the true images of our broad uninhabited land. glad to hear you enjoyed such a trip.

maybe a group ride to south Oz sometime to bring the forum message to our fellow K bretheren... and to sample some of their southern hospitality.
of course an outfit would be needed to represent the forum, one with character to appease the SAK's.

Since 1980(?) there's a ride on the second weekend in August every second year called the "Off Centre Run".  The location varies each year, must have fuel, food, beer and a minimum of 200kms of dirt to get there, trailering a bike is not in the spirit of the event.  Its on this year at Drysdale River in WA, the 2016 event location will be decided by the attendees at Drysdale River.

If you wish to see many of these feral offroad touring K outfits, it's the place to be.  Those outfits have all been built to travel, strength more important than looks.  Chris McCardigan, the owner of one of these beasts(and one of the 1980 organisers) told me that my outfit was "too pretty to be a sidecar"

Anyone's welcome, no invites required, no secret handshakes, just turn up.  What bike is not important, road bikes started this event and still quite a few go.

Sadly I've been only once 1992 at Stonehenge.

Al

Al, I went to Mt. Dare which was 1994 I think. A lot of hard yakka for a couple of beers. I did not get there before nightfall and slept by a telephone box by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Woken up by a carload of drunken black fellahs in a Kingswood whom I last passed when they were broken down.

One of my more memorable weekends away was in an XS 1.1 outfit from Brisbane to the Sapphire Rally in Warialda. Cold, wet and I spent a lot of the time hanging out of the chair doing donuts out the front of the pub.

No names, to protect the innocent but there will be photos out there somewhere.

Yep, i couldn't get the leave for Mt Dare in '94.

Marie and a friend Alanna took the sidecar(#1) out by themselves instead.  They made it out and back OK (bad corrugations apparently), the sidecar made it back with lots of botched welding repairs to fairing mounts etc. but that was what it was bought for.

In a fit of 'absynthe makes the fart go honda', I asked Marie to marry me not long after she got home.   

Al