Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

Wade E

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« on: August 08, 2010, 10,36:11 AM »

Old Banger Ride at Neerim by Wade Evans (Evo)

Hi all just a quick report on Wills second old banger at Neerim South yesterday. After a cold night our ride day turned out very sunny almost warm day as Will lead us out of the DSE carpark down a wet and boggy track, unfortunately for me I chose a bog hole deeper than the drum brakes on IT200 leaving me with virtually no brakes at all for next 5km, the next couple of down hills were very exciting.......remember that feeling? Wink

The ride flowed through some nice nice narrow tracks with ruts, logs and more bog holes connected by some more open tracks where I would be listerning for the distinctive sound of Mats CR500 on the gas leaving a shower of debris as he passed by.
After short break we moved on where the group were riding out of dip up an embankment Frank had over balance situation and fell awkwardly herting his wrist. After getting his bike off him Rachelle being a nurse checked out Franks now swelling wrist and strapped it up. Frank continued and completed the ride with a broken wrist as he found out at Dandenong hospital later in the day Roll Eyes

Your one tough man Frank that would have hert! Get well soon mate.
Climbing up what be the last hill of the day Wills ever reliable XR600 suddenly lost all drive. It was thought it may have sheared a drive key inside that huge gearbox.
Jeff would have the job of towing it back and Mat steering it. Not as easy as it seems but these 2 guys did a great job getting the big XR back to the carpark, well done.
So thats how it ended up, I enjoyed my first ride at Neerim South Will knows the area well and picked some great tracks
for us, thanks mate. Also thank you Phil for your tailmaning for the day.

Will Munro Ride Leader XR 600
Phil Randle Tailman BSA 500(cleverly disguised as a WR250F)
Mat Creasey CR 500
Craig Smart IT 490
George Goddard IT 175
Jeff Davey XR 400
Frank Reefman KTM 350
John Clowes Husky
Joe Costa Husky
Rachelle Wilkinson IT 175
Wade Evans IT 200

The IT contingent before they dirty
Rachelle, Poppy, Evo & Golly(CFA)

Rachelle & IT175 vs log

Jeff keeps it upright down this mushy decent

Poppy keep the IT moving all day


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Wade E

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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2010, 10,41:44 AM »

Franks immaculate KTM GS350

Mats CR500 trenching machine

Frank just before it all went bad

Frank getting some first aid from Rachelle


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Wade E

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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2010, 10,53:17 AM »

Golly ready for IT490 action

Phil contemplates the fate of Wills XR600 before get towed away


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Willbar

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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2010, 12,19:05 PM »

Thank you one and all for coming along and making it a great day and all the help for getting the old XR back to the carpark. I had a great time both riding the XR and then Mats CR500 now with working brakes. It was great to have a few visitors along with there great old bikes and hopefully we can encourage them along next time we do an old bangers ride. The lunch and bench racing session was also a hit with all but Wade attending lunch. Thanks once again to all. Will


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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2010, 01,31:04 AM »

Great report & pic's Wade, I was looking forward to this day having fitted some bar risers I was dying to try them out, I was very happy with them, I only went up 20mm but made all the difference didn't get arm pump this time, all I have to do now is get the rear brakes working, new disc & pads should do the trick, when the ride went bad fore me, I was very happy that Rachelle was on the ride being a nurse &took very good care of me, a big thanks Rachelle, after she fixed me up Will asked me if I could still ride & which way I wanted to go, he told me this way has got a big rocky hill to get up, & that way is the easy way, I picked the easy way, somehow we still ended up at the rocky hill & saw Will stopped half way up, so I thought to myself I don't want to have to man handle the bike up there, so gunned it to get a good bit of momentum & the old Kato took me straight up to the top Grin

every body made it up with out much trouble, the able blokes got a rope from somewhere & got Wills bike to the top, all in all it was still a great day, I really can't complain after riding & racing for 41 odd years I've only broken a thumb & now my wrist not bad I reckon, It was great to see so many old bikes there I hope you all can come again on the next one thank you all for a great day, well until it went all wrong for me,thanks Will for leading the ride & Phil for weeping, see you again on the next ride which will be in about 6 weeks

ps typing with my left hand really sucks Grin


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Phil Randall

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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2010, 02,59:55 AM »

Frankie, Its a crying shame that you have hurt yourself after all these years. See you i9n 6 weeks.
Phil r.


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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2010, 05,27:43 AM »

seems a bad weekend for damage. glad your ok frankie
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Frankie-boy

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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2010, 09,27:45 AM »

Here's a few photos I took.

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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2010, 08,55:53 AM »

Stripped the XRs clutch tonight, clutch plates burnt out and broken, tipping this is the problem. Will


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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2010, 09,36:40 AM »

That's no good Will, but look on the bright side with the new clutch it'll be a real mono machine Grin


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Peter r

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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2010, 09,58:07 AM »

Quote from: fatboy on August 10, 2010, 08,55:53 AM

Stripped the XRs clutch tonight, clutch plates burnt out and broken, tipping this is the problem. Will

Sounds like you need Clutch Control!!!


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golly

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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2010, 07,27:30 AM »

better then we thought will , easy fix


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Jeff Davey

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Re: Old Banger Ride at Neerim South 7/8/2010

« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2010, 09,09:06 AM »

They must have been Knacked for a while,that little hill would not have done that. Better it droped it's guys there than out back of Burke.


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