Forum: Australia
04-23-2013, 02:31 AM
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Forum: Australia
03-15-2013, 01:19 AM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
Umm, technically yes, but I was just digging...
Umm, technically yes, but I was just digging trenches, so hard to create subsidence problems doing that.
I think it was the soft cock techo's not measuring their penetration correctly..
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Forum: Australia
03-15-2013, 12:43 AM
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Replies: 167
Views: 5,147
And I thought I was lowering the tone of the...
And I thought I was lowering the tone of the thread, it just went down the gurgler...
Anyway, good to confirm that a few others had problems. I am suspecting the water cos it matched a similar...
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Forum: Australia
03-14-2013, 01:10 AM
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Replies: 167
Views: 5,147
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Forum: Australia
03-14-2013, 12:40 AM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
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Forum: Australia
03-09-2013, 11:15 PM
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Replies: 176
Views: 10,333
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Forum: Australia
03-09-2013, 10:59 PM
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Replies: 176
Views: 10,333
I'm certainly NOT going to give legal advice on...
I'm certainly NOT going to give legal advice on this. I suspect it would depend on what the original form said when they gave you the route, eg 'no republication' etc. It might also depend on whether...
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Forum: Australia
03-08-2013, 02:12 PM
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Replies: 167
Views: 5,147
Baz
Me too. I've just had a temporary delay...
Baz
Me too. I've just had a temporary delay (hopefully) with a flat battery, so waiting to get a bit of charge back into it. And taking my jumper leads in case it won't start tomorrow.
Cheers...
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Forum: Australia
03-07-2013, 01:08 AM
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Replies: 167
Views: 5,147
So Cold Flame's now back on-topic, shit I'm...
So Cold Flame's now back on-topic, shit I'm confused. But that's almost a permanent state these days.
Benz-in-oz, I've got a leave pass, as long as I get back on Sunday to celebrate Canberra's...
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Forum: Australia
03-07-2013, 01:01 AM
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Replies: 13,169
Views: 1,763,350
Looks like the Cold Flame's now off-topic, but...
Looks like the Cold Flame's now off-topic, but hopefully you'll see this.
I've got a leave pass, as long as I get back on Sunday to celebrate Canberra's 100th birthday. So I can give the new R100...
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Forum: Australia
03-07-2013, 12:21 AM
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Replies: 176
Views: 10,333
Well that's nice, I didn't think I had fixed it...
Well that's nice, I didn't think I had fixed it as it was stuck on 100 even after I changed what I thought was the cause.
There's some nice looking tracks on there now. But we need more of the big...
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Forum: Australia
03-06-2013, 04:04 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 2,093
You don't need compliance plates for importing...
You don't need compliance plates for importing R80GS or anything else up to Jan 89 manufacture date. Just needs to pass normal roadworthy test. Read my report on importing the R100GS.
So if you...
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Forum: Australia
03-04-2013, 01:20 AM
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Replies: 176
Views: 10,333
Yep, there are some that won't display.
You...
Yep, there are some that won't display.
You can usually still download them, but that doesn't help if you want to see them on the map with others.
I just checked the Maleny -Peachester one, and...
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Forum: Australia
03-04-2013, 01:05 AM
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Replies: 176
Views: 10,333
Good spot...
It looks like there are about...
Good spot...
It looks like there are about 130 tracks in there.
If you search by state or anything else you should get all the tracks that match the search. But that's not an excuse for not...
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Forum: Australia
02-11-2013, 03:16 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
Step 7 - was it worth it, would I do it again.
For me, was it worth it financially, probably not. I was hoping to get it here for a couple of thousand less than it would have cost here. But with the extra costs of importation and trucking, it...
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Forum: Australia
02-11-2013, 02:57 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
Step 6 - Get it registered
Having postponed my registration inspection three times due to the delay in delivery, I was booked in again on the Thursday morning.
Got a permit to ride the bike to the inspection. Did some...
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Forum: Australia
02-11-2013, 02:31 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
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Forum: Australia
02-11-2013, 02:08 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
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Forum: Australia
02-11-2013, 01:05 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
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Forum: Australia
02-06-2013, 02:55 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
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Forum: Australia
02-06-2013, 02:53 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
Step 3 - get the bike out of the US.
Before I left Aus I had looked at the various options for shipping the bike back home. There are quite a few companies doing it now, ranging in price from about $1000 to $2000. That doesn't include...
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Forum: Australia
02-06-2013, 02:23 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
Step 2 - Rego and Insurance in US
Next problem, I wanted to ride the bike for about 3 weeks in August, so the bike needed to be registered and insured.
Insurance wasn't too big a problem. Went to Progressive online, did the...
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Forum: Australia
02-05-2013, 03:51 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
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Forum: Australia
02-05-2013, 03:43 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
Step 1 - Buy the bike
Early last year I saw the Beemer for sale by one of the Advrider inmates in Oregon. I had been toying with the idea of getting a pre-89 bike from overseas for several reasons:
High Aussie dollar -...
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Forum: Australia
02-04-2013, 10:48 PM
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,036
Importing an old Beemer
Well, 12 months after buying it, and almost 4 months since delivering it to the docks in San Francisco, I now have my pristine little baby Bertie Beemer R100GS in the back yard.
From Oregon:
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Forum: Australia
12-18-2012, 03:31 AM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
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Forum: Australia
12-17-2012, 11:30 PM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
Davo
Feel your pain with the Husky.
I...
Davo
Feel your pain with the Husky.
I got told today that my R100GS had arrived from US, after 3 months...
Only problem, it's in bloody Brisbane, not Sydney.
Bugger, bugger, bugger...
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Forum: Ride reports
12-01-2012, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 7,209
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Forum: Ride reports
12-01-2012, 12:26 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 7,209
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Forum: Australia
10-31-2012, 02:19 AM
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Replies: 363
Views: 20,511
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Forum: Australia
10-19-2012, 01:40 AM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
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Forum: Australia
10-19-2012, 01:34 AM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
Well done, see it wasn't that hard was it;-)
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Well done, see it wasn't that hard was it;-)
Yes, it does process the original file to get the file down to a reasonable size so that multiple tracks can be displayed on the map at once. I'd be...
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Forum: Australia
10-18-2012, 01:34 AM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
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Forum: Australia
10-18-2012, 12:36 AM
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Replies: 1,309
Views: 102,739
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Forum: Australia
10-15-2012, 01:20 AM
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Replies: 684
Views: 59,247
Dave
Webtrax Welding Services have...
Dave
Webtrax Welding Services have experience with zees Husky frames, happy to help.
Still amazed at the price for these. I could certainly overlook the minor deficiencies for that price.
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Forum: Australia
10-11-2012, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
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Forum: Australia
10-08-2012, 11:40 PM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
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Forum: Australia
10-07-2012, 11:41 PM
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Replies: 3,416
Views: 178,131
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Forum: Pacific Northwet - Where it's green. And wet.
09-30-2012, 10:08 PM
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Replies: 1,398
Views: 136,295
Long weekend WABDR ride report
For anyone that was on the track on the long weekend and saw two old farts on one old, one new Beemer, until Stefan crashed, I've just done my ride report.
Over here:...
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Forum: Australia
09-30-2012, 10:00 PM
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Replies: 1,742
Views: 743,904
My US pick up R100GS and do WABDR trip
A little trip down the stunning Washington Back Country Discovery Route on my beautiful new R100GS.
http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=830651
Should have been a lot longer as you will...
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