Spanking the Cow- The continuing saga of an R100GSPD at the Races

Sounds like you're gonna be a flying ball of bailing (or barbed?) wire before this things over and done with. Way to make on-the-spot hillbilly fixes. Extra points awarded.

So... are you having fun? What are the most exiting bits?

Hey Jason, what did you guys use to plug the tank? Hope you find a replacement!

Hardheads Mk8 'Jason edition' will include protection for the top spark plug also? Or did you somehow stab the lower plug?

Doing well extremely well though mate. Keep Paul busy with repairs as I know he loves it :)

Clarissa and I always check the relevant safari pages as soon as we get some internets here in nowhere town in Cambodia.

Its like some crazy WW2 conspiracy, Aussie built German bike with an American rider!!!

Dominate!

News from Troy is that Jason has been listed with "a mechanical"

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=740689&page=30

Small news update in safari thread. Thanks for the support, guys. Means a real lot. Jenna i owe you a lot of scotch.

For those of you too lazy to cross search....

Ok, and now for those who want updates, as he is riding through the nite for us 'mericans. Look here.

So, I'm gonna guess heat sink go bye-bye??? box blew up?? Anyway, are you running new mousses? Assuming you are, what kind of life are you getting out of them? Just hoping no failures as Manuel is having... I'm assuming he's out.


Just so you guys know, there is a Dakar class and the fastest rider will get to race Dakar2013 for free which is insane!!! Full factory support!!!! Most guys would cut off a limb for that chance, a bummer that Manuel is probably out due to lack of funds.....shame.

Fly the flag high, Jason and be careful.

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I'm guessing a burned out coil from tearing out a plug wire on road debris. Maybe the coils are connected in series and when one burned out it cut power to the other. Big time speculation. Gitter runnin and GOOOOOOO!!! Good luck taming those 'dragons.'

I've been reading all the threads and following closely- Great stuff Jason. You're doing all us airheads proud.
2.5Km push at the end of the stage :eek1


Black box failure- this bike has the powerdynamo set-up doesn't it? I'll be interested in the post-mortem on that subject as I am heading towards buying that set-up.

As always,
have a great time, stay safe and good luck tomorrow.

You guys are good!

Yes the speculation is that possibly tearing out a wire may have damaged the brain. It didnt spend any time running with the one wire out, but yanking ot while running may have hurt it. Who knows, maybe it was just its time to go.

We replaced the powerdynamo icu and the bike ran again, and we replaced one coil for good measure.


Cant afford to miss any more stages. Four more days to go.

Photo taken by Sylvia. Hope you don't mind!

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Slight correction, you get a free entry worth about 26 k, your still on the hook for the other 50k it'll cost ya. Kind of a bitter sweet prize

Jenna

Giver Jason


ps....decided an r100gs will be my next bike

Ted! Thanks for the correction......if nothing else you get a spot on the start line which isn't easy!!!! Don't know why I thought you'd get a kind of "factory" support.

They had the same deal last year but different rally(s). Heard the dude who won went bankrupt using his prize

Looks like Jason, coming in from a little ride from Carnavon
to Doorawarrah
to Mooka
to Jimba Jimba
to Gascoyne Jct.


I hope your writin' all this down!?

28 3 FAGGOTTER Rod
Yamaha
WR450F 23:54:19
29 75 LAWN Dave
KTM
500EXC 25:53:14
30 38 ADAMS Jason
BMW
R65 27:56:01

Way to go J-man. Looks like Rod Faggotter dropped to the back with a mechanical or something. Man, that must of been a bummer of a name to have in highschool.

Copied this from Jasons FB update via his Lady...

Rally Day 4: An improvement over days 1 - 3. No crashes, and no mechanical issues, so rode both stages (both of them in the 180 - 190k range) without incident. Paul Rooney has taken away Jason's toys (camera, phone, etc) so that he can concentrate on riding and navigating and remove other distractions, and it worked pretty well. As Jimmy Lewis said "slow is fast"(er). He even made up a few places, so is now not running last in the race. Rocky and challenging terrain today, and he's commented that everything in Australia seems to be trying to hurt him - rocks are knife-edged, tree branches are thorny and want to grab parts off the bike as you pass, even the soft sand isn't so soft. Tomorrow includes a 300k stage that he's thinking is going to feel VERY long and difficult. He's going to visit the medics and have them look at some blisters forming on his throttle hand (oh, is THAT what you call it?) and tape them so they don't get bad, but otherwise he's feeling good. Two more full days and then a 57k sprint to the finish.