What have you done on your bike today?

Laava said:
Just booked a 6 day trip for next year in july in OZ from Cairns to Cape York. It is largely on private property, and fully catered. They provide, a DRZ 400, fuel, spares, accom, backup vehicle, flights back to Cairns. They tote all your luggage as well, you only carry camera and a camel back. Gonna be epic and for me, maybe trip of a lifetime, almost certainly a oncer!
If any of you guys are keen, and can get yourself to Cairns with bike gear, check out the linkand if you want to book, we are on the one leaving on 19 july 2026
They have a few short clips of what you can expect!

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A lot of money from the UK with flights on top. Nice idea though. Always wanted to go to the top of Cape York. Furtherst I've been in the top end is Cooktown. From memory I recall rain and vast amounts of it.

Edit: I think I was there in August which is maybe when the dry season breaks?
 
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Had a young latino lad stop by years ago asking if I would buy his GSXR 600 as the repair shop had told him the clutch was totally gone and quoted him $1000 for total replacement. I went to look at the bike, all clapped out, crashed on both sides but rideable. I advised him that there were no teeth on the rear sprocket and I helped him order a new one from Ebay. I synched his carbs and fixed a few minor issues with the bike for $50. He still thanks me for helping him everytime I see him on his new S1000RR.
 
Laava said:
Just booked a 6 day trip for next year in july in OZ from Cairns to Cape York. It is largely on private property, and fully catered. They provide, a DRZ 400, fuel, spares, accom, backup vehicle, flights back to Cairns. They tote all your luggage as well, you only carry camera and a camel back. Gonna be epic and for me, maybe trip of a lifetime, almost certainly a oncer!
If any of you guys are keen, and can get yourself to Cairns with bike gear, check out the linkand if you want to book, we are on the one leaving on 19 july 2026
They have a few short clips of what you can expect!

NQ Dirt Bike Tours - Cape York Motorcycle Tour

The ultimate, all inclusive, guided, offroad motorcycle adventure of trail and enduro riding in Cairns to Cape York Motorcycle tour.
nqdirtbiketours.com.au nqdirtbiketours.com.au
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Crickey!
 
Noobie said:
@Laava Is August your spring time?
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Far north Queensland is a wet tropical zone and only has too seasons: wet and dry. Wet season is from November to April and dry from May to October.
In non-tropical Australia - ie. south of the tropic of Capricorn - they have four season and they're exactly the reverse of ours in the northern hemisphere. Our high summer is their mid winter and vice versa.

So when it's winter in the south, it's dry season up north. Confusingly the wet season is actually hotter because of the sweltering humidity. And as a lot of northern Queensland is rain forest, when it rains it really rains. The wettest town in Australia is Tully which has an annual rainfall of 4 metres...
Dry season is really juster drier. It still rains but not as often. Cape York in July isn't guaranteed dry but it won't rain every day which it definitely will in the wet season. I was in Cape Tribulation, which isn't that far from Tully, during a tropical downpour and you literally couldn't see five yards in from of you. It was like a waterfall.

I prefer the top end which is the north of Northern Territory sate. That's dry tropics. Still has a wet and dry season, and again wet is hotter and more humid, but the dry season is really dry and it's lovely. Mid thirties all day with barely a cloud in the sky and mid twenties all night. Southern Aussies often migrate north during dry season to escape their winter.
 
Today i went to the garage to sort my reg/rec out, it sits at the front behind a metal plate under the headlight, one of the screws had come off that holds it on to the plate and it had slipped down on one side. Two six inch bolts hold on the plate aswell as the indicators and as ever the bike will not stop fighting me!!:rolleyes: The first bolt i went to take off snapped in half but the second one was ok, i then had to go through my biscuit tin of nuts and bolts and found a suitable bolt and screw to hold the reg/rec.🥳
I still haven't sorted the brake light out but i am now convinced after going though everything else it's the switch behind the brake lever. I took it all apart and you have to get another brake and brake fluid reservoir as it's all one unit, i looked on ebay a couple of days ago and found one for 30 quid, yesterday because i showed interest in it the seller has made me an offer of 26 quid so i've bought it.🤷‍♂️
As i was in the garage sorting things out and seeing it is meant to be dry today i was going to get some shopping, good job i didn't go as we had a heavy shower⛈️!!
 
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WAYNE said:
Today i went to the garage to sort my reg/rec out, it sits at the front behind a metal plate under the headlight, one of the screws had come off that holds it on to the plate and it had slipped down on one side. Two six inch bolts hold on the plate aswell as the indicators and as ever the bike will not stop fighting me!!:rolleyes: The first bolt i went to take off snapped in half but the second one was ok, i then had to go through my biscuit tin of nuts and bolts and found a suitable bolt and screw to hold the reg/rec.🥳
I still haven't sorted the brake light out but i am now convinced after going though everything else it's the switch behind the brake lever. I took it all apart and you have to get another brake and brake fluid reservoir as it's all one unit, i looked on ebay a couple of days ago and found one for 30 quid, yesterday because i showed interest in it the seller has made me an offer of 26 quid so i've bought it.🤷‍♂️
As i was in the garage sorting things out and seeing it is meant to be dry today i was going to get some shopping, good job i didn't go as we had a heavy shower⛈️!!
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The Enfield sounds similar to the British bikes built in the 50’s and 60’s.
Once you’ve owned it for a few years and learnt all its niggles they become great workhorses.
 
Wayne, regardless of what you might have heard, your Enfield will not turn into a horse. Not in a few years, not ever. Soz mate.
 
Alan Williams said:
The Enfield sounds similar to the British bikes built in the 50’s and 60’s.
Once you’ve owned it for a few years and learnt all its niggles they become great workhorses.
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There are some right niggles but i'm starting to get to know it. 🤷‍♂️ The one thing that i find silly is you have to take the right hand side engine cover off to change the drive sprocket. When i bought it the guy had given it a service, new oil and oil filter etc, a very good friend of mine went to India about ten years ago and he said that's all you see out there is Enfields being used in various insane acts of transport!!:ROFLMAO: He's thinking of getting one at some point, he lives on a boat and it's in dry dock for repairs at the moment but when that's done he will start looking for one to buy. I will be his official advisor.:)
 
WAYNE said:
There are some right niggles but i'm starting to get to know it. 🤷‍♂️ The one thing that i find silly is you have to take the right hand side engine cover off to change the drive sprocket. When i bought it the guy had given it a service, new oil and oil filter etc, a very good friend of mine went to India about ten years ago and he said that's all you see out there is Enfields being used in various insane acts of transport!!:ROFLMAO: He's thinking of getting one at some point, he lives on a boat and it's in dry dock for repairs at the moment but when that's done he will start looking for one to buy. I will be his official advisor.:)
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You could lend him your hammer!
 
Went with a mate to buy a new BMW GS today (him not me). The emporium also happens to be a Ducati one. 🥴

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Robarano said:
Went with a mate to buy a new BMW GS today (him not me). The emporium also happens to be a Ducati one. 🥴

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I tried to go to Ducati Sunderland when I was looking for a Diavel. The traffic was that bad and there were so many roadworks it was easier to go to Leeds. Still haven't made it to Duc Sund.
 
Gimlet said:
I tried to go to Ducati Sunderland when I was looking for a Diavel. The traffic was that bad and there were so many roadworks it was easier to go to Leeds. Still haven't made it to Duc Sund.
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I always confuse Ducati Sunderland and Ducati Newcastle. Aren't they basically one and the same?
 
Loz said:
I always confuse Ducati Sunderland and Ducati Newcastle. Aren't they basically one and the same?
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There isn't a Ducati Newcastle. There's a Triumph Newcastle, a Honda and a few other obscure brands. And Newcastle and Sunderland are about 15 miles apart. Never stand in the middle of Newcastle on a match day and declare that Newcastle and Sunderland are basically the same place.
 
Gimlet said:
There isn't a Ducati Newcastle. There's a Triumph Newcastle, a Honda and a few other obscure brands. And Newcastle and Sunderland are about 15 miles apart. Never stand in the middle of Newcastle on a match day and declare that Newcastle and Sunderland are basically the same place.
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So what you're saying is, Newcastle is a district within Sunderland's overall catchment & control?
 
Loz said:
So what you're saying is, Newcastle is a district within Sunderland's overall catchment & control?
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How dare you. Technically, Sunderland is an independent city state as it isn't in any county or borough. It was in County Durham. Then it became part of Tyneside but it got chucked out and now it's just Sunderland.
 
Gimlet said:
How dare you. Technically, Sunderland is an independent city state as it isn't in any county or borough. It was in County Durham. Then it became part of Tyneside but it got chucked out and now it's just Sunderland.
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A lot of faff over what is basically the same piece of turf 🤷‍♂️

Gimlet said:
You clearly haven't been to Sunderland. Or Newcastle.
I'd recommend Newcastle. Sunderland not so much.
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I clearly have been to Newcastle and even visited Ducati Newcastle whilst I was there.

It was a kickball day too so the town was full of people in black & white costumes. I was going to ask them why they don't wear the red & white stripes any more but the girl I was with distracted me and I forgot.
 
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