Dual Sport bug....

[ungeheuer]

I may have a 750 Elefant by tomorrow! 88 Bifaro in Elf colours. Dead stock but for a wider 900 rear wheel.  I'm going to buy it and put it in the shed (wonder if my wife will notice). Should know by tomorrow.

And you think I can't get you into any more trouble?  

[The Mad King Pepe']

We'll be expecting photos! 

[Speeddog]

Ooooh! Ooooh! 

I may have a 750 Elefant by tomorrow! 88 Bifaro in Elf colours. Dead stock but for a wider 900 rear wheel.  I'm going to buy it and put it in the shed (wonder if my wife will notice). Should know by tomorrow.

[koko64]

Spoke to him again today, its looking good. Will have a deal sorted by next week. We are pretty much settled on the price. He wants to prep it for me. He's a good guy and we get on well. It ain't getting away this time! 

[koko64]

Checked the E750 glory box.
I'm ready to go with the intake and exhaust mods. The oem carbs (tiny Bing 32mm CV units) and the ugly oem muffler (weighs a ton) are contributors to asthmatic performance. I will look at either using pod filters or modify the airbox. The airbox is very interesting and uses the hollow back bone frame as a plenum which feeds the carbs on short manifolds thru tubes exiting the frame.

TM38s x 2         check
K&N Filters        check
Smaller indicators   check
Monster tail light     check
Heavy duty earth wires   check
Spare ignition modules   check
Alloy (ancient) Staintune muffler   check
Exactfit coils        check
New ignition wires    check
Source of dual sport tyres   check
Tiny Shorai battery from Gixxer    check
Exacfit belts in Cart    check

I plan to remove some hard to get oem items and replace them with modern dirt bike parts.


Tragic really

[ungeheuer]

Cool    I hope you land this one mate.

My 2 bobs worth?  If you have any plans to ride it on dusty dirt roads.... forget about the pod filters.  And if you're gonna run K+Ns... have some kinda secondary oil foam over-filter to catch the shit that the K+Ns will allow to pass thru.

[koko64]

Outer wear covers over pods be ok?
The oem airbox takes a K&N filter.

[ungeheuer]

Outerwears not enough IMO.

I have a K+N in the DR's stock (but opened) airbox... but in addition I run an oiled foam sleeve over the K+N...   as first line of defence its gets filthy with grot, but keeps the K+N in good shape. 

[koko64]

I reckon I could run an outerwear that would cover the whole airbox, due to the unusual design.

[koko64]

And you think I can't get you into any more trouble?  

I think full "skeleton" armour, articulated leg protection and neck brace. I heard that dirt diggin' is dang dangerous. Might up the health insurance too. I'll ride sweep out back. Honestly I feel safer on the track.

You might have the hard core Nissan Patrol, but I'll pose in the Range Rover

[ungeheuer]

I think full "skeleton" armour, articulated leg protection and neck brace. I heard that dirt diggin' is dang dangerous. Might up the health insurance too. I'll ride sweep out back. Honestly I feel safer on the track.

You might have the hard core Nissan Patrol, but I'll pose in the Range Rover

Mate, my "dirt diggin" is done at pretty tame pace.  Its not my natural riding environment either... lifetime of riding the bitumen doesn't count for much on the loose stuff.  I'm getting better at it (from a low base).  Dirt riders seem to make good road racers, not sure there's much backwards compatibility  

[koko64]

We'll be expecting photos! 

[koko64]

Ok you dual sport champs, help a noob out here.

The flump has 2" ish x 21 inch front and 3" x 17 rear wheels. So I think that translates to 90x90x21 front and 140x80x17 rear. It has the oem front rim and oem E900 rim out back for a bigger footprint. Another point is tubes, air pressure and valves, any tips?

I'm after dual sport tyres with a road bias in Michelin or Dunlop as that's what my local guy mainly has and he looks after me on price. He told me he can get me anything and I still get a good price. Good guys out at First Class Motorcycles in Liliydale, Victoria Australia.

I reckon much of the riding will be two up with 70% road riding and 30% dirt road riding and no bush bashing planned (for I am old and frail).

Ok, I found the Michelin AnakeeIII. They have 54S/H/V rated 90/90/21 and 140/80/17 rated at 69H and 150/70/17 rated at 69V. Any good?

[Speeddog]

Dunlop D606 looks good for dirt, but too knobby for street.

Dunlop TR91 is a street tire, no matter what they say about it.
It's not going to work very well at all on anything remotely loose.

Michelin Anakee 2 looks reasonable for street oriented, T63 for dirt oriented.
Anakee 3 looks like a street tire, I suspect acts much like Dunlop TR91 in the dirt.

[ungeheuer]

Cant help with 70/30 tyres... I always run full knobbies...  Pirelli MT21s or Dunlop D606s...