By simon, 13 June, 2003

New features

There have been a few extra features added to the dirtbike website recently. These include:

  • Ability to assign an Avatar or picture to your account.
  • Streamlining the story/blog/etc submission process.
  • Notification via email of any changes on the website.
  • Extra fields available in your profile.
  • The ability to customise what information is presented on the site after registering.

Please feel free to email webmaster@dirtbike.ws if you have any other suggestions.

By simon, 10 June, 2003

Amtra SA Dergholm Ride

Bike type
2002 Yamaha WR250F

For the days leading up to the June long weekend, it poured with rain. Not a little, a lot. Three and a half inches at Dergholm!

I was ride coordinator for this trip, and had a couple of phone calls checking if it was still on, you'd almost think that we were Australian Summer Motorcycle Trail Riders Association!

Friday morning I loaded up the bike in the rain, all the while thinking that maybe it was just a little bit crazy to be going in this weather, which was forcast to get only slightly better for the weekend.

By simon, 1 June, 2003

Amtra SA Karoonda Ride

14 Riders started out from Karoonda, the first section was tight single track on the side of the railway line.

Due to rain the night before, the tracks were excellent, with no dust. Chris W had a quite major over the bars incident on the new EXC520 within the first

By simon, 29 May, 2003

XR50 Racing - Pocket Rockets

Motocross Action recently did an Article on how to Hot up your XR50. BBR Motorsports have reproduced it on there web page.

XR50 Article

Be sure to check out all the BBR products, it looks like you could spend a lot of money there }:-)

BBR

By simon, 27 May, 2003

Mike Connors Reliability Trial

Bike type
2002 Yamaha WR250F

After waking about 5 times during the night, from 3am onwards, thinking I'd better get up to go, i finally managed to get myself out of bed a bit after 7am.

A quick shower, dressed, put the trailer on, load the bike, and off we go. Went along a "short cut", only to find the road closed, and had to double back, costing me about 15 minutes. Sad

This saw me leaving at about 7:30, which meant that some of the speed limits along the way were accidentally overlooked in the interests of being there on time.

By simon, 22 May, 2003

Aussie TTR125L Registerable!

Yamaha Australia have continued their innovative tradition of putting the appropriate ADR Compliance bits onto some purely off road bikes to make them ADR Compliant, and easily registerable. This time they've done it to the TTR125L!

Registerable TTR125

This is great news for those among us (wives, daughters and shorties like me) who are a little intimidated by the power and size of the modern day 250cc machines which have for quite a while been the only registerable bikes available.

Lets hope Honda wakes as well up and brings back a registerable XR200!