Elefanteers and Fabrication types

Oh, there's an idea.

**** no. Banging out a few chords, sing-song round the camp fire, that sort
of thing. Keep the Noggies awake.

 

I don't think it ever has been intended as an international meeting
attracting a large crowd. You presumably have figured out that it
typically it is held the last weekend in February, in the lowland area
in the south-east of the country, roughly 50 miles NW of Oslo[1]. If you
seriously would want to give it a try, you would probably be more than
welcome to further details if you e-mailed some of those posting reports
of recent meetings.

[1] It would not surprise me if the venue is moved towards the mountains
in the future, considering the impact of global warming also on the
Scandinavian winters.

 

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Those blokes simply aren't right. I mean they've got spikes in their
tyres but what a choice of machinery..

http://home.no.net/bmj63/primus_2001/11.jpg

 

I've managed to find enough details to be able to get there if I
decide I want to, apparently there are Brits who go over for it and
anyone who turns up is made welcome.

At least it's a proper rally with tents and fires rather than a hotel
ffs.

That's the sort of attitude that I like to see kept alive.

 

Indeed. That pinball table was always shite:

http://home.no.net/bmj63/primus_2001/21.jpg

 

[snip]

dumb question - can't you just put off-road knobblies on it?

 

The problem with that is getting to the rally site over several hundred
miles of autobahn or whatever. What's really needed is hairy trials
outfits, and Thunderbird 2 as an approach truck.

 

is it really a problem? I've ridden an XT600e with knobblies on
tarmac, and it wasn't a big problem.

 

Shouldn't be: the rolling average in January seemed to be around 50mph. I
could have done it on the Ural with sand tyres fitted.

 

It must be way inside your ability envelope to construct a lightweight load
carrying sidecar device.
I shall consider whether the R100RS still deserves this treatment when it
comes out of Cray Engineering reborn in July or whether another bike should
be utilised.

 

If you are guaranteed deep snow and ice those tyres make sense. Remember the
GSXR1000 ice racing school!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJJn3m9WWZA

 

Like this one?

http://home.no.net/bmj63/primus_2001/19.jpg

 

Ability envelope and time envelope are two different things.

I'm back on defence of the realm work for about a month and then it's
power station outages until October (if they finish on time) so spare
time is at a premium.

 

Ahh.
I wonder if there is a small engineering shop could do it. We could
probably bulk order!

 

Continental make a knobbly that is fine for road use. They were used for
the Long Way Round trip and were/are fitted as OE on the R1150/1200GSAs.

http://www.conti-tyres.co.uk/contibike/tyres/tkc80.php

 

I rode my XT500 for thousands of miles over several years with
knobblies on. Back in the day it was considered quite normal. Cornered
OK, too.
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I rode my XL125[1] for 3 years with knobblies on. Worked fine except when
the roads were *really* greasy. I got used to the back stepping out in
a corner and came to expect it. And nearly crashed the next bike going
into a corner too tight and *not* having the back step out.

Phil.

[1] Phear the mighty 12bhp! Took me 3-4 hours to get to Leicester from
North London. And that included stopping every half an hour to put my
gloved hands on the engine to get the sensation back into them.

 

I went everywhere on my DT100 with quite aggressive knobblies.
http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/images/simon-dt.jpg

 

Look like proper michelin trials tyres. I also used them on a TS250 and
XT500 in Caithness winters. Not exactly ice speedway performance mindewe.

 

the michelin(?) tyres that were fitted to the flat-trackers than Andy,
Champ and myself rode round a wet, muddy and shale-covered speedway
track seemed to provide amazing amounts of grip - not sure how they'd
be on snow and ice, mind.