Getting the Road Star Ready

By Toasty, on December 28th, 2009

Shiny new rotor

With the trip only (only?) 10 months away I decided I would put to good use a week off between Christmas and New Years and spend a couple of days doing maintenance to my bike.

Tasks completed:

installed new clutch cable replaced the fork oil installed SpeedBleeders in the calipers fresh brake fluid for both front and rear brakes new brake pads new brake rotors new manifold adjusted the jetting in the Mikuni 42mm FlatSlide carb

Casualties (aren’t there always?):

stripped the head of a bolt in the front master cylinder (drilled out) stripped the head

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Participation Numbers – Update

By Toasty, on December 24th, 2009

I mean talk about herding cats when you’re trying to get 50 bikes on the road

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Cable Repair Kit

By Toasty, on December 6th, 2009

You may have read my post where I broke a clutch cable in the middle of Canberra and had to make my way home without a clutch through red lights, RTA blitzes and homicidal Kangaroos.  Well not wanting to be caught in that situation again, and certainly not while I am in the middle of nowhere during the Ride Around Australia, once I got home I started to search for emergency cable repair kits because I don’t need to go through that experience again.  Believe it or not, they aren’t exactly out there in abundance, but I did finally find Venhill in

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Ride Around Australia October 2010

In October 2010 I rode a Yamaha Road Star around Australia to raise money for the Steven Walter Foundation's Answers for Kids Cancer Program. This site documents the trip prep in the lead up to the journey and a daily diary of the trip itself.