First off road baseline

Well we finally got the chance to take the bikes offroad on some easy fire tracks, we did not alter any of the suspension setting or the tyre pressures (approx 28 psi) this gave us a good baseline to start with.
The verdict; The rear suspension was very hard and lossing traction quite easily, the front suspension also seemed quite harsh. JC also found the forks bottomed out on some of the rougher tracks. The bike felt quite good otherwise in terms of balance although standing is required on loose surfaces such as heavy blue metal logging roads.

Dirt Tyres

Yes today I had the bike booked into BM Motorcycles to have some TKC80's fitted to replace the factory fitted anakee's ready to do some dirt trials. Jumped on the bike and sure enough I had a flat rear tyre, those anakee's were living up to their name; so in all of 70km they had managed to find a small nail what the f&^%$...
Onto BMW road assist and they transported my bike to BM. (for an additional charge).

Now I was getting round to putting the toolkit together that includes tyre/tube repairs (this would entail more thought than my WR toolkit), but after this experience will have to put that higher on the list...

anyhow after having the TKC80's fitted I found the road riding includes a little more vibration but acceptable; to be expected of those knobs.

Extras fitted

Our US shipment finally arrived that included the exhaust, footpegs and headlight protector. The bikes are fully kitted out for dirt now just need some good rubber.

GPS

Decided on the zumo 660 as the best bike GPS around so we picked up a couple of units and fitted to the bikes.
We wired it directly to the battery and mounted over the Dampers top bracket with the Touratek mount and a piece of 3mm aluminium plate bent at an angle to give the best positioning possible without obstructing the gauges.

Bike to Bike Comms

Joe and I managed our first ride together today testing out the BT Multi-Interphone bike communication (cheap alternative to the scala rider stuff). They worked great even on the highway at 100km+ however only as long as bikes are in sight of each other.
We managed to get pulled over by the boys in blue mounted on the bigger 1200 BMW's for a random licence check and breatho. Think they were more interested in checking out our new bikes... that was OK as we picked up a good tip for servicing the bikes, they tell us BM Motorcycles is the place to go...

We have the bikes

First Ride out of the show room at BMW Melbourne

Bike pick-up update

The bikes will be ready on Friday for pickup, most of the extra gear for the bikes should be here for the week-end so we can start fitting out the bikes...

I have also dropped off my rallycross jacket to the local tailor to have it fit the leatt brace, will see how that goes....