80's Enduro results

[mustanggrahame]

Just reading about the spoke problem with your KLX. I had a friend who had one in 1980. He broke a lot of spokes as well. I'd never thought it was engine torque. I put it down to him weighing about 130kg.
What was your racing weight Geoff? (not suggesting this would be the problem).
Cheers, Grahame

[Nathan S]

I know a bloke who broke a heap of spokes in his KDX175, without even riding the bike...

[GMC]

Just reading about the spoke problem with your KLX. I had a friend who had one in 1980. He broke a lot of spokes as well. I'd never thought it was engine torque. I put it down to him weighing about 130kg.
What was your racing weight Geoff? (not suggesting this would be the problem).
Cheers, Grahame

Ha, good on ya
My racing weight back then was around 80 Kg's
Wish I could be back there now.

And I have since vowed not to let 'Fat Bastard' ride my KDX again

[rmyzit]

The Alpine was a DNS for me.
The KLX was in need of a rebore and in a bid for power I went the big bore option, only I became greedy in my quest for power and went the 290 kit instead of the 270 kit.
This meant that I had to split the cases as they had to be machined to accept the bigger liner. Several weeks should have been plenty of time but I didn’t get the cases back until Saturday arvo.
Took me 3 attempts to put the cases together with the gears actually engaging. As a mechanic I made a good sheetmetal worker.
I needed to be up at 4 in the morning to make the drive to the event so once it got to midnight I threw my hands in the air and went to bed, and stayed there.
It would be several more years before I could get my act toget

I actually finished the 81 Alpine (#127) I found this an easier ride than the Devils Pinch
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[GMC]

Don't remember anything about this one, I must have entered it to have been posted the results
Can't remember if I Dnf'ed or Dns'ed





As we are talking about Ian Drydale in another thread you will note he finished in this one, XR 500 from memory
He dnfed the Alpine.

Also just noticed a young Arno Dnf'ed the Alpine too

[rmyzit]

Also just noticed a young Arno Dnf'ed the Alpine too

Arno DNF'ed  he was riding his PE175 that day but I dont remember what happened to him. I will ask next time I see him.
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