Big thank you to Tony for hosting the manshed day today - had a great time :good:
Fantastic food (curry sausages were magnificent), and great to catch up with everyone again and meet some new FJ friends
Cheers
Rob
As Rob said....... great catching up with you all at Tonys and thanks for the hospitality Tony.
Cheers
Harvy
+1. Thanks for the hospitality bones, gourmet chicken wings and snags plus all the other bits and bobs. Ate like a king.
Also thanks to Dougie for the side car blast, it was very enjoyable and i'd recommend it to everybody.
Lotsa a bikes got a fine tune today , what more could you want?
PS I hope our visitor from down south has a quick recovery from his hand accident.
What a day, :good2: Thanks everyone for turning up, days like these are great where you get to mingle with fellow members and get things done to your bike that your not sure of or don't have the tools to do it. Big thanks to Rob( Dayta ) for doing my shims, and Ken for supplying some, I think there were about 3 that needed changing.
Great to meet Glen who rode all the way from Victoria, (shame about your hand injury on the rocks), Mark from Grafton on his blue beast, and also to Andrew I think, sorry mate if ive got your name wrong who I found out later bought Randy's Aussie bike.
Had a lot of fun and beer so the brains a bit fuzzy so I wont try and put captions to photos, but have to say it was a very productive day, mate wise and mechanical.
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Tony.
Yeah BIG thanks Tony for the great day..
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Mark, you left your bottle of brake fluid here.
Thanks Tony for your hospitality, it was great to catch up with everyone and get a few jobs done.
Thanks Tony. You can have it. Payment for a good day.
What a way to spend a Saturday! A ride over the range twisties with Stu & Darran. A little sojourn at a Country bakery. Manshed hospitality with great blokes and a pleasant ride home at Sundown. (only took 1hr 45mins by the expressway!)
Special thanks to Chris & esp your daughter for that Cob loaf with all the goodies inside.
I bought half a shed with me (it saved packing an extra bag of concrete!) and didn`t use any of it. In fact the relaxed atmosphere had me kicking back without even taking out the camera! Great to meet Andrew with Randy`s Aussie FJ and Ray`s brother too.
The fact that Mark (urban Legend) came from interstate for a weekend fun ride while Glen (Chromax) rode across two states, is testament to the Comraderie these bikes have engendered. ...also thanks Glenn for taking over that special delivery of secret foodie ingredients to Francis in Victoria. (The post Office wanted 16 bucks for the privilege!.....Arnie would be proud of me!)
We were full as googs so I left Frank`s Chooks with Ray, Mark, Glenn & Tony for appraisal.
We`ve had another dirt bike believer turn up! Me thinks the ensuing Manshed test rides on/in the various steeds will see more additions to the stable....maybe even another bit on the side!
Lots of interesting banter about 2016 Rally ideas. In fact Stu & Sue are so excited about an Island option (with a perimeter circuit and a pub!....as described by a legend attendee), they`re taking time off work and checking it out this week!
Looking forward to LB`s Overnight Manshed, when he puts a date on it. Meanwhile Rob`s got his hand up for a summer venue.
Since Chromaxe has lifted the bar to a new high, I guess a southern challenge (or even halfway?) is in order if there`s any chance to reciprocate!
Many many thanks again Tony. :drinks:
What can I say... Great food, great mates and great bikes .
All go together to make another great Man Shed Day. Thanks Tony.
Had a great ride home even if it did cost me $115... :dash1:
bugger, thats no good Darran, but the money will go towards making our roads safer !!
Hi All
Just letting you all know that I made it home safe and sound. I would like to thank Bones for hosting the Man Shed day (I think a few of us left with shed envy).
I would also like to send out a really big thanks to X-Ray and his lovely wife and kids for putting up with me for 2 nights.
Also Ray thanks for the little guide4d tour today through the Goldcoast hinterland, what a beautiful part of the world you live in mate.
I now have a few must do mods planned for the bike. 17" wheels are very high on the list, right behind fixing some of the oil leaks.
RoverFJ1200 (Richard), thanks for your offer of some frontend bits, I will let you know when I can get up there to pick them up.
oz.fj I am sure the officer is really sorry for nabbing you and there will be a letter of apology in the mail soon.
Chromeaxe (Glenn), I hope your hand is ok and that you have a safe journey back to Mexico....Ooops I mean Victoria.
Lastly Dayta (Rob). You were a legend mate. I counted 4 carb tune ups and the shims on bones bike. Well done mate.
Again thank you to all involved in the day
Mark
Quote from: roverfj1200 on May 16, 2015, 03:30:26 AM
Yeah BIG thanks Tony for the great day..
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Richard / Tony,
thank you for having me along to an enjoyable and inspiring day... a great bunch of blokes & I'm pleased to be keeping the Randy (Andy)Machine in the clan. Looking forward to many more K's in the saddle & the opportunity to catch up again.
Cheers
Andrew
Well I finally got to sample the Cooked ManChook last night. For some reason I kept picturing it being smoked like a ham, but turns out it was roasted, and I gotta say it tasted great. Not sure if it was the seasoning on the skin or the way it was cooked, but it had a nice bite to it. Good stuff Doug.:good2:
+1, never had a smoked chook before. But it was a hit at our place last night, your mate is onto a winner there Doug,
Thanks again!
Quote from: X-Ray on May 18, 2015, 04:12:24 AM
+1, never had a smoked chook before. But it was a hit at our place last night, your mate is onto a winner there Doug,
Thanks again!
ahhh ye of little faith...you thought I made up that story ay. Indeed it was true! (Okay okay, the chook was defeathered and not alive when Frank snuck it in after the hams, but tha rest is Manfact).
Now to take you to the next Culinary level requires same Chook, a sophisticated pallete, Rice, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 Zucchini and another secret ManIngredient that is presently on the way via stealth security to Arnie`s kitchen for testing & appraisal.
.....I`ll save this educational morsel for the first Manshed campfire! ...and if necessary I will bring my new camp oven! (The old one hasn`t returned to Earth yet!)
Meanwhile I`ll continue working on our very own air forced "Thermate" (Like Thermite but with Aussie ingenuity!), as an appropriate ignitor...Just needs a little more tweaking! :drinks:
Anyway, another great day was had by all. Funny thing is they are over all too soon! As mentioned, Tony has a great clean space which makes working on the bikes a joy, and has spurred me on to cleaning 20 years of crap out of my shed. Food was top notch, especially those Kardashian Curry Sausages, man they were good. What I really liked though that getting together and doing some work made me realize I have been neglecting the Project '92 in my shed, (too many other things to do), and I'm back into it now with gutso.
Special mention to Rob (Dayta) who if he was charging mechanics rates would have made a small fortune on the day with the carb work and shim jobs he did, well done mate! Good to catch up and I book first ride in the sidecar next time General, :yahoo:
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I like that, a trials course in your own backyard!
Noel
Evening all, I've made it back to the sunny drizzly state of VIC in one piece. As everyone has said, a big thanks to Tony for the day and his hospitality.
A big thanks also to Rob for doing the carb-sync - she ran like a dream on the way south and also settled in at 1100 rpm at idle by Sunday. Thanks again. I'll crunch the numbers and see if there was any difference - truck oil aside!!
The intention Doug wasn't to set any bar - I just needed a ride. And your secret ingredient is unopened but may have a short wait to get to Arnie's...
The scenery up there is amazing, I'll try and drop a few photos in here if I can...
Hand update. After seeing the show (Blues Brothers) on Saturday night I wandered up to the ED at Prince Charles (been drinking - no riding) - patiently waited while the serious one's got attended to. My turn came and the nurse took one look and asked how I had cut it - she said the cut was cleaner than the rest of the hand. No serious damage, tetanus shot, bugger off. So all credit to you Tony for your beautifully kept backyard and thanks to Glenn Sully for "encouraging" me to get it looked at. The paramedics I stayed with on Sunday were underwhelmed with the injury, but glad I'd had it seen too...
It was great to catch up - so best wishes to all. p.s. Darran - all the law-enforcement personel just waved to me on the way home...
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The scenery up there is amazing, I'll try and drop a few photos in here if I can...
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Quote from: Chromaxe on May 21, 2015, 05:10:52 AM
......all the law-enforcement personel just waved to me on the way home...
That must have been before you crossed the border back into Vic!
Noel
That ridge across from the helipad in your photo Glen looks spectacular on a rainy day when there is cloud spilling over the top of it. And on a clear day in summer when the sun first hits it, ahhhh it's very nice :good2:
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Darran - all the law-enforcement personel just waved to me on the way home...
Oh I got a wave too...But the flashing lights and siren told me he wasn't just saying hello :cray:
How dare you go over the speed limit DT! Don't you know that every K over is a Killer!!
I made a $227 donation a couple of months back, along that dead straight service road 30 secs after leaving home. It should have been $349, but the nice cop took pity on me. :cray:
The road in not a racetrack. Bloody maniacs, hehehe
Listen here you, I think that R1 of yours needs the cobwebs blown out of it. I'll be over this arvo :bye:
Those couple of pipes & clamps I had at Tony`s got installed yesterday when I got hold of a pipe bender. A mate did the weld and it`s absolutely solid.
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I know, I know, it looks like something mad max built and if anyone asks, it`s my lineal high performance anti sway bar!.....but next time Ken comes for a run he should be able ta pry himself back out of that tub, No Prob!
Glad you and that bottle made it home safe Glen.
Now I`m off to the powder coater`s and foam rubber joint too! :drinks:
At times Ray I wonder how any of us still have a license the way the government chasers our money.
That looks much better than it would have with straight pipes Doug, wheres the cup holder?
All you blokes must be hoons, I haven't copped a fine or lost a single point off my licence for the last 27 years. It's a wonder nobody's ever spotted the halo above my head. :biggrin:
Quote from: Bones on May 22, 2015, 01:35:47 AM
All you blokes must be hoons, I haven't copped a fine or lost a single point off my licence for the last 27 years. It's a wonder nobody's ever spotted the halo above my head. :biggrin:
That will jinx it for you........
Yeah probably Richard, but I was touching wood when I typed it, so hopefully I'll keep my halo. :biggrin: