Nowra Shed Day

[Sparky84]

Yes, the key is under the mat. But first you have to find the mat 

Its probably the one under the flowerpot? 

[krusty]

Spent a bit of time in The National MC Museum at Nabiac. They have a very nice, low K, FJ1100 since I was last there.
Have a good Shed Day.

That's right, you missed the Museum at the Rally, is the FJ still the second one in from the start?
Not sure whether they rank them from the cheapest at the start 

You have a good and safe Oxley weekend (lets hope there's no strong winds about) they even have table and chairs with cover near Mt Seaview turn off. (I don't think it was there last March)

The FJ is first as you enter the paid area. Not too worried about the winds (funny you should mention that). I'm taking my 89 GL1500 GW this time. It handled the curves down the Putty road to Glossodia and back via Wisemans Ferry and Mangrove Mountain not so long ago. Very surprised at how well it handles the twisty bits. I've now got new tyres on it and a low Euro style screen and I overhauled the clutch hydraulics last week. My son is coming long on his ZX14.
BTW my FJ1200 rego fell due last July so I renewed it for 6 months because it then becomes eligible for Historic rego and will only cost me $50 a year, same as the GL.  I will then have 5 bikes (FJ1100, FJ1200, GL1500, CB750F1 & DT175)on Historic registration which will cost only $250 a yeartotal. For the guys up north of the equator the annual Historic reg fee of AUD50 (USD33), in my state of NSW, allows 60 days of riding a year. Full registration for an FJ is about AUD600 p.a. (USD400). Includes 3rd party injury insurance.

[X-Ray]

Still on our Journey to Troyskies, stopped in yesterday to take a couple of pics of that famous racetrack. Tell you what though, taking a top heavy 4WD down though The Dipper, is extremely unnerving  . Police of course were sitting along Conrod Straight and had someone pulled over for speeding, lol.

[Troyskie]

Thanks everyone for a great FJ weekend!

For a wonder ambos were the main fare, not the minority. Only two other colours, Gav with his 3CV and Johno with his 1TX in blue/red.

Here's a pic of the combined dyno runs, and the line-up of ambos ready to have a run.

Pete's weapon is the standout

For a shed day we actually did a heap of work on the bikes instead of the usual tall stories and beer.

Yummy with her 1219 kit, pods, and jetting, pushed out 116hp and 81ft-lbs of torque. Simon, the dyno guy, said I basically had nothing to do but a carb sync, and even then, not much just a slight tweek.

A huge thanks to Randy for his VERY GENEROUS gifts. They were very welcome 

Jools, next year mate! But don't forget the Rally in Dartmouth next March.

Pete, Alf, Steve, Greg, see you in a couple of months for your annual Bermie Shed Day Out. I doubt Effie will be ready, but Yummy is ready right now.

Just finished mowing the lawn and will now have a beer and tidy up the shed.

[Urban_Legend]

Red and white bonanza. 

[oldktmdude]

   As usual Troyster you didn't disappoint. Alf, Steve, Greg and I had a great weekend. Shame Alf couldn't stay for the whole event.
A great big thank you to Nicole as well, for putting up with us. Thank you also to all those who attended. Great friendship and great stories as usual.
Hope you all can attend the annual Bermagui shed weekend in December. Details will be posted soon. Safe journeys home to Noel, Ray and Alena Wise.
   Regards, Pete.

[X-Ray]

Yep, for our first southern Manshed Day, what an awesome time. Will do a proper writeup after we get home Monday arvo, made it halfway home and stopped in Taree overnight, $25 for a quiet powered campsite, great value

[Sparky84]

What a Great Weekend.
It was good to catch up with everyone and get to know others better.

A big thanks to Troy and Nicole for your hospitality.

See everyone in a couple of months in Bermie.

[ribbert]

A big thanks to Troy and Nicole for another great manshed weekend. The catering was par excellence, slow cooked legs of lamb and roast veges followed by rhubarb crumble, man, I cant still smell it and taste it all. The weather couldn't have been better and the company as usual was great.
It was a shame Diesel Dave couldn't make it and that Alf had to return home on Saturday arvo.

It was great to catch up with everyone and this year add a couple of new faces.

Ray (X-Ray) and Alena (Mrs Ray) made the trip down from QL and it was good to catch up with them, an "ambulance" finding it's way onto the trailer Ray just happened to be towing.

I rode up on the Friday in about 12 hours. I would like to say the high average was due to ripping through the countryside at high speed, but it wasn't, just slogging away with minimum stops, great ride none the less. Took 2 days to return home and had a lot more fun, better and faster roads. Second day homeward bound, I saw only one vehicle in the first 4 hours on magic roads.

Roll on Bermagui.

Noel

[fj-f3a]

Thanks everyone for a great FJ weekend!

Troy, the thanks belong to yourself and Nicole.
Once again, this was a fabulous weekend.
Shed days like this are fast becoming a highlight of my year.
Getting together with like minded people over a few (too many) ales, working on and talking about the mighty FJ, well, what could be better. (sorry, appart from RIDING the FJ)
As Troy stated, Saturday commenced with a trip to Jobson Motorcycles where Six (I think) of us had our FJs evaluated.
My beast (on of the two odd ones out) came in at 115.92 bhp at the rear wheel, 77.03 ft-lbs and a fuel/air ratio of 13.8:1. I am very happy.
These readings are with Pod Filters, 117.5 mains, 42.5 pilots, needle second grove from the bottom and a less restrictive exhaust.

It was great to see Ray and Alena from "Sunny Queensland" make the journey down for the weekend.
Also great to catch up with Janet and Dave from the Central Coast as well as everyone else.

The hospitality afforded by Nicole and Troy was terrific, as was the slow cooked roast lamb and veggies.

Long live shed days.

Gavin

[krusty]

Mmmmmmm. Roast lamb and veges. Not fair. Sounds much better than my, and my son's, under cooked chicken parmagiana parmajama pyjama whatever, at Mt Seaview. Sent it back to the kitchen for a new one cooked right through. There's been a change in the team there and the cook is definitely not up to the standard of the previous. Could be backpackers.

[X-Ray]

Wow, Wow, Wow, what an awesome time we had travelling to, being at, and then heading home from Troys Weekend. Alena and I headed off from Brisbane on the Wednesday morn, stopped overnight in Tamworth, then drove further south Thursday to Bathurst where we did a couple of laps around the road ( racetrack ) in the 4WD. Special place that. Friday morn saw us leaving a (freezing) night in Bathurst, where we ventured further south through some high country of NSW, (beautiful little spring lambs everywhere) stopped in Goulburn which was very chilly as well, and ended up at Troys Friday arvo, to gaze upon a sea of red/white FJ motorcycles.

Great weekend, off to the dyno runs Saturday morn, my new aquisition 1100 from Troy was running a bit rich but easily fixed, and it was great to see Petes 1100 pumping out some great figures, and also Phillip giving the FJR1300 a dyno run. Back to Troys in the afternoon for some R&R, heaps of food, lots of drinks and great banter. I never like the final day, everyone heads off in seperate directions homeward bound, ( Noel was gone before we even got out of bed,  ), and Alena and I headed home from Nowra with a shiny 1984 1100 in tow. ( all of the freshly painted bodywork was safely stored in the back of the Patrol ) Some how we got off the main highway just before Sydney to check the bike and trailer etc, but never got back ON to the main highway through Sydney, but instead spent 1 Hour 20 mins crawling along though outer suburbs like Paramatta and Bankstown, what a mistake that was  .  

We made it to Taree about 6 hours north of Nowra that afternoon, stayed the night in a nice quiet caravan park where it was RAINING the next morning while packing up, ( haven't seen the rain for so long in Qld), and got home later that afternoon very tired, but loved every bit of it ( apart from the Sydney detour lol) .

Special thanks to Troy and Nicole for their 1st class hospitality, and everyone who attended, it was great catching up. Here come some piccies -----