This TAT prep is all consuming. Pretty much every room in the house is littered with gear, parts, tech and papers! As soon as the bikes are shipped we'll have to do a major clean up. Now where did I leave my 10mm socket!?...
Pre-TAT service and upgrades underway. First up, new wheel bearings. Probably not necessary but with all the river riding we've done we figured we may as well change them. With the wheels off I reckon the Groms could travel as excess baggage ...
my little Grom is all grown up. Vicki's Grom is about 300km behind...
Finally finished editing the video from the TT2000 rally in February. It was just so much fun Armed only with enthusiasm, a well-planned route and fresh call signs from http://www.topgunday.com/ we embarked on our first TT 2000 mission. The TT (Twisting Throttle) 2000 is a 10 year old, long distance motorcycle rally in New Zealand. Each year the event changes but is always 2000 km in 48 hours. This year’s requirement was to collect 50000 points from locations based on the...
Been a little quiet on the TAT prep for the past month or so but we are getting back onto it now. Team TOP GUN was preoccupied with our first long distance rally (www.tt2000.org) here in New Zealand a couple weeks ago. We had the smallest capacity bikes in the rally, with the exception of a crazy friend who did it on a GN125! Vicki tracked her route www.kiwigrom.com/TT2000/SkidTT2K2018.html. To complete the rally requires 2000km in 48 hours picking up checkpoints all over the...
We've been doing a little planning over the past couple weeks. Purchased the entire set of GPS tracks from Sam (http://www.transamtrail.com/) and he was kind enough to include the new North Carolina section which starts in Damascus, Virginia. Last week the Mid Atlantic Backcountry Discovery Route (http://ridebdr.com/MABDR) was released which ends in Damascus...
After months of mulling we made the decision...
By the time we started thinking seriously about doing the TAT, we had already had our groms for about a year and done close on 7000km on them. Things that we had added/modified at that stage included: · Front and rear suspension – Racing Bros adjustable suspension. We still don’t know how to adjust them perfectly, but it has made a world of difference. · Tyres – swapped out the stock slicks and put on a slightly more aggressive tyre Mitas MC20....
December 2017 - An epic 2000 km 6 day, 5 night camping trip on the adventure Groms. We planned a fun and interesting route which covered quite a variety of ground including: Danseys Pass, Old Dunstan Road, Taupeka Ferry, Milford Sound, a ride on the TSS Earnslow, Skippers Canyon, Macetown Track, Carricktown Track and Hawksburn Road....