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17-02-2009, 04:00 PM
Well I finally got the wheels I ordered in June.

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/22910352683740.jpg


Beautiful, yes ?
Black Excel rims and CNC hubs with cush drive for the DR
Also is a EBC rear disc and a 320mm EBC disc and relocation bracket.Fucking fines & bills have eaten all my tyre money.

And if I'm lucky I may even get time to ride

BANDITROD
17-02-2009, 04:12 PM
lookin good mate but can i ask How Much i know they are not cheap

17-02-2009, 04:19 PM
About $1280 including postage plus $186 customs fees, cos of the delay I got tubes for nix. Both discs and aset of pads cost $720 so just a tad over $2200. Aussie dollars was about 94 - 96 us cents at the time

Cruisecontrol
17-02-2009, 05:45 PM
Beeyootiful

02-04-2009, 07:53 PM
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/446402266117470.jpg


Sorry 'bout the piccy was dark,wet and taken on my phone.

Damn relocation bracket from EBC didn't quite fit so 320mm disc isn't on yet. Bike shop isn't getting that sorted.

zx12argh
02-04-2009, 09:24 PM
Nice mate - 650 right? Whats the gear box like in them. I've wanted to work and motard my drz400 but I keep getting slapped and told no by my motard mates cause its a bad idea. Apparently the 400 boxes are made out of cheese.

02-04-2009, 09:43 PM
Thanx mate
Only put 700km on it, been working that much and having my son every second weekend so scant time for riding. There's about 1200 or so pages on adv rider dedicated to the DR-650 and I can't remember seeing anyone complain about the gearbox.
Shitload of parts available flatslide carbs, bigbore kits cams and the rest. Heaps of info available too and "The Word On The Street" is that they are pretty well bullet proof.Plenty of guys on small budgets taking them where the big KTM's & BMW's go.

alfiestorm
03-04-2009, 05:41 AM
quote:Originally posted by zx12argh

Nice mate - 650 right? Whats the gear box like in them. I've wanted to work and motard my drz400 but I keep getting slapped and told no by my motard mates cause its a bad idea. Apparently the 400 boxes are made out of cheese.


Never heard of any probs with the 400 boxes or any of the others over here in the uk. A couple of my mates have got the 400's tarded and used as work hacks no probs, the 400 has been a popular one for tarding along with it's larger brothers.

alf

RUSS M8
03-04-2009, 09:32 AM
mate of mine did about 10,000km's on the tar on a DRZ400 enduro that he put motard wheels on. No Cush drive or anything!
The DRZ400's are bullet proof, as are the 650's like bladehunters's :)

Slain
03-04-2009, 03:11 PM
looking good mate, will be a lot more fun now.
nothing wrong with 400 boxes. my 440 stroker has 8800km on it and no trouble at all, jsut had valve clearances done and mechanic said the bike is still tight as even though she sits on 6000rpm on the highway lol

Billy Bob
03-04-2009, 03:55 PM
Mate ya gunna have a ball just keep the front end down when leaving lights hahaha. I had a wr450 motarded which i miss. The only time when you are gunna fuck your gearbox is when you dont have a cush drive and when you compression lock up to back it into corners thats where the racers have shitloads of problems because there so hard on there machines. Just my 2 cents.

03-04-2009, 05:29 PM
Had a 'tarded TTR-250 as a commuter and had a fucken' ball on that.Cush drive is std so don't have probs there...as for compression lock up....hmmmm

05-04-2009, 06:48 PM
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/1073292838120178.jpg


First shakedown run today, bloody thing handles like it's on rails much to the surprise of me & a mate.
Grin factor is at 11 :D
Funny thing is the frontend feels somewhat stiffer than with the std front wheel [?]
Still waiting on word about the caliper bracket so I can use the 320mm disc.Hopefully next month a full Staintune system.
Still to go on is a Vapour speedo\dash and a WRF copy headlight.Then the usual brake line upgarde, fat bars, upgraded carb....ok that's next year's income spent ;)

Slain
05-04-2009, 06:55 PM
good to hear mate, make sure you dump the stock front fender for a smaller 'supermoto' one so the front end doesnt get flightly on the highway

pesh
08-04-2009, 12:49 PM
Motard's are crazy , nice work on the dr , how do u find it weight wise ..? they feel pretty heavy from memory ,

zx12argh
08-04-2009, 12:55 PM
fun fun - just watch out for your license now ;)
pesh 400 aren't too bad - the weight isn't a problem unless you are trying to pick the bike up pointed the wrong way down a hill, tho being 6'3" helps.
thanks for the feed back on the boxes guys.

pt
08-04-2009, 01:23 PM
I'm with Slain. Dremel the friggen guard ASAP! Apart from that looks awesome. Sounds like, despite the wait, you got a pretty good deal on the conversion. Theres one on the bay at the mo for 1500 no bids. ends soon though.

Seriously considering a dr as my next bike, everyone i have heard says they are well and truly bulletproof :)

Bear
08-04-2009, 02:33 PM
DR's are the new XR's.

Large
08-04-2009, 03:17 PM
posties are the new pitbosses

Large
08-04-2009, 03:19 PM
quote:Originally posted by Slain

good to hear mate, make sure you dump the stock front fender for a smaller 'supermoto' one so the front end doesnt get flightly on the highway


MCAS have tiny XR80 guards that will fit nicely[8D]

08-04-2009, 06:57 PM
On the road the weight's not a problem....Had it on the highway going down to Albion Park on Sunday at highway speeds and there was no headshake, even fanging up the faster sections on the pass it held true , the little 250, on the other hand, used to shake like nobody's business. I'm thinking the extra weight maybe helping out there.
Yeah pt they damn well are bullet. Nice free flowing exhaust and either a 39mm FCR off a 450 yammy quad or a TM40 really brings the thing to life.
Yeah ECW took ages, and really fucken' pissed me off at one stage, but they came through at the end.They really know their shit with regards to the DR wheels, something to do with the offets that some people have complained about other builders not getting right.

Me and my mate, as the bike's living at his place at the moment (seems to happen alot, my bikes taking up residency at his place) put the wheels on Wednesday night then from then til Sunday morning I was like a little kid waiting for Chrissy morning.

bladehunter
15-10-2009, 06:13 PM
I'm back..the dust has settled and the shit is sticking where it should

BANDITROD
15-10-2009, 07:09 PM
welcome back mate i didnt know you were even gone

JackTar
15-10-2009, 07:27 PM
LOL me either but welcome back anyway.

Cruisecontrol
15-10-2009, 07:36 PM
Leaving for a spell is one thing but a deletion is a whole different story. Whats the Golf Oscar??

JackTar
15-10-2009, 07:49 PM
Hahaha Golf Oscar, nice one Dan where did you pick that up? Always confuses the army blokes when I use that one. Now that I think about it a lot of things confuse those fellas.

Cruisecontrol
15-10-2009, 08:23 PM
Hence why I left. One small step above a sheltered workshop.

That was a fairly common saying whilst I was in the Army, although I was in a Tech Support Company which meant I was dealing with mildly educated appys. Although it was an Infantry Battalion so you would get the odd dead headed grunter wandering around looking for a hole in the fence in which to leave by. Good times...

Mishdog20
15-10-2009, 08:23 PM
Yeah it doesn't take much to confuse an AJ, an army mate of mine confuses real easily.

JackTar
15-10-2009, 08:41 PM
Hey there are dumber fuckers than infantry Dan can you say MP?

Cruisecontrol
15-10-2009, 09:29 PM
Ah the good old Med-Heads.

Needless to say that they have to do a minimum of twelve months in the infantry or transport (think grunts with a licence) before they can become MPs.

Shadowzone
15-10-2009, 09:40 PM
Yeah but the Navy are dumber still..

sharky
15-10-2009, 10:01 PM
quote:Always confuses the army blokes when I use that one.
You confuse everyone mate.....

JackTar
16-10-2009, 10:51 AM
quote:Originally posted by Shadowzone



Yeah but the Navy are dumber still..




Did you think that up by yourself?

JackTar
16-10-2009, 10:53 AM
quote:Originally posted by sharky


quote:Always confuses the army blokes when I use that one.
You confuse everyone mate.....


Hehe good point.

Lucas
16-10-2009, 11:08 AM
quote:Originally posted by JackTar

Hey there are dumber fuckers than infantry Dan can you say MP?



You havin a shot at the Mrs Blowie?:D

JackTar
16-10-2009, 11:18 AM
Nah mate she is not an MP the Navy ones NPCs all be it most of them are cocks are far smarter than MPs.

jakam04
23-10-2009, 06:34 PM
Sounds like Mr Pusser boy musta got done by an MP one day in his checkered past. He seems to have started this MP bashing lol....