WEBVTT 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:05.660 No, please, no, please stop. It's the worst. 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:15.500 Oh, this is terrible. All right, guys, welcome 00:00:15.500 --> 00:00:18.879 to Shop Talk. This is going to be the loosest, 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:22.160 probably dumbest podcast ever recorded. I highly 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:24.719 recommend no one listens to this thing ever. 00:00:24.820 --> 00:00:26.800 It'll be a waste of your time. It'll be pure 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.359 brain rot. you just shouldn't do it brain right 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:32.619 is what everyone's after though hey if you're 00:00:32.619 --> 00:00:33.920 after brain right you're probably in the right 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:38.079 spot but this is us these three idiots just gonna 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:41.119 have a crack at this podcast thing we kind of 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:42.659 have a good time hanging out and talking shit 00:00:42.659 --> 00:00:45.979 so here we are I said I wasn't gonna swear and 00:00:45.979 --> 00:00:48.119 already dropped one in the first like three minutes 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:52.329 so there goes that out the window But yeah, welcome 00:00:52.329 --> 00:00:55.909 to Shop Talk. This is the crew from PSC. If you 00:00:55.909 --> 00:00:57.689 don't know us, then what are you doing? Wake 00:00:57.689 --> 00:00:59.829 up to yourself. Like, best motorbike shop in 00:00:59.829 --> 00:01:06.010 the world. Sort it out. Dead silence. Dead silence. 00:01:06.090 --> 00:01:07.609 What are you doing? Dead silence. Shannon's getting 00:01:07.609 --> 00:01:09.049 the nerves to him now. He's got the jitters. 00:01:09.069 --> 00:01:10.890 I'm used to it. I'm a superstar. He's all right. 00:01:10.890 --> 00:01:12.549 All right. Well, look, if you don't know us, 00:01:12.569 --> 00:01:14.569 my name is Russ. And there's no reason you should 00:01:14.569 --> 00:01:16.409 know us because we're absolute nobodies. But 00:01:16.409 --> 00:01:19.069 my name is Russ. Get to hang out here with these 00:01:19.069 --> 00:01:21.909 two morons in a motorbike shop every day. It's 00:01:21.909 --> 00:01:24.769 the best time of his life. This is Zach. Does 00:01:24.769 --> 00:01:27.230 some stuff here. This is Shannon. He also does 00:01:27.230 --> 00:01:32.650 some stuff here. Yeah. A couple of lads. A couple 00:01:32.650 --> 00:01:37.730 of lads. Yeah, I mean, what do we need to introduce? 00:01:38.370 --> 00:01:42.469 Nothing. I mean, if you don't know us, now you 00:01:42.469 --> 00:01:46.269 do. If you know, you know. If you know, you know. 00:01:47.390 --> 00:01:49.370 This is it. All right, cool. Well, let's just 00:01:49.370 --> 00:01:51.969 get into this. We obviously work in a shop and 00:01:51.969 --> 00:01:55.290 we love modis and talking crap. So, we're just 00:01:55.290 --> 00:01:57.890 going to hang out and do that. Yeah. Yeah? Let's 00:01:57.890 --> 00:02:02.840 do it. Let's do it. So on our little menu, backgrounds. 00:02:03.540 --> 00:02:05.680 Backgrounds. Who are you? Who the F are you, 00:02:05.700 --> 00:02:07.599 mate? Oh, man, I'm a nobody at this point. Hey, 00:02:07.700 --> 00:02:13.180 you're a washed up old B grade. C grade. C grade. 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.340 Don't knock us. Did you get this? Were you C 00:02:17.340 --> 00:02:23.520 grade? Did you even get graded? Shannon, 549. 00:02:23.860 --> 00:02:27.960 Shanman, 549. I have a race number and I didn't. 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.460 Race. So did you get graded? You're a race number. 00:02:31.580 --> 00:02:33.560 You've got a year model. Am I D grade? Yeah, 00:02:33.580 --> 00:02:35.860 no, you're C grade. Okay, so if I just signed 00:02:35.860 --> 00:02:38.500 up for motocross, where do I end up? Did you 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:42.719 just get for knuckles? Knuckles. Knuckles. This 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:44.560 is an audio parade. This is fucking a great start. 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:48.319 I can't see past this microphone. Yeah. What? 00:02:48.539 --> 00:02:53.080 So what? Okay, let's just go with the side quests. 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:55.539 Side quests. What happens with grading? If I 00:02:55.539 --> 00:02:57.939 just sign up for motocross tomorrow. So you're 00:02:57.939 --> 00:03:00.939 put into... It's classes now, isn't it? You'll 00:03:00.939 --> 00:03:03.319 be in the elderly class. It's classes. You've 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:05.599 got like... So for you, for instance, if you're 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:07.780 racing a 250 or 450, if you're in MX2, which 00:03:07.780 --> 00:03:11.120 is 250 class, you'll be graded as C grade. And 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:12.719 then you've got to ride or you've got to race 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:19.680 in open events. And the higher up you... uh get 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:21.479 in an event say you get like third you get an 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:23.199 amount of points which will then put you into 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:25.900 a category of b grade they'll bump you like those 00:03:25.900 --> 00:03:28.520 points they just bump you up as you gain points 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:33.120 in open events so yeah by the end of the season 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:35.979 yeah well they can do it mid Because I was in 00:03:35.979 --> 00:03:37.900 C grade for like... Do I have to sign up for 00:03:37.900 --> 00:03:39.800 C grade? Like if I think I'm a bit of a legend, 00:03:39.979 --> 00:03:41.360 can I just rock up and be like... I actually 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:44.300 had a buddy who had a friend at Motorcycling 00:03:44.300 --> 00:03:47.080 Victoria and he got put up to B grade and came 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:49.740 40th. You can in club... And just got beat. Yeah, 00:03:49.740 --> 00:03:52.520 just got pumped everywhere. Club level, you can. 00:03:52.780 --> 00:03:54.819 Like club level, you can just go do A, B. But 00:03:54.819 --> 00:03:56.500 if it's in an open event because it's sanctioned 00:03:56.500 --> 00:03:59.360 by MNSW or MA, they'll be like, no, you've got 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:00.539 to be in this grade. I was going to say, because 00:04:00.539 --> 00:04:03.659 like imagine me signing up for A grade. Get hosed. 00:04:03.819 --> 00:04:05.539 And just... No, don't worry about getting the 00:04:05.539 --> 00:04:09.939 hosed. I'd like kill people. Or you'd get killed, 00:04:09.979 --> 00:04:12.159 yeah. Because I'd just be like cross -jumping 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:15.099 and swapping and... Yeah, but you also... But 00:04:15.099 --> 00:04:18.699 it goes on numbers too. So you can't go, hey, 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:21.480 I want to be in A grade and then get 14 as your 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:23.860 number. Right. You need to be given that. Right. 00:04:23.899 --> 00:04:26.740 No. Yeah. No. I don't know. I just made that 00:04:26.740 --> 00:04:30.399 up. No, your number. You can register your number. 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:33.600 As long as no one's got it. If you've got a registered 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.000 number and someone runs your number at the same 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.639 event, then the person with the non -registered 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:41.939 number will have to put like an X. An X or something. 00:04:43.060 --> 00:04:45.240 I've seen that. No. I've seen it. That's like 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:49.100 a peak swapper. Right. Everyone knows. Everyone 00:04:49.100 --> 00:04:53.579 knows. All right. Sick. That was good. Side quest 00:04:53.579 --> 00:04:56.180 one. Side quest on side quests. Dude, this is 00:04:56.180 --> 00:05:01.240 going to be loose. So, okay. Let's... Like, I 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:02.879 just kind of want to go through the background 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:04.860 of this real quick. Just so if someone's tuning 00:05:04.860 --> 00:05:07.399 in like absolute and has no idea who we are. 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:08.600 Someone across the other side of the country 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:12.399 stumbles across this on a drunken night. What? 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:14.519 Right. And then just wants to know who we are. 00:05:14.699 --> 00:05:18.720 Yeah. So, give us your background sort of moto 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.199 related. So, why don't you start us off, Shan? 00:05:21.259 --> 00:05:25.000 Give us your moto. Okay. From like kid. From 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:29.240 kid. So first ever motor was an XR80. Wrong. 00:05:29.339 --> 00:05:34.860 Peewee 50 is the correct answer. No. XR80, DT175. 00:05:35.379 --> 00:05:41.279 Right. Nice. KX125, YZ250F. Were you racing at 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.839 this point or you were just riding? No. I was 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:48.769 just riding full farm stays. No, actually, I 00:05:48.769 --> 00:05:50.870 started racing when I got on the KX125, 2002 00:05:50.870 --> 00:05:53.490 model. You know the ones? The James Stewart ones. 00:05:53.509 --> 00:05:56.670 The James Stewart ones. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then 00:05:56.670 --> 00:05:59.550 I actually started racing at the vintage motocross 00:05:59.550 --> 00:06:02.589 because the only modern bikes that could ride 00:06:02.589 --> 00:06:05.050 were in the juniors because I had like eight 00:06:05.050 --> 00:06:07.769 people rock up. So I started racing now. I was 00:06:07.769 --> 00:06:10.370 doing really good because there's like six other 00:06:10.370 --> 00:06:15.189 dudes racing. And then, yeah, and then I just 00:06:15.189 --> 00:06:18.839 moved up. and then started riding pretty, like 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:21.160 what I thought was pretty seriously. And then 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:24.519 what happened? I got landed on first lap of practice 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:28.980 at a Gippsland center and did two vertebrae in 00:06:28.980 --> 00:06:32.439 my back and then never raced again. I still rode. 00:06:32.620 --> 00:06:36.560 So how old? 18. Right. No, 17, 18. I don't know. 00:06:36.899 --> 00:06:39.000 Something around that. And then I never raced 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:40.759 properly again, but I rode like here and there. 00:06:40.860 --> 00:06:42.620 Was it one of those messed up breaks or was it 00:06:42.620 --> 00:06:43.980 like one of those sweep? No, it was just like 00:06:43.980 --> 00:06:48.240 one of those. I was broken. I was soaking. I 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.980 was soaking. I was milking it. Big surprise. 00:06:52.579 --> 00:06:54.920 And then I started, then I got into music and 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.680 then I didn't ride for 10 years up until I started 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.740 here. Until you started here. And now I'm a gun 00:06:59.740 --> 00:07:05.300 again. Dude, that's cool. That's interesting. 00:07:05.620 --> 00:07:07.259 XR80, dude, I actually learned on an XR80. So 00:07:07.259 --> 00:07:09.839 Macca, who you know now, I learned in his driveway 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:12.980 on an XR80. There you go. There you go. Zach. 00:07:13.790 --> 00:07:15.589 Pee -wee's are for kids. It's my turn now. Motor 00:07:15.589 --> 00:07:18.850 history. Motor history. So I'm like Shanman over 00:07:18.850 --> 00:07:21.269 here. I started on a Pee -wee 50. I think I was 00:07:21.269 --> 00:07:23.250 maybe... Correct answer. Maybe two or three years 00:07:23.250 --> 00:07:27.730 old. What? Yeah. Why? What do you mean why, bro? 00:07:27.910 --> 00:07:29.949 No, I grew up around... I actually grew up around 00:07:29.949 --> 00:07:31.829 a road racing family. Not road racing, but road 00:07:31.829 --> 00:07:35.110 riding. Oh, so you're like a reject. Pretty much. 00:07:35.149 --> 00:07:37.790 Black sheep. Pretty well. New dragger. Grew up 00:07:37.790 --> 00:07:40.629 around that scene and dad actually originally 00:07:40.629 --> 00:07:42.790 wanted me to jump into the road scene. I got 00:07:42.790 --> 00:07:47.569 the Pee Wee from that, got the KTM 50 Senior 00:07:47.569 --> 00:07:51.899 and wanted to stick with dirt. Obviously, I grew 00:07:51.899 --> 00:07:56.000 up in Sydney, so we started in Minicana and went 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:59.459 from that to a KX65. Was that like Blacktown 00:07:59.459 --> 00:08:02.860 Minicana? Blacktown Minicana Club, yep. Shout 00:08:02.860 --> 00:08:05.839 -outs to Blacktown Minicana Club. Those were 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.480 the days, man. Very much gang -related. Very 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:11.680 much gang -related, yeah. No, we grew up around 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.920 there and, yeah, a few. Pretty good prospects 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.120 came out of that club, actually, through my racing 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.199 season. But, yeah, I went to the KX65, started 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:23.839 doing a lot more motocross at Oakdale. Clarence 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:25.579 was pretty well my home club. Lithgow, Zigzag 00:08:25.579 --> 00:08:32.899 Railway. And then I went to a KTM85. Then went 00:08:32.899 --> 00:08:36.279 to the KTM125. And then on the 125, actually 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:41.070 started training with Dan McCoy. So me and another 00:08:41.070 --> 00:08:43.970 kid that I was good mates with, Will, we started 00:08:43.970 --> 00:08:46.529 training with Dan every weekend. He eventually 00:08:46.529 --> 00:08:50.690 got me onto a Yamaha 250 back in, oh, I would 00:08:50.690 --> 00:08:53.870 have been 16, so 2016, and been on Yamaha ever 00:08:53.870 --> 00:08:59.529 since. So, yeah, onto a new project this year, 00:08:59.590 --> 00:09:01.769 which I'll keep a little bit hush -hush for now. 00:09:02.409 --> 00:09:05.149 But, yeah, I've sort of stepped away from the 00:09:05.149 --> 00:09:07.210 MX scene in the last probably 12 or so months 00:09:07.210 --> 00:09:09.970 and been doing a little bit more enduro, being 00:09:09.970 --> 00:09:12.370 a headlight guy. Thank goodness. Mate, sometimes 00:09:12.370 --> 00:09:14.129 you've got to make changes and sometimes they're 00:09:14.129 --> 00:09:17.690 for the better. Bro. So, for the listeners, Zach 00:09:17.690 --> 00:09:22.190 doesn't mind a dirt nap. Or, yeah. Doesn't mind 00:09:22.190 --> 00:09:24.690 a dirt nap. He's quite partial. Actually, you 00:09:24.690 --> 00:09:26.169 know what? The last time I was on a track, I 00:09:26.169 --> 00:09:28.169 had a dirt nap and that was, what, eight months 00:09:28.169 --> 00:09:31.710 ago? Broke my back. That's my point. So. Yeah, 00:09:31.710 --> 00:09:33.090 that was fun. We've got to keep you in one piece, 00:09:33.110 --> 00:09:34.669 bro. This is not cool. Well, look, it might be 00:09:34.669 --> 00:09:36.289 changing this year. Maybe we'll do some more 00:09:36.289 --> 00:09:38.450 MX events. Who knows? Motocross is not good for 00:09:38.450 --> 00:09:40.730 you. You're a transmoto guy now. I need to get 00:09:40.730 --> 00:09:43.210 those jitters out, though. Headlight. I've got 00:09:43.210 --> 00:09:46.370 blue balls for MX right now. You need to stay 00:09:46.370 --> 00:09:50.389 away from MX. MX is bad. Yeah, sick. Who knows? 00:09:50.490 --> 00:09:52.669 We might try and change a bit this year, do a 00:09:52.669 --> 00:09:56.309 couple of enduro events and some MX. Mad. Yeah. 00:09:56.450 --> 00:10:00.970 Sick. Yeah. Well, mine was like, I didn't ride 00:10:00.970 --> 00:10:03.600 it. Not really much at all as a kid. 12 months 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:10.039 ago? Yeah, it started 12 months ago. Nah, I didn't 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:13.279 have that family at all. That was it. My riding 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.779 background as a kid was a BMX. And my deal with 00:10:16.779 --> 00:10:19.759 my folks was like, if I saved up, paid for half, 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:21.460 they'd pay for the other half of whatever. Sort 00:10:21.460 --> 00:10:25.039 of whatever I wanted. Mongoose Expert Pro. Oh, 00:10:25.139 --> 00:10:29.080 the mongoose. Yeah, with the gyro. You know those 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:30.899 ones? You can spin the heel bars. Oh, no, we 00:10:30.899 --> 00:10:35.059 know. We know. A couple of cross -ups. A couple 00:10:35.059 --> 00:10:37.779 of cross -ups, mate. That was sick. So that was 00:10:37.779 --> 00:10:39.539 all I got as a kid. I didn't get to ride motis 00:10:39.539 --> 00:10:41.000 or anything like that. I didn't have a dad that 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:42.480 was like into that sort of stuff. So there was 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.519 no chance that was happening. But got on the 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:46.179 pushies a fair bit, got into mountain biking, 00:10:46.259 --> 00:10:48.399 raced downhill for a bit. Downhill got super 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:52.019 gnarly. I got... I ended up buying a... This 00:10:52.019 --> 00:10:55.039 bike called a Santa Cruz V10. If anyone's old 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:56.600 school mountain bike, they know what the V10 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.759 is. It's like, it's called the V10 because it 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:01.080 had 10 inches of travel. Like, so the thing was 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:03.139 like a monster. And back in the day, it was the 00:11:03.139 --> 00:11:05.080 bike to have. Like, it was just, it was sick. 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.480 It was sick. What? That was a joke. That was 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:12.500 a joke there. We're trying to keep this above 00:11:12.500 --> 00:11:15.120 board. That's what I'm saying. He's a loose. 00:11:17.179 --> 00:11:20.039 So, yeah, it was mountain bikes. That was... 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.419 That was kind of it. And then rode a bit. Good 00:11:24.419 --> 00:11:26.799 mate of mine, Marco, he had motorbikes, XR80, 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:29.379 XR100. So his dad taught me to ride in the driveway, 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:32.080 which is pretty cool. Didn't do much. Got a Wiser 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.100 80. Back in the day, were they 80s or 85s? They 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:36.980 were 80s back in the day. Wiser 80s, yeah. My 00:11:36.980 --> 00:11:39.179 old boy had one. Yeah, so bought an old Wiser 00:11:39.179 --> 00:11:41.600 80, rode that for a little bit, built it up, 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:43.960 and then had a massive crash. Did my leg, same 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:45.559 thing. Then it was like years off because my 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:47.539 leg was messed up. Missed like a year of school. 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:49.980 blah blah blah didn't go back to bikes for ages 00:11:49.980 --> 00:11:52.120 and then got back into bikes when I had kids 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.759 so me and my wife had our first kid and then 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:56.980 met some friends who were like babies the same 00:11:56.980 --> 00:11:58.279 age and they were like hey I've got this cool 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.200 little electric bike for my kid so then we all 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:01.960 got electric bikes for our kids all started riding 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:03.700 then we bought bikes and then just got back into 00:12:03.700 --> 00:12:06.340 it again which was sick so kind of got back into 00:12:06.340 --> 00:12:08.860 it because of the kids which was kind of cool 00:12:08.860 --> 00:12:11.740 yeah kind of fun and then ended up at this joint 00:12:12.980 --> 00:12:15.299 Now you ride... Hanging with us. Eight days a 00:12:15.299 --> 00:12:19.039 week. I try to ride eight days a week. As much 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:20.779 as he wants to. I really don't. Everyone thinks 00:12:20.779 --> 00:12:23.639 I ride eight days a week. But I really don't. 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:25.779 You don't work according to social media. You 00:12:25.779 --> 00:12:29.159 just ride. I'm going to... Social media is everything. 00:12:29.220 --> 00:12:32.379 Believe it all. Side quest. Side quest again. 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:34.820 I'm just going to have a little rant. Does everyone 00:12:34.820 --> 00:12:37.820 know that if you post something on social media... 00:12:37.820 --> 00:12:40.019 That day. It doesn't mean it happened that day. 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:42.799 One, you could have recorded it. a long time 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.379 ago and then you posted it or even if you posted 00:12:45.379 --> 00:12:48.899 it today you may not see it for days or weeks 00:12:48.899 --> 00:12:51.340 on end so everyone's like oh soon you've been 00:12:51.340 --> 00:12:52.740 out riding you're at eastern creek yesterday 00:12:52.740 --> 00:12:56.120 i'm like bro it's six months ago like it's social 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:57.840 media i don't know if anyone gets that i'm not 00:12:57.840 --> 00:12:59.659 mad about it i just want everyone to know that 00:12:59.659 --> 00:13:02.379 like understand yeah he wants to know everyone 00:13:02.379 --> 00:13:06.299 that he's in the shop working i work hard every 00:13:06.299 --> 00:13:10.080 day believe it i beg to differ anyway whatever 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.840 we'll see that's uh yeah it's pretty cool i reckon 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:15.679 how everyone comes together in different places 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.259 and times and stuff over bikes it's pretty sweet 00:13:18.259 --> 00:13:23.940 but that's cool um so how did you all end up 00:13:23.940 --> 00:13:27.879 at psc like i know your story because i hired 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:31.039 you i just came with the business you were just 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.389 here You were just stuck in the corner. Oh, I 00:13:33.389 --> 00:13:34.830 rocked up here. Zach was stuck in the corner. 00:13:35.029 --> 00:13:37.090 Me and the coffee table from like 100 years ago 00:13:37.090 --> 00:13:42.049 were here. Crazy. Yeah. So, anyway. So, I moved 00:13:42.049 --> 00:13:44.169 up. Obviously, I was living in Sydney. Moved 00:13:44.169 --> 00:13:50.610 up to this area in 2016. Started at a new school 00:13:50.610 --> 00:13:54.009 up here. Did year 12, flunked my HSC purposely 00:13:54.009 --> 00:13:58.129 because I hated school. And then obviously we 00:13:58.129 --> 00:14:01.090 had a good relationship with Chris, who was obviously 00:14:01.090 --> 00:14:04.070 the previous owner before you. Obviously we're 00:14:04.070 --> 00:14:05.769 getting our bikes through the shop and racing 00:14:05.769 --> 00:14:10.549 for PSC. And yeah, coming to the end of... It 00:14:10.549 --> 00:14:12.509 might have actually been end of year 11, start 00:14:12.509 --> 00:14:14.649 of year 12. He sort of wanted me in building 00:14:14.649 --> 00:14:16.289 bikes and just sort of getting around the shops 00:14:16.289 --> 00:14:18.490 and started doing that. And then after I finished 00:14:18.490 --> 00:14:21.750 school, sort of gave me a casual full -time job 00:14:21.750 --> 00:14:25.289 building bikes out the back. And then I ended 00:14:25.289 --> 00:14:29.769 up going out to Lakes one weekend, 2017. I had 00:14:29.769 --> 00:14:33.210 a massive crash and I broke my wrist. Oh, so 00:14:33.210 --> 00:14:35.769 a dirt nap? Dirt nap, had a dirt nap, yep. And 00:14:35.769 --> 00:14:38.309 I couldn't obviously build anything because my 00:14:38.309 --> 00:14:41.610 arm was in a cast and he sort of chucked me out 00:14:41.610 --> 00:14:43.909 in the deep end in the front, dealing with customers, 00:14:44.029 --> 00:14:47.350 doing spare parts. And that was, what, eight 00:14:47.350 --> 00:14:50.649 years ago now. So, been here ever since, sort 00:14:50.649 --> 00:14:53.490 of doing the spare parts role and moving into 00:14:53.490 --> 00:14:57.590 sales now. You come along and... Didn't give 00:14:57.590 --> 00:15:03.139 you the boot? No, thank goodness for that. Sick. 00:15:03.580 --> 00:15:06.840 That's cool. We've got a good little motley crew 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:10.539 here, I reckon. Shan's story is funny. I like 00:15:10.539 --> 00:15:13.419 Shan's story. Mine's, I don't know, it's a bit 00:15:13.419 --> 00:15:18.639 of a non -event. I moved up from Melbourne to 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:23.000 Newcastle on a whim with my now fiancé and I 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:26.960 was working at the crappest, crappest job driving 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.659 forklifts in this steel yard. Like completely 00:15:29.659 --> 00:15:32.460 unsafe. It was like 20 ton steel beams. And they 00:15:32.460 --> 00:15:34.019 were just like, yeah, just chuck that over there, 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.639 mate. And I was just like, what the hell? Anyway, 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:43.779 and then I came home crying one day. And then... 00:15:43.779 --> 00:15:48.440 We can edit that part out. Thereabouts. Anyway, 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.399 I was like, what am I going to do? I need a job 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.299 that I like because I'm a musician. But I need 00:15:54.299 --> 00:15:57.090 to have a day job that I enjoy. my missus was 00:15:57.090 --> 00:15:59.409 like oh try and get back into bikes because i'm 00:15:59.409 --> 00:16:01.269 a qualified motorbike mechanic mind you haven't 00:16:01.269 --> 00:16:04.509 done it since i was like 18 right and um jumped 00:16:04.509 --> 00:16:07.450 on seek this shop come up so i checked the instagram 00:16:07.450 --> 00:16:11.450 i'm like who is this funny man you might hopefully 00:16:11.450 --> 00:16:13.289 they check the socials after this and you understand 00:16:13.289 --> 00:16:15.990 what i mean so then i rolled in with like the 00:16:15.990 --> 00:16:18.850 crappiest resume and basically just said hey 00:16:18.850 --> 00:16:21.409 dude i'm here for the mechanic role i've been 00:16:21.409 --> 00:16:26.259 out of the game for 12 years And then ended up 00:16:26.259 --> 00:16:30.100 getting the service advisor role. And then, yeah, 00:16:30.139 --> 00:16:31.779 within that, I ended up getting back into bikes 00:16:31.779 --> 00:16:35.840 properly and now I'm like frothing. It was cool 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:38.500 to see you get back into it. Like we did a bike 00:16:38.500 --> 00:16:41.360 build for Shan last year. Didn't we? The Dark 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:44.840 Prince. Princess. It's called the Dark Prince. 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:49.539 Princess. It's pretty cool. So Shan's got a particular 00:16:49.539 --> 00:16:52.059 style about him. If you're watching the video, 00:16:52.139 --> 00:16:54.940 you might be able to tell. But you need to be 00:16:54.940 --> 00:16:57.720 up close to be able to get the style of Shan. 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:00.440 Yeah. So we did a pretty sick bike build. No, 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.779 it's sick. I'm stoked to be back into bikes properly. 00:17:03.299 --> 00:17:08.259 And through the job, I realized how much I love 00:17:08.259 --> 00:17:11.960 it and how much I actually know about a fair 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:16.220 bit. Yeah. Yeah, it's cool. It's funny watching 00:17:16.220 --> 00:17:18.400 Shan come into the shop. Didn't really get the 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:19.660 chance to say hello or anything. I'm like, who 00:17:19.660 --> 00:17:23.700 the fuck is this? Coming into the shop. Now I 00:17:23.700 --> 00:17:25.619 know you guys. It's so funny. I remember I walked 00:17:25.619 --> 00:17:28.039 up to the front desk and then you and Bella were 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:29.500 there. And they're like, oh yeah, this is Shannon. 00:17:29.539 --> 00:17:33.299 I was like, hi. And you guys gave me nothing. 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.480 And I was like, okay, cool. They're weird. And 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:39.680 now we're friends. The bestest of friends. The 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:42.599 bestest of friends. That's it. It's like a true 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:45.180 love story. It is a love story. That's cool, 00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:50.759 man. We got a good little crew out on here. I 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:53.180 guess I sort of wanted to tell everyone what 00:17:53.180 --> 00:17:55.039 this is going to be about, which I kind of hate 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:59.680 doing. It makes it feel real weird. But I guess 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:01.440 what we wanted to do with this podcast is like 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:03.440 the three of us enjoy hanging out and talking 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.940 crap. And some people who hang out with us say 00:18:07.940 --> 00:18:09.880 it's pretty funny. So we thought we'd have a 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:14.440 crack on here. We all love talking. Modi's. Like, 00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:17.500 Monday mornings in here, we get absolutely stuff 00:18:17.500 --> 00:18:19.079 all done in the first couple of hours because 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.099 everyone's just talking Supercross and Motocross. 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:23.019 It's all about the weekend, baby. I'm talking 00:18:23.019 --> 00:18:25.119 Dakar basically to myself because no one else 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:26.900 cares. Ross actually doesn't give a shit about 00:18:26.900 --> 00:18:29.519 Supercross, which is sad. It just looks like 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:32.319 grown men going over bumps. It's like, whatever. 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.039 Do they get out of second gear? No, they normally 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:39.079 just use first. Just first. First gear. What 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:40.920 do you do? How hard could it be? First wedge. 00:18:44.180 --> 00:18:50.119 It looks super straightforward. Yeah. And we 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:51.440 just, I don't know, we just thought we'd have 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:52.880 a crack, right? So we'll just see what's going 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:54.220 on, but we sort of want to have a bit of fun 00:18:54.220 --> 00:18:56.740 with it and just follow along. So we're going 00:18:56.740 --> 00:18:58.339 to follow the Supercross season. So at the end 00:18:58.339 --> 00:19:00.480 of that, we'll follow that along, the motocross 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:02.759 season. We've got a little tipping comp for Soupy. 00:19:02.779 --> 00:19:04.970 So we're going to do a bit of that. Speaking 00:19:04.970 --> 00:19:06.809 of winning, put our tips in before the weekend 00:19:06.809 --> 00:19:10.390 for San Diego. Do that. We've got some bike builds 00:19:10.390 --> 00:19:12.130 coming up. We've got some cool bike builds. So 00:19:12.130 --> 00:19:13.789 we're all going to do some custom bikes this 00:19:13.789 --> 00:19:17.849 year. Bunch of cool projects. We love racing 00:19:17.849 --> 00:19:19.609 this event called Transmoto. If you don't know 00:19:19.609 --> 00:19:23.690 what it is, it's sort of like a social team enduro. 00:19:23.710 --> 00:19:26.069 So it's kind of the every man's race. Like you 00:19:26.069 --> 00:19:27.450 don't need to be a racer to be able to do it. 00:19:27.529 --> 00:19:28.809 You know what? That was actually my introductory 00:19:28.809 --> 00:19:33.349 to enduro, I think. so yeah so Stroud the first 00:19:33.349 --> 00:19:36.289 year I did Stroud it was me Brandon and Cade 00:19:36.289 --> 00:19:38.609 Purcell we're all three motocross guys pretty 00:19:38.609 --> 00:19:43.430 solid team on two YZ450s and an FC oh no what 00:19:43.430 --> 00:19:47.430 yeah two YZ450s and an FC250 come out and it 00:19:47.430 --> 00:19:49.509 was the last bowl that year we ended up coming 00:19:49.509 --> 00:19:52.349 out like 14th outright yeah and I sort of fell 00:19:52.349 --> 00:19:55.779 in love with Enduro like yeah I was like Okay, 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:57.779 give me an enduro bike next time. All right, 00:19:57.819 --> 00:20:00.680 so here we go. Did you take a dirt nap in enduro? 00:20:01.420 --> 00:20:03.839 Oh, I've taken plenty in enduro at Transmoto 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:06.900 that year. Yeah, but they're crashes. They're 00:20:06.900 --> 00:20:10.079 not. Oh, little layovers. Yeah, for sure. I mean, 00:20:10.140 --> 00:20:12.559 last night I nearly died. Nearly smacked a tree. 00:20:12.660 --> 00:20:15.059 Yeah, but did you? I didn't. I saved it. Correct. 00:20:15.220 --> 00:20:18.200 So enduro is better. Motocross sucks. It doesn't 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:20.799 suck. It just sucks when I crash all the time. 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:25.819 Yeah, sick. I'm going to fix that issue. If anyone 00:20:25.819 --> 00:20:28.579 can help, give me ideas. Just stay on your bike. 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.140 It's not that simple. Sort of seems like it is. 00:20:35.059 --> 00:20:36.980 The reality is it's actually because he's gone 00:20:36.980 --> 00:20:40.339 fast. That's why we don't crash that much. I 00:20:40.339 --> 00:20:43.740 don't think you needed to bring that up. I'm 00:20:43.740 --> 00:20:45.359 glad he did. You could have just left that out. 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:48.880 Oh, my gosh. Yeah, now we're going to follow 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:50.920 a few things along this year. I don't know if 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:54.400 I'm doing any hard enduros. I do love going down 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:56.980 to Cozzy and doing that one. So we'll see if 00:20:56.980 --> 00:20:58.839 I've got a bike for that. Well, who knows? You 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:02.700 might have a big bike for that. I don't know 00:21:02.700 --> 00:21:06.019 if I could do that on the Tenerife. No? Not with 00:21:06.019 --> 00:21:08.539 that kind of attitude. This is true. Dude, okay. 00:21:08.660 --> 00:21:11.960 So last year... Side quest. So last year at Cozzy 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:14.259 was my best year I've done there. I ended up... 00:21:14.259 --> 00:21:16.160 I don't know what I got, but I did pretty well. 00:21:16.259 --> 00:21:17.460 I beat all my mates I went down with, which is 00:21:17.460 --> 00:21:20.819 all I actually care about. I think the boys did 00:21:20.819 --> 00:21:22.599 the maths and if I'd entered over 40s, I would 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:24.740 have gotten like top 10. So I'd done all right. 00:21:24.740 --> 00:21:26.240 This is in bronze class. So this is in the shittest 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:29.240 class possible. Does age like... Side quest on 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:32.559 that side quest. Age matters. You're 25. Wait 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:34.180 till you are 35. Yeah, but if you're over 40s, 00:21:34.180 --> 00:21:36.900 it's like, bro, you're trophy hunting at this 00:21:36.900 --> 00:21:40.039 point. Like, wouldn't you just go like, okay, 00:21:40.059 --> 00:21:44.369 overall in bronze? No. So, well... So yeah, no, 00:21:44.589 --> 00:21:46.569 but - Do you know how hard it is to get up? This 00:21:46.569 --> 00:21:49.369 is a personal fetch, right? Because Russ is like, 00:21:49.450 --> 00:21:51.869 nah, over 40s, that's a separate class. I got 00:21:51.869 --> 00:21:54.589 top 10. Fuck you all. Well, this is the thing. 00:21:54.710 --> 00:21:57.390 I don't like that. So that's why I've just always 00:21:57.390 --> 00:22:00.369 entered open. Because I don't like going over 00:22:00.369 --> 00:22:02.430 40s. Well, guess what? There's six dudes in it. 00:22:02.829 --> 00:22:04.509 Great, you won. See, that's what I was up to. 00:22:06.710 --> 00:22:09.470 Sandbagger. Yeah. It's sort of, yeah, I don't 00:22:09.470 --> 00:22:11.400 know. I just - My whole thing with bronze is 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:13.900 like, I just would like to go and get like top 00:22:13.900 --> 00:22:16.160 10 in bronze at some point. But this year, I 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:17.339 don't know if I'm going to have a bike to do 00:22:17.339 --> 00:22:19.700 it on. So we'll see what happens with hard enduro. 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:21.940 I would like to do a couple of rounds. It's pretty 00:22:21.940 --> 00:22:24.740 cool. But yeah. I'd actually like to try that, 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:27.460 to be honest. It's pretty fun, but it is bike 00:22:27.460 --> 00:22:30.119 setup. Like it's so critical to get the right 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.019 bike and the right setup to do it well. But my 00:22:33.019 --> 00:22:34.980 side quest that I was going to go on, talking 00:22:34.980 --> 00:22:38.119 about me doing an itinerary, is that Rob Nowak 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:42.000 was there last year on his 890. and he started 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.019 he did bronze to this and holy cow like if you 00:22:45.019 --> 00:22:47.500 don't know who Rob Nowak is go jump on his socials 00:22:47.500 --> 00:22:51.000 it's insane like he's an ex -gold class rider 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.200 so obviously gold silver bronze gold is like 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:55.880 pros that don't let you enter gold like you can't 00:22:55.880 --> 00:22:59.420 just enter gold at any hard enduro even like 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:03.299 a real basic one you can't enter gold you have 00:23:03.299 --> 00:23:04.680 to be vetted or you've got to be a certified 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.410 pro like And you've got to have done a certain 00:23:07.410 --> 00:23:09.269 number of silvers. They check you out because 00:23:09.269 --> 00:23:11.589 it literally becomes life and death because there's 00:23:11.589 --> 00:23:14.410 cliffs you're hanging off. You can't screw around. 00:23:15.269 --> 00:23:17.430 Even in bronze, we're hanging off cliffs where 00:23:17.430 --> 00:23:21.130 it's pretty sketchy. So gold gets real gnarly. 00:23:21.329 --> 00:23:24.009 Anyway, Rob's an ex -gold class guy. He's won 00:23:24.009 --> 00:23:26.089 gold overseas in Europe and all this kind of 00:23:26.089 --> 00:23:29.589 stuff. We didn't know who he was or that he was 00:23:29.589 --> 00:23:31.509 even there. Me and my buddy Steve were on the 00:23:31.509 --> 00:23:33.990 start line and we look over and we're just looking 00:23:33.990 --> 00:23:36.150 at this dude on an 890 adventure bike and we're 00:23:36.150 --> 00:23:40.950 like, look at this absolute like Muppet on this 00:23:40.950 --> 00:23:42.970 adventure bike. Stumbling on a hard enduro event 00:23:42.970 --> 00:23:46.309 with an adventure bike. And then the dude just 00:23:46.309 --> 00:23:50.680 frigging smokes. Just blew our doors off. All 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:53.839 day long. Like this is a type of race where it's 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:55.880 just laps, right? So it's a set course. You just 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:58.940 do laps. Like over the four hours or six hours, 00:23:59.019 --> 00:24:01.160 whatever it was, I got four laps in, right? And 00:24:01.160 --> 00:24:06.119 I did decent. So he lapped me every lap. Like 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:11.259 he passed me four times on an 890. And it's like... 00:24:11.840 --> 00:24:14.740 Crazy hill climbs up, crazy steep down, gnarly 00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:16.700 big logs, rocks, all this kind of stuff. And 00:24:16.700 --> 00:24:18.380 like when we're doing a hill climb, like it's 00:24:18.380 --> 00:24:21.039 pretty irregular to get sprayed with rocks, right? 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:22.740 So you're all ducking your head down behind your 00:24:22.740 --> 00:24:24.180 bars and getting hammered with rocks and stuff. 00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:26.740 This frigging bike is throwing house bricks. 00:24:28.099 --> 00:24:31.319 It was insane, hey? Just watching him do that. 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:34.019 So anyway, yeah, look, I'd love to give one a 00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:35.920 crack on a built tenor, eh? It'd be sick. It'd 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:38.549 be sick. But you've got to train. really hard 00:24:38.549 --> 00:24:40.990 and get it really specific because like man the 00:24:40.990 --> 00:24:42.990 weight of that thing would be like the biggest 00:24:42.990 --> 00:24:45.769 you get it wrong and yeah yeah you could you 00:24:45.769 --> 00:24:48.289 get it wrong and you just get the bike wedged 00:24:48.289 --> 00:24:51.250 and you can't pick it up at 200 kilos so you 00:24:51.250 --> 00:24:54.339 can just get stuck like instantly and not even 00:24:54.339 --> 00:24:56.299 have a race because you just got stuck. Do you 00:24:56.299 --> 00:24:58.079 imagine being halfway up a hill and just being 00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:01.880 like... Yeah. Trying to carry this thing. Bro, 00:25:01.980 --> 00:25:05.259 it's wild. So, yeah. Look, I think for me this 00:25:05.259 --> 00:25:08.000 year, a couple of Transmotos, I really like doing 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:11.619 them. Batemans Bay, 12 hours back on. I've never 00:25:11.619 --> 00:25:13.779 done it. Everyone that's done it raves about 00:25:13.779 --> 00:25:16.299 it. So, I'm super keen to do that. Coffs last 00:25:16.299 --> 00:25:19.099 year was sick. They're leaving one. They still 00:25:19.099 --> 00:25:20.519 haven't announced. They still haven't announced 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:24.480 one. So, fingers crossed. coughs his back because 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:25.500 I actually really enjoyed that last year the 00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:27.279 three of us went and did coughs and it was sick 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:30.220 like that was really good hopefully we're the 00:25:30.220 --> 00:25:32.940 dealer for Narrabri again Narrabri was sick I 00:25:32.940 --> 00:25:34.740 did get to do a lap on the Norden there so that 00:25:34.740 --> 00:25:37.720 was pretty cool so I'd like to do some transmotos 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:42.359 I'd like to do a hard enduro I don't know other 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:45.670 than that my plans are just I don't know. I want 00:25:45.670 --> 00:25:47.309 to do more shop rides. I want to do more adventure 00:25:47.309 --> 00:25:49.509 rides. I want to build some cool bikes. I don't 00:25:49.509 --> 00:25:51.150 really know what events I want to do. They've 00:25:51.150 --> 00:25:53.250 asked me to MC state titles, New South Wales 00:25:53.250 --> 00:25:56.190 state titles. So I think I'll go to all the state 00:25:56.190 --> 00:25:59.230 titles as an MC. Yep. Hang out with my boy, Dave 00:25:59.230 --> 00:26:05.359 Hogan. Shout outs to Always Moto podcast. So 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:07.900 might do that. Are we going to do postie GP? 00:26:08.380 --> 00:26:11.059 100 % I'm going back to postie GP this year. 00:26:11.220 --> 00:26:14.680 You got unfinished business. Can we just talk 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:17.819 about this for a second, right? We bought this 00:26:17.819 --> 00:26:23.359 shitter, thanks to Dan who sold it to us, postie 00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:25.880 bike for $1 ,500, which, I mean, was a little 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:28.720 over Russell's budget, but... Turns out my budget 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:31.160 was whack. Oh, man. I couldn't find one under 00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:33.059 three grand. Which is insane. That was decent, 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:35.619 which is crazy. But the good thing about it was 00:26:35.619 --> 00:26:39.000 that it was pretty well fully done. All we had 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:41.339 to realistically do was check it over. It hadn't 00:26:41.339 --> 00:26:43.960 been written in, what, 12 months? Yeah. It was 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:47.240 race ready, if you can believe that. Mind you, 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:50.480 I haven't really written a postie. We bought 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:53.940 this thing a week prior to getting dyno tested. 00:26:54.220 --> 00:26:57.279 Had to get the boys the day before dyno to check 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:00.519 this thing over. Had stale fuel in it, rust in 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.099 the tank. It was fucking woeful. We all knew 00:27:03.099 --> 00:27:06.359 this was going to happen. The only person that 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:08.819 didn't know was you. Correct, yes. Okay, in his 00:27:08.819 --> 00:27:11.140 defense, but he was freaking out for a good week 00:27:11.140 --> 00:27:14.400 and a bit before. I'm like, bro, it's fine. Who 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:16.140 cares? It's fine. Just ride the bike. Everyone's 00:27:16.140 --> 00:27:17.819 like, just ride it. Just ride it. I'm like, no, 00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:20.039 you don't understand. No, it's not. This is a 00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:22.599 race. I need to do well at this. Zach was there 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.480 to win. Anyways, we get there, dyno tested at 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.329 the pre -dyno on the Wednesday. Dino's like nearly 00:27:30.329 --> 00:27:32.509 a horsepower under what everyone else was. It 00:27:32.509 --> 00:27:35.349 was what? Five, three, five, two. So the important 00:27:35.349 --> 00:27:38.869 part to understand it. Yeah. So the important 00:27:38.869 --> 00:27:40.970 thing to know is like these things have like 00:27:40.970 --> 00:27:44.029 six horsepower, right? So if you're at five horsepower, 00:27:44.390 --> 00:27:47.549 you're significantly down on power. And I weigh 00:27:47.549 --> 00:27:52.609 85 kilos. So that shit was being like way down. 00:27:53.210 --> 00:27:56.430 Anyways, pre -Dino done that. Come to Dino day 00:27:56.430 --> 00:27:58.759 on the Saturday before the event. Oh, was it 00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:01.440 Saturday? Yeah, the Saturday. Correct. Yeah, 00:28:01.460 --> 00:28:03.779 pre -dyno was Wednesday. Didn't really touch 00:28:03.779 --> 00:28:05.940 it. We had to get a replacement carb because 00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:07.900 we figured out that where the slide goes into 00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:10.420 the top of the carb, the actual screw that screws 00:28:10.420 --> 00:28:13.519 onto the top of the carb was broken. So had to 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:16.039 get a carb. Got that, fitted that three hours 00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:18.160 before we had to go get it dynoed. Went and got 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:21.250 it dynoed. Dynoed at five. 6 so that's right 00:28:21.250 --> 00:28:23.849 0 .3 of a horsepower and i did nothing making 00:28:23.849 --> 00:28:26.670 gains i literally rode it in the car park and 00:28:26.670 --> 00:28:28.589 if you know the shop and know our car park it 00:28:28.589 --> 00:28:31.670 is small i rode it did like what like 10 laps 00:28:31.670 --> 00:28:34.170 just trying to figure this thing out get to the 00:28:34.170 --> 00:28:38.390 day heaps rode it did qualifying qualified okay 00:28:38.390 --> 00:28:43.829 got to the heat uh and sort of spewing because 00:28:43.829 --> 00:28:46.069 the heat We had to get, so it was two heats. 00:28:46.130 --> 00:28:48.049 We had to get top 18, I think it was, or top 00:28:48.049 --> 00:28:51.309 16 to make it to the GP. And if you were beyond 00:28:51.309 --> 00:28:54.950 that, then you go to the Cessna Cup. We missed 00:28:54.950 --> 00:28:58.829 out on one position. We had a lap to go and Lawson 00:28:58.829 --> 00:29:01.970 was riding, nearly had it and didn't get in. 00:29:02.049 --> 00:29:03.650 So we were still missing one position in our 00:29:03.650 --> 00:29:08.119 first GP. But it meant that I had pole position 00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:11.640 for the Cessna Cup. There's a common thread here. 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.259 Common thread. So I was still in the line at 00:29:15.259 --> 00:29:17.799 the pole position. So I was pretty chuffed on 00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:22.880 that. And yeah, started the Cessna Cup. I started 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.579 my first 10 laps. Within my first 10, I think 00:29:26.579 --> 00:29:29.099 we got back to third. Just before I went to pit 00:29:29.099 --> 00:29:32.180 to go get to Lawson, the guy who was in first 00:29:32.180 --> 00:29:36.559 actually crashed in pit lane. And we snuck in, 00:29:36.579 --> 00:29:38.799 got in the lead. From that point on for the next 00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:44.619 hour, we led. Every freaking lap, we led. Lawson 00:29:44.619 --> 00:29:47.220 goes to give it to me. On our $1 ,500 POS. Yeah. 00:29:47.779 --> 00:29:50.500 Zero check over. Literally. And I was pretty 00:29:50.500 --> 00:29:52.019 chuffed. Like, I didn't know, but I was coming 00:29:52.019 --> 00:29:53.480 down the straight and Russ was like this. And 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:55.279 I'm like, oh, he's just saying, go, go, go. Next 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.019 time I come around, dad gives me the number one. 00:29:57.019 --> 00:29:59.880 And I'm like, get up. So I'm emceeing. I'm up 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:02.740 in like this tower emceeing and my boy's winning. 00:30:02.819 --> 00:30:05.779 So I'm losing my mind. I'm trying to be a good 00:30:05.779 --> 00:30:09.779 emcee, but I'm just yelling, go Zach. Give him 00:30:09.779 --> 00:30:12.079 the number one. My biggest fan. It was so good. 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:15.160 And then, yeah, we had five laps to go. Lawson 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.559 passed it to me for the last changeover. I got 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:21.180 on the bike in pit lane in first gear and it 00:30:21.180 --> 00:30:23.640 just started dying. And I'm like, no, what's 00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:25.240 going on? Like, I was like, is this thing running 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:27.460 out of fuel? Looking, checking it over, got out 00:30:27.460 --> 00:30:28.920 of pit lane, went to shift a second, the thing 00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:31.539 just bogged. And I'm like, no way this is happening 00:30:31.539 --> 00:30:34.670 right now. We've got like four laps to go. So 00:30:34.670 --> 00:30:36.269 I had to try and get the revs up back in first, 00:30:36.390 --> 00:30:38.190 wringing the neck off this thing, trying to tap 00:30:38.190 --> 00:30:40.150 everything, trying to figure out what's going 00:30:40.150 --> 00:30:41.970 on, tapping the airbox, is the airbox loose? 00:30:42.529 --> 00:30:45.670 And yeah, had to limp it home and we ended up, 00:30:45.730 --> 00:30:48.869 what did we end up? I think it was like sixth. 00:30:49.470 --> 00:30:52.569 Losers. I think we ended up sixth. I had to limp 00:30:52.569 --> 00:30:54.829 this thing home. Kid you not, was in second gear 00:30:54.829 --> 00:30:56.930 just wringing it, trying to swerve all over the 00:30:56.930 --> 00:30:58.710 road, making sure not to pass. Riding a wide 00:30:58.710 --> 00:31:02.490 bike. Wide bike, like full Deegan's back. And 00:31:02.490 --> 00:31:05.509 yeah, it sucked, man, like to lead every lap. 00:31:05.789 --> 00:31:09.170 Dude, you were gutted, man. I was so gutted. 00:31:09.170 --> 00:31:10.990 When I got to you in the pit, so they do this 00:31:10.990 --> 00:31:13.420 funny thing like... This race is known for cheating, 00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:16.099 right? Like the whole cheating aspect is actually 00:31:16.099 --> 00:31:17.819 like a huge part of it. That's why they do a 00:31:17.819 --> 00:31:20.339 pre -dino. Then they do a dino day. And then 00:31:20.339 --> 00:31:22.160 at the end of your race, the bike gets dinoed 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.240 again because everyone cheats that badly. They 00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:27.660 have to like check every bike regularly. It's 00:31:27.660 --> 00:31:30.359 insane. So like you pull off for the race and 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.099 they dino. Do they dino everyone? Just like top 00:31:32.099 --> 00:31:35.220 10? They dino top 10. Top 10. Dude, so I run 00:31:35.220 --> 00:31:38.839 over because everyone pulls up, run over. I've 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:41.200 got... The microphone, I'm like yelling and screaming 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.099 and carrying on. And the guy that won it's like 00:31:45.099 --> 00:31:48.119 an ASBK, like pro rider. He's like one of the 00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:50.880 best Australian super bike riders, right? No, 00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:53.019 that was in GP. That was crew in GP. Sorry, that 00:31:53.019 --> 00:31:55.619 was crew. We got that mixed up. So who won the 00:31:55.619 --> 00:31:59.759 cup? The cup was... Oh, I don't know. Who did 00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:01.559 that? Yeah, right. I can't remember who won ours. 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:03.839 Right, I'm getting confused. Sorry. Anyway, I 00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:06.480 go over. Zach's just like head on the handlebars. 00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:10.930 Just devastated. Never seen a dude cry over a 00:32:10.930 --> 00:32:13.910 CT110. Fully. Like fully. Bro, I was really in 00:32:13.910 --> 00:32:16.329 tears. I know. You sent me the longest voice 00:32:16.329 --> 00:32:18.410 message that night. I was like, I've just got 00:32:18.410 --> 00:32:20.549 to tell you over a voice message. I can't type. 00:32:20.690 --> 00:32:23.630 I can't bear to type. Tears in my eyes. Sobbing. 00:32:23.789 --> 00:32:26.730 Bro, that is pure racer. That's pure racer. It's 00:32:26.730 --> 00:32:29.309 like the dumbest race. I'm gutted, dude. I'm 00:32:29.309 --> 00:32:32.170 like, are you okay? The dumbest race that means 00:32:32.170 --> 00:32:34.730 nothing on the shittest bike and he's gutted. 00:32:35.529 --> 00:32:38.470 I love it. It's great. it's just that pure racer 00:32:38.470 --> 00:32:41.529 you know racer spirit in me pure racer man and 00:32:41.529 --> 00:32:43.529 i mean lucky we didn't make the gp because add 00:32:43.529 --> 00:32:44.789 to add to what you were saying before when you 00:32:44.789 --> 00:32:47.670 got confused so asbk rider crew holiday and tom 00:32:47.670 --> 00:32:50.769 taparis teamed up on the dark war bikes and holy 00:32:50.769 --> 00:32:53.089 shit the first so their race is an hour and a 00:32:53.089 --> 00:32:55.569 half long the first half an hour they lapped 00:32:55.569 --> 00:32:58.000 all the way up to second place yeah Wow. Yeah. 00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:00.299 They lapped the whole field in the first half 00:33:00.299 --> 00:33:03.640 an hour. Yeah, it was nuts to watch. It was actually 00:33:03.640 --> 00:33:06.240 really interesting to watch to see how much faster 00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:10.240 technique could just make you. Because the bikes 00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:12.940 are essentially all the same, right? Like 6 .3 00:33:12.940 --> 00:33:15.579 horsepower is the maximum. Basically, everyone's 00:33:15.579 --> 00:33:18.599 at 6 horsepower. The bikes all suck. Like there's 00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:20.799 not much you can do. Okay, you can put some little 00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:24.039 shim in the forks and you can do like bugger 00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:28.039 all, right? Well, the secret switches are supposedly 00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:30.240 gone now because they're dynoing so much. But 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:33.279 I don't know. The bikes clearly look like they're 00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:36.279 all the same. And it didn't seem... Because Tom 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.460 was significantly slower than Crew, right? So 00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:40.819 that made us think, okay, the bike's legit. They're 00:33:40.819 --> 00:33:44.279 not cheating. But man, watching dudes with technique, 00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:47.579 it's just insane. Like the corner speed he could 00:33:47.579 --> 00:33:50.079 carry. Even the photos of him, you can see everyone's 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.579 leaned over. Crew's just got his foot like... 00:33:53.120 --> 00:33:55.519 Speedway style. Yeah. Landed this thing and it's 00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:58.819 just like, how do you... Yeah, it was nuts. It 00:33:58.819 --> 00:34:01.339 was nuts. It was crazy. But I was... Hey, I was 00:34:01.339 --> 00:34:02.980 the first to crash on crash corner too. I also 00:34:02.980 --> 00:34:04.660 crashed there. I was the first to crash on crash 00:34:04.660 --> 00:34:07.420 corner in qualifying, mind you. Big surprise. 00:34:08.460 --> 00:34:10.139 Shocker. I had to get it out of the way. At least 00:34:10.139 --> 00:34:12.079 I got it out of the way before the main. Crash 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.699 Sajdrovic. Crash Sajdrovic. Crash Sajdrovic. 00:34:14.940 --> 00:34:18.920 Crash Sajdrovic. You suck. I'm getting there, 00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:20.599 right, guys? I love it. I'm maturing a little 00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:24.960 bit. Love it. So, Shandog, what's on for you 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:27.280 for the year, mate? What are you doing over there? 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.760 Are we doing a Dark Princess 2 .0? Yeah, so I'm 00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:35.900 just waiting for the 26th to arrive. Boy, you 00:34:35.900 --> 00:34:38.900 want to know something. I had an email today. 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:43.320 We may have Princess 2 .0 coming sooner than 00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:49.369 we thought. Really? Yeah. Big excitement out 00:34:49.369 --> 00:34:52.449 of him, eh? It's crazy. Yeah, so I guess we'll 00:34:52.449 --> 00:34:57.670 try and we'll get that built and up to my standard, 00:34:57.750 --> 00:35:00.710 I guess. What is your standard? I don't know, 00:35:00.789 --> 00:35:03.469 just plastics. Do you have standard plastics 00:35:03.469 --> 00:35:07.489 and graphics? No, I guess my plan is to just 00:35:07.489 --> 00:35:12.070 get more seat time. Yeah. Like, yeah, we rode 00:35:12.070 --> 00:35:14.969 a couple of days ago. And I haven't ridden since 00:35:14.969 --> 00:35:17.469 Transmoto, which by Transmoto, I was actually 00:35:17.469 --> 00:35:19.969 going quite good. Dude, you got significantly 00:35:19.969 --> 00:35:22.809 better quicker. Like I feel like the first time 00:35:22.809 --> 00:35:26.210 we rode, you were a Gumby and I felt like I was 00:35:26.210 --> 00:35:29.190 riding pretty decent. And then by like the third 00:35:29.190 --> 00:35:31.449 or fourth session, I'm like, oh shit, Shannon's 00:35:31.449 --> 00:35:33.429 now better than me. Great. That's awesome. I 00:35:33.429 --> 00:35:35.369 don't know about that, but I'm okay. I go all 00:35:35.369 --> 00:35:38.369 right. So I'd like to do a couple more Transmotos. 00:35:38.449 --> 00:35:42.170 Yeah. Definitely Narrabri. No, bro, I was sick 00:35:42.170 --> 00:35:44.489 last year. I also, shock horror, I actually want 00:35:44.489 --> 00:35:47.389 to get out on a motocross track. Something basic. 00:35:47.449 --> 00:35:50.230 A couple of tabletops. Man, I'll take you to 00:35:50.230 --> 00:35:52.429 ranch. I'll take Russ to ranch. He went all right. 00:35:52.429 --> 00:35:54.090 He did one lap. He was a one lap one dog. He 00:35:54.090 --> 00:35:56.809 did three sessions, three laps. Bro, motocross 00:35:56.809 --> 00:35:58.969 is hard. I could throw a couple of bum whips 00:35:58.969 --> 00:36:03.230 up. Dude, old, yeah, big bum whip guy. I couldn't 00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:10.710 imagine you airborne. He wasn't. Whoa. I think, 00:36:11.449 --> 00:36:14.250 I got the back. A little back tail top. That's 00:36:14.250 --> 00:36:18.110 like two foot long. Okay. I mean, you know what? 00:36:18.150 --> 00:36:19.309 I actually thought you were going to huck the 00:36:19.309 --> 00:36:21.530 triple. The first time you come around, you come 00:36:21.530 --> 00:36:22.690 around that corner pretty quick. And I'm like, 00:36:22.730 --> 00:36:26.010 is he going to do it? I actually, I actually 00:36:26.010 --> 00:36:27.710 probably could pull the trigger on that. Really? 00:36:27.750 --> 00:36:30.630 I just bitched out, but that, cause it's actually 00:36:30.630 --> 00:36:33.690 pretty nice. Like that ball turned so huge. You 00:36:33.690 --> 00:36:34.909 can get speed out of that, but you got to be 00:36:34.909 --> 00:36:36.769 careful. Cause the thing's so lippy and not long. 00:36:36.889 --> 00:36:40.050 So I did it first lap. I had like, I went to 00:36:40.050 --> 00:36:42.710 double it just to roll it. Yeah. And I like cased 00:36:42.710 --> 00:36:45.349 the triple. Right. Yeah, I was slamming in the 00:36:45.349 --> 00:36:47.750 back of it once or twice. I'm like, I could probably 00:36:47.750 --> 00:36:49.489 just... A little more pep and you're there. Yeah, 00:36:49.510 --> 00:36:51.949 I could probably pull it. It just freaks me out, 00:36:51.969 --> 00:36:53.429 man. I just don't like it. I'm actually just 00:36:53.429 --> 00:36:56.010 really bad at ruts. Ruts make me nervous and 00:36:56.010 --> 00:36:59.739 skittish and I don't know what to do. Corner 00:36:59.739 --> 00:37:02.880 for Doge. So, Transmotos. Yeah, Transmotos. I'm 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:04.360 going to keep it pretty chill with my schedule. 00:37:04.500 --> 00:37:06.519 My music schedule is pretty gnarly as well. So, 00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:09.760 I'll do as much as I can, basically. But I'll 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:12.199 probably do more adventure bike stuff. Yeah, 00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:16.840 big adventure bike. So, we introduced Shanda 00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:19.579 Adventure Bikes last year when he came on board. 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:21.880 I was like, you, have you done adventure? And 00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:23.679 he's like, actually, I've got a DRZ. And I'm 00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:27.139 like, you're basically halfway there. Just over 00:37:27.139 --> 00:37:31.880 half. So we chucked him on the big Tenere. The 00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:34.380 big Worldie, the World Raid. He fell in love 00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:36.980 immediately. They're the best. He was like a 00:37:36.980 --> 00:37:39.920 schoolboy seeing boobs for the first time. Adventure 00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:43.079 bikes are the best. That's bang for your buck, 00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.300 I think. That's the best. That's the best for 00:37:45.300 --> 00:37:48.260 me, for where I'm at anyway. If you can head 00:37:48.260 --> 00:37:53.559 out for a fun few hours out. with Russell being 00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:56.380 an overnighter in bloody Timbuktu or something. 00:37:56.500 --> 00:38:01.099 But yeah, anything that I can combine my love 00:38:01.099 --> 00:38:04.280 for chicken parmas and beers along the way. Yes. 00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.400 A couple of fourth gear skids. Yeah. This is 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:09.539 the thing that people don't get about riding 00:38:09.539 --> 00:38:13.840 dementia bikes. Dementia bikes. I've never heard 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:17.980 that. It's the parmies. It's the beers. Parmas, 00:38:18.019 --> 00:38:21.420 yeah. Parmies. Melbourne boy. Oh, here we go. 00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:23.900 Another side quest. No, we're not doing this. 00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.219 We're right, you're wrong. Clip this up. We're 00:38:26.219 --> 00:38:29.219 right, you're wrong. It's palmy, not palma, you're 00:38:29.219 --> 00:38:31.579 a weirdo. I suppose it's potato cake too, right? 00:38:32.059 --> 00:38:34.920 Potato, potato. Yeah. You're a fruitcake. You're 00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:36.139 actually a fruitcake. Do you know what a scallop 00:38:36.139 --> 00:38:39.480 is? That's a scallop. No. I know what you're 00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:42.920 about to say. What? No. He's talking about the 00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:45.119 little animal thing that you fry. The seafood 00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.960 thing. The animal thing is a type of... Aquarius. 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:55.519 Aquarius. No, I'm an Aquarius. It's, yeah. You're 00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:57.320 in New South Wales now. So, where's scallop come 00:38:57.320 --> 00:38:59.500 from? Can you please explain? I'm not, like, 00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:01.719 I'm not having this argument with the Mexican. 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:05.739 Just understand that. It's a potato cake and 00:39:05.739 --> 00:39:08.019 it's a palmer. It's not a cake. Anyway, moving 00:39:08.019 --> 00:39:10.280 forward, adventure bikes are good. You know what? 00:39:10.300 --> 00:39:12.840 As much as I always thought adventure bikes was 00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:15.000 like an old guy thing. Adventure bikes. Like, 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.619 dementia bikes. Like, full on. When I actually... 00:39:17.980 --> 00:39:20.539 When we went for that ride for the first time, 00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:22.460 I was like, this is actually pretty sick. What 00:39:22.460 --> 00:39:28.619 was our first one? We did the... Did we go to 00:39:28.619 --> 00:39:32.400 Broke? No. What past singer? Sheepskin. Do we 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:37.179 do... Oh. Jerry's? Jerry's. That's right. We 00:39:37.179 --> 00:39:40.150 did Jerry's. That was our first one. No. No, 00:39:40.150 --> 00:39:42.789 sorry. That was Shannon's first one. No, that 00:39:42.789 --> 00:39:45.630 was my first big one. Right. The one before that, 00:39:45.710 --> 00:39:51.190 I think, was... It was only a short one. We went 00:39:51.190 --> 00:39:53.250 to Laguna. Yeah, it was an Arvo Laguna ride or 00:39:53.250 --> 00:39:55.469 something. Annoyingly, you were fast as shit. 00:39:55.530 --> 00:39:59.230 Arvo Laguna ride. A short one. Short one. It's 00:39:59.230 --> 00:40:02.369 not a short one when you go to Russell. Sweet, 00:40:02.630 --> 00:40:06.730 we're going to start at 4 .30. Why, dude? It's 00:40:06.730 --> 00:40:11.030 Sunday. Two 11 -hour days. Yes. Later. No, they're 00:40:11.030 --> 00:40:13.570 having a whinge because we did an overnighter 00:40:13.570 --> 00:40:16.869 and we did like 500Ks each day. It was hectic. 00:40:16.969 --> 00:40:18.869 So I thought it was reasonable. I wasn't on that 00:40:18.869 --> 00:40:20.949 one. Russ is like, we're going to go back through 00:40:20.949 --> 00:40:23.829 the water on the way home. How come? Yeah, remember? 00:40:23.949 --> 00:40:26.590 That was when thingy broke his leg. Josh broke 00:40:26.590 --> 00:40:28.840 his leg. Oh, yeah, that's right. Josh broke his 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:31.639 leg. Did his ACL. Yeah, did his ACL in his knee. 00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:33.760 That was brutal, too. He's such a good rider. 00:40:33.860 --> 00:40:37.159 Dude, for him to ride out with a knee just hanging 00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:39.699 out. He ended up suicide shifting for the last 00:40:39.699 --> 00:40:43.500 few Ks on a Norton. And we just propped him up 00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:45.139 at the pub with like half a dozen beers. And 00:40:45.139 --> 00:40:48.460 we're just like, see you, dude. Best of luck 00:40:48.460 --> 00:40:52.539 out there. Yeah, that was wild. Man, I'm kind 00:40:52.539 --> 00:40:54.380 of the same. I'm hoping to do some transmotos. 00:40:54.420 --> 00:40:56.480 I'm hoping, yeah, maybe a hard enduro too. But 00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:58.260 yeah, definitely more adventure bikes. I love 00:40:58.260 --> 00:41:01.880 adventure bikes. I did Husky Trek this year and 00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:05.300 it was frigging sick. It was sick. Five days 00:41:05.300 --> 00:41:07.820 of going hard. I heard you've booked me for Flinders 00:41:07.820 --> 00:41:09.860 next year. I have not booked you for Flinders. 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:13.199 I may book myself for Flinders. No, it was sick, 00:41:13.219 --> 00:41:15.320 man. I'd love everyone to be able to come. It's 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:18.380 cool. Just to be able to do five days of riding 00:41:18.380 --> 00:41:21.519 gnarly stuff on the big bikes. That Norton's 00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:24.619 sick. I just had such a good time on it. I did 00:41:24.619 --> 00:41:27.639 take a dirt nap. You did? Yeah, speaking of dirt 00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:29.880 naps. I've got to send a photo of that. It's 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:32.059 a pretty good photo. You guys heard from Russ. 00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:38.239 I blew my backpack apart. Really? Yeah. Like 00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:41.280 the front whole piece of my backpack blew off. 00:41:41.300 --> 00:41:44.579 Almost shit went everywhere. It was cool. It 00:41:44.579 --> 00:41:47.659 was good. It was the third gear high side, basically. 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:50.139 Like over an erosion mount, kicked one way, the 00:41:50.139 --> 00:41:52.199 other way. You've been hanging with me too much. 00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:56.719 Clearly. No, it was so gnarly, man. It was sick. 00:41:56.840 --> 00:42:00.139 It was five days of just riding Victorian high 00:42:00.139 --> 00:42:02.639 country, going hard. It was sick. Good crew. 00:42:02.940 --> 00:42:05.780 There with my mate Dino. He goes hard. And then 00:42:05.780 --> 00:42:09.940 this young guy that we teed up. Oh, my goodness. 00:42:10.219 --> 00:42:14.719 Jamie. Jamie? Wow. Have I forgotten his name? 00:42:14.780 --> 00:42:17.800 That's so bad. Jamie, I think. Legend of a dude. 00:42:18.589 --> 00:42:21.710 Could it be that cool? No, I'm just bad with 00:42:21.710 --> 00:42:23.809 names. It's like, I hope it's Jamie. He was a 00:42:23.809 --> 00:42:26.250 legend. He was a legend. He, yeah, borrowed his 00:42:26.250 --> 00:42:29.349 father -in -law's 701. And he was a lot like 00:42:29.349 --> 00:42:31.030 you. He was a younger guy and he was like a motocross 00:42:31.030 --> 00:42:32.690 guy. So we turned up in motocross gear. He had 00:42:32.690 --> 00:42:34.210 no idea what he was doing for adventure bikes, 00:42:34.389 --> 00:42:36.530 but just ripped. Like he was just fast as shit. 00:42:36.889 --> 00:42:39.210 So it was cool to hang with him. Because anything 00:42:39.210 --> 00:42:41.809 that was a bit more downhill, he was just so 00:42:41.809 --> 00:42:46.650 fast. And then, thank you. And then... Anything 00:42:46.650 --> 00:42:48.550 like more open, I could catch him on the big 00:42:48.550 --> 00:42:51.429 bike, but he was just wild. But it was sick. 00:42:51.449 --> 00:42:53.070 It was a ton of fun. So I'd definitely like to 00:42:53.070 --> 00:42:56.110 do that some more, which would be cool. And then 00:42:56.110 --> 00:42:57.530 I just want to build a couple of cool bikes. 00:43:00.090 --> 00:43:01.670 What are you building this year, Zach? What are 00:43:01.670 --> 00:43:04.170 you riding? Are we letting the secrets out already 00:43:04.170 --> 00:43:08.809 on first app? I reckon we bang it out, bro. All 00:43:08.809 --> 00:43:11.750 right. Well, look. So yeah, like I said before, 00:43:11.809 --> 00:43:16.300 I've got a bit of blue balls for MX. I rode the 00:43:16.300 --> 00:43:18.119 40 last year, didn't get to ride it too much. 00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:20.679 I sort of want to do something a little different 00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:25.420 this year. So we're actually building a YZ252 00:43:25.420 --> 00:43:29.380 smoker. We're bringing the mixing gas horn ass 00:43:29.380 --> 00:43:32.500 back. So we're doing a 70th anniversary build. 00:43:32.940 --> 00:43:35.980 Already got a couple of cool sponsors slash collaborators 00:43:35.980 --> 00:43:39.949 on board. I don't think I'll leak those just 00:43:39.949 --> 00:43:42.969 yet. Nah, hold the collabs. Let's hold on the 00:43:42.969 --> 00:43:44.750 collabs for now. But it's going to be a really 00:43:44.750 --> 00:43:47.789 sick build. It's going to be, yeah, film from 00:43:47.789 --> 00:43:50.090 start to finish. And I think it'll be pretty, 00:43:50.170 --> 00:43:53.170 yeah, pretty awesome. Get out, do some fun events, 00:43:53.309 --> 00:43:55.170 maybe rock up at the state titles off the couch 00:43:55.170 --> 00:43:57.250 and see if we can hold on to the thing. Dude, 00:43:57.250 --> 00:44:00.949 Paxton? Ooh. That'd be sick. I need to go on 00:44:00.949 --> 00:44:04.010 the tour for that. Okay. All right. A little 00:44:04.010 --> 00:44:06.570 bit of technical duties because this is day one. 00:44:07.409 --> 00:44:10.510 Round one. What are we talking about? We're talking 00:44:10.510 --> 00:44:13.110 about builds. So I just made a comment about 00:44:13.110 --> 00:44:15.769 Paxton. We'll talk about Paxton more because 00:44:15.769 --> 00:44:17.769 I actually just had a phone call with the boys 00:44:17.769 --> 00:44:19.429 this morning, actually. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. 00:44:19.510 --> 00:44:23.429 I rang him. I passed Derek in the car and rang 00:44:23.429 --> 00:44:25.449 him and got on the phone with Simo as well. So 00:44:25.449 --> 00:44:29.369 already started that conversation. But so last 00:44:29.369 --> 00:44:32.789 year, what were the builds we did last year? 00:44:32.829 --> 00:44:34.809 Like we did a pretty cool 65 for Chev. We did 00:44:34.809 --> 00:44:39.369 the 65 for Chev. We did your T7. yeah and then 00:44:39.369 --> 00:44:43.530 we did the i rode the wr 450 so yeah and we had 00:44:43.530 --> 00:44:46.349 a superior bike on the paxton ride we did dark 00:44:46.349 --> 00:44:49.230 prince dark oh no that was no but like just all 00:44:49.230 --> 00:44:51.670 the builds we did last year we did dark prince 00:44:51.670 --> 00:44:57.050 501 and 501 yeah we did that project the yoshimura 00:44:57.050 --> 00:45:01.380 club so sick That was a cool collab too. Like 00:45:01.380 --> 00:45:04.380 Yoshimura, Australia hooked us up big time and 00:45:04.380 --> 00:45:07.000 that bike is sick. We still have it and it's 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:10.380 mad dog. Everyone that rides it loves it. I love 00:45:10.380 --> 00:45:13.380 it. Yeah. I swapped with him on Wednesday. I 00:45:13.380 --> 00:45:15.059 was like, give me that big couch. Yeah, yeah. 00:45:15.219 --> 00:45:17.719 I haven't talked to you about that. How was that 00:45:17.719 --> 00:45:19.780 thing? Because I saw you on your socials on it. 00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:21.639 I was like, ooh, this will be interesting. It's, 00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:26.420 well, for me, like the WR450 had 4Ks on it. And 00:45:26.420 --> 00:45:29.679 we went out to like full acceleration bump rut, 00:45:29.739 --> 00:45:32.139 but it was like a little bit slippery. Right. 00:45:32.219 --> 00:45:35.539 And I suck again. Right. So I was all over the 00:45:35.539 --> 00:45:37.260 shop. So I was just like, give me that. So was 00:45:37.260 --> 00:45:40.280 the 450 too much? It's just too, it's just so 00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:43.159 steep. It's a lot. Yeah. It's just got the most, 00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:46.340 it's just so fast. Yeah. But it has like, it's 00:45:46.340 --> 00:45:49.320 funny like now me riding the WR, having run the 00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:51.440 WR for the last 12 months and then jumping on 00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:53.559 the 501 and doing that. It's actually cool to 00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:56.840 see. different aspects on how how each bike rides 00:45:56.840 --> 00:45:59.219 in different conditions so like for me now that 00:45:59.219 --> 00:46:02.199 we've written the 501 like it just it's broken 00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:06.679 in right so the frame feels not as rigid i feel 00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.539 yeah but the wr power like on long open stuff 00:46:09.539 --> 00:46:11.500 is really cool the huskies are a little calmer 00:46:11.500 --> 00:46:13.480 so in that slower stuff it rides a little better 00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:15.960 so it's sort of like you chop and change with 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:17.880 what you actually yeah for sure like for what 00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:20.550 riding you can't get everything you need no correct 00:46:20.550 --> 00:46:22.969 and that's like hard enduro man like when i rode 00:46:22.969 --> 00:46:28.829 your 300 it's like yeah you need for for certain 00:46:28.829 --> 00:46:31.070 disciplines you need a bike hard enduro sick 00:46:31.070 --> 00:46:34.389 because it like it and i've seen this with you 00:46:34.389 --> 00:46:36.190 like you've had that realization of where you're 00:46:36.190 --> 00:46:39.690 like you can look at it like a piece of terrain 00:46:39.690 --> 00:46:41.389 like a hill or a log or whatever and be like 00:46:41.389 --> 00:46:44.429 oh that's gnarly yeah and on the on the wrong 00:46:44.429 --> 00:46:46.909 bike it's really difficult and on the right bike 00:46:46.909 --> 00:46:49.699 it just becomes so easy yeah Which is crazy. 00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:51.900 Hey, like to me, that's the one sport where I've 00:46:51.900 --> 00:46:54.460 noticed from like, oh, it's super obvious. Like 00:46:54.460 --> 00:46:58.219 at my speed, hopping on a WR or an FE at a Transmoto, 00:46:58.260 --> 00:47:01.239 it's like not going to make that much difference, 00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:03.639 right? Like it sort of is what it is. But hard 00:47:03.639 --> 00:47:05.539 enduro is cool like that because you really see 00:47:05.539 --> 00:47:07.800 it. Like if you're on a WR 450 and someone's 00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:09.820 on a TE 300. Oh man, they're blowing your doors 00:47:09.820 --> 00:47:12.460 off. It's not even close. Like the 300 for that 00:47:12.460 --> 00:47:15.019 stuff is such a cheat code. Like when I tried 00:47:15.019 --> 00:47:17.340 it, when I... smashed the bike on my knee that 00:47:17.340 --> 00:47:19.239 day like watching you go up stuff on the 300 00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:21.980 I'm like how in the hell did you get up that 00:47:21.980 --> 00:47:24.659 with soft suspension mooses gummy tires I'm on 00:47:24.659 --> 00:47:29.699 the WR struggling fuck yeah that was gnarly we 00:47:29.699 --> 00:47:31.699 should take Shan Dog up there oh we need to take 00:47:31.699 --> 00:47:33.300 Shan for a hard enduro that's the only thing 00:47:33.300 --> 00:47:35.199 we haven't done with him oh that motocross it's 00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:38.239 not appealing to me no I've got a plan we're 00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:40.420 gonna do that piece of content where Zach and 00:47:40.420 --> 00:47:42.820 Bella take me and you on a motocross track and 00:47:42.820 --> 00:47:46.639 then we take essentially the three of us take 00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:48.079 Bella on an adventure bike because she's never 00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:50.739 done that and then I'm going to take you all 00:47:50.739 --> 00:47:53.960 on some hard enduro and it's going to be madness 00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:57.000 at four in the morning pick the weapon of your 00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:58.699 choice wisely that's all I'm going to say and 00:47:58.699 --> 00:48:00.860 then we're taking Shannon and Bella to the track 00:48:00.860 --> 00:48:05.650 and then I'll take you guys to a festival I don't 00:48:05.650 --> 00:48:07.889 think I'll survive the festival. You definitely 00:48:07.889 --> 00:48:11.409 won't. I think you and Bella will quit early. 00:48:11.489 --> 00:48:13.230 Yeah, I can't. Me and Bella will be in bed at 00:48:13.230 --> 00:48:15.389 like 6 .30. We'll be asleep. We'd be good. We'll 00:48:15.389 --> 00:48:17.710 be back to the hotel. We'd be in bed at 6 .30 00:48:17.710 --> 00:48:21.809 the next morning. We would be, Bella would leave 00:48:21.809 --> 00:48:24.829 to train. Yeah, for sure. She'd be like, this 00:48:24.829 --> 00:48:26.769 festival is really fun. I'm just going to go 00:48:26.769 --> 00:48:29.809 run 8 ,000 kilometers. Wouldn't have thought 00:48:29.809 --> 00:48:31.630 she'd be running. Yeah, and put in three. No, 00:48:31.630 --> 00:48:34.210 she can't run. She's got a bung foot. It's a 00:48:34.210 --> 00:48:35.949 bit of a shitty run, isn't it? Sorry, she's going 00:48:35.949 --> 00:48:39.090 to go cycle 8 ,000 kilometres and do 14 30 -minute 00:48:39.090 --> 00:48:45.079 motos. Yeah. Weapon. Yeah. Sick. All right. So, 00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:48.880 what are the bikes for 2026? So, 2026, we've 00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:50.860 got... You're going to do a two -smoker? ...252 00:48:50.860 --> 00:48:54.420 smoker build. Oh, what about the 65? Or the... 00:48:54.420 --> 00:48:58.400 What do we call it? Godzilla. Godzilla. So, we're 00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.059 going to do this Godzilla project. We've got 00:49:00.059 --> 00:49:01.739 everything here for it. I'm really excited about 00:49:01.739 --> 00:49:05.539 it. But I need to get like... I'd really like 00:49:05.539 --> 00:49:07.320 to B -blast the motor and make it all actually 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:10.300 sick, not just build a Frankenstein. But essentially 00:49:10.300 --> 00:49:11.800 what we're going to do is we're going to build 00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:14.099 a super mini for Chevy. So we're going to build, 00:49:14.219 --> 00:49:17.039 we're going to take a 65. 65 and an 85 bottom 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:18.840 end is the same. So we're going to take an 85 00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:21.840 bottom end, put it in the 65 frame and then put 00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:25.599 a 105 Athena kit, top end Athena kit on that 00:49:25.599 --> 00:49:28.860 85 bottom end. All on the 65 frame, gear it down 00:49:28.860 --> 00:49:31.440 so he can pull like... Hill climbs in like third 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:32.940 and fourth. Man, that thing's going to be gnarly. 00:49:33.059 --> 00:49:35.280 That thing's going to be fast. Yeah, like an 00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:37.519 11 -ounce flywheel weight on the thing just to 00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:39.340 make it rideable. It's going to be crazy. Just 00:49:39.340 --> 00:49:41.940 speaking of, the Super Mini needs to come back. 00:49:42.099 --> 00:49:44.159 I'm sorry, but like not many people run Super 00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:46.239 Mini anymore. Yeah. And I think it needs to come 00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:49.079 back. So, what is a Super Mini? It's an 85. So, 00:49:49.099 --> 00:49:51.840 it's an 85 with a 105 kit. So, for those smaller 00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:54.460 kids, like it was actually big when I grew up 00:49:54.460 --> 00:49:57.679 racing in that 85, 125 scene. It's like I had 00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.400 a couple of mates who had them, right? They are 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:04.079 too small for a 125. Yeah, so physically. They 00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:07.860 build this macked out 85 with a 105 kit in it. 00:50:08.139 --> 00:50:11.059 Did you ever ride one? No. I used to watch these 00:50:11.059 --> 00:50:16.679 guys hose people on a 125. Like hose them. Transmoto 00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:20.599 on a super mini, anyone? Well, look, I know a 00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:21.880 couple of people are opposed to that. Dude, you 00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:24.579 would look so funny on an 85. No, I'm not riding 00:50:24.579 --> 00:50:27.280 it. No way. No, no. I would suck. Yeah. We need 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:31.139 races. Yeah. We need racers. You, Scotty Keegan. 00:50:31.659 --> 00:50:33.840 Oh, Gemma's in. Gemma's in. Gemma's all about 00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:35.480 that. There's no way we could do it without Gemma. 00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:37.219 No. Shout out Gemma. Gemma, if you're watching 00:50:37.219 --> 00:50:38.219 this and hearing this. She's probably the perfect 00:50:38.219 --> 00:50:40.559 size for a big wheel 85. We're doing it this 00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:42.920 year. This is why Gemma's like, it's not negotiable. 00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:45.199 I'm on the team because she's actually built 00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:48.480 for an 85. Physically, she is the size. She literally 00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:51.840 is. For an 85. She fits it perfectly. So Gemma 00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:54.420 Wilson, mate, you're on. We're on. We're on here. 00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:55.460 It's going to be good. We've got to pick the 00:50:55.460 --> 00:50:58.429 right round though too. I think that's key. We 00:50:58.429 --> 00:51:01.250 need to chat to Andy and get the right, like 00:51:01.250 --> 00:51:03.250 we need the right round to do it at. I think 00:51:03.250 --> 00:51:05.610 it's going to be, I don't know. Narrabri would 00:51:05.610 --> 00:51:07.489 be sick. Narrabri would be sick for sure, but 00:51:07.489 --> 00:51:09.949 we need to put mooses in that thing. Oh, 100%. 00:51:09.949 --> 00:51:12.389 Because the rocks at Narrabri were gnarly. You'd 00:51:12.389 --> 00:51:13.769 need wheels. Especially in the grass track. You'd 00:51:13.769 --> 00:51:16.139 probably need wheels too. Maybe the standard 00:51:16.139 --> 00:51:17.739 ones will be okay. Standard ones will be fine, 00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:19.239 I think, because I think they're either D -Audio 00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:22.659 XL anyway, so they're good quality. Mooses, for 00:51:22.659 --> 00:51:25.900 sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah, sick. And then some built 00:51:25.900 --> 00:51:27.460 suspension and I think we're good to go. Yeah, 00:51:27.460 --> 00:51:31.599 be sick. So, Godzilla, your Wiser 250. We're 00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:36.559 going to do Dark Prince 2 .0. Yeah, boy. We've 00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:40.480 had an adventure, boy. Yeah, brother. I want 00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:46.099 to build. Yeah, brother. Okay. I want to build 00:51:46.099 --> 00:51:50.519 a spastic tenere. No, no. Full retard. We are 00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:53.079 building a spastic tenere. This has to happen. 00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:56.980 Yeah. So, yeah. There's a 48mm fork conversion. 00:51:57.099 --> 00:51:59.739 I want to do that. Basically, put in YZ forks 00:51:59.739 --> 00:52:03.420 in the front end of a tenere. Single disc. Lighten 00:52:03.420 --> 00:52:05.820 that thing up. We want to go tune it. Like, I 00:52:05.820 --> 00:52:08.420 want to make it crazy power. I want to crank 00:52:08.420 --> 00:52:11.900 the horsepower in that thing. And then... I really 00:52:11.900 --> 00:52:14.079 want to get it set up for doing hard stuff. So 00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:16.320 I did Paxton last year on one, which was cool. 00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:19.960 Paxton rides not hard. It's just a decent trail 00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.340 ride. But on the Tenere, it was still hard. Like 00:52:22.340 --> 00:52:24.440 I was pretty broken after those two days and 00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:26.440 it wasn't that difficult. So I'd need to do a 00:52:26.440 --> 00:52:30.260 heaps more riding on it, but just the setup to 00:52:30.260 --> 00:52:31.800 try and get the setup right. The thing's so long 00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:33.920 and so low to the ground. Yeah, that's probably 00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:35.199 the hard thing. It just needs to be like set 00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:37.619 up right. So I'd like to do a spastic Tenere 00:52:37.619 --> 00:52:40.659 and then... You wanted to do a 350. I don't know 00:52:40.659 --> 00:52:42.860 if that'll happen this year. Yeah. Look, 350 00:52:42.860 --> 00:52:44.639 would be really cool. I actually haven't ridden 00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:46.579 one yet. So, yeah. Can't believe you've ridden 00:52:46.579 --> 00:52:49.360 a 350. That's so weird. And I think, like, right 00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:50.840 on the 501, like, I'm pretty comfortable with 00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:53.940 the 501 now and the Husky. So, I think if we 00:52:53.940 --> 00:52:56.239 built a mad 350, it'd be pretty cool. But, yeah, 00:52:56.300 --> 00:52:58.179 we'll see how we go. Maybe not this year. Maybe 00:52:58.179 --> 00:53:00.800 27 builds. Who knows? I might keep that in the 00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:04.059 back of my head. Is it a new gen Husky 27? I 00:53:04.059 --> 00:53:08.159 think they're... Or that'll be the last of this 00:53:08.159 --> 00:53:10.760 gen, maybe. Yeah, I think 27 might be new gen. 00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:13.559 New gen. Maybe. That'll be interesting. So that, 00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:16.659 yeah, that could be... Yeah, maybe there's some 00:53:16.659 --> 00:53:19.639 forks of shock for that thing. That'd be cool. 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:23.519 And then we've got the world, the new worldy 00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:26.059 coming out. Oh, yeah. New world raid, middle 00:53:26.059 --> 00:53:28.460 of the year. So we'll do another launch. Yep. 00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:30.019 Because our 10 raid launch last year was sick. 00:53:30.019 --> 00:53:33.309 Our 9 launch was cool. worldy launch would be 00:53:33.309 --> 00:53:36.230 sweet and then we've got to build Shannon got 00:53:36.230 --> 00:53:40.789 to build Shandog a worldy but like a petite nice 00:53:40.789 --> 00:53:44.349 world right nothing crazy I don't think you can 00:53:44.349 --> 00:53:46.650 get a petite one no petite's probably not the 00:53:46.650 --> 00:53:50.590 right word you know I want to build like an everyman's 00:53:50.590 --> 00:53:53.969 an everyman's adventure bike do you know what 00:53:53.969 --> 00:53:55.989 I mean like not a crazy build but something that 00:53:55.989 --> 00:53:59.670 everyone will enjoy loud as fuck good tyres decent 00:53:59.670 --> 00:54:03.179 suspension yeah Yeah. And, you know, everything 00:54:03.179 --> 00:54:06.920 that you need, but not gnarly. Yeah. Not completely 00:54:06.920 --> 00:54:09.619 crazy. We're doing the KTEC forks in your Tenere. 00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:12.619 That'd be fun. Yes. Going to be testing on that. 00:54:12.659 --> 00:54:14.260 So Stock Suspension will test that and then do 00:54:14.260 --> 00:54:16.219 KTEC forks. Really keen for that action. These 00:54:16.219 --> 00:54:18.960 are like A -kit forks too. So DLC coated, Kashima 00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:22.179 coated, all internals done. I think they're set 00:54:22.179 --> 00:54:24.639 up to about 80. Yeah. We'll talk to Dino about 00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:25.960 it. So yeah, I'm going to chat to Dino about 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:29.279 that. That'd be sick. That'd be cool. Hopefully, 00:54:29.279 --> 00:54:31.820 try and swing that on a motocross track. Yeah, 00:54:31.820 --> 00:54:34.440 dude. I got a lot of cool ideas for that. That's 00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:38.539 going to be sick. So, a lot of collabs. We love 00:54:38.539 --> 00:54:40.139 working with all the different brands. So, we're 00:54:40.139 --> 00:54:41.940 super keen to do more of that this year. It's 00:54:41.940 --> 00:54:44.739 pretty sweet. I think Elps, we're going to do 00:54:44.739 --> 00:54:46.739 a lot of cool stuff with Elps. Tech Air. Yep. 00:54:47.099 --> 00:54:50.719 All that kind of jazz. But yeah, look, I think 00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:52.679 as we go through this year, we're going to follow 00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:54.340 this along. We're going to do some soupy. How 00:54:54.340 --> 00:54:55.599 many minutes do we have left, Shannon? Do we 00:54:55.599 --> 00:54:56.980 have some minutes? We haven't even done soupy. 00:54:57.710 --> 00:54:59.969 We've got five minutes. Okay, we've got five 00:54:59.969 --> 00:55:02.630 minutes. Okay, so just before Supi, yeah, we're 00:55:02.630 --> 00:55:04.050 going to do cool bike builds this year. We're 00:55:04.050 --> 00:55:06.329 going to do some cool tracks, some cool riding. 00:55:06.349 --> 00:55:08.250 It's going to be a ton of fun. And we're also 00:55:08.250 --> 00:55:09.690 going to have some guests moving forward too. 00:55:09.809 --> 00:55:11.530 You know who I think would be cool? We need to 00:55:11.530 --> 00:55:14.250 get Joey on here. Yeah, Joey. Lads on boards. 00:55:14.610 --> 00:55:18.010 We need to get Joey back when he's back. We won't 00:55:18.010 --> 00:55:20.130 even tell you who Joey is now. We'll save that. 00:55:20.269 --> 00:55:22.869 He's a lunatic. We probably need to get Lawson 00:55:22.869 --> 00:55:27.550 on and do a full... post a GP recap. Yeah. That'd 00:55:27.550 --> 00:55:30.030 be cool. Yep. I'd like to get Derek and Simo 00:55:30.030 --> 00:55:32.829 on here. Yep. Paxton. Yep. That'd be cool. That's 00:55:32.829 --> 00:55:35.429 a big deal for us every year. So that'd be kind 00:55:35.429 --> 00:55:38.510 of sweet. I think there's a, yeah, there's a 00:55:38.510 --> 00:55:40.170 few special guests we can get on here. That'd 00:55:40.170 --> 00:55:41.909 be cool. So it'd be cool. Yeah. It'd be sick. 00:55:41.929 --> 00:55:43.789 So we'll throw some guests in. We've got four 00:55:43.789 --> 00:55:45.570 set up so we can sort of do something with that, 00:55:45.590 --> 00:55:50.309 which would be sweet. Cool. All right. So. Supi. 00:55:50.329 --> 00:55:52.889 Supi breakdown. We had A1 on the weekend. A1 00:55:52.889 --> 00:55:55.469 on the weekend. Supi's back. We've got a little 00:55:55.469 --> 00:55:57.550 fantasy league going here with the shop and a 00:55:57.550 --> 00:56:01.329 few of our close customers. But yeah, I think 00:56:01.329 --> 00:56:04.329 Supi A1 was a little bit exciting. I'm super 00:56:04.329 --> 00:56:07.969 bummed for Bam Bam and Mookie. See Mookie's racing 00:56:07.969 --> 00:56:10.670 this weekend. Is he? Is he? Bro, you know what 00:56:10.670 --> 00:56:13.289 I'm so surprised at? How Barsha walked, not walked 00:56:13.289 --> 00:56:15.050 out of that, but Barsha walked out of the hospital 00:56:15.050 --> 00:56:18.650 with a broken wing in his back and that was it. 00:56:18.960 --> 00:56:20.679 His face is pretty beat up. His face is pretty 00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:22.460 beat up. Yeah, he did take a... Like, he got 00:56:22.460 --> 00:56:25.420 ragged old, man. See that photo of him and Niger? 00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:29.119 Because they both had, like, absolute slams in 00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:31.360 the same week. Yeah, I did see that. Yeah, Niger 00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:33.980 got messed up. Dude, he's lucky to be okay. He's 00:56:33.980 --> 00:56:36.320 lucky to be alive, dude. That head slim. That 00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:39.059 head slim was crazy. You know what? I was actually 00:56:39.059 --> 00:56:41.139 pretty surprised. Not surprised, because I know 00:56:41.139 --> 00:56:45.980 K -Tech... K -Rock has had a pretty good... Pre 00:56:45.980 --> 00:56:48.119 -season. I had Kenny for... You know what? But 00:56:48.119 --> 00:56:51.539 Kenny, man, like him and Tomac, first and second, 00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:54.300 Tomac first, K -Rock second. They gapped the 00:56:54.300 --> 00:56:56.340 field. I think when I looked, it was like 17 00:56:56.340 --> 00:56:58.940 seconds they had a lead on. That's insane. And 00:56:58.940 --> 00:57:02.239 Kenny was staying. He only had like a two -second 00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:06.599 gap. to Tomac. Yeah, but isn't this sort of Kenny, 00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:09.820 like early season, Kenny's the man? Kenny is. 00:57:09.860 --> 00:57:11.980 Kenny is always the man. Oh, Kenny is always 00:57:11.980 --> 00:57:14.079 the man. I know, but as the season, he fades 00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:18.559 hard, right? No, I think he's had the right preseason, 00:57:18.599 --> 00:57:20.780 so I think this year, if he can stay consistent, 00:57:20.860 --> 00:57:23.059 it'll be good. He's a pretty consistent guy. 00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:24.280 He's just had some really, really big fucking 00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:26.360 crashes. Yeah, correct. Yeah, oh, for sure. Last 00:57:26.360 --> 00:57:28.380 year, the one through the whoops where he tried 00:57:28.380 --> 00:57:31.190 to split those ladders and just got... Pumped. 00:57:31.190 --> 00:57:34.329 And then the last one was when he shock let go. 00:57:34.409 --> 00:57:36.690 Dude, that was gnarly. Yeah, that was crazy. 00:57:36.949 --> 00:57:39.969 Dude. So, that'll be interesting. Prado rode 00:57:39.969 --> 00:57:43.510 really, really well back on the KTM on the Eurobikes 00:57:43.510 --> 00:57:48.170 this year. He shat on Cowie. That's got to suck, 00:57:48.230 --> 00:57:51.090 man. In saying this, though, not that I want 00:57:51.090 --> 00:57:54.530 to say it, but Cowie curse. I mean, Sexton crashing 00:57:54.530 --> 00:57:58.380 in the heat and then... diving it in the main 00:57:58.380 --> 00:58:02.179 running off track what's going on is it i had 00:58:02.179 --> 00:58:05.039 dude it's the cowie curse man i it can't be no 00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:08.480 it used to be just the pro circuit team curse 00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:11.079 it was just the 250s but now but now it's spreading 00:58:11.079 --> 00:58:14.179 yeah It can't be the bike though. The bike's 00:58:14.179 --> 00:58:16.639 got to be good. Well, March Banks. Oh, it's March 00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:18.019 Banks. Yeah, March Banks didn't even make the 00:58:18.019 --> 00:58:20.559 main. He didn't even make the main. They all 00:58:20.559 --> 00:58:25.019 ate shit. That's wild. It's gnarly, but I think 00:58:25.019 --> 00:58:26.940 an underdog is going to be Cooper, Justin Cooper. 00:58:27.960 --> 00:58:31.039 No, man. He was midway through the race, he was 00:58:31.039 --> 00:58:35.280 third fastest. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. He's just got 00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:39.260 a good start. Come on, man. Yeah, Justin Cooper's 00:58:39.260 --> 00:58:41.989 okay. I reckon Kenny's got it. I'm going to call 00:58:41.989 --> 00:58:44.050 it right now. Look, San Diego's this weekend 00:58:44.050 --> 00:58:47.489 in two days, so we'd love to see who you guys 00:58:47.489 --> 00:58:51.030 think is going to get on that top box. We've 00:58:51.030 --> 00:58:52.949 actually got to do our picks, by the way. Yeah, 00:58:52.989 --> 00:58:55.929 can everyone join this or not? Everyone can, 00:58:55.929 --> 00:58:58.190 yeah. Are we like private? Look, for you guys, 00:58:58.289 --> 00:59:02.369 if you jump on RM Fantasy, if you jump onto the 00:59:02.369 --> 00:59:04.469 groups and add a group, it's under Power Sports 00:59:04.469 --> 00:59:07.650 Central. We'll probably add the group name and 00:59:07.650 --> 00:59:12.599 password. on this potty so get amongst it get 00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:15.599 amongst it we've got a few in the lead at the 00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:18.679 moment we've got a few I think we've got about 00:59:18.679 --> 00:59:22.139 seven guys or seven people in there Russ is coming 00:59:22.139 --> 00:59:25.320 seventh no doubt Bella's way down I think I'm 00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:30.210 in fourth did I beat Bella? I I think you actually 00:59:30.210 --> 00:59:33.130 did. Yes. I'm pretty sure you did. So, jump on 00:59:33.130 --> 00:59:35.869 Iron Fantasy League. Is there an app? It's pretty 00:59:35.869 --> 00:59:37.329 fun. I don't even know where I'm at. It's just 00:59:37.329 --> 00:59:40.030 a browser. It's just on your browser. You can't 00:59:40.030 --> 00:59:41.309 download the app here because it's obviously 00:59:41.309 --> 00:59:44.090 American. But jump on. We'd love to see you. 00:59:44.210 --> 00:59:46.969 So, who have you got? I've got this weekend. 00:59:47.030 --> 00:59:49.070 I haven't actually done my picks. But look, I'm 00:59:49.070 --> 00:59:53.849 probably going to put Kenny in a top three position 00:59:53.849 --> 00:59:57.460 again. I don't think he'll get... but I think 00:59:57.460 --> 01:00:01.280 he might go consecutive second. First, look, 01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:04.260 as much as I hate to say it, I'm liking Tomac. 01:00:04.300 --> 01:00:07.440 I don't like him on that orange bike, but Tomac, 01:00:07.500 --> 01:00:11.860 I don't know, I'm going to put third. Tomac, 01:00:11.880 --> 01:00:16.500 Kenny, Hunter, Prado, Koop. I'm going to go Hunter 01:00:16.500 --> 01:00:18.179 fourth. The real Koop. I'm going to go Hunter 01:00:18.179 --> 01:00:20.079 fourth. I think Koop Webb's got a shot at third. 01:00:20.699 --> 01:00:25.179 Yeah, maybe. I'm going to go Tomac, Kenny, Webb. 01:00:25.610 --> 01:00:27.429 One, two, three. Where did Hunter finish last 01:00:27.429 --> 01:00:30.869 year? Last year or last round? No, no, last year. 01:00:32.670 --> 01:00:35.469 Soupy. Yeah, I don't think you got top three. 01:00:35.690 --> 01:00:37.550 I got to top check that actually. I should know 01:00:37.550 --> 01:00:41.409 this. You should. You're the guy. He also won 01:00:41.409 --> 01:00:44.550 the first SMX round and then got second at the 01:00:44.550 --> 01:00:47.429 end of that little mini series. So he's on. But 01:00:47.429 --> 01:00:50.309 he just didn't have any sprint speed at the start, 01:00:50.369 --> 01:00:52.889 I feel like. I really want to see Kitchen and 01:00:52.889 --> 01:00:56.170 Deegan Beef. I don't even know why San Diego. 01:00:56.250 --> 01:00:58.090 I don't even know why Deegan did that. Did you 01:00:58.090 --> 01:01:01.489 see the video of them at press day? Yeah. The 01:01:01.489 --> 01:01:08.050 follow cam. It was so funny. I'd love to see 01:01:08.050 --> 01:01:10.250 Hunter get up. Like we jet out. It'd be sick 01:01:10.250 --> 01:01:12.010 to see Hunter. Yeah. It'd be cool to see Hunter 01:01:12.010 --> 01:01:14.369 up there. If it was who I want to win this thing, 01:01:14.550 --> 01:01:17.190 it would be Hunter. But see, that's what Hunter's 01:01:17.190 --> 01:01:22.059 about, right? I think he's usually a... He's 01:01:22.059 --> 01:01:23.980 pretty consistent. So I think if you can stay 01:01:23.980 --> 01:01:26.920 consistent for the year, I know a few of these 01:01:26.920 --> 01:01:29.099 other guys are going to probably have issues 01:01:29.099 --> 01:01:30.719 throughout the year. So if you can stay consistent 01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:33.400 and stay in that top five coming into SMX, I 01:01:33.400 --> 01:01:36.780 think he's got a shot. But it's going to be difficult. 01:01:37.579 --> 01:01:40.619 There's so many guys that I think are going to 01:01:40.619 --> 01:01:42.940 excel this year and have had a good preseason. 01:01:43.239 --> 01:01:46.219 Well, there's 10 people that can win any week. 01:01:46.380 --> 01:01:49.460 But what Hunter has is he can get fourth all 01:01:49.460 --> 01:01:52.730 year. Yeah. Whereas these other guys will cartwheel. 01:01:52.730 --> 01:01:54.389 Which is kind of the key, yeah. Yeah, correct. 01:01:54.449 --> 01:01:57.889 For sure. No, sick. Sweet. Well, that's going 01:01:57.889 --> 01:02:00.389 to be fun. We'll link all the stuff below so 01:02:00.389 --> 01:02:02.750 you guys can join our fantasy league. That'll 01:02:02.750 --> 01:02:05.090 be a ton of fun. Do our picks. We'll chat about 01:02:05.090 --> 01:02:07.789 it weekly and hang out and, yeah, just kind of 01:02:07.789 --> 01:02:10.789 go through that stuff. In other racing, Chucky 01:02:10.789 --> 01:02:13.469 is the frigging man in Dakar. Bro, he's gnarly. 01:02:13.570 --> 01:02:15.690 He's so broken right now. Busted collarbone, 01:02:15.909 --> 01:02:19.079 busted sternum and still riding. Dude, they had 01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:24.739 a 535K liaison day before yesterday. 350K race 01:02:24.739 --> 01:02:30.320 and then 535Ks of like road riding. Can you imagine 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:34.119 sitting on a 450 rally bike with a broken collarbone 01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:38.260 and sternum just down the road for like hours 01:02:38.260 --> 01:02:39.980 and hours and hours? It's his left shoulder, 01:02:40.039 --> 01:02:42.480 hey? Left. Yeah, so he would have been somewhat 01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:44.199 okay. Did you see the swelling and bruising that 01:02:44.199 --> 01:02:47.000 he had when he finished? Yep. That was gnarly. 01:02:47.019 --> 01:02:49.800 Dude, he's in so much pain. It's crazy what he's 01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:52.519 doing. It sucks that we've lost it. It sucks 01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:54.880 that he was going for the double up he won last 01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:56.380 year, so he really wanted to back it up, and 01:02:56.380 --> 01:02:58.880 he was doing it. He was totally doing it. Yeah. 01:02:59.340 --> 01:03:01.559 So, that sucks. So, Ricky Brayback's going to 01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:03.639 win it, basically, I think, which, whatever. 01:03:04.820 --> 01:03:09.099 Ricky Bobby. Ricky Bobby. I love his mom. And 01:03:09.099 --> 01:03:12.059 Toby's still good. Toby will probably end up 01:03:12.059 --> 01:03:14.199 with his truck in the top 10. Where's he sitting 01:03:14.199 --> 01:03:17.269 at the moment? He's like 16th or 15th or something 01:03:17.269 --> 01:03:20.409 overall, first year with a factory truck. And 01:03:20.409 --> 01:03:23.250 dude, he's done so well. So he had to give up 01:03:23.250 --> 01:03:25.750 his spare tire to his teammate. He had to tow 01:03:25.750 --> 01:03:27.150 the other teammate out because he ran out of 01:03:27.150 --> 01:03:30.110 fuel. Like he's like fully being like the team 01:03:30.110 --> 01:03:32.730 support guy and still up the front, which is 01:03:32.730 --> 01:03:36.130 classic Toby, right? Like he's just so insane. 01:03:36.269 --> 01:03:41.010 He got robbed at Baja last, like this past Baja. 01:03:41.289 --> 01:03:44.369 So it'd be sick for him to finish real high at, 01:03:45.059 --> 01:03:46.840 That'd be pretty cool. It'd basically get him 01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:48.219 a contract for the next few years too, I think, 01:03:48.219 --> 01:03:49.519 which is really cool. Yeah, that's cool. Because 01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:51.059 I don't think he's got a contract. I think it's 01:03:51.059 --> 01:03:53.519 just a trial go. Have I read his book? I read 01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:54.920 his book. It's fucking awesome. I haven't read 01:03:54.920 --> 01:03:57.179 it actually. It's Chevy's bedtime story. Is it 01:03:57.179 --> 01:03:58.679 actually? Yeah, we read it. I need to borrow 01:03:58.679 --> 01:04:01.460 that. We read it every night. It's sick. Is that 01:04:01.460 --> 01:04:04.679 for a lullaby? And then he broke his neck in 01:04:04.679 --> 01:04:09.440 17 places. Good night. This is crazy. Sick. All 01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:10.840 right. Well, we're going to wrap this up because 01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:12.440 we don't know how much time we've got left on 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:15.579 our thing. Zero. Zero time. But yeah, thanks 01:04:15.579 --> 01:04:17.159 heaps for tuning in, guys. Thank you for checking 01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:19.199 this out. This is kind of episode one or maybe 01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:21.539 it's even the pilot episode before episode one. 01:04:22.059 --> 01:04:23.760 We'll check it out. We're going to try and do 01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:26.079 this thing weekly if you two jerkies can commit. 01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:29.420 Yeah, that's what I thought. Good answer. Good 01:04:29.420 --> 01:04:33.480 answer. So yeah, follow along. It'll be on Apple, 01:04:33.579 --> 01:04:36.190 hopefully. I don't know how to do that. but jade's 01:04:36.190 --> 01:04:38.010 here jade can do it we'll figure this out thanks 01:04:38.010 --> 01:04:40.449 jade hopefully on spotify too if we can uh yeah 01:04:40.449 --> 01:04:41.909 yeah yeah we'll try and get it all up in the 01:04:41.909 --> 01:04:43.530 places and we'll send it out and we'll get all 01:04:43.530 --> 01:04:45.989 the videos up on socials and stuff too so thanks 01:04:45.989 --> 01:04:47.710 heaps for listening guys really appreciate it 01:04:47.710 --> 01:04:51.489 um yeah this is shop talk and um yeah thanks 01:04:51.489 --> 01:04:56.329 for joining us we out we out we out are you are 01:04:56.329 --> 01:05:08.880 you out shannon good job thanks boys Oh my God.