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Re: CB400f rarity?
« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2014, 05:57:43 PM »
Thanks for all the replies guys.
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Re: CB400f rarity?
« Reply #26 on: May 17, 2014, 01:46:12 AM »
that guy could ride Andrew and its a road block!thats a lump of a bike though he did well!,your on tim,youll run out of legs geared that low!

I'm shifting into 6th at 150 KPH and hitting the sweet part of the powerband lol
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« Reply #27 on: May 17, 2014, 01:59:26 AM »
oh oh!your on,this time we drag race properly,so was it stock gearing before tim?i need a longer ride on it still yet!

damn you've been out test riding and ive been fixing a fence all day!
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Re: CB400f rarity?
« Reply #28 on: May 17, 2014, 03:51:52 AM »
Just remembered as I sit here eating M&m's....I was supposed to come by your place.....

First Warren and Shane Townsend came by.....

Then Linton needed a hand cleaning out old stock from DB Customs.....

Plus I had to put gear oil back in the KR....

So the day got away from me...

What we should have done was what Graham did

Pissed everything off and gone to Canungra with the Gold Coast with the vintage guys.....
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« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2014, 04:00:12 AM »
ha!im told an old Norton never made it out of the driveway?dont come by my place unless you have a hammer and nails man!bloody out riding while I sweat it out doing lowly fence work,sorry for the thread hi jack txterror.

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« Reply #30 on: May 17, 2014, 04:07:40 AM »
ha!im told an old Norton never made it out of the driveway?dont come by my place unless you have a hammer and nails man!bloody out riding while I sweat it out doing lowly fence work,sorry for the thread hi jack txterror.

I have a couple Ball Peen's.....

Not what you were hoping for?

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« Reply #31 on: May 17, 2014, 04:14:08 AM »
back to the store,plan A became plan B,20 more palings,i have to make this frigging pool fence unclimable by every member of the Moscow circus it seems?razor wire isn't an option?

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« Reply #32 on: May 17, 2014, 04:17:18 AM »
back to the store,plan A became plan B,20 more palings,i have to make this frigging pool fence unclimable by every member of the Moscow circus it seems?razor wire isn't an option?

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« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2014, 04:25:05 AM »
local council have an "issue"with kiddie parts all over the place?#$%*en wimps,im sick of them blocking the drain port on my pool,bloody slack parents who let their kids squeeze through 100mm gaps then reach over 900mm to grab a less than 10mm finger perch to then shuffle along for another 900mm on one little toe to then climb a less than 60 degree angle chamfer bevelled edge of over 610mm to then hop over a 2 metre drop to finally commit suicide in my pool?man sorry txterror!

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« Reply #34 on: May 17, 2014, 04:26:43 AM »
I think pools should continue to filter out the dumb children......

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« Reply #35 on: May 17, 2014, 04:28:36 AM »
and another thing!my bloody filter!ill never have another pool again!

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« Reply #36 on: May 17, 2014, 04:31:21 AM »
I #$%*en hate swimming anyway,and to think I have an open water advanced PADI wreck diver certificate?

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« Reply #37 on: May 17, 2014, 04:33:19 AM »
I did the whole PADI open water........

And I dive so damn often lol
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Re: CB400f rarity?
« Reply #38 on: May 17, 2014, 04:38:03 AM »
I'd love to dive the great barrier reef
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« Reply #39 on: May 17, 2014, 04:41:46 AM »
Its pretty Awesome......

But 400F's are rare there
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« Reply #40 on: May 17, 2014, 04:44:22 AM »
you gotta dive the  Yongala ship wreck off Townsville stevo!sank in like 1911 during a cyclone and 125 lives and one horse lost,only found by a mine sweeper in 1944 but not looked at till later,the bronze prop was already missing?it has a strong current running over it,its in 45 metres of water.

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« Reply #41 on: May 17, 2014, 04:47:38 AM »
PADI=put another dollar in?a bit like amway or some #$%*?

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« Reply #42 on: May 17, 2014, 05:15:24 AM »
I've dove a staged plane wreck down in Cozumel.  No 400F there, rare
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« Reply #43 on: May 17, 2014, 05:36:15 AM »
I don't know where 14-28 metres comes from its bloody deep at 45 when I was there!its not an easy dive with the fast flowing current over it either and ive been down and all along it three times.
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« Reply #44 on: May 17, 2014, 05:40:07 AM »
I worked on Lady Elliot island for 3 months a few years ago. It was great, knock off of work at 3 walk to your room get changed then off to free dive and see if we could find some mantas. It is on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. I have some nice pictures of the mantas I got to swim with.
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« Reply #45 on: May 17, 2014, 06:06:10 AM »
I worked on Lady Elliot island for 3 months a few years ago. It was great, knock off of work at 3 walk to your room get changed then off to free dive and see if we could find some mantas. It is on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. I have some nice pictures of the mantas I got to swim with.

Pics?  How big were the mantas??
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Re: CB400f rarity?
« Reply #46 on: May 17, 2014, 10:30:48 AM »
I worked on Lady Elliot island for 3 months a few years ago. It was great, knock off of work at 3 walk to your room get changed then off to free dive and see if we could find some mantas. It is on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. I have some nice pictures of the mantas I got to swim with.

Pics?  How big were the mantas??

Are the mantas on 400f's?
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Re: CB400f rarity?
« Reply #47 on: May 17, 2014, 11:30:55 AM »
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ripping yarns. And now let's talk shovels.
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Re: CB400f rarity?
« Reply #48 on: May 17, 2014, 04:54:28 PM »

I worked on Lady Elliot island for 3 months a few years ago. It was great, knock off of work at 3 walk to your room get changed then off to free dive and see if we could find some mantas. It is on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. I have some nice pictures of the mantas I got to swim with.

Pics?  How big were the mantas??
The pictures are on my computer, I'll post them up later.
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Re: CB400f rarity?
« Reply #49 on: May 20, 2014, 02:54:00 AM »
I worked on Lady Elliot island for 3 months a few years ago. It was great, knock off of work at 3 walk to your room get changed then off to free dive and see if we could find some mantas. It is on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. I have some nice pictures of the mantas I got to swim with.

Pics?  How big were the mantas??
  The Manta's belonged to the species Manta alfredi, they grow to 5.5m across.  The one's around the island were between 4 and 5 metres across.  Definitely impressive to freedive within a few feet of.




This fella was hanging about in the current at a cleaning station in about 14m of water, I ran out of breath at about 12m and had to head back up.  So I couldn't quite get the shot I wanted.





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