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Page 30 has an interesting story about some guy going to the US next year on his 1400GTR

Typo's aside that is and calling it a "race" when its a competition its not bad at all.

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Your mate Wayne registered tonight also.

Be a good sized crew there. I know you are only joking but I think I have said this to many FarRiders.
I don't do FarRides for myself, although the extra rides are good for my training. I do them to see the huge smiles on all your faces and the excitement that comes from riders finding out they CAN do these longer rides. I do them because there was obviously a need, the number of riders that have done and are doing these rides plus the huge number now that know about FarRiders is clear that someone had to do this.

A good online mate in the US paid me the highest compliment when he said "Dave you are the Mike Kneebone of Australia"
Mike Kneebone is the main man of the Iron Butt Association. Now I do not agree at all however he went on to say with things like this "someone has to have the vision and get it started"

But you all make it happen, I honestly get teary eyed when I think of you all doing these rides because I gave you a destination and reason.

Damn I am a lucky bloke.

Changes I have made to my prep and gear:

Because of the economy and the aud/usd rates I have had to make some compromises.

Lights:
I had been going to get some PHID's but at $600 usd these are now out.
I had done research on HID upgrades to the stock lights but have gone against that mainly because of what would happen should these fail. Stock lights are easy to replace a globe.
I am now looking at doing a HID conversion to my Hella FF50's which on all accounts seems to be the best thing with good improvements.

Seat:
Russell Day Long was the plan, John Moorehouse Ergo Seats seems to be the way it will go.

GPS:
Wanted a Zumo 550 but with questions put to those in the rally I am going with a refurb Garmin 2730 at $176 usd with everything that Garmin packaged as new. These units never came to Australia but are a great unit and cheap as considering they were over 1100$ new 2 yrs ago. They are refurb by Garmin, from all reports impossible to tell the difference from a new one. I will then buy updated Australian maps as I had been going to anyway. The plan was always to get a Zumo 550 from the US with US maps then add Aust maps as it was still cheaper. These units still have a 12mth warranty.

Thanks Peter buy too expensive, I have better contacts and one from Canada who is keen for me to use his lights for the rally. So will be the next project to look at.