John Stamnas recently offered to put braided brakes lines on my bike Roo so today off I go to get this all sorted. Silly me as it seems the 1400GTR beaut bike that it is already has braided lines apart from the clutch line.

So John got one of his guys busy making a replacement for that. The end result is a much smoother clutch and I must say I wasn't expecting any benefit other than having him on as a sponsor. The stock bike has a very good clutch and feel but the braided clutch line is sooo nice and the feel is much better than stock IMHO.

Bit more bling that works. Plus he wants to stay involved and do the fuel lines for my aux fuel tank when I get it here so that's a bonus.

While at Aaron my mechanic Hyperformance Motorcycles Eumundi the rep for Michelin comes in and after a short chat seems he knows about my rides. He offers a set of tyres for Roo and I kindly accept. Will let you know how they are.

Updating a few things.

19th May I got Spot, personal satellite tracker Link and its working as sold. I will have a tracking link on my site in due time. Plus thanks to some clever online mates a program has been created to store and view these longer that Spot currently allows.

The promo visit to Pro Kawasaki Nerang went very well by the way.

Late last week I also received from the US the cruise control and heated grips for Roo, looking forward to getting time to get these fitted.

I will be ordering the aux fuel tank for Roo sometime in the next couple of weeks. Will have a new rear rack made to extend the stock one forward over the pillion seat to create a platform to mount the 5gal (20litre) tank. That will bring the total up to 10.8gals which is well under the Iron Butt Rally max of 11.5gal so all should be sweet.

I leave Friday evening to ride to Townsville for part of the Ulysses AGM there. I will be doing this for Kawasaki Australia and will be at their stall for Saturday only as I ride the 1260klms home again Sunday.

It's almost 9pm and I head to Pro Kawasaki Nerang in the morning for a promo day with Roku the 1400GTR that I ride for Kawasaki Australia.

This week has been interesting. I went to visit John Stamnas who does the braided brake lines and he offered to do all the lines on my bike, great guy. So he comes on as a sponsor also.

Looks like I also have the shipping of my bike to the US sorted after a very kind offer from Dave Milligan of GetRouted.com.au at a huge discount and come on board as a sponsor.

I found a local company that can make the special brackets to mount my aux fuel tank so that's good.

But the best thing was a story in the Courier Mail newspaper and online from an interview on Monday.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23670532-5010760,00.html

Not bad at all apart from some mention of race which it certainly is not.

Iron Butt Rally 2009

I have decided to try and blog this as it happens or unfolds.

On the 15th April I got the email from the IBR saying I had been selected for the 2009 Iron Butt Rally. This is an achievement in itself as there are only about 100 ride spots and thousands apply each time.

I have already started training and will be increasing that in distance on the bike and physical training for myself.

I will be riding my Kawasaki 1400GTR I purchased last July for this purpose in hope of selection.