hello and welcome back i've got the bike loaded up and i'm taking it down the servo
to see how much fuel we can fit in here i am at the servo got my full desert crossing
luggage set up and get in here we're going to take my clothes out fill up 30 litres and then go weigh
it and see what this looks like so we've got two tanks to fill up these two let's see what happens
never filled this up before this will be interesting
seven
all right let's say eight liters that's going good
all right now am i gonna hang this up should have thought about this a bit better okay
there's
eight liters there
another four liters here
as well a little bit more in there there we go
that's that so that's lazy doing maths at home
we've got eight and four gives us 12.
all right here we come over here
rear auxiliary tank
this should give us six
now if he dies takes us off the iodine
all right close this off
so i can still get in here with a little luggage on which was my plan and that works well
didn't want to take the luggage off to worry about that and the final one is did i get near this one
i can get it there we go
i've already got some fuel in here so let's see how much we can fit in
so when this is full it gives us i don't know if it's 11.8 or 12.8 i think it's 12.8
let's call that full
and that is
30 liters of fuel that's what it looks like
i'm going to pay for this 57 jesus all right all right let's see if i can pack this all away
that one not too bad it's perfectly in there loads on top not my gloves
now this one it's not too bad it's not as heavy as i thought it'd be the idea is this sits here
i haven't figured that out yet that's why we're testing it today got some straps
and so this will only be used for the first 200 k's from
dalhousie out to the simpson that end is not too hard so i'm hoping by the time we get to
the hard stuff this bladder will be empty and rolled back up and out of the way so
just for now i'm just going to sit that there i know it's not real tight but
bear with me i just want to see what it's like if i got room to actually fit my bum in here
10 liters of water on there as well
she's all loaded up let's see if we can actually ride this
that's just enough room for me to stick my bum in there
as i said this is the first test run
and it's not the most comfortable there i wanted to do something about that
all right we're off to weigh the bike now see how much 30 liters and a full luggage set up ways
okay here we are at the uh edge four wheel drive you're gonna see my mate jeff
and weigh the rallies see what she weighs okay so we're here now we're done
let me turn this back on so from when i filled up to when i get here 15 kilometers
and there's a couple of findings that i found uh one is this distance here between the bladder
and the front of the seat is probably i can fit in there but i i'm just in there there's not
much room to move but i can fix that what i can do because i've got this bag mounted sort of forwards
and centralized over the axle i can move this bag back to the end of the rack and that will give me
pretty much almost exactly what the width of this is so i can move that all back to here i can get
the space i need to sit and be comfortable is jeffrey all right here we are we've got the
the proper approved electronic scales zeroed let's see if we can
push big bertha on there and see what she weighs
all right see hang on might need to put a clutch in are we on
all right can you want to just balance this stephanie you got it let's have a look
so 85 kilograms at the front wow that's come 116 on the rear wow
how's your maths jeff that looks like uh 201 kilos to me
85 and 116. wow she's heavy so wow that was a big surprise fully loaded with all our
gear this is how we have to ride across the simpson unsupported for three or four days
201 kilograms that's almost an extra what does she weigh 157 say 160 extra 40 kilograms i'm carrying
wow with all that extra fuel i guess yeah i've got 30 liters of fuel on board plus 10 liters of water
plus camping gear food cooking gear clothes camera gear wow it all adds up
i wonder what dave's 990 is going to weigh i might have to get him to pull in here and weigh it
man i wasn't expecting 200 kilos but there you go once you put everything you need to cross the
simpson it adds up all right i'm a little bit apprehensive now but the weight will come off
as we use the fuel and drink the water and eat the food so it should in theory get easier and easier
i'll just keep telling myself that all right i've just stopped after leaving jeff's
to move the bags back so as you can see i've got a lot more room here
plenty of room what i've done is moved the bag right back to the back of the rack
and that gave me the room to push the bladder back up where the bag was sitting
i've actually got it all tied on um just one loop around seeing how that goes just on the way home
but it's on there pretty good it's actually supported or in line with the bags now so
that's really good the weight is a little bit further back so it's um
a little bit of the weight is behind the axle which i didn't want as i said earlier should
just be for a few hundred kilometers till we get this bag empty and move everything forward
again but from a comfort point of view it's a lot better now i can sit in here and move around a bit
and yeah a lot more comfortable for those 200 kilometers so i'm gonna ride home see how it is
make sure nothing falls off um and yeah that might be the final setup um back home now i just wanted
to show you my uh normal fuel consumption when i'm just cruising i don't even see that there
3.4 liters per 100 so the bike is really fuel efficient with my fuel load i'm almost double
that anticipating that we double that in the sand and i can still make it through the simpsons so
fingers crossed we get the birds full that's it for this episode in the next episode i introduce
you to dave we have a look at him his bike skill level which is not much and we have a look at his
preparations how he's come along with the bike thanks for watching and we'll see you next time