hello and welcome back it's 5 30 in the morning it's been raining all night we moved into this
shelter trying to keep us out of the weather but i woke up this morning and there's a
river
flowing past my tent i had to move back
and the ground is waterlogged everywhere we look the rain's coming in
i don't know if we'll be racing today find out soon unfortunately they've cancelled today's event
or today's stages we've got a briefing at nine and we'll find out then what's actually going on
support crew hard at work what have we got here russell we have uh gourmet smoked ham
melted cheese bun nut or on a freshly toasted multi-grain roll how good is this support crew
couldn't ask for more well maybe it's actually helped with the bike that might be a help
but food they've got covered thank you very much russ dave thank you
here's two dubious characters stop doing the rain dance will ya
everyone's heading in for the briefing find out what's gonna happen next
and let's go in and see what story is
um obviously we've all seen overnight that there's been a significant rain event um
and east of punk area it's still going um so it simply wasn't practical or safe
to run today's stages we can't get the helicopter to land in that ground and then be able to take
off again and obviously the mivs need to be able to get to you so primarily it wasn't even
a decision to make your safety is my priority and if i can't guarantee your safety i'm not letting
you go out let's see it's still really wet out here i've got the bike ready to go i'm just going
to have to wait till tomorrow here we are on the shearing pavilion and this is the new camp shonky
i'm now two feet off the ground and if it floods here god knows what we'll do next
there you have it
the uni filter pre-filter's done its job that's
very dusty we'll pull that out and see what the actual filter looks like
so there
the pre-filter has done its job really dirty nothing's got through this is where i've stuck
my finger in there as you can see the actual air filter is very clean i've got a new uni filter
pre-filter here to put in so we'll put that in and then we'll be good dsa for the rest of the race
because with this amount of water we're not going to have too much more dust so i'll put this on put
it all back together and that should do us there we go and that's the new uni filter all in there
so that's it with a new pre-filter in air boxes back up i'll put the side cover on
and then i've got another job to do which is uh gonna be a little bit harder we've got the
magnet pickup and the magnet here and every time that goes past it creates a signal and i couldn't
figure out why sometimes it was getting it sometimes it wasn't i thought the problem
with the magnet or the pickup i checked that's all right actually moved the pickup last night closer
but luckily i bumped into don who's also racing a honda he's got his uh crf 450
don and kim from condoblin they run the motorbike shop up there
and they're actually sell the ico stuff and luckily i asked him the question and first
thing he said actually i think it might have been kim that said problem with the cable so
somewhere in my ico cable this one from the pickup round here up and up into the ico somewhere in
there there's a a split or a break in the wire and when this is flexing or the suspension's flexing
that wire is just moving a little bit and coming in contact and then opening so we think that's the
problem and luckily because they're a ico dealer kim brought up the spare parts and i've got a
brand new cable here to put in so this afternoon that's my job i'm going to pull this cable out
put this one back in put it all back together and hopefully we'll be good for tomorrow
back into our proper navigation without me getting lost fingers crossed as you can see
i've been upgraded to captain's status now liam and his dad just came over and
gave me a captain's hat because pretty sure we're going to be
driving boats more than bikes tomorrow so this is the new shonky race team look
captain shonky you can call me now so i'm just finishing up now i've got the new cable in
new pickup here cable's in it's wrapped in the spiral tape i haven't used any
zip ties so hopefully it'll last the rest of the race i'll just push and get this in
put the axle back in once it goes in there we go and yeah i'll uh give it a quick test just
around the ground make sure it's working but hopefully that's fixed my ico problem
and we can navigate tomorrow what's up okay i've arrived at the start of the odometer check
so there's five kilometers marked out a marker here and a marker in five kilometers down the road
but i'm already confident that this is right so this is reading 1.4 and here the rally
safe is measuring 1.5 so you know within 100 meters which is a lot better than yesterday
so what i'll do i'm going to reset this one there's some zeros coming up i'll reset this one
reset trip yes and we'll do our five kilometers and check at the other side this is the finish
of the five kilometer check and so up here i'm 4.8 down here on the gps 4.96 so i'm close i'm 200 150
200 out so what i can actually do turn my blinker off is i push this forward to say five and now the
ico will learn that that distance is actually five i'll turn around reset it and we'll head back the
other way and we'll double check it when we get to the end here we are it's just clicked over five
that's the marker back there it's uh well maybe 10 20 let's call it 20 25 meters out that's a
lot better than it was yesterday i'm back having confidence in the ico take a look at this this
is the mud just getting into the car park who knows what the tracks will be like tomorrow
it's don and kim
all fixed so grateful thank you very much so i've come to pay you
i need to talk to you about a sponsorship opportunity as well
we've gone back to old school road book creation so what's happened here we've taken a car road
book trimmed it down yes that's what i believe they've done yeah and now we have to stick them
together sticking them together for the bike guys ah that's great thank you so much for
helping with that and apparently i'm going to do my own one is that right done yeah i will
fix yours up i'll put an arrow on every one for you good okay i'm going to watch a pro at work
so that's what we're actually doing getting pieces of paper and sticky taping them together
making a scroll okay so we finally finished our piles of a4 paper
and now a roadblock that we will roll up and then mark out and put in our road book and follow this
tomorrow for our competitive stage so there's any problems i'm blaming liam because he has quality
checked it um i'm still a bit suspect because don lark gave me these papers so i'm not sure
they're the legit ones or he's trying to send me a stray but we'll find out tomorrow
thanks for watching and we'll see you next time