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Rural Tasmania a perfect playground for little tykes on motor bikes

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Little tykes on motorbikes in rural Tasmania

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Rural Tasmania a perfect playground for little tykes on motor bikes Written by: Lance Skelton

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Pick any rural town in Tasmania, and you’re sure to hear or see someone riding around on a dirt bike. What’s more, chances are they’re still at school. Motocross is a sport with huge worldwide participation. For many motocross enthusiasts, their first go on a motorbike is often on a rural property around the age of four or five under the watchful eye of parents, and a slightly curious cattle dog. In Tasmania, there’s a number of motorcycle clubs where kids can learn the basics of riding a motorbike in a controlled environment with an instructor. After five or six hours of training, they can progress to participating in events run by a motorcycle club.

The five basics of riding a dirt bike Generally speaking, there are five basics to riding a dirt bike - brakes, turning,

clutch, speed and ride. The more these basics are practised, the more confident a young rider will be, even if it might be a little boring after awhile. 1. Brakes: Before starting the engine on the bike, get your child to sit on the bike and roll down a gentle slope to practice front and rear braking so they know how to slow down and come to a smooth, complete stop. 2. Turning: If your child is a four or five-year-old, training wheels can really make a difference. Get them to focus on controlling the throttle, riding back and forth in straight lines initially, and then encourage them to make big slow sweeping circles. Once they become confident and want to balance the bike

(and it won’t take long) then it’s time to ditch the trainers, and move to two wheels. 3. Clutch: Clutches can be tricky to get used to, so get your child to practice slowly releasing the clutch as they gently open the throttle so they learn the relationship between the two. Finding the ‘sweet spot’ is the key to confidence while taking off. In the beginning, expect lots of lurching and stalling, but once clutch and throttle control becomes second nature, they’ll find it a lot easier to change gears while riding. 4. Speed: This is where kids can get into trouble. (In fact, this is where adults can get into trouble). The smallest dirt bikes often feature adjustable speed

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limiters that allow you to set a top speed limit on the throttle. This is a great idea, at least until you’re confident they can control the bike going faster. 5. Ride: This one is an oldie but a goodie. Kids love practising steering a bike while sitting in front of their mum or dad, and it’s an excellent way to help them understand how the throttle works. Of course, if you don’t have time to teach your kids yourself, then there are plenty of licensed coaches around Tasmania who’ll teach your child the basics of riding a dirt bike.

Motocross clubs in Tasmania On the Motorcycling Tasmania website, there’s eight motorcycle clubs across the state offering organised motocross and dirt bike activities. In most cases, the minimum age requirement stated for joining a club is just four. Steph Breen is secretary of the East Coast Motocross Club, based at St Helens. The Club has around 35 to 40 Club members, and is one of the smaller clubs in the state. “It’s a great sport for kids to get into”, she said. “We’ve got riders as young as 7 competing, and then we go right up to young men in their early 20s who have been with the club for years.” Like all the clubs, there is a strong emphasis on safety.

“We’ve always got an ambulance on standby at our events”, she said. “You can’t do any racing until you’ve completed a minimum of five hours training with an instructor.” The Club’s dirt track has been built on private land, and holds events once a month, on average. Family membership is around $50, and volunteers play a big part in keeping the club alive.

“I didn’t know anything about motocross in the beginning”. We got invited along by neighbours a few years ago, and I just really liked it,” she said. “We have about half a dozen people on our board, and the club has been going now for over 20 years”. On the 2018 calendar of motorcycling

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events in Tasmania, motocross is by far the most popular discipline, and features in over 70 events organised throughout the year. The biggest event on the calendar is the Australian Junior Motocross Championships, starting September 28 – October 6 at Blackwood Park, in Penguin. For details on upcoming motocross events across the state, visit the Motorcycling Tasmania website.

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Toyota’s HiLux and Corolla were Australia’s best-selling vehicles in April - the 19th time these stablemates have achieved the quinella HiLux was the country’s top-seller last month with almost 3,600 sales while Corolla was the runner-up with close to 3,000 sales. The HiLux tally has been bettered in an April only once previously - at the height of the mining boom in 2008. So far this year, HiLux - which recently gained three halo variants, Hilux Rugged and Rugged X and Hilux Rogue - has topped the national sales charts with more than 16,200 sales. HiLux leads both the 4x4 and 4x2 segments.

Corolla is Australia’s best-selling passenger car with more than 12,200 deliveries in 2018, continuing its leadership of the past five calendar years. Toyota’s market-leading April sales of almost 16,650 vehicles is 3.5 per cent higher than for the same month last year. It resulted in a market share of 20.1 per cent. So far this year, consumers have bought more than 69,000 Toyota vehicles, which represents the

strongest demand for the brand since 2008. The total is 4,500 additional sales or 7 per cent higher than for the same period in 2017. Other notable sales results for April 2018 compared with a year earlier include double-digit growth for each member of the LandCruiser family (Prado, 70 Series and 200 Series) as well as for Kluger, HiAce bus, Corolla and HiLux 4x2.

said the company’s broad range of in-demand vehicles and innovative measures to continue building customer loyalty had resulted in substantial momentum, particularly among its SUVs and light-commercial vehicles. “Toyota has now entered an intensive two-month period of sales leading up to the end of the financial year,” Mr Hanley said. “It’s a firm demonstration that we really do mean business.”

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1936 Ford Flatback Sedan Hotrod build A brief run down on the engine components used:

Written by: Rod & Julie Nichols (Tasmania ) Edited by: Lizzi Rountree

We purchased the car on the 24th November, 2003, and stored it for the next six months as the then-builder - as per usual - was up to his ears in work and unable to start our project. Mid ’04 came and went without much significant progress. At the time it did not feel like a very promising start. The car was at “final paint stage” according to the restorer we purchased it from. What a joke that turned out to be! This story is not a new one to those in the hotrod building game. After stripping the whole car to the bones and having it sand blasted we were left with something that resembled a piece of Swiss cheese more than it did a steel body. The complete rolling chassis and anything else we did not want was sold to an optimistic restorer in Victoria who promptly got on the Spirit of Tasmania with his trailer to collect all the junk - sorry - I mean treasure. Now knowing our frame, or lack of frame, we had to face what direction to go with the build. Do we use a Holden or a Mitsubishi front end? Do we box the original chassis as a lot of rodders? In the end we put aside all the issues associated with using old parts and ordered a Rod City Repro chassis complete with: • Polished stainless steel triangulated four bar and coil-over shocks rear end • Independent front suspension with polished stainless steel top and lower control arms complete with coil-overs

• Front mounted Cortina steering rack (fitted as part of the front end package). Wheels were specially made by ROH in Adelaide: a three piece combination with polished rims and a hand polished centre, 15 x 8.5” rears and 15 x 6” fronts. The rims and tyres have since been updated to INTRO Show Wheels, 17 x 7 (front) & 20 x 8.5 (rear) New Yokohama Tyres all round were fitted to suit the new wheels. The upgrade to the wheels allowed us to fit Nissan GTR front rotors and 4 Pot Callipers. After a further 12 months of cutting off bits of the body and adding others, due to more issues found, we finally fitted the chassis, suspension and a steel roof where the vinyl insert existed. We owe a big thank you to Kalven Waddington for the advice on the best roof options, and Graeme Mannering of Rods & Classics for his expertise in fitting it. Next on the wish list: the drive train, with a Ford 351 Windsor / Ford C6 Auto / Ford 9” diff combo being our first choice. At the time, our number one priority was to create a purebred - all Ford components in a Ford vehicle - as opposed to a hybrid miss-match, miss-fit or whatever you would like to call them. What hotrodder hasn’t had these thoughts at the beginning of a project? In the end, we decided that we would have to compromise too much performance for the sake of nostalgia if we tried to remain true to the Ford heritage.

Under the advice of John Gilligan, our engine builder, we went with a standard 351 Windsor. We knew the history of the part and that it was unadulterated, and it was a platform that would ultimately set us up for the best scenario in the engine build. A pair of DART aluminium heads and a complete MSD ignition system, purchased from Bo Seaton, to compliment the specialised engine re-build that was about to take place.

Gear Box: The C6 gearbox was also modified with a carbon fibre clutch pack fitted and valve body had a high performance upgrade by TCE to handle the engine power and provide good pedal feel. A 2500 / 2800 high stall converter by Sling Shot was also installed. Clifton Campbell of All Transmission Services carried out the total gearbox re-build, with some expertise from Ian Weatherhead of Weatherhead Engineering.

Differential: The 9” diff was rebuilt, housing shortened, billet axels cut and splined (31) to suit and, finally, disc brakes were fitted by Weatherhead Engineering. At this point in time we were unfortunate (or fortunate?) to have a change in builder. I say “unfortunate” because every hotrod story has this “hiccup” moment with a major blowout in build time. Sometimes you feel like you’ll just never make any headway. But I also say fortunate, because not everything goes to plan, and sometimes you need these moments to ultimately

• SRP Forged Pistons – floating with JE pins and spirolocks • Scat “H” Beam conrods with ARP bolts • Speed Profile fit rings • Clevite 77 Main, Conrod & Cam Bearings • Power Bond steel harmonic balancer • Rollmaster timing chain set • Mellings high volume oil pump • ARP main stud kit • Felpro gasket and seals • Felpro race “O” ringed head gasket • Speed Pro solid lifters • Crow 0.80 competition hardened push rods • ARP head stud kit • ARP flex bolts • Solid Camshaft by Crow • Holley mechanical fuel pump, 130GPH • 750 Mighty Demon Carby • Edelbrock Victor Junior intake manifold • Ford short series water pump • 1 5/8“ HPC coated tuned length extractors by Adrian Oliver • MSD billet distributor • MSD 6AL Ignition control with rev limiter • MSD Blaster 3 Ignition coil • Ford Racing aluminium rocker covers and air filter assembly • Tuned length extractors and exhaust system (HPC coated) by Adrian Cylinder Heads: • Aluminium Dart Windsor, 62cc chambers • Ported and flowed by Higgins Race Developments • Stainless CNC Ferrea Valves • Competition cams dual with damper valve springs • Competition Cams hardened spring seats • Competition Cams chrome moly spring retaining and collets • ARP 7/16” screw in studs • Competition Cams guide plates • Yella Terra 7/16 Roller Rockers, 1.6 Race series with Posi-locks • Teflon valve stem seals reach your destination. We initially went with Graeme, as he is well known for being the best at what he does. In the end he had far too much work to continue with the timeline we were trying to achieve. We spent some time trying to recruit Shaun Rugan of Mod & Rods, who was also at the top of our list, but of course was also very busy. With a little bit of gentle encouragement from the owners, Shaun came on board, and in the end was responsible for about 80% of the project.

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The major task at this point was to rebuild the body metalwork. Starting with the fire-wall which required a rebuild, we also had to move it back 250mm to in turn allow the engine to also move back 250mm for better weight distribution and thus better ride and vehicle handling. Then the floor, all four doors were re-built, including all pillars. A complete floor-pan/ gear-box tunnel was constructed and fitted to complement the new fire-wall now already in place. Opting for quality wherever possible, there were still a lot of decisions made on the run. At this stage we decided to change the shape of the Rod from a hump-back to a flat back despite having very few panels available. However, this did not deter Shaun who set about expertly hand manufacturing the missing panels. Despite initially being one of those building moments that seemed a bit arbitrary, we were all very happy with the new shape and in the end it felt like a good decision Now for the boot. We had successfully removed the external access to any boot that we ever had, albeit very small. We decided that we could always access the boot via a 60/40 rear back seat. Mick Calvert our trimmer successfully achieved this by reshaping a Daewoo seat. Funnily enough, we ended-up with a more functional boot than the original! More top work by Shaun. Finally, we get to the doors. We opted for all electric windows, electric door locks, new glass, new window trim, new door handles… no skimping here! One of the challenges we met was that in 1936 doors were not exactly constructed to accommodate all things electric. This task was even more involved by the fact that we were dealing with a sedan, so multiply everything by four. But this was yet another challenge overcome by Shaun with a little bit of help from Adrian. Whilst the metalwork revolution was taking place, Mick was beavering away

in the background re-shaping and leather-covering seats that were never designed to fit such a vehicle, but with his expertise - and patience - they did. The door trim, fire-wall inner lining, boot lining and carpets were completed on time and to a standard beyond our expectations. After many, many, many hours of making panels that the original car never had, fitting brackets, sanding, and so on, the rod was dismantled into what felt like a million bits and sent to the painters for the complete paint job. (Some advice to anyone considering a full rebuild: this part requires a little bit of faith, and possibly a pint or two…) We chose Mazda Velocity Red. It was a shame Ford didn’t have a colour similar that we could have used to keep the Rod all Ford - but I suppose it sort of counts as Ford does own Mazda… Booths Bodyworks accepted the paintwork challenge with Phil, Norm, Chris and Nathan achieving a standard of workmanship above and beyond what even Phil expected from a “Love Job”. (I’m not sure what the term “love job” means, after living this entire process I think I am beginning to understand it!)

Suppliers that should be recognised for their very good service are: • Hot Rod Hardware - Kevin & Paulene O’Rourke • TCR Components - Ray & Barb Alldrick • Race Parts Austarlia • Nuts & Bolts Tasmania • Spectrum Paints - Brett Pitfield • Bob Jane T Mart – Moonah - Jason Vesinger

We thank all those mentioned and many others involved in the project. Rod & Julie Nichols Early Ford Club of Tasmania Inc. The ’36 has now won Top Sedan at the Street Rod Nationals twice, Top Sedan at the Victorian Hotrod Show and most other shows in Tasmania that is worth winning!

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The reassembly took place with some extra effort employed by all concerned, including Craig Rugan who did a superb re-wire. I believe a fine level of workmanship on what was a very protracted and difficult project was achieved and many other learned people in the Hotrod business have said the same. Well done Shaun!! This four and a half year project reached all but epic proportions in our minds when we were living through it. However, in retrospect, and after reading stories of other owner-builder projects, our Rod did not just build for speed, but with it as well. And this is a major testament to all of those involved, and the incredible effort of each in this long but rewarding project.

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Mountain bike riders defy gravity at Maydena

Maydena – leading the way in gravityassisted riding in Australia Written by: Lance Skelton

Officially opened on Australia Day 2018, Maydena Bike Park is flying. The venue is a short, scenic 90-minute drive from Hobart, and attracts a swarm of hard-core mountain bikers who are happy to part with $75 to scream down the mountain as much as their body and bike can handle for the day. The mountain has a special aura about it, regardless of when you visit. In winter, the top of the mountain is inaccessible due to thick snow that blocks the road and the trails, and requires the descent to start further down the mountain. In summer, autumn and spring, the mountain summit can still be cold with rolling grey misty clouds which adds to the powerful presence of nature, and the

sense of foreboding that awaits every first-time rider.

take you back up the mountain to do it all over again.

Interestingly, Maydena is not one downhill trail. Rather, it’s a series of more than 35 interconnected trails with different degrees of difficulty that are graded into five color-coded symbols; Green Circle (wider tread, more moderate gradients - no need to be constantly on the brakes), Blue Square (changing surfaces, small drops and jumps you’d better know what you’re doing), Black Diamond (suitable for only advanced riders, steep gradients - a serious hoot if you’ve got the nerve and the technique), Double Black Diamond (highly variable, very steep, large jumps and drops - it doesn’t get much harder than this folks) and Pro Line (large gap jumps, and drops, extremely steep terrain, and best left to world champs like Sam Hill, who have the technique, athleticism and experience to make it look slightly less difficult than it really is).

Regardless of the trail combination a rider decides to embark on as they shred, thump and jump their way down the mountain, the colour at the bottom of the mountain for every rider is the same, ‘brown’. (We’re told on good authority it’s all mud). Whatever way you attack the mountain, one thing riders are in agreement with - the hype is real, and it’s one hell of a ride.

When you eventually make it down to the bottom, there’s a bus shuttle service waiting to pick you up, plonk you into a garbage bag protected seat (‘cause there’s mud everywhere), store your bike on the trailer, and to

According to the Managing Director of Maydena Bike Park, Simon French, it’s one of the steepest, gnarliest rides in the world, a descent of 820-metres through spectacular Tasmanian World Heritage Wilderness. French identified the site’s potential way back in 2008, and after plenty of toing and froing with the relevant planning authorities and government departments, French and his well credentialed ‘Dirt Art’ crew were given the nod to build a venue that now leads the way when it comes to gravity-assisted riding in Australia. Word travels fast in the mountain biking fraternity, and already Maydena is attracting riders from the mainland,

Europe and South-East Asia, all keen to pit their skills on the steep and constantly challenging trails of Maydena. While the venue is less than six months old, and there are still tens of kilometres of trails to be added, the number of riders is expected to reach around 30,000 per year when it’s fully operational. The venue appeals to a wide-cross section of riders from sporty young couples to adventurous families with some riders as young as 7. You’ll also find young people in their 20s and 30s to men and women in their 40s and beyond, who head to Maydena for their weekend adrenalin fix. At the base of the mountain, the former Maydena Primary School has been converted to a multi-purpose building. There’s a registration room where anyone who wants to ride must register, and also agree to the conditions of entry, a merchandise shop with all sorts of branded clothing and apparel, a medical facility with trained paramedics on-standby, plus a funky canteen area serving up equally funky food and beverages, while cranking out loud, youth orientated music.

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Maydena gravity fest Last month, Maydena played host to the inaugural four day ‘Maydena Gravity Fest’ held from 26th to 29th April, which is already billed as one of the biggest events on the Australian Mountain Biking Calendar. The event attracted some seriously talented mountain bikers, including current EWS world champion, Sam Hill, who again showed his technical prowess and athleticism by winning the marquee event. Competitors entered a range of events including

the ‘Ultimate Flow Challenge’, ‘Tech Assault’, ‘Air DH’, ‘Pump Track Challenge’, and the Whip Off (invite only). According to Simon French, the fastest anyone has ridden down the mountain is around 11 minutes, with the average time closer to 30 minutes. If you’re up for a challenge, think about heading to Maydena Bike Park. Remember though, it’s really nothing like riding a bike. For more details visit maydenabikepark.com Advertorial

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