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  1. #31
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    Default Parabolics

    G'day all
    well here we are...arrived at Broome and staying at the Cable Beach Caravan Park for 3 days of rest and restocking after the drive trough the Kimberley's comming across the Buchanan Highway and down the Gibb River Rd both of which are Gravel Roads and I have to say that I'm very happy with the Parabolic Springs and Boss Shocks set up. The ride is smoother and the bottoming out over bumps and holes has disapeared. The corrugations are just a rumble. However all this leads to driving faster and therefore higher concentration is required.
    The next stop will be the Lighthouse at Cape Leveque and on the way down the beach camps at James Price and Quondong Pts.
    Regards
    Adrian

  2. #32
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    Adrian
    glad you could make it
    you might notice the weather weve turned on for you, but dont worry its all part of the service
    if your planning on coming south to exmouth and beyond you might want to check the availability of camps at cape range, otherwise it'll cost a motza in town.
    another notable is waroora station just south of coral bay on 14 mile beach
    you wont be annoyed by pesky campers cause its 10 k of corrugations in, but the new parabolics should handle it with ease
    were heading north via the coast road so we'll keep an eye out for you
    Cheers
    STU

    LIFE Its an adventure - Not a race

    blackduckontour.com

  3. #33
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    Hi Stu,
    Listening to you and Adrian is just depressing.(ha ha) Its raining for the third day in a row down here on the southern mainland, so I reckon where you guys are is definitely the place to be... very envious indeed.

    Anthony,

  4. #34
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    so I reckon where you guys are is definitely the place to be

    Anthony
    you wouldnt be saying that if you had my sunburn
    spent the day swimming with whale sharks and im burnt to a crisp
    I love Tassie its one of my favorite places on earth - but I must say even the water up here is warmer than Hobart at the moment
    Cheers
    STU

    LIFE Its an adventure - Not a race

    blackduckontour.com

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    Hi Stu,
    Loving the photos on you web page too.

    Anthony

  6. #36
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    Quote Originally Posted by blackduck View Post
    Adrian
    glad you could make it
    you might notice the weather weve turned on for you, but dont worry its all part of the service
    if your planning on coming south to exmouth and beyond you might want to check the availability of camps at cape range, otherwise it'll cost a motza in town.
    another notable is waroora station just south of coral bay on 14 mile beach
    you wont be annoyed by pesky campers cause its 10 k of corrugations in, but the new parabolics should handle it with ease
    were heading north via the coast road so we'll keep an eye out for you
    Yea.... once we are back from Cape Leveque we will deceide which way we are heading. Swimming with Walesharks was one of the things we wanted to do, but we might have left it abit to late?
    Happy travels
    Adrian

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    Swimming with Walesharks was one of the things we wanted to do, but we might have left it abit to late?
    Adrian
    the season goes until about July but I think so longs are sharks are spotted they go out. We did ours with "Kings"
    it was a fantastic day out and a once in a lifetime experience
    Cheers
    STU

    LIFE Its an adventure - Not a race

    blackduckontour.com

  8. #38
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    Default Parabolics

    Hi all
    back from our first trip with Parabolic Springs and Boss Shocks. Done approx 14'000 kms all up, of that about 4'500 kms on dirt roads. As reported on a earlier post the set up works really well and I'm very happy. It took me a while to find the right shock settings as we experienced some rocking especially on some of Queenslands bitumen highways. We travelled over a fair cross section of roads, from smooth to undulating and patchy repaired bitumen to smooth, rocky, rutted, sandy and corrugated dirt roads. The "normal" corrugations are a mere rumble however the "long spaced" ones are still a pain in the neck and have to be crossed slowly.
    But still....a big improvement to my previous suspension.

    Cheers all
    Adrian

    A few more pics http//www.flickr.com/photos/triedhard/set

  9. #39
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    Probably need to fix that link Adrian... it don't work!
    My attempt to build something to go somewhere else...
    Canter4x4.com

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