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I thought my Tenere was quite a big bike, then I parked next to this..........

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Up on the horseshoe pass today:toothy10:

Great pic...big truck, but I reckon our forum friends in OZ might go bigger!! How are you enjoying the Tenere...? Steve

it,s only a forty tonner i have just come off a 120 tonner.
side ways on the s**t and i get paid for it off road big style

I'm really enjoying it thanks, thought I might mis the power of the KTM (990 smr), but for what I want out of a bike it's great, my first bike after passing my test 20 years ago was a transalp and I have always liked big trail bikes, so it suits me just fine
I am just waiting for my Kahedo seat to arrive ( the hump on the original bugs me a bit) and I am going to look at a few Kev mods and filter, cans etc, to iron out the flat spots. Then I'm just going to enjoy it.

Sounds like a lot of fun

I was getting around in these for spell 70 tonne gross...

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But I had to move off the road when these bigger jiggers came past under police escort. The Dump truck wheels are transported on another trailer as they're to big to move in one hit through Central Queensland.

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Now I'm in between these..

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The Road Trains get even bigger with 3 trailers and more on the back.

Nice Tenere abigsupermoto, keep us posted on your up grades. Also how's the mat/satin finish of the paint like to look after?

hi desert racer,nice tankers i was on tanks for twenty five years uk and euro.
now drive plant in quarrys the dump truck on the low loader could be
a cat triple 7 they gross at about 180 tons cat v twelve severn speed
auto box

Never driven a truck on the road...
But I do build the silly dam things...
No interest in trucks but they pay the
bills so I will keep doing it... for now...

Thanks, I really enjoy the tankers. I tried getting into the mine dump trucks but it was a case of who, not so much what you know. Good coin if you can get in. Moving to Oz was a chance of a career change to something I wanted to do, so decided to hang up my chippy tool belt before my back & shoulders gave up like so many others have. It gets a bit warm outside here to for the manual labour, so the air con in the Truck is much more comfortable !!

Do the Cat motors in you Dump Truck power generators that in turn power electric motors that drive the wheels ?

Which one's do you put together?