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Gallery: Road bikes in inappropriate places at Dirt Daze

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That's how we do it! Flat track styled Harley takes a leap at the end of a successful hill climb
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The face of commitment
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There is actually a rider on this bike, he's just wearing a camouflage ghillie suit so you can't see him.
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That's the spirit!
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The Yamaha VMAX: not renowned for its off-road capability
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Grim determination was the most common facial expression
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Our photos can't properly capture the sheer speed at which this screaming GSX-R dirt squirter made its way around the back loop
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Nicely done Yamaha
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Stealth electric bike? Why not?
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Knobbies on a cruiser
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This bastard had no muffler on, and rev bombed everyone he passed relentlessly
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As the dust came up, things started looking a bit otherworldly
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A nicely done BMW with rude stickers
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The hill climb: not the most daunting of slopes, but it bested some bikes
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This chopper absolutely dominated the hill climb – this run, if memory serves, began from a standstill just a few feet from the start of the climb
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250 kg of flying BMW
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Not even the "turbo" got this little scoot up the hill, despite the lurid hip thrusting of its rider
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Top of the hill climb was a solid place to stand around if you wanted to see a stack or two
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A KLR? That's cheating!
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More flying GS
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The Grom required a little help, resulting in this flat-at-Iwo-Jima moment
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A little overenthusiastic on the berries, Captain Kato here got unexpectedly airborne and nudged the hay bales
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That's how we do it! Flat track styled Harley takes a leap at the end of a successful hill climb
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Too easy!
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The flat track: an opportunity to learn the art of sideways
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The Yammie T-Max made a decent showing of itself
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A Tenere's probably cheating, but we're awarding points for style
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This Harley looked like a sporty ride over the jump
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Oh no you didn't! Hayabusa plus flat bar plus TKC80s = 180-horsepower dirt squirter
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Spiders can relax
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The price of not hangin' around on the dirt track
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Giving it the berries
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More sideways than you'd expect on a Himalayan
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Flat track fun
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The perfect place to bust out the monkey bikes
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A Honda Firestorm with custom girder front end. According to the rider, it sucked on dirt big time
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Two stroke dirt bike. Included just because we heart whooliez
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The Dirt Drags were a bit of fun
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The correct use for an XR1200
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A social event for a wide range of bike types
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Nice little cafe racer getting around the track
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A pirate postie bike
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A stretched 4cyl Kwaka of some sort, with knobbies and a dirtbike tail
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The XR again, this time with blurry background
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Yamaha Bolt joins the fun
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The hardtail would've made for a rough weekend
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That grin's what it's all about
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Going scrambling on a 955 Speed Triple
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A lightly airborne Harley Sportster
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The Royal Enfield Australia team: always prepared to put on a show
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A dirt-prepped, muffler-free MV Agusta Brutale 800
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John Gee from Antique Motorcycles just after banging his 1920s-era Indian up the hill climb
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The Brutale struggling a touch with traction on the flat track
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Dirt Daze is a three-day moto-festival held a couple of hours outside Melbourne, Australia, where attendees are encouraged to bring their least appropriate machinery along for a spot of flat tracking, hill climbing, scrambling and dirt dragging in the name of giggles. New Atlas went along to check out the action.

We're not going to pretend there's any sort of technology angle going on here – maybe motorcycle fans will find a few interesting customs in the gallery, or simply enjoy the fact that people have stuck knobby tires on bikes ranging from Harleys to Hayabusas in search of sideways giggles.

The face of commitment
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No, this story's simply all about fun photos of road bikes out of their element in the dust and dirt of Krusic's Ride Park, a dug-out quarry near Dutson Downs, Victoria. Jump into the gallery and enjoy!

A stretched 4cyl Kwaka of some sort, with knobbies and a dirtbike tail
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Source: Dirt Daze

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1 comment
toyhouse
While it's not completely off topic; for those who may have forgotten or didn't know, back in 1975, Kenny Roberts rode a yamaha two stroke, 120 hp road racing engine placed in a dirt-bike frame and made history when he raced it on the dirt oval at Indy. He won, coming from the back row. It was a big deal that us kids who rode motorcycles, talked about at the time. Look-up kenny roberts and the indy mile on youtube to see him re-united with the old bike and run it around the track again - hard.