Dibben was given a KTM bike to ride, but was required to bring his own wheels and tyres.
Unfortunately, the front wheel he carted from New Zealand did not fit the European machine and there were no suppliers within cooee in rural Malang - he was stumped.
"A Malaysian team mechanic came to our rescue," Dibben said.
"He said he had a guy flying in on the Friday night and he would ask him to bring a few bits and pieces to help us out, but he gave no promises," Dibben said yesterday.
"The guy turned up thankfully with some wheel spacers, although they weren't the right size."
Much-needed Kiwi ingenuity then kicked in.
Dibben is a motorcycle mechanic himself, but had brother Michael as team mechanic for the championship round. The pair began filing down the alloy spacer to make it fit.
"Normally you would just throw it on a lathe, but of course we didn't have one, so we had to do it manually. Thankfully it was alloy, so fairly soft metal and we only needed to shave about 2mm off, so it wasn't to bad."
But even that took several hours eating into practice time to get used to the new machine and setting it up to suit Dibben's style.
They got the job done, though and Dibben made the starting grid after qualifying fastest and winning the shootout to gain pole position.
In torrential rain and humid conditions Dibben had his work cut out to edge out several rivals in close finishes, but edge them out he did and win both races and take round 2.
"The KTM bike isn't a bad machine and it compares well with my own Honda CRF450. I always knew with a bit of luck I could do well in this series.
"The overall championship results have yet to be posted, but I'm pretty sure I'm sitting second behind Malaysian rider Mudh Habibullah who finished 4th in Malang. There is talk of me competing in round three in the Philippines in about a month, but that will depend on sponsorship - I want to go," Dibben said.