Recent content by DouglasN

Thank you Tom, and thank you for your service.

My brother Richard crashed in front of me while out on a family ride, silly mistake brought on by a lack of experience lead to lots of consequences, he died at the scene after a couple of minutes, my sister-in-law had major injuries and was left a paraplegic, with a small brain injury that will...

Hey hey Herman, Welcome to Wilddogs!

Never just rely on the mirrors, teach the kids to look far back, and often, teach them to look for movement, bikes can appear out of thin air Turn their heads and look into the blind spots. Contrary to popular belief, loud pipes don't save lives, bikes will sneak up on you, they pop out from...

I spent a good few years riding with an open face helmet, and even when I started racing enduros I used an open face, as did a few of the top guys at that time, then I moved more to road orientated riding and a full face helmet. A few years back i was doing a lot od riding and tried to go back...

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the short answer is that there are LOTS of people doing exactly what you are on the standard suspension, however, you are here asking this question so the longer answer is that for long term reliability and comfort, go have a chat to Denver at Bling King ( about some Wilburs. I had a Tiger...

I had the pirellis on my Tiger 800, mostly tar and then i liked to play on the servitude roads on the east rand. With 2 up and full panniers on long trips i could still get pretty enthusiastic in the corners and I really never had issues on the gravel but I was also being a little conservative...

I presume then that this was done with the tape etc over the spoke caps?

Did he do a tubeliss conversion or did he change the rims?

When I worked at Holeshot, we had a number of abandoned bikes there. One in particular comes to mind, it was a Tiger 1050, same colour as mine, totally stripped after a crash, the guy had bought, and brought to us, a bunch of replacement parts, then he just disappeared. The bike had been...

or you could be like this guy ....

Awesome, take care and have a blast