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You should show him proper way out of gauteng. My suggestion is bots fence ride in reverse - can send you the gps track. And i can suggest nice juicy route for him from ramatlabama to ct, so that he stops wasting time in boring karoo 🤪

Yes, the surface in that spot where you went swimming was tricky even dry. It was quite steep with deep curned up sand and the exit was uphill over big rocks. This Cruiser got stuck there and couldn't get out at least for 10 minutes while I watched - I got bored afterwards and went back to the...

This was the situation at the beginning of Jan this year: I believe this is the spot where you fell into water with the bike - as you can see on the picture you cannot even see water around (and this was already after heavy rains when the main track to Eksteenfontein was badly washed away...

So what happened to the Riemvasmaak trip? Similar riding half the distance from you, you actually trailered on this trip way past it... :pot: Just curious about the drowned 990. When you stood it up (I'm guessing bike standing up with front wheel in the air - quite a feast of strength in two...

Hmmm, tech riding will not do your back much good at all. But if you want to try that than yes, smaller and lighter bike is the way to go.

Just out of interest, what is the logic behind lighter bike being better for your back? If you planning to ride technical, then yes. But you havent been too keen on tech riding before. If you want to ride mostly tar and dirt roads, especially corrugated ones, then it is exactly the other way...

How did your wide tubeless rims look on 1190? Didn't you have to change them couple of times and still end up with wavy disks?

Narrower rims much better offroad (better protected, less chance of dents), plus much better offroad tyre selection.

Time is running out Tom, stop thinking and start doing. And stop using an excuse of how you have so much to learn - that is literally every single one of us, no matter how long we have been doing whatever we are doing (indeed the more you know about something, the more you realize how little you...

If you love baking so much, why don't you use your - very scarce - free time in US rather more productively and potentially profitably: Why don't you bake **** out of every Sunday, experimenting with different topings or fillings, building up skills and unique recepies? This makes sense - at...

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Absolutely. That Drakensberg traverse with Stuart and Iain was epic: Petri, this gentleman is over 10 years older than you. So no more excuses - if you get that 450 this is exactly the kind of riding it was built for. And you live right next to Lesotho  >:D :pot:

Since when is 54 old? I'm 49 and ride regularly proper dual sport with guys older than you 57 - 64 and they ride just fine. For reference, here are some of those dual sport rides that 450L would be suitable for that I have done with those guys that are older than you (Straatkat and TK)...

It's your money, buy whatever floats your boat. For my money, out of these two 300 is the right bike for your needs, because it is heavier and therefore will be more comfortable on those easy dirt roads (especially the rally version which is even heavier than standard). I would be looking at...

That is correct. I was just pointing Petri, who seems to be looking for low maintenance general purpose bike in the right direction, as 450L is not that. 450 is pure bred dual sport (i.e. plated enduro bike) with high quality components and high performance engine (once the brutal Euro...

The bike he is looking for - long service intervals while still dirt worthy and having 'rally' version available, and being Honda - is of course CRF300L. It seems from that first video that with few mods it is actually quite respectable in dirt (in enduro trim, rally version is just silly with...

They definitely run Vortex on US bikes - primarily to smoothen out the throttle, so do they replace the US ECU in that case, or leave it in and use Vortex only as fueling controller - like Power Commander? Edit: OK - found it. Even on US bikes they replace the ECU with the one that comes with...

I would get that jerky throttle sorted one way or another - I'm sure this guys screwed up, but it is safe bet that the jerky throttle didn't help (check minute 8:00): https://youtu.be/EszJCM7rbEk

At the prices above - R113k for US spec with 39 HP (because it includes US ECU and manifold) this bike finally becomes quite an attractive option - especially as its main competitor KTM 500 is now north of R140k new. If I understand it correctly, the following are must for the SA bikes to run...

Tom, you are making unsubstantiated claims here. SWM Superdual is Euro 4 compliant. Whether SWM are going to make it Euro 5 compliant remains to be seen, but if not then it then they will be discontinued in Europe and I suppose in SA as well as SA just follows slavishly Euro rules (instead of...