Your question has been answered above but let me contribute this. When I recently went to KTM to buy new bearings they told me that they had changed supplier as they had been getting negative feedback about those Bearingworx kits. So the low quality bearings may have added to your problem.
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It is a sad sad situation this and I am glad I have had my chance to ride/misbehave on superbikes. But if you look at the prices of new liter bikes I am not surprised that they are slowly disappearing.
Het klinkt allemaal erg goed in het land van Bartje. Be sure to call on me for coffee as well when you are in Cape Town (but only if you bring the bike along).
Have you tried Podium motorcycles?
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Marc and I did Grootrivierpoort a few days ago. It was bone dry. Never made it through the reserve due to time pressures. Went into the kloof on the side entry from Kareedouw and out again over the mountain on the Northside at Doringkloof.
I am confused. You say you support B and B yet you want them to ride an underperforming bike? If they go and ride for Yamaha they would probably have more fun going to eat those muffins at a BMW dealer than riding those slow blue bikes.
As a follow up to the air filter discussion on this thread. I use some of that grey soft sticky on one side anti-draught strip between the airbox and the air filter housing. This massively reduces the dust that reaches the TwinAir prefilter.
These scams and subsequent attacks have happened several times recently. The following is from news24.com:
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/the-fast-and-wounded-victims-drive-50km-to-hospital-after-shootout-with-facebook-marketplace-robbers-20231129-2...
As 2SD says, my 701 does the same thing as well. My son's bike has been used mostly around town so why the rims go like that is a bit strange. That's why I asked 2SD the other day about the cost of fixing these (as per his XT rebuild). Not a huge cost but that way it will sit around in the...