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Yup. Something I've noticed with bikes is there's so much less demand for everything. Even services.
 
Tickled_Tortise said:
Some pictures before you go riding this morning, If the excitement hasn't got you aren't out on the road already?.
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Will try to take pictures tomorrow. Took it from JHB north to Vanderbijlpark today, laaank early to dodge traffic, came back at a busier time. 160km of highway riding for the day. Handled way better and less scary than I thought. Absolutely broken as I type this though..

Still struggling with the low speed stuff though, will practice that tomorrow.
 
Archer said:
So I tested all the helmets at motorcycle world, only the Airoh S5 is close to a decent fit, probably an 85% match. The rest are simply the wrong size, or my chin contacts the helmet which I thought was strange given that most adventure helmets look like they have plenty of chin space.

I almost went to tracmac but the only untested helmets they have are way outside my wallets league, so decided against it.

And to make the decision a bit less clear, the the S5 has no top airvents (which I have used sometimes on my current helmet) and the internal sun visor just just touched my nose if the helmet isn't positioned right. Could be annoying off-road, but maybe I can jimmy the mechanism so that the visor doesn't go all the way down
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Sounds like you want an oval headshape shell.
 
kfc4unme said:
Have you or are you going for training? During low speed manoeuvres keep trailing for rear brake.
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I've never had to use brakes for low speed stuff. Unless for some strange reason you need to go slower than what feathering the clutch can achieve, and that's only been required during training exercises. Heck even then not really.

GhostSixFour said:
Still struggling with the low speed stuff though, will practice that tomorrow.
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The single most important lesson is to look where you want to go. On dirt roads people will always tell you "look up, open up." Looking up means you aren't looking down at that big rock you're trying to avoid, but instead looking through the corner, or over the rise, etc. But look at the rock and that's where you'll end up. And the same applies to normal roads.
 
First DIY work on the bike done.

Horrible smell of fumes while I was riding, suspected the crankcase breather hose had come adrift. Took it to Honda, they confirmed it, fixed it, the next day, horrible smell again.
They obviously didn't fix it properly...

It's a bitch to get to, but I think it's attached right now...
 
Sinbad said:
First DIY work on the bike done.

Horrible smell of fumes while I was riding, suspected the crankcase breather hose had come adrift. Took it to Honda, they confirmed it, fixed it, the next day, horrible smell again.
They obviously didn't fix it properly...

It's a bitch to get to, but I think it's attached right now...
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I did an oil change last week for the first time.
Having the correct tools does help a lot.
 
For sure. I've replaced turbos, wheel bearings, shock absorbers on my cars, so I have most of what I need. Only thing missing is some bloody space under all the bodywork to get hands in ;)
 
Leaving some intersections I try and stay a second or 2 later, to let the cars next to me drive off. I feel like it's a bit of protection if the opposite tries to skip their red robot.

But watching this video gave me chills as things could still go wrong that way.

https://youtu.be/YYimlrucN4s[video=youtube;YYimlrucN4s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYimlrucN4s&feature=youtu.be[/video]
 
kfc4unme said:
Have you or are you going for training? During low speed manoeuvres keep trailing for rear brake.
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Have gone for training at BMW, but a slight difference between their G310R and the F800GS I got :) Just adapting.

Archer said:
I've never had to use brakes for low speed stuff. Unless for some strange reason you need to go slower than what feathering the clutch can achieve, and that's only been required during training exercises. Heck even then not really.



The single most important lesson is to look where you want to go. On dirt roads people will always tell you "look up, open up." Looking up means you aren't looking down at that big rock you're trying to avoid, but instead looking through the corner, or over the rise, etc. But look at the rock and that's where you'll end up. And the same applies to normal roads.
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Will keep practicing.
 
simm_card said:
Leaving some intersections I try and stay a second or 2 later, to let the cars next to me drive off. I feel like it's a bit of protection if the opposite tries to skip their red robot.
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I would prefer to be at the front of the queue so that one has an unobstructed view of everything. Then you can usually see things like this coming from a mile away.
 
simm_card said:
Leaving some intersections I try and stay a second or 2 later, to let the cars next to me drive off. I feel like it's a bit of protection if the opposite tries to skip their red robot.

But watching this video gave me chills as things could still go wrong that way.
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I'm generally in the front of the queue unless there's not enough space to get by, and then I pull off faster than the cars.

Sometimes (a lot of the time) the cagers will creep forward right after I split them and stop just ahead of them, very annoying cause most of the time it happens when the traffic light is still red for us for some time.
 
Passed. The oom was generous with me. I made one cockup that could have been a fail, he docked me 1 point
 
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