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All those contrarians regarding the bike of the year.

It is the bike of the year. Not the commuter bike of the year. Not the affordable bike of the year. Not the cheapest to maintain bike of the year.

Have any of you even ridden one? Try it one day. You will walk away mindf*cked.

I rode one at Phakisa a while back. It is truly incredible.
 
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25K? WTF. I'm sure the manufacturers pay the journalists or something. Can't see how else a bike like this won against more worthy competitors. Can't even call it the track bike of the year, cause I doubt the people that can afford those will actually risk it on a track.
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It’s designed so that the entire bike needs to be stripped from the headlights back to do the valve check.

I **** you not.

It’s what happens when someone thinks about look pretty first over functional.

 
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Trompie67 said:
All those contrarians regarding the bike of the year.

It is the bike of the year. Not the commuter bike of the year. Not the affordable bike of the year. Not the cheapest to maintain bike of the year.

Have any of you even ridden one? Try it one day. You will walk away mindf*cked.

I rode one at Phakisa a while back. It is truly incredible.
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To me bike of the year encompasses the “ticks every box” motorcycle of a given manufacturer year.

Doesn’t need to be absolutely awesome at all of it but it also can’t just do one thing very well while failing at everything else.

I’ve ridden every Ducati except the Panigale and it’s by choice. It’s a beautiful thing to look at and for that reason if I owned one it would be parked under lights on the garage so I can have a bottle of wine with it.

I would probably never ride it.
 
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Sad day today. Saying goodbye to my 390. Used it to commute and for the wife to learn. She has her license now so can look for something else for me to commute that will also allow for longer weekend rides.

Bought Jan 2015 and served me faithfully. Should actually just have kept her but a friend is getting into bikes so have him a good deal.
 
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So I recently went through the whole bike chain/sprocket debacle this past weekend and sho it was a messy affair at first! Luckily Youtube helps quite a bit for the DIY-handicapped amongst us.

Wanted to know what chain lube/wax people prefer or had good experience with? I am currently just using Wynn's Chain Wax but wondering if it's worthwhile looking at a different brand - my chain and sprockets lasted 22k KM's at least...
 
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I had the pleasure of having a Ducati 996 for a week on loan from a friend.

Not the most comfortable bike out there, I was only ever comfortable was while cornering.
 
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So I recently went through the whole bike chain/sprocket debacle this past weekend and sho it was a messy affair at first! Luckily Youtube helps quite a bit for the DIY-handicapped amongst us.

Wanted to know what chain lube/wax people prefer or had good experience with? I am currently just using Wynn's Chain Wax but wondering if it's worthwhile looking at a different brand - my chain and sprockets lasted 22k KM's at least...
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I'm pretty sure the brand differences don't make much of a consequential difference at the end of the day.

In fact I would argue that chain wax/lube don't really matter at all in between services.

I've used the Belray stuff in the past and also Castrol and it's all much of a muchness.

Main thing I can recommend is to use the wax when you get home at night and the chain is warm with a cut open toilet roll behind the chain to do the spraying so everything isn't covered by it.

Then it won't fling off the next morning.

And only ever wax. **** lube. Also **** cleaning chains.
 
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Recommendations for a cheap helmet cam? Just need to keep a couple of minutes of footage as I commute. Don’t want to go the GoPro route just for this
 
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Recommendations for a cheap helmet cam? Just need to keep a couple of minutes of footage as I commute. Don’t want to go the GoPro route just for this
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Consider the Sena unit with camera and comms together then so you have some benefit out of it.
 
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Recommendations for a cheap helmet cam? Just need to keep a couple of minutes of footage as I commute. Don’t want to go the GoPro route just for this
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I recall dischem having some chinese brand hing at their cashiers recently. IIRC they were R399.
Otherwise:
http://sacarcam.co.za/store/product/dazzne-p2-plus-action-camera-includes-32gb-sd-card
https://www.animalgear.co.za/shop-our-brands/eken-h9r-action-camera

Personally, I'd browse around for someone selling something second hand.
 
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