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[James Deuce]

Which isn't to say KTM is totally focused on typically Germanic engineered performance. Why would you put a single sided swingarm on a bike and then mount an exhaust right over the top of the wheel removing side of it?

Honda are fond of the same level of stupidity.

[Berries]

The price? I do like a lot of the boutique beers although some of the IPAs seem to be overdoing the hop thing, but $8.00 a bottle? OK it's 500ml but...

What do you pay in the pub for a decent pint? In one of my regulars it is now $11 a pint (Emersons, Tuatara, Invercargill Brewery etc, not your Speights shit), so I am quite happy to pay $8 to $10 in New World for something I will enjoy in the comfort of my own armchair.

In my other regular I can get a jug of Monteiths IPA for $9. I go there more than the other place.

[Grumph]

Sounds unlikely, although there's not much of any mass on your typical sedan there back to the axle. Certainly the frames are proper pieces of work. I see references to frame failures on Ducatis, and to be honest looking at the headstock convergent angles for example it doesn't surprise me. By comparison the SDR frame angles are far more in keeping with what you'd expect of a space frame based on a reasonable force/angle diagram.

Which isn't to say KTM is totally focused on typically Germanic engineered performance. Why would you put a single sided swingarm on a bike and then mount an exhaust right over the top of the wheel removing side of it?

Even so, I'll not be attempting any Sub-splitting exercises any time soon, thank you very much.

Yeah, we looked hard around the steering head for paint cracks - none. Hard to believe yes, but true..I think he sold it for two reasons - he's a very quick rider on dirt roads and realised he was lucky to walk away from this one...and he would always have that niggling worry we'd missed something. I even went around the spokes looking for uneven tension - nothing.

[Ocean1]

Yeah, we looked hard around the steering head for paint cracks - none. Hard to believe yes, but true..I think he sold it for two reasons - he's a very quick rider on dirt roads and realised he was lucky to walk away from this one...and he would always have that niggling worry we'd missed something. I even went around the spokes looking for uneven tension - nothing.

*googles western valley rd*... Oh aye, looks like a grand place to play. And I've done just that on many a similar road.

Did you look at the headstoock bearings?

But he's right, 140hp dirt bikes on open roads are a statistic waiting for real life to add up the numbers. They've tried to kill better men than me on roads without intruding Subarus. They've succeeded. Realistically the most I can even pretend to manage in either case is my 525, and even on that it's even odds as to which of us will kill the other first.

[F5 Dave]

That Garage project BEER is my current favorite, maybe. Simple but good. But I do like a good pilsner and Panhead do a nice one. They aren't cheap though. That's why I have to buy cheaper brands. Some are very drinkable, but only sometimes. Bought some Montieths pilsner today and its a good batch and very nice.

Currently imbibing some Wither Hill sav. Fantastic and like $12 a bottle from supermarket. Juverly.

[AllanB]

Which isn't to say KTM is totally focused on typically Germanic engineered performance. Why would you put a single sided swingarm on a bike and then mount an exhaust right over the top of the wheel removing side of it?

Ditto on my Ducati - the mufflers need to be removed to pull the wheel off the single sided swingarm. Easy job though but - yeah - WTF.

Plus the mufflers cover some of the awsomeness of the swingarmless side of the wheel.

[Ocean1]

Ditto on my Ducati - the mufflers need to be removed to pull the wheel off the single sided swingarm. Easy job though but - yeah - WTF.

Plus the mufflers cover some of the awsomeness of the swingarmless side of the wheel.

Imagine how much better they could be if it wasn't for fashion.

[Swoop]

Imagine how much better they could be if it wasn't for fashion.

Due to the current "fashion" being fluoro, either an '80's retro theme has resurged OR the brain-dead osh fuckwits have invaded.
Sadly it appears to be the latter.

[Maha]

white helmets seem to be the goes, most bikes you can't see the rider/high-vis when they're coming towards you --- I guess high-vis helps with the side on detection? but how often are you moving side-on on a motorbike

Scubbo has a point here. High-vis does very little to nothing when vehicles are coming towards you, headlight on is the best we can do. Fluoro is most effect at night but mainly where headlights from behind are hitting you. But I don't recall ever hearing that the wearing of a fluoro vest would have saved this life.