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    Quote Originally Posted by buggsubique View Post
    Cool a blank canvas.

    That one comes with riding tutuition tuition tution - instructions

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    Quote Originally Posted by Padmei View Post
    Cool a blank canvas.

    That one comes with riding tutuition tuition tution - instructions
    yeah mate - a weekend with me and Z meister up Mt Patriarch and Onamalutu!
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    'Good things come to those who wait'
    Bollocks, get of your arse and go get it

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    looks like an egg on wheels, but like padwan said - a blank canvas. I certianly wouldn't feel bad about enduro-ising that thing!
    There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. We should come home from our adventures having faced their perils and uncertainties, endured their discomfort and beaten the odds, with a sly acknowledgment and revitalised solidarity of character.

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    i just might take a trip to bulls and go for a blat on the beast...
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    Quote Originally Posted by junkmanjoe View Post
    i just might take a trip to bulls and go for a blat on the beast...
    Go on Joe , you know you want to (tell us how it goes )

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    Not sure if this has been mentioned before - prob has - but I am reading the RR of the 5 ATs & BMW combat cow thru the Himalayas on Adv rider.

    If there ever is a need for a sales advertisement that thread certainly is one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Padmei View Post


    Not sure if this has been mentioned before - prob has - but I am reading the RR of the 5 ATs & BMW combat cow thru the Himalayas on Adv rider.

    If there ever is a need for a sales advertisement that thread certainly is one.
    Thats a good RR isn't it.
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    Air Filters (RD04)

    man, they don't come cheap at all (somewhere around the $50 mark each). Anyways, fitted a new one and man, the bikes mid range really improved. Also taken the piss poor excuse for a snorkel out of the airbox as well. SHe's a bit exposed to water ingress though so I've ripped the paper off my old filter and will make up a foam wrap to replace it - MX style foam and oil filter - washable and cheap. Will do some photos at some point.

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    paper air filter in a bike that is intended to go off road? What were they thinking?
    it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
    those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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    soggy weetbix is probably what someone was thinking...I think it changed in the RD07 models though to be up above the cylinders rather than down behind them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete376403 View Post
    paper air filter in a bike that is intended to go off road? What were they thinking?
    In our dusty conditions I would stick with paper or cotton/oil ie K&N style filters, the foam filters generally let more of the dust through and need constant cleaning, this maybe fine for a dirtbike that is going to be rebuilt regularly but on a Africa Twin your better to have the better filtration of a paper filter and replacing it every couple of services.

    When I had my RD04 I found it didn't get too bad and as long as you knocked some of the dust out at the service they were fine, if I was running foam I would expect I would be pulling it out to clean and oil all the time.
    In the words of Juan-Manuel Fangio "Brakes they only slow you down"

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    Well finally got round to reassembling the @ ,pulled all these rooted bits out of the suspension



    and put these nice $331.87 bits back in
    Feel like going for a ride now even tho the weather is shite


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    Where'd you source the parts? New or 2nd hand? I take it they went straight into the old levers

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    I had to scource these through Morleys (good work Shane) as I couldnt get the bits for the 650 from any of the web supliers . I have a copy of the micro fisch which lists the part numbers for every nut and bolt on the whole bike along with exploded drawings .
    The 750 is a bit more common and easier to scource parts for tho.

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