Mad Hatter wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:28 am I tend to carry a ratchet straps, never had to use it because the only times I've needed it I've forgotten to put it back in my bag

Ratchet straps are ok, but your pulling a dead bike, try the rope trick it works far better.

garyboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:17 am a reverse gear would be SO handy .. both for small and big bikes, especially trail bikes like wot get stuck in ruts n stuff.


o .. and an extra gear or two.

At the manufacture stage it would be easy. Better than traction control and a auto blip er.

While they are putting a winch on the next Super ADV bike can they also put a reverse gear. Yeah and maybe a parallel pair of wheels alongside the existing ones. And perhaps some kind of metal roof over everything to keep the rain off. Heating would be good as well. Lots of room for extra passenger...

Most guys said I was mad when I suggested this should be built into the design of adventure bikes, obviously not this big but a normal starter motor would do the job, after all your only wanting a little help. But a solution I have used for years is using a climbing rope. I always carry one because ...

Thanks for your comments everyone . We seem to have come down in 2 camps . "why bother , just do it" and sort of how I feel I guess " Not perfect , but need a lobbying group to represent us". Having done some committee work ( God , it can be boring) I can understand that to be t...

I remember you bought a side stand re locator did you fit that?

Longer spring guide and the aluminium tube underneath it for the front forks and spring spacer and thicker rebound spacer for the rear shock Just changing the spring pre load will not give you an S shock, you have to remove the larger rebound shim in side the shock so that it as more travel. Well t...

Most of the cost for me was parts which were around £120, The rear shock spacer i made as the only place i could find one was slavens in the US. I hate to think the cost of r forks What height do you want as the r has 2 heights 245mm and 260mm Not sure but I'm 6 4 and want to increase the height of...

Longer spring guide and the aluminium tube underneath it for the front forks and spring spacer and thicker rebound spacer for the rear shock Just changing the spring pre load will not give you an S shock, you have to remove the larger rebound shim in side the shock so that it as more travel. Well t...

Longer spring guide and the aluminium tube underneath it for the front forks and spring spacer and thicker rebound spacer for the rear shock Roughly how much does that conversion cost and how does the cost compare to buying new R forks? Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk I converted my forks by j...