Popped in today, they have two demonstrators, a 300 and a 500 called "6" ??
Staff were helpful and keen.

Yes, I'd like to know as well. What brought you to change the bearings. Were they notched and if so was it straight ahead or a bit to the left.

I keep coming back to look at this, are there two cracks oposite each other and slightly offset from the straight ahead position? I'm thinking that the largest load is turning left where the weight is transfered forward and to the right hand side and that appears to be the plane that the damage is d...

That looks like a work hardened fracture to me, bin it the material around the crack will be brittle. What are the fork guides like, grab the bottom of the fork and see if it moves in relation to top tube. There are a lot of non design stresses on conventional forks with a sidecar bolted on, I'm sur...

Like is still there, it's just invisible until you hovver over it.

chrisjk wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:40 am I think this thread amply demonstrates that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"...

Things always look better once you've bought them, it's human nature.

Sadly no pics of my 916 or any of the short kept road bikes that I've had over the years.
An ex girl freind had this though and it was much more fun than the 916, redlined at 14250 with very little below 10k

Yes, but you'll need a battery to battery charger. I doubt that you'd transfer much charge before going flat and the cost would possibly make it a non starter.
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So many to choose from but this is the one I'll be hanging on the retirement home wall.

Trago 2 Wheels is 5 minutes down the road from me, a long established motorcycle retailer, sells kit, parts etc and offers a full range of rider training. We see a lot of their products on the roads around here, if they can sell the SWM in enough numbers they will make the leap to main stream. They ...