The Royal Enfield Himalayan ,great value.

[Barftone]

I know you should not have to but a thin smear of vaseline around the rim (of the clocks) may help keep it out in heavy rain?

[Mike Horton]

Yes I'll certainly look to do that great tip and cheap too a bit if vaseline.

[Godspeed]

I’m not sure the problem is water getting in as I haven’t ridden in the rain that much and still got the misting... some people are saying the moisture build up is created when the units are sealed at the factory - just due to the moisture in the air there

[Chris S]

Perhaps Mike H's bike was built during the monsoon!
Joking aside, I can't believe clocks are hermetically sealed, are they?
But then where does the condensation come from and why is it so bad on some bikes?

[johnnyboxer]

I see the price of new ones is £5000

Have they gone up?

[nathanm]

I think you're looking in the wrong place or at the camo green special edition QB Motorcycles has just put out as they're still £4000 + OTR costs. The camo green one was £5000, which just had the paint, exhaust and crash bars.

[crofty]

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This is where i drilled mine, been a couple of months now all good. I opened up the clocks a few times in the warm house, in a cold garage just to vary the temp of the air, even put some new silica bags inside nothing worked so i just drilled the holes, when you fit the clocks back on there is a slope on the bottom so i put some thick tape in front of the holes to work as a drip bar.

[Godspeed]

Thankyou Crofty, that’s brilliant!!!

[crofty]

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Could this be the new Dakar Himalayan, that Nathan was talking about a few pages back. If you start off with the 4k bike and spend extra on the suspension etc it might be a great little off road machine. Nah just 24 bhp I hear you say, same as CRF450L then

[Tramp]

Crofty.....that last picture of the orange abomination is so wrong on so many levels... they should stick with what sells well not try to recreate a katoom ..

You cant resist fiddling eh?..we are so alike