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Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:38 pm
by robson
for sure new AT is not the bike that can take beating,
but if so why honda bother with 21 inch front wheel and tubed tyres...
Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:12 pm
by Q plate
Scott_rider wrote:The more AT's that I see on the road and parked up in car parks, the more I like the look of them (thumbs) . I heard one with an Akropovic exhaust which sounded very fruity (thumbs) .
And me... I'm drawn to them like a fat kid to a free Mars bar especially the tri-colour B) understand its downfalls but I couldn't see me 'hard' off roading a new 10/11k bike anyway I've got a £1500 husqvarna for that.
Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:23 pm
by Scott_rider
^...yes, most Honda's look really good in that colour scheme B) .
Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:56 pm
by Brads
Looked at one before going back to BMW
Didn`t like it. Finish wasn`t good, you got nothing with it, everything was a very expensive extra.
Panniers were crap, and rattles, and were badly fitting, and were crap.
Nice looking as a tribute type of thing though. Very bonny
Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:03 pm
by robson
Brads wrote:Looked at one before going back to BMW
Didn`t like it. Finish wasn`t good, you got nothing with it, everything was a very expensive extra.
I was surprised with poor finish as well and I find f800gs or r1200gs better put together.
Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:21 pm
by OnHellas
robson wrote:for sure new AT is not the bike that can take beating,
but if so why honda bother with 21 inch front wheel and tubed tyres...
Somebody did quite well on one at the Hellas Rally this year. He won it I think. Certainly beat scores of 350/450 type enduro bikes. And over 7 days.
It's usually quite a tough race, not overly technical, lots of rocky tracks.
Ask Mike54, he's been there.....I think.
Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 4:39 pm
by moto al
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Today (thumbs)
Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 5:20 pm
by Cone
I think of I hadn't brought a rusty BMW I'd be considering one of these..
Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 6:49 pm
by Mike54
OnHellas wrote:robson wrote:for sure new AT is not the bike that can take beating,
but if so why honda bother with 21 inch front wheel and tubed tyres...
Somebody did quite well on one at the Hellas Rally this year. He won it I think. Certainly beat scores of 350/450 type enduro bikes. And over 7 days.
It's usually quite a tough race, not overly technical, lots of rocky tracks.
Ask Mike54, he's been there.....I think.
yes, several times. Fair play to the guy on the AT, not easy. V good rider though.
Re: The Honda Africa twin 1000 , warts and all.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 6:57 pm
by moto al
It's still not a bad bike . (thumbs)
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15 mins ago (thumbs)