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Northern Suburbs: Google JK WORKS, Jandre Koekemoer, approved BMW trained technician +1 Tel 076 282 5748 located behind Cape gate shopping centre, can recall the street name Apologies for the formatting but just copied and pasted. Both Jandre and Alf seem to be highly regarded

If you log onto or join the wild dog forum there are dedicated threads there for BMWs and plenty of recommendations. https://wilddog.net.za/

Don't fool yourself.. It's not only KTM and us GS owners who hate Harleys.

Gee that's nasty. Where do you park that it could be exposed to someone doing that?. If Pirelli do indeed give you a new tyre that would be very classy of them. Hope they do.

Thanks guys

Thanks Thomo and Frosty. Do you know if they do non-polarised lenses?

Hairy, is it not possible that you just rode over something which cut the tyre? What makes you so sure that it was - in the weasel words of Alec Irwin - "human instrumentality"?

Afternoon all. I am looking to replace the lenses on my Oakleys and remember there was an old thread on Replacement copy Oakley lenses but I can't find it. I know about Revant but the thread mentioned some SA supplier, and I'm interested in finding who that was. Any ideas, anyone?

Just a reminder of the pleasures of biking. Yesterday up Chappies in great weather with coffee and a croissant.

Funny, I'm reading this on my phone and while scrolling down through the photos I thought it reminded me of the Rocket 3. Then I got to your comment. So we agree. It would be a difficult choice for sure. Both would cause pain in the pocket and the Ducati perhaps more so.

Hairy, looking at your photos I sense there is an adventure bike rider lurking somewhere in your DNA. What on earth are you doing on that Harley? Anyway, here is a answer to your scenario:

Hairy, I installed Calimoto to check and it does what you want. Just enter what you want. Just enter a round trip, add distance and let it find your location and voila, done. https://calimoto.com/en/help/create-rides/round-trip-planner

Calimoto will show you rides that others have logged in your selected area. Not the same but useful

Good to hear about your hearing. Wonder what caused that? Interesting too about the no-noise plugs. I find they don't cut enough noise, to the point where on a ride back one day on the N7 into a head-on South Easter, I had to pull over and change them for foamies after an hour. My ears just couldn't take the buffetting.

Harley riders. Got to have that exhaust noise to "feel safe".

Been using maps.me for years. Easy to use and using offline is a bonus. I plan a route on Google maps, export it as .kml and then import into maps.me. Works fine and I suppose one could always use Google maps as a backup

Yes, great to meet you too. You sure put more effort into cleaning your bike than I do. Yes I know that spot very well from my numerous walks past there along Tafelberg.

Sorry to mess you around but there's been a change of plan. Not going this week but perhaps some other time. Thanks for the interest and glad to see you have your bike sorted

On another topic, a mate and I are thinking of taking a ride on Saddy over Bain's kloof and having a snack at bike forge. Anyone interested in joining in?

Good happy ending to your story Hairy. Definitely worthwhile to keep that mechanic as your go-to guy from now on.

So you looked at Hairy's photo and went straight off to look for tractor air filters? Classic. Hahaha

See? Told you I knew f' all.

For starters it would be foam and not paper but other than that I pass. I'm no expert on that.

PLEASE send photos

Hairy, from what I've seen you could probably ride over Swartberg pass to Prince Albert on your bike if the road is in decent nick. Maybe worth considering.