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Have you learnt to "relax" your legs yet and "freewheel" while clipped in?

I would say from experience at least fit a front brake .... when the chain snaps you are left with only the soles of your shoes on the tar or your front tyre to slow yourself down.

A fixie is only scary in the beginning when you forget you are fixed and the bike bucks you ... but you learn very quickly

Did my first "proper dirt ride" this past weekend in the Overberg area, on a open ride hosted by the BMW motorad club. Total 6 hours in the saddle, including the just over an hour to get there and then the same timeframe back again. The route was out from Botrivier side, eventually ended up in Caledon and then to Dassiesfontein for lunch/brunch. I have no cooking where I was most of the time, but it did not matter either. A nice loop good scenery and company. Really appreciated that the group was welcoming to new riders and tentative riders, no personalities, and very well run ..... stops were kept to an absolute minimum, so you do more riding and less talking. First few KM felt a little sketchy and then I settled in on the dirt ......legs are toast from standing and "pumping" the bike through undulations and over obstacles like I would have done on the mountain bike, but all in all flipping awesome first dirt ride experience. I should have however taken more and better pics!

Enjoy the ride / event! Will be able to join in you 4 years time on the 950 Adventure

@Andymann Not sure if I missed your loop and schedule down to the Cape, if you are keen to share this please, do and if you are keen to have people pop in along the way just shout.

Good listen

This must be the best example of how to fit a tool tube to a bike

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Congrats and enjoy, I am sure that bike on the road is also rather quick.....quick enough to get you into trouble with the traffic dept.

The news is in, it is the base gasket, but it is meant to be a very small / slow leak that I do not have to worry about now. So I am not going to worry now. I can get the base gaskets for under 1K and could take on the project during the Dec. holidays. I met a guy in Melkbos that did his 950's base gaskets a month or two ago, and he recons you can remove the top end mostly intact. But these are my Dec. holidays and I want to be riding the bike, not working on the bike. You can also take the approach of giving the motor a refresh if you are taking it apart, a full gasket pack is around the 7.5K mark, then that excludes pistons, rings, whatever else needs to be replaced. I have been cautioned this can very quickly sit around the 25+K mark.... now things are getting serious. One can then say the motor is good to go then for at least the next 70K/km, it is just a question of do I want to be doing the next 70K/km of my riding on this bike vs another bike.

Dropped the bike off at the workshop, they will take the tanks, etc off and see if they can trace the leak. So here is holding thumbs it is just the o-rings.

Maybe a little Lectron magic?

Sounds right, but I recon they could get past the FI/emissions thing as the bike is a "classic"

My one neighbour has a 1190R that he rips around on, and it is a really nice bike. He is doing his 3rd Roof of Africa this year, and is a medal contender on Enduro Races in the WC (In his age group) ... so he knows how to ride on dirt, and he loves this bike. I should add though, he has mentioned he misses his old 990.

LC8's go BRRAAAAPPPPPP

Looking forward to the next episode where they break down what they did to the bike

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