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@DSNewbie haha. It's an adventure bike that needs a final clean before selling it. So I want this puppy to shine!

Could any of you dogs recommend a place where I can have my bike valeted in the Cape Town city bowl? Approx cost too please.

1) Htwoo  2) Chickenbadger 3) whitedelight (I think I can make it) 4) Swanniebraai 5) FearlessFrikkie 6) HTFU

Thanks Pete. Has your stock arrived yet?

Hi I'm planning a ride back from Mombasa in Kenya in early March via Burundi. Please let me know if there are specific sections or places that I should go see, places or countries to avoid and other general advice if you have. Maybe even someone that would like to travel together for a stretch...

Hey Drew I'm also planning a trip down from Kenya in March. I'm planning on going from Mombasa to Burundi and from there down South via scenic routes back to South Africa (over 5 or 6 weeks, I think). How are you getting your bike up to Tanzania and how long are you planning on taking to get to...

Anyone? Maybe Dar es Salaam?

Lycaon, did you end up shipping your bike to Dar? How much did it cost and which company did you use?

Hi I'm considering a trip from Kenya, so I'll fly up (for business) and ride the bike back to Cape Town. Do any of you have some experience with shipping a bike up there (Mombasa probably)? Which shipping agents or companies would you advise and what is the estimated cost of doing that? Thanks

Final bill for 30,000km service + all the other shift roller/shift forks/barrel work = R13,500. FML

It turns out my bike is a 2005 model but the first owner just registered it as a 2006 model. So you were right Kamanya. They quoted me for 10 hours, new shift rollers, shift roller cpl (don't know what the cpl means?), new shift forks and new shift arresting cpl. Not cool. But hopefully it'll...

It has to go in for its 30,000km service, so I got a quote for both the fixing and the servicing. They reckon it's going to be R4.2-R4.4k for the service + 1.5hrs to open up to the part where you get to the selector/rollers + 3 or 4hrs for putting it back together + R2k for the shifting roller +...

I took the bike in to KTM, Donald took the bike for a ride and he reckons it is the gear selector/rollers that might be causing it. So you were spot-on Kamanya. And yes, it's going to cost me a fortune.

I grab a gear, it selects, I let the clutch out, increase revs to accelarate and then it jumps out of gear to neutral. Or when going in a higher gear (3rd or 4th), gear engaged, clutch out, i would open throttle, revs increase and then it'll just rev freely (as if i've pulled the clutch in) and...

I went on a ride to the Cederberg this weekend and kept on having this problem with my gears/clutch. As I switch from 1st to 2nd it would increase in revs in 2nd (after clutch has engaged the gear), but would then just slip out of gear into neutral. It also happened in higher gears at times...