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Just back from 4 day and 900 miles of Highlands and North Coast fun. And all the way through day 1 I had fairly bad clutch slip, was nearly about to sack it off home before we got too remote, but you know what if fixed itself. Id just done an oil change the day before with same oil i always use (same can!). But bike has been standing a few months so figured the clutch steel plates maybe had some kind of sludge on them?
Extreme rain and cold on day 1 neaely sent everyone home (again had it on every trip done with this particular group and never had much luck with weather). But day 2 to 4 opposite problem, too hot for our winter gear only approach.
Most of the roads were good, but some were epic no matter which bike your on. Funduro loved the gravel struan slower stuff, sv/vstrom liked it a bit faster and smoother, sprint was a weapon on anything even vaguely more open, and the tiger liked everything.
Need a triple or a v4 in my life though
Also punctures suck, especially when your inner tube fully explodes and you didnt take a spare and the nearest one that might fit is a a half days ride away.
But mostly learned the a9 is extremely boring to the point of danger, there's some excellent single tracks off the side of it though
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BrickMan
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too hot for our winter gear only approach.
Oaf yeah bugger that! I've taken the motorbike to work the last two days because I couldn't face pedalling in the heat and I'm afraid to say I have been 100% squidding it. I avoided the motorway so 30-35mph was the fastest I got up to and I do that kinda speed in lycra so...
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Good work fella. That's a proper outing.
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Jung
@Jung @Airhead Thanks. Makes sense actually as it was after I changed the bars I started noticing it so I've maybe got the clutch cable running in a tighter curve or something.
I'll have a look at adjusting and probably lubricating it too, hopefully that'll sort it.