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evand

I did some light off road driving today about 25 miles. Sandy smooth surface with a few bumps and rutts. I will post pics of the caranage later but, blew out front fork is now leaking. Steering head feels loose and my mirror snapped off. I never hit a thing. How does the scramble handle this stuff with out falling apart. They look pretty similiar.

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Orpheus

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2006 Triumph Bonneville T100, 1968 Honda CL350K0, 1973 BMW R60/5 LWB Toaster

evand

I been hanging out over at adv rider forums too much.

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Mods= hepco's with topcase, parabellum, k/q seat, great bay highway bars, norman hyde pipes, bellmouth,progressive rear hagon front susp, ird plugs. Looking into russell day-long seat.

Rusk

No, your issues sound really weird, to me. Now, this is going to sound just so wrong, but I take my Thruxton on crappy fire roads and such a *lot*. I know it's not the best thing for the bike, but it's a lot of fun. Feels like a mountain bike that I don't have to pedal. :razz: Point is, I've never had an issue with the forks or with anything falling off or coming loose. Granted, I'm just zooping along and going *really* slow over anything bumpy, but I don't understand why you would get such dissimilar issues.

Clicky for the right way to use a Scrambler :-D

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jojje1963

Oslo-Dakar-Oslo on a Bonnie

Other than a highside I think the only problem he has had so far is one broken spoke. Top speed in Sahara was 100mph if I'm not misstaken. 10,000 mile trip in 5 weeks, he will be home in a few days

Rusk

Very, very, very cool :chug: Do you have any further details of his trip? Is he writing about it?

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Odysseus

The photos of the Oslo trip are incredible jojje. It would be great to read about the trip if he decides to write it up.

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cafecruzin

you obviously need softer roads

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Geoff

I'd go over that bad boy a bit if I were you. what we used to call a nut n bolt...just to make sure nothing else important is getting ready to fall off
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Iceseven

I live 4 miles up an old Colorado forest service road and no problems, the Scrambler actually handles fire roads fairly well and that is why I traded in my Bonnie and a KLR 650 for the Scrambler.

Checked out that Australian video from Rusk's link on Adventure riders, wow that was cool.

[ This message was edited by: Iceseven on 2007-04-27 14:04 ]

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2006 Scrambler, Previously had 2004 Bonnie Black, 1995 T-Bird, 1974 Trident, various street and dirt bikes.