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So ever since I got back into motorcycling, the one thing that has been a real PITA has been the GPS Nav aspect as it stands on a motorcycle. Bikes do not have the expansive screens modern cars have for GPS purposes, you have to rely on the Android or iPhone clipped to a suitable spot, then helmet speaker comms and a whole host of other data input points to juggle with. On the KLX300 the cheap clamps for my iPhone running Waze was in fact a workable solution, moving to the KL

Under the skid plate I was more than suspicious that Elk Grove power sports wanted my bike for 4 days to do a 1500 km break-in service on my machine then called me the very next day to come fetch it, despite me calling them early the next day to enquire as to status. My first thought was “Did they do the service properly?”. You know how that train of thought goes…. The oil tested fresh and the valves were quieter, there is no doubt, but they only did the engine oil and the va

Our 2026 Australian vacation adventure has turned out to be a pretty expensive Noah's ark type Water World experience thanks no doubt to the the current El Nino effects the planet is currently experiencing. We have had two sunny days and one overcast day and the rest was all drench time stuff. Today is Thursday and we are on the Gold Coast just outside Brisbane and the view from our hotel window to the outside world is at last sunny! It has a very Durban circa 1979 kind of fl