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Tool kits required for RTW Riders
Anyone taking a Japanese Bike
If your taking a Harley Davidson
What you will need if your taking a Ducati
Don't set off on a BMW with any less than this.
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21 Mar 2014
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Sorry to leave KTM out I never thought anyone would be mad enough to try it but if your are you will need all of the above plus these
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21 Mar 2014
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Don't forget to include the Tow Rope!
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Looks like the Jap tools have gone rusty through not being used
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22 Mar 2014
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Don't forget to include the Tow Rope!
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What could possibly go wrong...
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1 Apr 2014
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BMW
How cum people slate BMW I've just sold a twin cam 71k in 14 months and i got a puncture, ummm hope the new bike is just as reliable
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1 Apr 2014
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How cum people slate BMW I've just sold a twin cam 71k in 14 months and i got a puncture, ummm hope the new bike is just as reliable
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We're not ! It's called a joke
Mind you you need not have sold your BMW just because you got a puncture they can be fixed for a few pounds !
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1 Apr 2014
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We're not ! It's called a joke ![Thumbup1](https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/images/smilies/thumbup1.gif)
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Dazzer, there's more than a few people on the HUBB without a sense of humour or who wouldn't recognise a joke if it slapped them in the face: Look at some of the replies to http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...ep-faith-74913
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1 Apr 2014
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How cum people slate BMW I've just sold a twin cam 71k in 14 months and i got a puncture, ummm hope the new bike is just as reliable
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Seems a bit rash to sell off your BMW just because of a puncture ...
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Seems a bit rash to sell off your BMW just because of a puncture ... ![Innocent](https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/images/smilies/innocent.gif)
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Maybe the word Puncture now means Final drive failure.
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2 Apr 2014
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you lot need to get out more
Like the title says, off to Spain in the morning and may nip over to Marco on Monday, might take the puncture KIT you never know.
Are you lot doing any thing nice.
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2 Apr 2014
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Like the title says, off to Spain in the morning and may nip over to Marco on Monday, might take the puncture KIT you never know.
Are you lot doing any thing nice.
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Who's Marco? Is he a comedian/ sense of humour guru/ BMW mechanic in post #1? Will he twiddle your Ring Antenna for you?
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2 Apr 2014
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Toolkit
I think a little bit of jealousy is starting to creep in here, try doing a set on touratech boxes, just fitted some, sent me the wrong boxes, wrong rails the locks have failed on 2 of them and the locking spring has just fell out and I've not even left the house
But tomorrow is another day.
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I think a little bit of jealousy is starting to creep in here, try doing a set on touratech boxes, just fitted some, sent me the wrong boxes, wrong rails the locks have failed on 2 of them and the locking spring has just fell out and I've not even left the house
But tomorrow is another day.
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Jealous of what exactly? Of buying substandard, overpriced bling from an outfit who work from the same customer-service manual as Siberian hoteliers and not knowing how to fit it? Of thinking you're something special just because you're (allegedly) riding a m/c all the way to Spain to visit Marco?
Anyway, you never actually answered the previous question. Please advise who the hell Marco is? Van Basten? Polo? The bloke with the tool chest? Does he have a sense of humour?
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There seem to be one or two who think they're the sole arbiter of what's funny.
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