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What's wrong with the fix?? I've got to wonder why only bikes in South Africa have had a catastrophic failure.
The tubes are made to thin walled and will just break essentially at the bottom of the doohicky that they added to supposedly fix it. That's my opinion anyway. The tubes aren't coming off the triple clamp they are actually fatigued and snapping just underneath. Least ways, that what I have seen so far. As you said I am not going to get into all the manusha on a bike I don't own.

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What's wrong with the fix?? I've got to wonder why only bikes in South Africa have had a catastrophic failure.
The tubes are made to thin walled and will just break essentially at the bottom of the doohicky that they added to supposedly fix it. That's my opinion anyway. The tubes aren't coming off the triple clamp they are actually fatigued and snapping just underneath. Least ways, that what I have seen so far. As you said I am not going to get into all the manusha on a bike I don't own.Dave
Ah, I saw that and wondered about the thickness of the tubes. Then I assumed they're using the same tubes they always have, so there shouldn't be an issue. However, I guess I should have wondered what they're doing different that now, that the forks are a problem. I'd think, at this point, the entire MC industry has fork specs down to a science. I guess we'll see. Gotta say, I wouldn't want to crash like that on one. That's an "over the bars" event that has a lot of potential to go very bad.

 
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