......... unless your armour flows air as well.

As for jacket sticking.....

Just wear long sleeve "cool" fabric type .... Helps you get the jacket off without sticking, and ventilates/dry very quickly.

On really hot days, I just soak the whole shirt. Wear it. Feels Like air con. Dries up in 30mins...even under my mesh jacket.



This post has been edited by jaycee1: Jul 23 2023, 11:52 PM

Champion helmets on youtube have very good helmet reviews. I always look at the reviews before deciding on a helmet.

Like skyblu I'm also using the rpha70. Yes it is quiet...relatively...but I still use earplugs. But the new 71 and 91 brings it down even further.

1) depends on your helmet size and jacket size and box shape.. Theoretically possible but likely tight fit even if possible.
2) yes. Unless you don't mind getting wet.
3) yes, but you will still lose skin in a slide
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6) have you ridden all 3?

Yes indeed. Even if you are careful, others may not.

Studies have already shown most people have accidents close to home. People just go autopilot when close to home. I've had more close calls 10mins from home than commuting to work or highway long distance travel.

Benkia is decent, although most of the gear isn't properly certified and some of the componentry like zippers are not as high quality. Just go to serdang, test the sizes, then order from serdang shopee store when they have promo vouchers. Can save quite a bit there.

I have a benkia rain set and has worked exceptionally well past 2 years.

If budget is an issue (as with many starting riders) just get what you can afford. Better to have cheap gear than nothing, and then upgrade later when budget is healthier.

I have no comments on KYT helmets. Maybe look at Zeus from GBS and see the equivalent. If you are an all weather rider and commuter, I think better to spend a little more for a helmet with pin lock.

New riders, take note above.

This can't be stressed enough.

Also to note. New helmets should be unusually tight. As long as the new helmet doesn't cause pain or discomfort from hotspots/pressure point, which are usually due to the helmet shape not fitting your head, all the pads should be tight.

Many newer riders end up with helmets 1 size too large. Then realise the helmet is too loose after a few weeks of use.

Wow. Sorry to hear your crash.

But good to know your gear saved some skin. Bike looks like it took the crash remarkably well.

That's on purpose by design.

Sport touring tyres put more emphasis on longevity, and one way to increase it is to increase centre contact area. More contact area means less force and better distribution of weight and wear. They are flatter by design.

It looks like so. On a flatter sport touring tyre, you should have no issues leaning to the edge without that much of a lean angle.

Tyres have usually more grip then you think. If faced with the potential of running wide, I rather take my chances of putting more lean angle and risk lowsiding the rear. Just dont overcorrect the low side, you might end up highsiding...which is a lot worst.

Always threshold brake into a corner, you don't want your front lowsiding.

Well 2 sets of my Zeneos zn33 ran consistently until beyond the wearbars. About 15k each. I seriously couldn't imagine how hard the tyre compound need to be in order to last 30k though.

I'd say it's money well spent for the gloves and jacket. Lucky you finally bought 1 a few weeks ago.

ATGATT

You might want to add your LC has a big brake kit and upgraded brake master. Paired with subpar tyres on wet roads, it's easy to lock up.


The S123 lasts quite a bit but I won't really say they are that good in the rain. I also don't like the zig zag centre groove on the S123.

Maybe the Corsa Sport Rain would be better.

Best wet tyres I've had was those old school Dunlop TT100 on my old EX5.

Lol..ditched the clx already? Haha

Always favour a budget brand making premium offerings, than a premium brand making budget offerings.


Think about that for a sec will ya.

One is cutting cost to fit a price. The other is trying to make a better tyre but not charging so much.

Oh shit that's bad.

My loaner CLX had a dead throttle incident on Saturday. Fortunately, I was able to idle cruise back home at 10kmh....lucky no hills. I was just 1km from home as I just out to get breakfast.

Throttle completely dead, no response at all. After a few power cycles still the same. But I it came back alive after I plugged and unplugged the connection. Maybe a loose connection

Even then, like the dominar, the overheating safety feature has 2 levels.

First it limits revs to 5000. If you continue to run it, then it will shut off the bike until it's cool enough to run. Usually within 30mins.

Quite dangerous for the rider if it was to shut off completely suddenly.


And I was thinking if it's not already bad enough for KTMs history or random stalling and electrical gremlins.

If the bike doesn't crank at all it points to the ECU doing something...or not doing what it's supposed to be.

@ZZR

So what did MForce say about the bike?

Looks like both our bikes are at segambut now. They have elected to repair my NK at segambut instead of sending it back to penang.

I'm pretty much done with cfmoto/MForce also.

Minor mishap with the loaner CLX. A real stupid one at that. A minor lapse in good practice.

Sat on the bike ready to go out for dinner. Switched it on. Shows neutral. Pressed the starter. Bloody bike jumped forward. It was fucking in gear. Lost my balance and the bike fell on me. I mean WTF. That's a double failure.

Broken mirror..minor scuff on the bar end and exhaust heat shield. Nothing serious.

Nursing a bruised and slightly swollen palm from catching myself (I had not had my gloves on yet - was holding my gloves with my left hand, which is why I wasn't on the clutch like I usually do - was wanting to warm the bike up) and a slight bruise on my inner thigh from the bike falling in me. Fortunately I had my riding pants (hip armour did its job) and boots on.

I'm returning the bike to cfmoto tmrw...regardless of if they had fixed my 800nk or not.


I was actually enjoying the CLX pretty much..but my soon to be posted 1000km review of the bike won't be so rosy now.

I've had hundreds of drops and falls off my dominar especially off road without getting hurt, except for DAY ONE practicing low speed maneuver (Ironically, at the exact same spot..slippery cement at my parking lot) ...and you know what, my dominar's mirrors are still fine save some scratches on the plastic back.

This post has been edited by jaycee1: Feb 28 2024, 04:28 AM

Which is what the WTF. Must been a double failure for that to happen.

Just sent the bike back to MForce segambut.

Looks like they haven't touched my NK yet. Now says they will send it back to penang after a week sitting

@ZZR. Your RAK CLX still sitting there.



This post has been edited by jaycee1: Feb 28 2024, 12:00 PM

It's not his. And 28k for a used CLX is expensive.quite a few people dumping Thier CLX. Begining to see quite a few in the used market.