Broadly speaking
progressive springs versus straight rate is something to use if you want to stop bottoming out whilst retaining a reasonably soft initial travel.

All else being equal they are little help for brake dive, in fact quite the opposite, the bloke in the shop was talking bollox.

I understand the attraction Gary, realistically its a trailer to the trail type of bike though which I thought was not your focus. I have an old WR250F I use for that sort of thing and did consider going for something like a KTM freeride but when I weighed up the actual advantages they where minimal...

Its a lot of money for not a lot of Bike

80mpg is certainly impressive.

Cheers mate, an uplift would suit me fine, I relish gnarly downhills but never been much of a climber
will definately check them out

Cheers Hobo, Its a lead at least, If I find somewhere I'll report back
I will be taking one of my mountain bikes as always.

What's everyone's thoughts on using the Africa Twin for road riding only?

I've only ever seen a muddy one on the internet

There is no such thing as safe on the internet, regard everything you put anywhere online as publicly accessible

Anyone know if there is a trail/enduro Bike hire outfit in the area (non guided)?
From past experience of every country I've been to except North America the answer is most likely No, but if you don't ask

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Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:20 pm

I've got the ktm emtb, .. happy with it ..17.5" wheels with Schwalbe Smart Sam tyres .. bosch motor. .. great fun

Eh?, I assume you mean either 17.5" Frame, or 27.5" (650b) wheels