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               Kev 
                
               
             
              We have seen many 04 to 06 models with the right fork leg cracked. Yamaha did change the design, I have not seen any with the new design fork legs break yet.
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         A friend of mine who I've been motorcycle touring with over the last six or so years (not all on XTs!) suffered a cracked fork leg on his 2008 R.
         
        
 Whilst we do a lot of our touring on very poor Eastern European and Asian roads (and in the UK!) these are nothing that the bikes were not designed for.
         
        
 He waged a letter writing campaign against Yamaha and I think they only gave him a small reduction in the new cost of the fork leg, if only to shut him up.