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Old 15-08-08, 12:53
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Originally Posted by josephau View Post
Try send a note to Thorsten at www.off-the-road.de, he is the only person I know of may be able to do something about what you are looking for. He speaks very good english. Good luck and congrats !! What color are you getting?
Ok, thank you - I'll get in touch with him (had a look at their website last night infact) - I know that if you put a pannier frame on then the rear mudguard doesn't look to bad, but I think it looks a bit weird and vulnerable when the bike is naked - I reckon a tail chop (and built in rear indicators) would find a lot of favour with other owners?

As for my bike, I managed to find a black one in the UK still for sale (they were pretty much sold out here as we only had an allocation of 150 for the year!) I've found a couple of other dealers have one left, but they are all the desert khaki colour - the white/speedblock colourway was most popular here I think, but personally I prefer the black, it looks more subtile and at the same time expensive? The sort of bike BMW should have made?

I plan to do a lot of traveling on it this next year (retiring my XR650R from that duty and keeping that for rallye riding) - I'm going to take the Tenere to the USA (just to make them jealous!) for six months, then, well, who knows...

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