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carby or injection?
G'day all,
am riding a cagiva elefant 900 with fuel injection.
Am wondering if any guru,s out there have opinions if injection is ok for serious africa or should i go carby machine?
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Dingo

I have had a similar dilema for my Africa Trip with my Dakar. After speaking to many peeps about likely problems it seems that most techies would not be worried about taking a fuel injection bike.

Remember technolgy is always moving on and advances should benefit the rider.

Although the proof of the pudding will be seeing how mine copies with poor fuel.

I going to give it a try, a friend of mine has changed the fuel injection system on his GS1100 and had quite a few teething problems.
I think it cost him in the region of about £1,000 pounds.

Julio
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Hi Julio,
thanks for the reply.
I have never had a skeric of trouble with my injection system in almost 50000km and the ducati techs say the bosch system is strong and reliable. So I feel confident about injection, though I havn't done a lot of serious offroading with injection yet, so like you say- in the pudding there shall be some proof.
By the way, do you have a spares list that you intend to take just to cover the injection system?
thanks again-dingo
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Not too sure of spares list yet, but I know that the onboard computer on the BMW automatically adjust the amount of fuel needed to componsate for the low octane level in cheap fuel.

The dakar only needs to be serviced every 6000 miles, so this gives me some flexibility.

Have ridden the dakar through deep mud and water upto the seat and had no problems.

I've got more of a problem with the height of the bike being short in the legs.

Julio
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A friend of mine just got back from a 5 month tour of Africa.

He used a BMW F650. He had the choice of the carbureted version or the fuel infected version. He went with the carbs.

Fuel infection works better, when it works, which is almost all the time, but when it doesn't, who you gonna call.


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