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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*
That tool kit is ridiculously overpriced. The company has obviously bought a load of $100 tool kits and marketed them at the "more money than sense" market...You can build a very competent and quality toolkit for under $100. Especially second hand (ebay etc).
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It might be overpriced, but I would not say ridiculously so if the tools are high quality. I don't know about you, but I've always found that quality tools are rather expensive.
Whatever the price, I would say that it is probably targeted toward the "more money than time" crowd rather than "more money than sense". Just because someone doesn't want to troll e-Bay to assemble their tool kit does not mean that they lack "sense". I live in a big city with stores full of crap Chinese tools. It took me literally a year, including tools from Europe, to assemble the kind of tool kit that I wanted. I'd pay $250 for a complete, quality toolkit in a second.
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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*
On the roadside , unless you actually know what you're doing, there are relatively few repairs you can actually do...Just take the minimum tools for the jobs that you know you can do....
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Yes and no. I am a very poor mechanic but broke down once near Baikal, in the middle of nowhere. I couldn't fix it after a few hours on the road side, but was able to find a cell signal and call a friend who posted the symptoms on ADVRider. After pushing the bike a few kilometers to a hotel, I was able to get a wireless internet connection, dianose the problem from ADVRider, and then fix the bike. I was glad I had all my tools (and a Russian SIM)!
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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*
You'd need four support trucks to be able to fix all the potential problems on a GSA. The failures you're likely to have are non-fixable unless you're carrying fuel pumps, final drives and all the gaskets etc etc etc.
Once you leave home with a complicated bike, you've committed a lot of yourself to luck.
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oh boy, here we go again... Sure, GSAs might break, just like any other moto or any other piece of machinery. There's a few spares you should bring, and after that, sure, you might break down but probably not.
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