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Even though I've dropped mine a few times, it has never happened to me (touch wood). Camel Adventure Products make a brace which makes it almost indestructible.

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Hard to believe that the very low speed drop shown in soft dirt would have broken anything on that AT. I'm guessing those parts were broken riding Rock Gardens or the like ... the video is a hoax. Obviously.

Honda would not make such cheesy parts ... especially critical foot peg hardware. Big time law suits would follow if those parts were broken so easily.

The Camel guys guards do the job ... but man, what a super convoluted install for something that should never, ever be required on a bike like the AT. Absurd.

I've dropped my Suzuki DR650 dozens of times in rocks, endo'd it, crashed it in a bunch of different ways, never anything like that has happened.

I do run a set of thin Alu, glue on pie plate guards over the cases to prevent shift lever or brake lever being forced into case, cracking it. ... takes 10 minutes to install total.
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Hard to believe that the very low speed drop shown in soft dirt would have broken anything on that AT. I'm guessing those parts were broken riding Rock Gardens or the like ... the video is a hoax. Obviously.
Don't know whether its a hoax, but I do know its a 'soft spot' and several riders have complained about the pegs breaking off.

But as you say - all the ones I know of were indeed after a visit to the rock-garden.

I remember breaking one of the cast passenger footpegs on my RD07 AT. They are not impact resistant. Which is another reason I would never knowingly buy any product that rely on cast footpegs or products to limit damage to the bike, such as certain crashbars on the market for the CRF AT.
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Honda Introduces 2018 CRF1000L2 Africa Twin Adventure Sports, Announces Updates For Standard CRF1000L Africa Twin
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Wider, taller in the saddle - bigger all round basically, heavier, more electronic technology (fly by wire throttle in particular) and more expensive.
The new one comes in one colour scheme only, being a special edition to commemorate some date known unto Honda.

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It looks good, although I prefer the 2017 red, white and blue!

I was told at the NEC show last year that what will now become the 'base' model (1000L, as opposed to the 1000L2) could be ridden despite a complete electrical failure; not sure how this will apply to the L2.

Maybe naive, but I wonder whether the L2's larger tank could be retro fitted to the L? It depends on whether there have had to be any frame changes to accommodate the weight changes. NEC question for this year . . .

Having said that, a TT 5l fuel can will be fa cheaper!
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