P.S. Just found this video on youtube: YouTube - Lovely Day in the Congo
Lovin' it! At the end of the day as Doug mentioned both custom made and suposedly great shock aborbers cock up the same way [/QUOTE]
Ha Ha Ha........ That was me in the 'Lovely Day in the Congo' and I'd wasn't having the best of days! The Hagon shock ended up being a piece of junk and a waste of money. As they didn't tell me that it was only good for the roads although they informed me the distances to be covered invalidated the warranty, I should have looked elsewhere but hey, experience sometimes is expensive!
They sold me a custom shock for a weight of 275kgs (Bike/me/luggage) and it couldn't handle the job so I binned the whole unit and had my original sent out to me which did for the rest of Africa.
My advice..... FWIW just fit a stronger spring to the weight of your needs as 80k is a long way and every shock probably will fail at some time during that. Tried 'HyperPro'...? I got my tenere heavy duty rear spring and front progressives from these guys, bike rides awesome fully loaded.
p.s.... on the video about Touratechs Alu panniers..... Never again! Lesson learnt and soft panniers next time for me thanks!
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