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Originally Posted by tmotten
Interesting argument that you don't need a 21" front wheel for dirt riding. Since it's standard equipment for anything that is serious about riding the thing on the dirt. Not just a couple of green lanes between 500km of tar.
Personally I think this site and other sites supersede the AMHB. I took it with me on my first trip before I discovered this site. Now I don't any more.
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Which is why the web has indeed superceded the books for really good info as you say. You say the bikes have 21-inch from wheels so they must be necessary, I say BMW R's and F's, Triumph Scramblers, the odd Harley, Suzuki GT's, Ted Simons Triumph, Enfields all managed just fine on 19-inch and 21-inch is meant for blokes who ride in small circles at the weekend just to see who can go nowhere the quickest. Sure knobblies really really help and 21-inch is the standard MX spec so the choice is greater. If you write the book the reader (assuming they take the writen word as fact) buys an oversize MX bike and tries to make it suitable for the 500Km of tarmac, if I write it they might start from the other direction. (If an actors ghost writer wrote it they head for the BMW show room   ). If we both post here they get both points of view and decide what suits best.
There is still something nice about paper that laptops don't have though. My limit for the net is less that the battery life on the lappie. I can spend whole days with a book and the radio and come out feeling more relaxed. Maybe electronic readers will be a half way house?
Andy
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