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Useless fact: I found I could insert a roll of A1 or B1 sized architectural drawings under the seat via the boot!
More useful fact: Keep an eye on the hoses where they join the waterpump on the side of the engine. Piaggio use rubbish crimp on hose clamps that always leak eventually, a proper screw up hose clamp is the fix.
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I saw loads of pcx and only a few flys in both Vietnam and Cambodia. So the pcx is obviously robust, i even saw one with a sticker saying "family vehicle"!
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I have fitted Michelin Power Pure SC to my Tmax 530, and they are very good. Not quite as good feel as the Dunlops when riding hard, but better in the wet and better all rounder. There is a version to suit the 500, if it is the one with aluminium frame. Doesn't fit the older steel frame Tmax.
Edit. Won't fit a 2005. Oops.
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10k service is nothing special. Belt is not till 20k, then not much until 40 which is rear toothed belt and valve clearance. I needed tyres around 10 though.
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Eccles, I know you will ride if there is a chance it wont rain, but on Sunday that chance is only 5% according to BOM, and it comes with a flood warning and a 15m swell.
Take extra gloves, and maybe stay west of the ranges?
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The Orange Beasty reminds me of Bill the cat.
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Go up the Oxley, down the Gwydir, up the Summerland Way, across the Mount Lindesay Hwy (alternate route is the Lions Road after Kyogle, follows the railway, narrow and rough but spectacular) and into Brisvegas via Beaudesert. Avoids nearly all the freeway.
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If I had a free choice right now, I'd get another tmax. Now I know it can take me up to Maclean the long way, and take me to work in the city every day, I can't see the point having anything else. At least until I get a bigger garage.
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This is why I didn't post pix of my ride down the Oxley: Coz Pete has better ones. Must say though, the Gwydir is equally good. Not as well engineered, but the landscape is more spectacular.
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Since I put my Renthal bars on I now have a set of bar ends sitting in my garage... So that's one less thing