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“Outstanding tough and reliable bike”

written by tilmannrust on 02/04/2015

I bought my 1995 Honda Dominator new in 1995, and now it has 80 000km on the clock. I have serviced it regularly through Honda dealerships, and although it required the steering bearings replaced twice it required virtually nothing else until now. It has seen many bad dirt roads, river crossings and soft sand, in the Australian Outback and in the mountains, but also many highway kilometers. It's fairing got cracked after hitting a car in South Africa in 1998 and I had to fix it properly now in 2015 as it had become too rattly. The gear lever loosened 4 years ago but I tightenend the hell out of it onto the shaft with a high tensile bolt and it's never moved since. It's completely original. Now the seat has started to crack and the indicators' rubber required replacing these. The only real problems I had were all electrical from gadgets that I had fitted myself. I thought I should sell it after 20 years but can't find anything that's close as good in build quality and weight and performance. There may be 5% extra kW and 5% better fuel consumption but all bikes now weigh more. Eventually I found I can't part from it anymore until it dies...