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LETTER OF THE MONTH

LENDING A HELPING HAND no matter what you ride is great to hear about and Chris has experienced exactly that. Great stuff to the man named, John, and hopefully he reads AMM! Don’t know about you, Chris, but I reckon the Motul Chain Pack should go to John? For all your oil and lubricant needs, check out motul.com.au.

SW

HELP

Hello,

Sending this to say thanks much to a good samaritan Suzuki V-Strom (I think) rider named John.

It was Sunday morning 19/12/21, about 2km south of a little town called Rhynie (Horrocks Hwy, heading back to Adelaide from Clare area), when John rode along and saw my Spyder on the side of the road, and me walking north back to Rhynie.

A little while earlier, the Spyder belt drive, drive cog had shredded all its inner teeth on the gearbox output shaft, so Spyder wasn’t going anywhere.

After 1st contact with RAA, mobile went flat, and had to ring them again as I was too busy hearing and smelling the cog cook to notice I had gone through Rhynie and was only 2km south.

John rode back from the Spyder to me, I explained what was going on, and he kindly loaned me his phone.

He, via his phone, was able to tell

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