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Tires vary in price greatly, and also disproportionately to wear, quite often.  Our BMW had crazy expensive tires, but gave maybe 18k miles at best.  Our Smart car has the cheapest damn tires and they look like they will go 60k.  There's also the matter of replacing them if they get damaged, and now you're double-taxed.  Oh, and the Smart, being low-mile, got new tires before being worn out because they were simply old.  In my area, old tires do not do well because of heat.  So again, double taxed for no miles.

So a tire tax is also progressive by nature? What's not to like?

Appreciate the rainy photo! I was separately curious how the lights would handle the extra abuse of being unsprung mass; it's nice to hear that they're solid.

I started with some lights with clamp mounts on the upper shock tubes, but there is not a lot of vertical room to clamp stuff between the fender and the fairing lower edge when the suspension is fully compressed.  If I mounted the lights low enough to clear the fairing, the inside edges of the clamp mounts would come in contact with the fender on heavy breaking.

Probably not too big a deal for accessory lights, but the fork legs also aren't really designed to be clamped outside of the areas that are designed to mate with the triples. Last I checked Denali's product photos all showed their clamps mounted flush with the bottom of the bikes' lower triples.

I really appreciate you chronicling your experience over time. Based on the lack of updates in the past year and a half I assume the new design did indeed fix the failures?