Aug 10, 2010

James Pratt added the following comments. We are using BMW rear gear oil in the differential, I believe it is 70/140 or so. We are using NAPA anti-seize compound on the rear drive splines. Some people say to use moly-based grease in the drive splines, but our very skilled local BMW mechanic recommended this thicker anti-seize compound. He said the moly grease...

This morning when heading off to work I noticed the brake warning light kept flashing and the ABS assist servos wouldn’t come on when I applied the brakes, leaving me with just the residual braking function (BMWs words, not mine). Normally when switching on a BMW R1200GS the Brake failure light with flash quickly (4 times per second) for a few moments and...

Feb 12, 2010

Having given away my old luggage when I sold my Bandit 600 to Shane, I thought it was about time I got a new tank bag for my new BMW R1200GS. The first bag I got was a Cargo Endurance Tank Bag. Whilst it gets great review, what I didn’t realise was that my R1200GS has plastic and aluminium panels covering the tank and therefore the Cargo bag...

Now that we have the first RideAround.Net trip confirmed it is time to start looking at finding a more reliable way to communicate whilst out on the bikes.  Initial trials with hand signals and wild gesturing led to mixed responses with some very strange looks from other motorists being the least of the issues! Time for some gadgets – it may be more Long...

Following on from a repair to my R1200GS after a SMIDSY attack back in December 2007, I have just heard that the last part on order, a bracket for my hand guards, wont be arriving. It seems that there is a design flaw with the handguards that could result in an accident. The problem occurs when the handguard gets pushed down, for example as a result of dropping...

Mar 27, 2008

For the first few weeks of riding, I was having a big problem with the ‘L‘ plate, it kept catching in the rear wheel and eventually rubbed itself down to an ‘I‘ plate. To try and sort this out, I have been buying a number of metal brackets to try and modify the rear end so that this doesn’t happen. I took apart the rear end today...