BMW R1200GS Adventure

Aargh fuggin aarggh!! Would you believe I only just read this today?!!?
Bugger bugger bugger bum!!
I picked a bad month to go off-line........

 

Drop over in the morning at 10:00 am, I am riding down to Morgan & Wacker
Gold Coast for a mornings get together, sausage sizzle and drawiung of a BMW
Jacket around 11:30 am.

Boxer

PS: took me 16 hours to fit the panniers and Ohlins, just about had to pull
the whole bike apart.

 

Rear shock only took about 1 hour. The front required the removal of the
tank, crash bars, jacking up of the front and removal of the alternator
cover. Removing the tank took about 1 hour as I had never worked on the bike
before and tearing apart a brand new bike was a little intimidating.



Both lower shock bolts needed to be heated to break down the red lock-tight
that glues them into the swinging arms and doing this without damaging the
paintwork took a long time.



Losing the front top shock mounting bolt amongst the engine took me 3 hours
to find it using a small dental mirror mounted on a telescopic arm, don't
you hate that.



Panniers took 5 hours to fit and adjust.



Boxer

 

I have a magnet mounted on a telescopic arm. Came in really handy when I
dropped a cylinder base nut into the case on the old Sporty, again when
I dropped a nut into the sump of the Trump.

I enquired about Ohlins rear shock and fork springs for the Pig at Shock
Treatment three days ago, two days ago they said they'd not received a
reply from Ohlins, I'm starting to wonder if they actually want to sell
me any bits at all...

 

Send me a message off list, I have a very good relationship with the
distributor of Ohlins and can get you a deal.

r601969atyahoodotcom

Boxer

 

:
: : > In article <fnCsi.15514$>,
: > says...
: >> PS: took me 16 hours to fit the panniers and Ohlins, just about had to
: >> pull
: >> the whole bike apart.
: >
: > That says something about bike design, when I recently adjusted the
: > preload on the shock on the 9 it was actualy easier to take the shock
: > off and do it off the bike, admittedly having a rattle gun handy helped,
: > but I recon I could still get the shock off the bike in under a minute
: > with hand tools
:
:
: Rear shock only took about 1 hour. The front required the removal of the
: tank, crash bars, jacking up of the front and removal of the alternator
: cover. Removing the tank took about 1 hour as I had never worked on the
bike
: before and tearing apart a brand new bike was a little intimidating.
:
:
:
: Both lower shock bolts needed to be heated to break down the red
lock-tight
: that glues them into the swinging arms and doing this without damaging the
: paintwork took a long time.
:
:
:
: Losing the front top shock mounting bolt amongst the engine took me 3
hours
: to find it using a small dental mirror mounted on a telescopic arm, don't
: you hate that.
:
:
:
: Panniers took 5 hours to fit and adjust.
:
:
:
: Boxer

sounds like you should have bought a Norge ...


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bear on a Kawasaki Zephyr -------> ----------->Vroom!!

 

Bite your tounge, do I look like a tractor driver?

Boxer

 

Looks at GS BMW, bites tongue... : )

 

Done.

 

This week the 100,000th R1200GS rolled off the production line making it
the fastest selling BMW model ever. 84,373 GSs and 15,627 GSAs

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

In Australia they are selling more of the R1200GS & GSA's than the rest of
the range combined.

Boxer

 

Now, if only they could revive the two-wheel drive outfit, with the
machine gun for the passenger, I'm sure they'd sell squillions of them.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

When I was a young tacker local bloke in unzud had several WWII sidecar
outfits including a zundap ? bmw also had some odd shaft driven thing
such as you described , also some German military cars all painted in
full camo.Anyone know what model that "special" sidecar outfit was ?

 

BMW R75

Zundapp KS750

http://www.dropbears.com/m/models/bmw/r75tech.htm

http://www.wehrmachtsgespann.de/bmwenglisch/bmwe5.htm

Boxer

 

I wonder if anyone ever considered these for the k series ?

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:01:14 +1000

You could always buy a Ural....

Zebee