BMW R1200RT/R1250RT Forum

Hi Chris welcome from a cold wet day here in France.

My prayers go out to you and your fellow countrymen and women. Hopefully peace will return to your county soon.  I Budman I have only just read your reasons for your good wishes thank you very much it was very thoughtful. I live about 5hours ride from Paris and was not aware of what was ha...

:beer:  Now that's a thought. I have managed a ride in the last fortnight and I suppose I could ride most days but would end up needing to clean the bike down, no risk of salt on my roads here though. It's just renovating and trying to get two bedrooms finished for house sitters before my ...

I rode all of my bikes with panniers fitted and probably will with the RT as it gets me used to the width and not having to adjust and remember their on or off, mind you I have rear pannier protection bars. So probably I leave them on because I like the look of the bike fully dressed. Oddly enough t...

Thanks thumper for the information it will come in useful probably need to find an excuse to take the bike out with camera lol

Welcome from not so hot, sunny bloody freezing Francebe

Just found the above which I thought excellent and just what I needed be

That's a great video more like that is what I need for my 2014 he did make it look easy. First I need to buy myself a torx set. Question do many people remove the panels for cleaning the bike? I should imagine it would be necessary if you was winterising (is that a word?) and covering the bike in AC...

Never owned a BMW but always aspired to own a 1200RT or GS came within a gnats foreskin of getting the GSA 2014 but opted for "Arty" and I am not disappointed BMW 1200 RT LE

Sorry can't help on which one is best, but having had a few bikes in my great bikes. However, not compare with the 2014 1200RT LE it's awesome. All I can say is welcome to the forum.

Budman wrote: My prayers go out to you and your fellow countrymen and women. Hopefully peace will return to your county soon. 

Are you on the right thread Budman?

Collected all 34 bits of the kit in a large cardboard box today. Assembly will have to wait for the shed to get above 5c  The parts guy at my dealers has accused me of attempting to  change the bike into a scooter. Oddly enough that is exactly what I was thinking? Without getting ...

My advice would be, until you can get it swapped, don't use the kill switch.  Using the rocker switch the whole length of its movement seems to speed up its eventual failure. I have never used the "kill switch" to stop the engine in twenty plus years of owning a bike I stop the e...

Welcome Firenailer. It is a great forum and grows with every new member. I hope that's water on the road under your bike or you have a slight leak https://s3.amazonaws.com/tapatalk-emoji/emoji3.png Welcome Firenailer, New York so good they named it twice and I will vouch for thatt, a great place. B...

It's a great day here in France and would love to ride, but it would be a bummer if the switch played up when out and about now I know about it. Up until now it's started on the button excuse the "pun".