BMW R1200RT/R1250RT Forum

I often use Micheldever Tyres in Hampshire, Not too local for you I guess from your flag, but normally competitive.

I wish it had a handle like the Pan, as little assistance can be had from the passenger grab rail owing to it's height. I am babysitting a GSA at the moment while a friend moves house and that is a monster to put on the mainstand.

Now here I can help, I have a very basic taste in wine and on my annual trip to Spain I loaded up with a cheap robust little Rioca. This came in one litre tetra pacs and I was able to load up the panniers with a pretty large quantity, can't remember quite how many but when the bike was fired up the ...

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Done, thanks.

Unless you have upgraded your horn no one will hear it anyway!

Check that you will be able to open the pannier lid of the RTP as they open upwards from the rear and a topbox may be in the way.

Lots of improvements, I'm not tempted back though.

I also noticed, when it was pointed out to me, that you could easily pull away gently on no throttle, probably not as lean a mixture on idle as the earlier model.

Reminds me of Homer Simpson's car which had a pop corn machine and a fax machine, they would fit on a RAM mount!

The Gold Wing GL1800 has had it for many years.

Nice day today so I popped up to Bahnstormers in Maidenhead for coffee and a peek at some bikes, amongst them was the latest version of the K1600, it now has the gearshift  assist and a reverse gear, just what it needed but still a heavyweight, for me, at any rate.

The French love their useless bureaucracy, surely all our machine have a Euro emission standard, which gives them that info.

I'm not at all convinced of the need for such a rigorous service regime where the engine is concerned as many car engines are producing more power / litre than our BMW bikes, eg the Ford Fiesta in it's max form for the one litre turbo 3 cylinder makes 140 bhp and the Volvo 2 litre 4 cylinder turbo i...

Very sorry for you loss Steinar.