BMW R1200RT/R1250RT Forum

I found setting to turn on the shift indicator but have not seen it.  What should I be looking for? Not that I really need it, just curious. It was on when the bike was delivered, I turned it off after a few hundred miles finding myself wanting to rev each gear higher than it was suggestin...

Northern Soul wrote:Main thing for the road, forget what the tyre looks like, concentrate on how to do a corner really well. In like a lamb, out like a lion!  Focus on really good cornering principles and just forget about your lean angle.

That is exactly what I strive to do.

Much as I love my (very fast, Callisto Grey) RTLC, I'm getting a bot bored of pushing its weight around the garage. Well, you're only supposed to push its weight around in the garage until it's out of the garage, then the engine takes over  ^-^ I'll take the fabulous electronic wind manage...

Fun to overcome your fear to lean the bike to its limits but is the street the place to test this?  For me street riding hardly allows for speeds that necessitate hitting the peg feelers--you don't know what's around the tight curve be it a couple of deer, a raccoon, a dog, a logging truck ...

The VIN on my 2016 RT which went into production Jan 18th, 2016 was just checked by my local dealer for up to the second recall applicability and came up negative, so supports the Q3-Q4 2015 production is affected.