BMW R1200RT/R1250RT Forum

Harley softail heritage for me......

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I also have one for sale. 

My wife does exactly the same as Mikes. the only minor difference is that i ask her to keep the torso over the centre of the bike so she does not have left foot on footrest and weight all on left side. There is of course the threat that if she marks the panniers that I will divorce her, until she re...

Thank you all gents.  Shame that snow is forecast tomorrow in sunny Hampshire...eeek

I suspect i will semi retire but it feels good to  say Retired as of today

Ladies and Gents.


Today is the first official day of my early retirement.


From now on there is an open road with an endless time limit. :music:

Ot,s only for Kama  Kazi pilots

Interesting comments about riding positions and think i will enter into the training mode of being consciously competent for a while and see if any of this helps me. As a footnote though I used to be in the services and Ran the Field gun crew a couple of times (youtube it)  (30 years ago)an...

And a Happy new year to you all.  May you never break down fall off or be shunted. Amen to that

Well lets think. There is the undercarriage bearings (lots of them) engine bearings (they spin very fast ) and numerous others after allI left the Ark Royal in 78. But you get the drift.  Some of you guys seem to back yourselves in a bit of a corner though as lets be honest all bikes have t...

I,m going to take sides here.  I,m right in the middle of the 2 sides. before I bought my RT i spoke to 2 coppers at a petrol station about the drive failures and both laughed and said yeh it doesn't matter we get them fixed for free. I also phoned my local Barnstormer and they workshop adv...

It had only done 22k and serviced up to 16k.  The previous owner had done it after that.  It would appear to be reasonably common but as I said it is still a great bike.  You do have to question though if it is made of swiss cheese if after 22k it fails. I used to service ...

I think Major got a hard time for a welcome.


My 2008 RT suffered f/drive failure and any dealer will quietly agree.  I still love my 2011 RT for its foibles but I don't believe it has,nt got weakness,s


Sorry Major it,s ok Fawlty.....ged it

Did mine on my old 2008 model and it,s a piece of cake.  It did feel a bit heath robinson when you think of the thousandth of an inch req but understanding that over the last few turns of the cam that you have almost zero movement means it is not as  heath robinson as it seems.&...