BMW R1200RT/R1250RT Forum

Thanks for posting about your Bike & Group, Barnsley is 85 miles away, but hey, you never know, one day.

What do you do for social get-togethers & ride outs. Do you do your own thing, make arrangements with others privately or use any local bike groups/forums etc. Living near Stockton-on-Tees (Teesside), I generally use a combination of a local web forum (not model specific) & private arrangeme...

Sounds great, what kind of mileage will you be covering each day?

When on the Isle of Skye, there is a small ferry from Kylerhea to Glenelg, it is the last manually operated turntable ferry in Scotland, well worth supporting. http://www.skyeferry.co.uk/index.html http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo80/davidsykes/DSCN1079_zps9b2ad7f8.jpg http://i363.photobucket.co...

Yes, there is a ferry between Tobermory & Kilchoan, don't think the summer 2015 timetable is available yet.

This is the current Winter timetable:- http://www.calmac.co.uk/timetables/wint ... lchoan.png

My 2007 model wasn't without it's problems, the engine failed after 6 months & 10,000 miles, partially seized both cylinders, fortunately under warranty. BMW said they were investigating a number of piston crown failures, new modified pistons were fitted. The front discs were replaced twice, the...

Thanks for the feedback so far, it's very encouraging.

We were in Austria the 2nd & 3rd week in September 2013 and had some unseasonably poor weather.

sofnolime wrote:First up,  take in Mull & Skye, then up the west coast and along the top and over to Orkney for a few days and then back down the east coast.

Sounds great, never been to Orkney, Scotland is brilliant.

Whereabouts are you up there?

What a coincidence, just been looking at motorcycle tour operators and White Rose Tours are, for the first time, offering a trip to Norway.

http://www.motorcycletours.co.uk/tours/ ... orway.html

Haven't used the guys myself yet, but they are local to me and I have heard some good reports.

RTman10 wrote: Going with Pidcock Motorcycles on their tour to Austria 10 day trip based in Zell Am Zee.  All inclusive 4 star hotel close to the Grossglockner Pass. Have a look at their web site www.pidcock.com

Excellent, have you been to Austria before, we were there last year.

It's a shame the ferry doesn't run from Newcastle to Norway anymore.

What's Norway like for motorcyclists?

Looking at the possibility of a 2 week trip to Germany.

What have you got planned for 2015?

Living in the NE of England, approximately halfway between Lands End & John O'Groats allowed me to take two separate 4 day trips to LE & JOG.

Had a week at Klotten on the Mosel in Germany & a 16 day trip to Northern Spain.

Where did you get to in 2014?

Swapped the cylinder head protectors from the 2010 bike to the 2012 model, didn't use a torque wrench, just hand-tight.