Valve Check

Having Problems with your BMW R1200RT/R1250RT? or have some Maintenance and Service questions?
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Big_John
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Bike Model and Year: 2007 R1200RT
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Valve Check

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I am curious how many of you do your own valve checks? One thing I LOVE about the "R's" is how dang easy a valve check is. One of my other bikes... it is a full weekend job taking all the plastic off, removing everything else to get access to the cylinder heads, etc... Yeah, 10-12 hours. On my R1100R, I can check/adjust the valves in 60 minutes.

Anyway, I think on my 2007 1200RT, the valves were checked at 6,000 miles (according to a receipt) and were checked again at 12,000 miles. I just rolled it over 14,000 miles. I am guessing I don't need to check them until 24,000 miles and then every additional 12k after that. I do read that few RT's need adjustment after 24k miles. I read a thread today where a riders last adjustment was at 12k miles and he has never made another adjustment, as they stayed in spec and he just rolled over 200k miles on a 2005 1200RT.
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