BMW R1200R R1150R/T F800 K1200R R1100R/T R1250R RnineT Message Board

Thank you everybody and my apologies for the delay in replying. Usual excuses about being busy etc, none of which shokld have prevented me saying 'thank you'!

I've been away from this forum for a while but hope to be a regular now! I have a small problem at the moment - I was punted down the road by a car from a stop-sign a few days ago, to the detriment of the both panniers, although the BMW agent in Cognac (I live in France now) says the bike's fine (ap...

Just an amatuer here... but my changes were getting rough and first was getting a bit clunky from nuetral, but nothing you could pin down. Then the clutch started feeling 'strange'... and then at about 15,000 miles the slave cylinder let go! Replaced, and everything is back to normal now (except the...

Interested in the LH/RH dip problem as I have a UK-market (drive-on-left) R1150R which now lives in (drive-on-right) France... Fortunately there's no annual test here in France (MoT in UK, CT in France) so my UK Certificate of Conformity will get me French 'plates' soon without any physical inpectio...

'03 1150 - only 17,000 miles so far. Bought in '05 with just 2,600 on the clock! Used for almost daily commute in the UK for two years until semi-retirement to SW France in August '07. Now a fair-weather bike and only doing about 100 miles a weekend - and only if it's sunny! (Don't knock it - I serv...

Sorry, late in adding to this post. I had the same a while back on an '03 R1150R, with about 16,000 miles showing then. LH pot too. Used the bike regularly for commuting for about two years. Moved abroad last summer and left it laid up for about two months. Collected it in September and did fairly q...

The better insulated your winter gloves are the cooler the grips feel! Back in the UK and commuting every day regardless of weather in my heavy-duty winter gloves I didn't feel the grips were hot enough. Here in France riding when I want to (even though it's February) in mid-season gloves they are s...

Mission accomplished... Oil level widow changed! Located the sealant (only in france would you you find silicone gasket on the shelves of your local Supermarket for less than €4!), phoned my UK dealer for moral support and got stuck in. Removal of the original seal was not as easy as suggested...

Thanks Cyclerob. This is probably a silly question... but how important is the sealant? I only ask, because over here in deepest France I'm a long way from motorcycle 'civilisation' (great roads 'tho...) and my patchy French is going to struggle with oil-resistant silicon sealer! I'll try our local ...

I'm ready to change my oil level inspection window ('03 R1150R) and thanks to info on a previous thread will adopt the hot-nail and screw method for removal. A few questions before I start. How much efort will be needed to remove it? Don't want to be too brutal and cause damage Same with inserting n...

Thanks OU812, Please don't think that I don't appreciate many of the US's virtues, and I think I agree with you on many points... one of the reasons I left the UK was that France is still 'lagging behind' the way of life UK. My point was that 'low lifes' are armed as well - isn't this just raising t...

A frightening thread which will only reinforce a European's perceived opinions of life in the US, whether right or wrong. I'm open to correction, but I would think that most of us on this side of the Atlantic would be appalled that anyone would even consider carrying a gun, for any reason. There are...

Flushed my radiator through as soon as there were no rattles on restart - there's good wine down here...

Thanks Boxermania - it certainly isn't an 'experiment' I aim to repeat! If I have got away with it this time I'll be very grateful to the BMW guardian fairy! Awagnon - thanks for the tips. I'd thought about using a Honda version of the Hotnail, but my Bank said I didn't qualify for a loan that big. ...

Thanks again everyone - will try the red-hot nail as soon as I can source a new window. Has anyone else had a similiar overheat experience? If so could they either re-assure me or advise on any problems to look out for in the future? Everything felt fine on the 10-mile test run, no extra or differen...

Thank you everybody for your help... will order parts and set to work soon. DJ Downunder you are so right: I think overheating causes it to go cloudy I was extremely stupid - now that I don't commute daily and live down here where there are cold winters but lovely summers I started the bike up after...

My oil level window is so cloudy that I can no longer see the level - definately not condensation, just emptied and changed oil! Is it a difficult/expensive job to change the window? Also I have that oil weep from the filler cap which was cured during a service by the dealer once but has now reurred...

Have to say that the main lack of feel with ABS so far has been the lack of feel of backside on tarmac when a bus did the most stupid thing imaginable...

Having just moved from ride-on-the-left UK to ride-on-the-right France can anyone tellme whether it's possible to adjust the light to adapt?

I have a stick on converter at the moment.

Thanks all, I'll take Cyclerob's advice and bleed the clutch through annually - it was a proper job to replace, on any vehicle they seem to start with one component and then build the car or biike around it around it. Judging by the bill and the amount they had to remove I guess it's the slave cylin...