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Folks I'm having one heck of a time locating the other end of the negative cable that connects the battery to the engine/transmission. The dealer says its on the engine forward of the battery and that you can see it from the side. I'm not finding anything that looks like a heavy gauge cable. She's a...

In 120,000 miles I've replaced that latching mechanism at least 5 times. My assistant's husband is a machinist and he was surprised at the poor quality of the casting for the latching mechanism. After all of those replacements I got tired of shelling out hundreds of dollars and drilled a couple of s...

Folks I'm having one heck of a time locating the other end of the negative cable that connects the battery to the engine/transmission. The dealer says its on the engine forward of the battery and that you can see it from the side. I'm not finding anything that looks like a heavy gauge cable. She's a...

Can't speak to the triumph to BMW switch but after more than 20 years on other metric bikes, once I switched to the R1150R I started dreaming of riding her if I couldn't ride for a few days (winter sucks in West Virginia). After 10 years on this machine I still dream of riding if I can't get on her ...

Because of the oil cooling on the R1150R I'm more likely to notice the effect of friction on fuel mileage. When I ride below 30F MPG drops to 38-40 and gets better with warmer temps. At very high temps - 85-100 my mileage goes up to 48-55 on long trips. I only use mid to high test gas. Former bikes ...

I'm not sure I'd worry about much at 50,000 if the bike has a decent maintenance record. Don't know about the market out that way but if all the bikes of that age/mileage are coming in at the same rate it seems it's what the market will bear. I bought my '02 R1150R from a salvage yard with 16,000 on...

wncbmw wrote:Paging Mr. John Litner! While riding with John the other weekend, his turned over 123,456.7 but he missed the photo op!

Nice milestone!

Yeah, those and the cool palindromes like the 100001 I missed just a mile afterwards just haunt ya..

Welcome to the club. The nice thing about hitting 100,000 miles in Canada is that the odometer is metric. Mine shows 162,000.Great bikes EH! Indeed - great bikes. And I'm sorry that only the US and Burma, or Myanmar (or whatever) are the only two countries on earth still holding on to this idiot sy...

Did you have to replace your clutch yet? If so, at what mileage was that done? Just curious. I have a buddy here with 95K and he's worried about his clutch. Thanks My only two problems with this bike have been a final drive bearing (I thought a tire was riding oddly and the mechanic traced it to th...

I use over pants and a jacket that are from Fieldsheer and have an outer shell made of ballistic nylon. The pants are relatively easy to get on and off and I usually wear a sweater under the jacket. I only use heated gloves below 20F as my regular cold weather gloves along with the heated grips are ...

Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a profile shot as the traffic on Interstate 81 was heavy, but I was able to stop next to milepost 288.5 (about 2 miles south of Toms Brook, Virginia, US) to get this shot from the seat. She's a 2002 R1150R that I purchased in 2005 from a salvage yard in Cumberland ...

There are two BMW dealerships in the DC area. Bob's BMW is in Laurel Maryland and they have a small collection of early bikes. Mortons is the second dealership - located in Frederickburg, VA. I had done some research for friends coming in from the Netherlands and there are outfitters who rent R-bike...