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I do love that clip! :ROFLMAO: Says it all really. As a child I grew up using the ancient celtic system of measurement and can remember learning Napoleon's new fangled French system in school, which I now know as metric SI units of measure. Having ridden BMW motorcycles for 45 years I find...

I want to know how you even found those things. What exactly were you doing on the internet? ;)

So, a quick update. I've done 2,000 km on the Metzler CruiseTecs. Between the Commander IIIs and the CruiseTecs, for me and my riding style the CruiseTecs win hands down. Much better cornering, better all round handling, and better grip particularly in the rain and cold. Haven't fishttailed at...

SL, I'm with Bad Mike. I've parked the Transcontinental behemoth in some great parking spots, including on the verandah of the pub in Boorowa out of the rain, just because I could back out in reverse. Also got cocky, "misjudged"', and angle parked on a heavily cambered street. Scared the living...

Love the finish on those LJE plates. Very nice. I'm of course sold on trading out the "1800 cc" for 1802. Don't know why the 2 cc's is so important to me. After all, its just 1 cc per jug. 0.1%-ish. Probably measurable on the same scale I used to measure the perfomance upgrade in the engine plates.

Congratulations; a very nice buy. Well done. Welcome and enjoy.

Ulrich, is that a wok you're using to catch the oil, and a small dish on the side for a serve of rice? But where is the sate chicken skewer? On a side note, when I do the valve clearances, if that's what's going on here, I also have a huge open ended spanner that I use to turn the shaft nut...

I don't understand. Can someone draw me a picture? OK, maybe not.

OK, the look is growing on me despite my initial skepticism. The inverted version moves upwards from "no, nay, never" to "something only an R18 owner could love". But I'm still betting on form over function, so do let us know if it actually does anything. I've convinced myself my standoff...

On one of my older bikes I used to carry a squashed coke can to kick under the sidestand, but having had center stands for decades now I'd forgotten the lessons of the past. I managed to put the sidestand through the tarmac outside the BMW motorrad shop last summer. Fortunately the bike just sat...

Sorry, typo - will go back and edit. You are of course spot on. Mine waffles around 14.2-14.3, and will sometimes briefly drop down to 14.1 and then bounce up again. Edit: Interesting. I was expecting it to be a fraction higher on the TFT based on the battery stats, at around 14.4 or a bit...

Lenn, I've sent a private message.

I'm not going to be much help really - my 2021 TC hasn't throw out many transient fault codes and we've done over 23,000 kms. I got a few choice ones when the battery when flat though. If you haven't already, I'd check that the fuzes are each correctly seated in their various sockets (wind and...

Very cool.

Those DKdeign ones looke good around the fishtails. I went the Wunderlich way on my Transcontinental. Their chromed rear bars look great, wrap very nicely around the side rear cases, were super quality, and fitted perfectly. I swapped out two of the Wunderlich hex bolts for slightly longer BMW...

Hunts, USD$100 sound expensive for the shipping the levers, but anything out of the US is hugely expensive at the moment courtesy of the new US tarrifs regime. "Auto parts", either new or used, are particularly pricey to ship. I wouldn't be surpised by $80.00 for a small box with two levers, but...

8% more KP! Measured at the tail or the head? Try some Wildbrumby schnapps in those fancy carbon horns, or just eat ice cream out of them. On another note, and not wanting to derail this thread from its central topic but going to do it anyway, I'm looking for tank pads for the TC that will work...

I ride my 2021 Transcontinental every day to and from work and elsewhere, all year round. Summers can be over 40 C while winter can be -5 C or lower. Have ridden in pouring rain, hail, and a bit of light snow. My thoughts are that TC has great wind and rain protection. Not as good as the 2009...

Really? Anyone else wondering about that bit? All I can think of is this offering from the National Sound and Film Archive (probably plenty on Amazon, ebay, etsy, and the like), but the real question is why. Might look nice on an R18 with copper highlights?

That's a super looking R18! The copper and black are a great look. Just out of interest, why is the big ass fan on the side rather that in front of the bike? Does it make any difference where its placed when you run these tests? Was this a "before" test to get a dyno baseline (I was looking to...