Its the price we have to pay for the shops to keep highly (?) qualified staff on hand with the tools, tech gear, spares, equipment and premises we expect to find immediately when we need them. Not excusing extortion but the shops do have to outlay a lot of cash to become an agent or service...
My wife is usually a pretty good pillion passenger but after a couple of short rides on the stock seat she wouldn't get on again. So, NZ$3000 later (With the seat cost as well as US$450 freight then 15% tax on arrival plus customs fees) She says she'd be happy to ride from ours to Invercargill...
Good price, I just paid US$1900 for a Corbin with pillion and removable backrest but that included over US$400 for freight to New Zealand. I hope its more forgiving than the original.
I went to book my R18c in for its 1000km check but the dealer asked if I could hold off for a while. He says the BMW main computer is causing more trouble with the screens on ALL R series bikes than the updates are worth at the moment. He says they can do the service but it would need to come...
I don't recall any of my three R series rattling either. I hate rattling engines, I test rode a newish (less than 1000km) Moto-Guzzi 1400 that on paper I was very keen on but it rattled so much I changed helmets and it still rattled loudly enough to be intrusive. It wasn't the dry plate clutch...
Book says oil capacity is 4L with filter and says the difference between min and max is 0.5L so 1.75L to bring it up to half is significant. Of course the 4.0L allows for the cooling function and there'd be a wide safety margin but who knows how wide - the 50% low which I was at? If oil level...
No low pressure Lights although that's not strictly necessary for the extreme reaches of the oil galleries to be partially starved - rocker gear is usually where starvation is felt first. I can absolutely guarantee the oil level as it is now is correct. I had my wife assist and we tilted the...
Shouldn't you be on facebook with a comment like that? I DID test ride an R18 and noticed no unusual noises. i DID ride mine 200km and noticed no unusual noises, it was only AFTER I discovered the oil was low and rode it again after topping it up that I detected it had become noisy. FFS man I've...
I'd love to agree with you but by the time I got to know this bike its engine may well be rooted. I know bikes and i know engines. I never said it had shipping oil in it, I said I didn't know whether it might have had shipping oil in it but suspected it might have had for two reasons: 1 that...
No idea other than my experience with the heavy equipment I deal with. Some of them ship with the barest minimum of preservative oil and the procedure is to change and refill before starting.
I'd just like to make the point this is my third R series, R100RS, R1200c x 2 and I'm aware of how long the oil can take to move around to get a proper reading. I'm no closer after all that time to understanding why BMW make it so difficult and imprecise to check the oil level, one of the most...
I picked my R18 up new and rode it home 200km. The next morning I checked the oil - after checking the process in the book - and discovered I needed to add 1.75L to bring it to half way up the sightglass. Its just ticked over 1000km today and oil level is stable so its unlikely to have burned...
I tried switching them around but after a quick ride I put them back where the factory had them and tried harder. Still can't upshift as quickly as the toe method.