363,000 km in three years on 1250GS

Benefit of the current 1200 1250 lc bikes is abundance of 2nd hand spares.
I have a complete final drive with rear disk and caliper that's done only 3k miles.
I also have a front esa shock spare.
I intened to keep my bike for a few more years
I did have a complete set of spoked wheels with tyres and discs which I sold and now regret.
 
KTRIC said:
It's likely the same block with a different map as the 1300.
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The 1300 block is 1300. It can have a different map but it's still 1300. If there was 1400 then it has to be different block with bigger volume cylinders and bikker pistons and a lot more different parts.
Ok, it may come 1300 and 1400 versions but those have to be two different engines.
 
bosnjo said:
The 1300 block is 1300. It can have a different map but it's still 1300. If there was 1400 then it has to be different block with bigger volume cylinders and bikker pistons and a lot more different parts.
Ok, it may come 1300 and 1400 versions but those have to be two different engines.
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Its Not if, They are coming.
R1300GS
M1300GS
R1400GSA
And soon.
 
Onahi said:
Its Not if, They are coming.
R1300GS
M1300GS
R1400GSA
And soon.
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Apparently KTM will have a 890/1290 SMT, I recon BM will have something similar. I mean they had the ST way back.
 
KTRIC said:
Only an idea. Didn't BMW have a 700 and 800 with the same block, pistons etc but mapped differently and sold as two different sizes ?
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And now replaced with 750/850. Same engine, different software. Actually, a company in Germany offers a software upgrade to the 750 that increase the power in the 750 up to the 850 output..
 
bosnjo said:
The 1300 block is 1300. It can have a different map but it's still 1300. If there was 1400 then it has to be different block with bigger volume cylinders and bikker pistons and a lot more different parts.
Ok, it may come 1300 and 1400 versions but those have to be two different engines.
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Slightly pedantic, but that’s not necessarily true. You can quite easily achieve a larger swept (and thus combustion) volume by changing the stroke length of the connecting rods (and the crankshaft dimensions if needed) whilst keeping the same block.

A ~50cc increase would be quite easily accomplished on an already ~650cc per side cylinder volume.
 
brummy bloke said:
. How does the bloke find the time?
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He lives on the edge of the Black Forest and has to work 2.5 days per week to afford the monthly servicing bills.

He's spent about 10,000 Euros on 33 front and 38 rear tyres and roughly 17,500 Euros on Fuel in doing that mileage!
 
bosnjo said:
New model will be 1300 and the launch is expected sometimes mid 2023. If you look closely, you'll see that GS had a step up 50cc between models, 1100, 1150, 1200, 1250...
If you want to wait for 1400, you must be young... as between 1200 and 1250 we waited for 15 years. Between others it used to be 5 years. But after 1300, 1350 goes first and just then maybe 1400. So, you never know how long...
However, if those ECO laws go on, starting year 2035, there will be no more motorcycles produced with internal combustion engine. So, 1300 may be the last engine of GS or maybe, just maybe, 1350 in 5-6 years.
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Apparently R1400GS is the Adventure Model with the same 1300 engine as in the R1300GS
 
There was a guy from Essex used to take people on the ferry from Harwich to the Nurburgring. He had one of the early RSV Milles. It had 160,000 miles on it (most of them flat out). He did the valve clearances once, and had renewed the clutch plates several times but that was it. I bought an early 2003 Tuono with the same Rotax engine, had 13 years out of it and it never blinked. I only moved on to GS’s later (over 55 when The Tuono was rattling my fillings too much, but it would have went for ever with regular standard servicing, as indeed will most modern motors/bikes.
 
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