I've just had my bike serviced at 6K
Took it for a 250 mile spin over the weekend and was stunned - they've given me back a different bike !
The bike has always been lumpy around town in 1\2 - 20-30mph was always been tiresome. The bike had a surging which was very obvious around town in those 2 gears. So I would often try kicking up into 3rd, but that gear was very laboured low down and bike always felt like it would stall, and so I spent most of my town riding jumping around the gear box trying to find the sweet spot....after a while, I just accepted it as a quirk and assumed all GSs were the same.
I even tried different fuel grades - made no difference.
This weekend's ride took in a few towns and I was stunned as to how smooth the town riding was. I was often surprised to find I was in 3rd, as there was no labouring going on. I tested riding through town in 1\2 ....and blow me, the surging was gone!
(well almost). In 1\2\3 the bike was totally transformed for town riding.
I also had the opportunity to briefly take out my mates 2014 LC, and it was very noticeable how much smoother his bike is than my Pre serviced bike was.
I don't know what BMW did during this service, but this is a totally different bike now!
Took it for a 250 mile spin over the weekend and was stunned - they've given me back a different bike !
The bike has always been lumpy around town in 1\2 - 20-30mph was always been tiresome. The bike had a surging which was very obvious around town in those 2 gears. So I would often try kicking up into 3rd, but that gear was very laboured low down and bike always felt like it would stall, and so I spent most of my town riding jumping around the gear box trying to find the sweet spot....after a while, I just accepted it as a quirk and assumed all GSs were the same.
I even tried different fuel grades - made no difference.
This weekend's ride took in a few towns and I was stunned as to how smooth the town riding was. I was often surprised to find I was in 3rd, as there was no labouring going on. I tested riding through town in 1\2 ....and blow me, the surging was gone!
(well almost). In 1\2\3 the bike was totally transformed for town riding.I also had the opportunity to briefly take out my mates 2014 LC, and it was very noticeable how much smoother his bike is than my Pre serviced bike was.
I don't know what BMW did during this service, but this is a totally different bike now!
Did one on my iPhone and it crashed and now it's fooked..
