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First 100 miles on 1300 v 1250
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What about the engine rattle? watching Youtube video's the engine sounds noisy, is it true?
Never ridden one yet but the 1250 seems to be the one for me
Never ridden one yet but the 1250 seems to be the one for me
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They sound terrible at tickover but less rattley than the 1250 once you’re moving
A well set up 1150 with a mineral 20/50 oil sounds sweet at tick over.
Yep they all do that. Occasionally ride mine without earplugs and it sounds like there is no oil in it!
Barry
but when running underload i.e. when you´re actually giving it some welly, the Boxers do make a nice distinctive sound in my opinion. You can always here one coming.....
I lip read so mine sounds fine.
Christ! I'm very pleased to read that evryone else's 1300 whines and whirs and sounds like it doesn't have any oil in it because it rather took me aback after my 1200! 
I guess the most notable thing about the 1300 is that it is more of a pure road bike than the previous more rufty-tufty GS models.
Listen to a K75 sometime!Christ! I'm very pleased to read that evryone else's 1300 whines and whirs and sounds like it doesn't have any oil in it because it rather took me aback after my 1200!
Than an airhead GS certainly. Then an 1100GS maybe. I'll take a 1300GS off road over an R1150 GS with it's too tall first gear. The early R1200 oilheads lost some weight and were geared a little better so they should be a bit easier to handle off road. I believe all the wethead GS's should be about the same which in my view excel over all types of roads, and with the right rider and tyres can get you through some mild single track.
Somewhere deep in the French TET on my 2012 GSA. Right tyres, wrong rider! Bike was tired and was taking a snooze. What the photo doesn't convey is the steep bank I rode up to get the bike in that position and the several deep troughs and mounds that followed. You had to commit fully and not stop for the entire section. I stopped with the front wheel on one of these mounds and the rear wheel on another. There was probably two feet of fresh air between my feet and the ground. You can guess the rest! You can also see that the bike was not resting on the soft bags at all. The wheels were actually at a higher point than the rest of the bike, so picking it up was interesting.
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Oh my..... those are large, heavy motorcycles, especially filled with petrol. I bet it was a handful to upright!
It spent about the same time on its side as it did upright, so my brother in law and I had plenty of practice at picking it up! That said, we took my GSA and his Africa Twin down tracks you could barely walk a dog down and we did pretty well. For a behemoth machine it was incredibly capable off road.
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