G650GS
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Been for an extended ride on it today.
I'm no off road guru but I did manage to find about 3miles of light offroading that was badly potholed and a mile or so that was like a gravel track.
I was well chuffe, think this will do everything I need it to do,and it was just an absolute hoot on narrow back roads.
It accelerates adequately on the open road and actually feels Quite gutsy,it sits very nicely at 70mph with very little vibration and doesn't really feel pushed until around 85ish.
It feels very stable and light handles very confidently,I felt as though I could just keep leaning and leaning it.
To be honest I did well not to order one as soon as I got back,but I've got a new system for deciding whether I want something or not,and that's to wait a week and if I still want it get it.
Watch this space.
Steve.
I'm no off road guru but I did manage to find about 3miles of light offroading that was badly potholed and a mile or so that was like a gravel track.
I was well chuffe, think this will do everything I need it to do,and it was just an absolute hoot on narrow back roads.
It accelerates adequately on the open road and actually feels Quite gutsy,it sits very nicely at 70mph with very little vibration and doesn't really feel pushed until around 85ish.
It feels very stable and light handles very confidently,I felt as though I could just keep leaning and leaning it.
To be honest I did well not to order one as soon as I got back,but I've got a new system for deciding whether I want something or not,and that's to wait a week and if I still want it get it.
Watch this space.
Steve.
slowthing65
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Loving mine.
If you get one remember that 650 Dakar bits bolt straight on. I managed to get a S/H bash plate and centre stand for £50. Bash plate polished up nicely and had stand powder coated (looks brand new).
If you get one remember that 650 Dakar bits bolt straight on. I managed to get a S/H bash plate and centre stand for £50. Bash plate polished up nicely and had stand powder coated (looks brand new).
MarkR
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G650GS Switch Failures
F650GS then R1200GS and now the 'new' G650GS. After two weeks and 350 miles the G650GS developed a 'I am not going to start' syndrome. Went through the BMW Emergency Service, which is sub-contracted to Mondial who sub-contract to Motor Move, a move I will never do again, but that is another story. Back to my drealer who used the BMW diagnostics which found no irregularities even though the bike started for them every time. Returned bike to home, pressed the start button and nothing! Now getting really p!$$ed orf! Starter Motor, Solenoid both OK but no one thought of the push button starter switch. I monitored the voltage with a DVM across the primary of the solenoid and found a fluctuating voltage. Faulty switch!
I dismantled the switch down to its contact surfaces and from my electronics component background assess that this is the wrongly specified switch for this application for the following reasons. Firstly, it is not a water proof switch. Secondly, the return spring operates in the horizontal plane to the button, as expected, but there is no internal side pressure in the switch to keep the slide male and female contacts together. The contacts are free to float within the switch casing causing the intermittent operation of the switch . For a switch to be used many tens of thousands of times a single pole slide switch is not one of choice.
Has anyone else experienced this Starter Button failure? Why-o-Why could BMW could not have standardised the switches across the GS range and made the idiom of 'Unstoppable' true?
Ride Safe,
Mark
F650GS then R1200GS and now the 'new' G650GS. After two weeks and 350 miles the G650GS developed a 'I am not going to start' syndrome. Went through the BMW Emergency Service, which is sub-contracted to Mondial who sub-contract to Motor Move, a move I will never do again, but that is another story. Back to my drealer who used the BMW diagnostics which found no irregularities even though the bike started for them every time. Returned bike to home, pressed the start button and nothing! Now getting really p!$$ed orf! Starter Motor, Solenoid both OK but no one thought of the push button starter switch. I monitored the voltage with a DVM across the primary of the solenoid and found a fluctuating voltage. Faulty switch!
I dismantled the switch down to its contact surfaces and from my electronics component background assess that this is the wrongly specified switch for this application for the following reasons. Firstly, it is not a water proof switch. Secondly, the return spring operates in the horizontal plane to the button, as expected, but there is no internal side pressure in the switch to keep the slide male and female contacts together. The contacts are free to float within the switch casing causing the intermittent operation of the switch . For a switch to be used many tens of thousands of times a single pole slide switch is not one of choice.
Has anyone else experienced this Starter Button failure? Why-o-Why could BMW could not have standardised the switches across the GS range and made the idiom of 'Unstoppable' true?
Ride Safe,
Mark
slowthing65
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rce
Registered user
where did you fit the socket ? Just fitted a socket to ours on front right side panel.
rce
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slowthing65 is the pannier rack off an old F650GS ? Only asking as BMW have withdrawn the pannier frame for the G650GS due to it not being correctly made to spec.
slowthing65
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Interesting point. I had 2 weeks of waiting for the G650GS kit to be supplied from Germany. Dealer said BMW were having supplier problems. In the end they sourced the individual parts from BMW GB amd made up a kit that way. The part numbers for the old F650GS and new G650GS rail components are identicle. You can check that from any online parts listing such as webETK.
I'm guessing my rails are old F650GS stock.
rce
Registered user
Wish I had known that before, Rainbow can't be aware of that way of doing it (SWMBO nearly cancelled bike because of no BMW panniers).
Have ordered the SW Motech quick release rack now, just hope it gets here before our big trip.
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