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I also have just got over 400 miles on my new GS and have similar experiences. Great bike, get about 200 miles to a tank full although today the range was down to 17 miles and yet I only got 17 litres in when I filled up. Still better that the range errs on the side of caution, no point running out and that seems accurate enough.
Gear change is pretty good with the notable exception of engaging first from neutral at a standstill, then there's a horrible gnashing of teeth and a lurch forward, not good but the demo I road had the same problem.
Still running in so keeping revs down below 5k but there's still plenty of go up to 80 ish.
Nice up shifts, almost clutch less and very smooth so maybe I'll forgive the problems engaging first especially after reading all the posts about difficulty shifting.
The bike came with Conti Trail Attacks and for the first 200 miles I was distinctly uneasy about them. I had a couple of unexpected slides and they felt like they were very slippy and worrying. I then discovered the dealer had handed over the bike with grossly over inflated tyres, 3.5 & 3.9 BAR. I know I should have checked them earlier and the dash did show 3.5/3.9 but I'm old school and used to PSI
Now I've got the corrected pressures in and a reasonable contact patch on the road there's a world of difference, as you'd expect. I'm really pissed off with the dealer and shall be in touch with them on Monday, if they can't get the tyre pressures right what chance is there of a proper service being done to spec.? I have used this dealer for the last two services on my previous bike, an RT, and felt they always did a good job but this has undermined my confidence in their ability. It also severely undermined my confidence in a corner until I realised what was wrong!
Still not managed to scrape the pegs but I'm nearly there and feeling much happier about the bike and much less happy about the dealer!
I suppose we can all have an offday but thats shit on a new bike.
the gear change on mine is ok and has improved, with just the odd graunch into second to spoil things.
I like on the new bike how the miles to empty resets straight away after a fill up, the old bike didn't do that and took an age. I got to 13 miles left on the computer when pulling in for fuel today, and squeezed just shy of 18.5 litres eventually.
Enjoy the new steed
Far too much traffic and urban roads in your part of the world. My current figures are 50 mpg and 49 mph.....
No traffic/urban, its been yorkshire dales with a bit of m62 and m6. Just clicked over 590 miles in a week, so ready for first service. i'm knackered (no photos today i couldnt be arsed). concentrate/process more when riding this thing, its so quick (and addictive).
Me thinks Sctum has been ragging the tits off her!
