Happy bunny refreshing my 2019 R1250GS with Tractive at T-Tech Suspension
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What’s the point when you only ride 1,600 pa (135pm)?I have had a pretty similar experience in that I have a 72 plate TB 1250gs with 6.5k on the clock at the time. I went to see the 1300 out of interest. After a quick chat I was offered £12k to change (before new panniers, top box, crash bars etc) so I declined his kind offer and thought I love my 1250gs but how can I make it a little better. So early ‘25 I bought a set of Tractive units off the site and had them fully serviced and set up for me by Lucas at T-T Suspension (5️ service) and they have been a revelation, no crashing or jarring over our pot hole strewn shitty surfaced roads just smooth fluid progress - fantastic! Next up was a Hilltop remap, this would be my 3rd GS (11 tc & 17 lc) to be flashed by Hilltop and I wouldn’t be disappointed as the bike was smoother, quieter, rev’d up quicker and had no low speed surging or flat spots and to top it all I was getting better mpg. A year later and just about 11k miles on the clock and I love the gs even more, it’s a great bike that does everything that I need it to do.
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️ service) and they have been a revelation, no crashing or jarring over our pot hole strewn shitty surfaced roads just smooth fluid progress - fantastic! Next up was a Hilltop remap, this would be my 3rd GS (11 tc & 17 lc) to be flashed by Hilltop and I wouldn’t be disappointed as the bike was smoother, quieter, rev’d up quicker and had no low speed surging or flat spots and to top it all I was getting better mpg. A year later and just about 11k miles on the clock and I love the gs even more, it’s a great bike that does everything that I need it to do.Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your insightful comment “whats the point” and wonder why you would make such a comment when you know so little about me, my bike, my riding requirements etc etc
I know you have put a ? As to my average annual mileage but surely you would need to know a little more detail when calculating my average mileage? Eg starting mileage, end mileage and how many years I have owned it and if you wanted to know the value of making the upgrade then you may even want to know how long I plan to keep it as the “what’s the point” value will change over different time periods.
I think myself and other contributors to this post have stated the improvements that they believe that upgraded suspension makes to the bike and bikes in general. Now that is not to say that we are “right” and everyone else is “wrong” As always it would be very boring if we all liked and wanted the same things in life. We are all different and all want different things/experiences from our motorcycles so if you are happy with your current motorcycle/suspension set up then that is great and I am really happy for you.
As you are just up the road from me you are more that welcome to come and have a go on my bike to see if you think the up graded suspension makes a difference over the standard BM units.
Cheers,
Tony
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Thanks for your insightful comment “whats the point” and wonder why you would make such a comment when you know so little about me, my bike, my riding requirements etc etc
I know you have put a ? As to my average annual mileage but surely you would need to know a little more detail when calculating my average mileage? Eg starting mileage, end mileage and how many years I have owned it and if you wanted to know the value of making the upgrade then you may even want to know how long I plan to keep it as the “what’s the point” value will change over different time periods.
I think myself and other contributors to this post have stated the improvements that they believe that upgraded suspension makes to the bike and bikes in general. Now that is not to say that we are “right” and everyone else is “wrong” As always it would be very boring if we all liked and wanted the same things in life. We are all different and all want different things/experiences from our motorcycles so if you are happy with your current motorcycle/suspension set up then that is great and I am really happy for you.
As you are just up the road from me you are more that welcome to come and have a go on my bike to see if you think the up graded suspension makes a difference over the standard BM units.
Cheers,
Tony
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