Hill start

[littleade]

Thats one option, you can of course pull away as normal and it should disengage itself. Does need a fair bit of revs though!

My 1200 was as you say and I used to disengage it before riding off using the dab on the front brake, but the few times I've used it during the short time I've ridden my 1250 before lockdown I didn't really notice any difference whether HH was engaged or not it's now that smooth.

 

[R90CPN]

My 1200 was as you say and I used to disengage it before riding off using the dab on the front brake, but the few times I've used it during the short time I've ridden my 1250 before lockdown I didn't really notice any difference whether HH was engaged or not it's now that smooth.

I agree that it is much easier to pull away with it on the 1250, there are definite improvements over the previous 1200 that I had with it which did require a handful of revs before it released. Oh and if your slightly deficient in the height department (read "short arse") its a godsend at times, especially with a pillion on board.

 

[Mr Bean]

especially with a pillion on board.

I was riding through some tight cobbled alleys in a small Spanish village some years ago with the wife on the back and full luggage attached. It would have been most useful on a couple of the left hand uphill junctions...

Was glad to have it going over the steepest pass in the UK with the wife as pillion - stopping on a couple of the tight turns was a bit fraught.

 

[Engineer]

Can the 1200GS Hill-hold firmware be upgraded so that it performs the same as the 1250 or are there hardware changes to?

 

[gsig]

Twice the torque on the 1250

Its much smoother than my previous 1200 Rallye. I thought it was down to improved software.

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[Nutty]

You know we are all novice compared to This Nutty chap.

My comment was tongue in cheek, hence the

Personally, I always switch it off, on any bikes that have it, since almost being spat off at a junction in front of a lorry, when it decided to kick in halfway through pulling away.

 

[CPJS]

My comment was tongue in cheek, hence the

Personally, I always switch it off, on any bikes that have it, since almost being spat off at a junction in front of a lorry, when it decided to kick in halfway through pulling away.

Probably 'user error'

 

[G&T]

I like it, especially when faffing with the sat Nav at the fork in the road which inevitably is always on a hill!

 

[Belco100]

How bloody good is this?
I think it's fab.
Wonder how we did without it.

Yep - I have it on my K16GT and GS, bloody brilliant. One of my favourite gadgets!

 

[stick]

Must admit as well , never thought it would be useful , but it is and love it and as G&T says dam useful at times … winner.

 

[Warlord]

I had mine retro fitted.

Use it all the time. Love sitting there with both band and feet off the controls, especially on hills.

Just because I can

 

[MartinK]

I had mine retro fitted.

Use it all the time. Love sitting there with both band and feet off the controls, especially on hills.

Just because I can

Especially when heavily loaded, or with a pillion, makes life lots easier (to do things like fiddle with the screen/sat nav or whatever)

Never thought I would use it but I now quite like it

 

[Nutty]

Probably 'user error'

Nope, BMW agreed it had a fault. They said they’d fixed it, but I never turned it on again.

My new bike has it, so I’ll see how it compares.

 

[knutk]

My comment was tongue in cheek, hence the

Personally, I always switch it off, on any bikes that have it, since almost being spat off at a junction in front of a lorry, when it decided to kick in halfway through pulling away.

I do not have any experience with how HH worked on the 1200, but on the 1250 you have to be at a standstill before the HH will engage. If you for instance brake heavy, even after stand still, you have to release the brake handle slightly and then you may activate HH. Taking off you simply drive off as if the HH did not exist. No extra power required.

Bloody brilliant

 

[Gog5y]

I thought I would like it. Didn't have it on my last 1200, now onto a 1250. It is good at lights when on a hill, bit of an unnecessary thing tbh, but I did like it. Only problem I have is when trying to back out of a space or my bike garage, I sometimes use the front brake to give me a bit of backwards boost by kinda pushing on the forks and holding the brake and then releasing type of thing, and the bloody thing comes on again and stops all preferred backwards movement! Also I was delivering some keys to a colleague of mine yesterday and pulled up to stop on a hill on a garage forecourt (we are both key workers) and the thing engaged before I had finished my manoeuvre and was expecting it to drift backward a wee bit before I was going to fully stop, but it decided to stop without me and as I wasn't expecting it, I dropped it No harm done as I had enough strength left to let it gently down, only damage to my pride! But I just wasn't expecting it to hold. If you have never had it then you expect the bike to behave differently. So for that reason I am going to disengage it completely.

 

[Pit]

unfortunate, but you can program it to only engage manualy, that´s what I do

 

[casbar]

Switch off the auto engage. And if your manoeuvring backwards out your garage, how about doing it with the engine off, then it won't activate.

 

[Gog5y]

Switch off the auto engage. And if your manoeuvring backwards out your garage, how about doing it with the engine off, then it won't activate.

Ah well you learn something new every day. I am just in the habit of starting it up and then running it out backwards so that I can take off up the hill again. But worth a try and then start it once i get it over the hump.

 

[Spareparts]

No Hill Start here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i35bM8JRvE

 

[RallyeGS]

No Hill Start here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i35bM8JRvE

That would be interesting on a GSA!