Captain Beaky
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Picked it up on Friday morning on the way to work.
And spent the day wishing I was riding it!
She's a TE in red, with alloy wheels (I cannot bear cleaning spokes - no matter how damn good they look, and dont plan to do any real off road), with auxiliary LED lights, engine bars, and I also had the BMW mudguards fitted too. Panniers to follow.
Managed to finish work a bit early, so set the sat nav to "No Motorways" and asked it to take me from work (Filton in Bristol) to Malmesbury, then on to Home in Stonehouse, nr Stroud.
A bit nervous at first - I sold my R1200R 5 weeks ago, and have been riding my K1200RS - so it took a little while to get used to the "too tall" feeling of the GS again, and the very different power delivery..
But about 5 miles into the journey, the roads opened up, my confidence grew, the tyres were scrubbed in, and things started to take shape.
Getting the LC makes me regret ever selling my 1150GS. the tall riding position, wide bars, excellent mirrors (weird shape - but they are really good), easy power delivery - ahh, bliss. And more knobs to twiddle than Snow White!
Loving it.
I took in a short green lane - actually one of the 4 private drives of an estate in Malmesbury where some friends live, but I forgot it was closed off for an upcoming festival - so had to do a U-turn - bit scary - loose surface, new bike - no knobblies, but all is well.
I threaded my way through the very posh town of Tetbury, and had a really nice ride on down to Stonehouse.
First impressions from the initial 65 miles... Exactly the same as the demo - just al a bit tighter.
The engine especially so - very tight indeed, and has already loosened up somewhat. Gearbox - yeah it does crunch into first, and Neutral isn't so easy to find - but no worse than any other bike I've had.
Major design niggles - the speedo is very cluttered and hard to read (I will be putting a few dots of paint on the speedo to clarify it), I miss the old indicators.
Minor niggles - the screen could be a bit taller maybe (i'll look into that), the satnav wheel is a bit in the way - we'll see how I get on with it - and the rear brake lever doesn't feel long enough - perhaps an extender of some sort?
Otherwise - very very happy.
Once home and fed and watered, I opened up the boxes of bits I had ordered and started work...
I fitted:-
Crudcatcher,
Rad guards,
frame guards,
sidestand foot
headlight protector
handguard extenders.
Touratech "Beak"
and I also got busy with the ACF-50.
All look good on the bike - especially the beak!
Finished this lot at about 10.30, so had to take it out to see how good the headlights are. And they are very good indeed.
Popped u the road to see a mate, had a pint and rolled back down to the house at 11.30 - a tired, but very happy man...
I've tried to attach the photos - let's hope it works.....
And spent the day wishing I was riding it!
She's a TE in red, with alloy wheels (I cannot bear cleaning spokes - no matter how damn good they look, and dont plan to do any real off road), with auxiliary LED lights, engine bars, and I also had the BMW mudguards fitted too. Panniers to follow.
Managed to finish work a bit early, so set the sat nav to "No Motorways" and asked it to take me from work (Filton in Bristol) to Malmesbury, then on to Home in Stonehouse, nr Stroud.
A bit nervous at first - I sold my R1200R 5 weeks ago, and have been riding my K1200RS - so it took a little while to get used to the "too tall" feeling of the GS again, and the very different power delivery..
But about 5 miles into the journey, the roads opened up, my confidence grew, the tyres were scrubbed in, and things started to take shape.
Getting the LC makes me regret ever selling my 1150GS. the tall riding position, wide bars, excellent mirrors (weird shape - but they are really good), easy power delivery - ahh, bliss. And more knobs to twiddle than Snow White!
Loving it.
I took in a short green lane - actually one of the 4 private drives of an estate in Malmesbury where some friends live, but I forgot it was closed off for an upcoming festival - so had to do a U-turn - bit scary - loose surface, new bike - no knobblies, but all is well.
I threaded my way through the very posh town of Tetbury, and had a really nice ride on down to Stonehouse.
First impressions from the initial 65 miles... Exactly the same as the demo - just al a bit tighter.
The engine especially so - very tight indeed, and has already loosened up somewhat. Gearbox - yeah it does crunch into first, and Neutral isn't so easy to find - but no worse than any other bike I've had.
Major design niggles - the speedo is very cluttered and hard to read (I will be putting a few dots of paint on the speedo to clarify it), I miss the old indicators.
Minor niggles - the screen could be a bit taller maybe (i'll look into that), the satnav wheel is a bit in the way - we'll see how I get on with it - and the rear brake lever doesn't feel long enough - perhaps an extender of some sort?
Otherwise - very very happy.
Once home and fed and watered, I opened up the boxes of bits I had ordered and started work...
I fitted:-
Crudcatcher,
Rad guards,
frame guards,
sidestand foot
headlight protector
handguard extenders.
Touratech "Beak"
and I also got busy with the ACF-50.
All look good on the bike - especially the beak!
Finished this lot at about 10.30, so had to take it out to see how good the headlights are. And they are very good indeed.
Popped u the road to see a mate, had a pint and rolled back down to the house at 11.30 - a tired, but very happy man...
I've tried to attach the photos - let's hope it works.....
My red TE arrives in just over a week. Also got the TT Beak ready (bought this and TT pannier bags from Hornig in Germany, delivered in 2 days
