It's gone a bit bubbly

[Hookster]

Dost tha ride it in't rain, lad?

Yep but not quite warmed up nor dried out fully from Monday yet!

 

[Malcvtr]

Yep but not quite warmed up nor dried out fully from Monday yet!

 

[deaninkl]

I'm feeling a bit left out. With nowt better to do for a couple of hours, I thought I'd pull the front cover. I was suspicious because I couldn't see any corrosion on the exposed bits, I thought it must be hiding.

Picture is a bit blurred but here's what I found:- Mucky but no sign of any corrosion! What's wrong with my bike? It's an '05, shouldn't it be all flacky and knackered?

Hookster, looks like you have a bad'un, and out of warranty, you're fecked. Flacking and corrosion are standard, and you have your right to have them like everybody else. Best leave the cover off for a couple of weeks...that'll sort it.

 

[Hookster]

Hookster, looks like you have a bad'un, and out of warranty, you're fecked. Flacking and corrosion are standard, and you have your right to have them like everybody else. Best leave the cover off for a couple of weeks...that'll sort it.

Might not be as bad as I thought, tere was a fair bit of black dust in the cover. Initially I thought 'ooh goody,time to change a belt' Then I realised alternators have brushes just like them old fashioned dynamos so I won't be long now till the alternator packs up. Deep joy.

Eee I wish I had a penny for every dynamo or starter I'd taken round to Leeds Auto Electrics when I were a lad. Spending every spare moment round my Dads garage. I'd have about 3 bob. It was a proper old place with maroon painted doors and little Georgina type windows and lots of benches with blokes who know what they were doing 'rewinding' things, phosphor bronze bushes and other bits and bobs.

Now where was I? Oh yes supposed to be putting an bit of Ikea furniture together..........

Is it just me or have the days of fixing things gone all together? Is fix by fit new the only option with modern kit? Maybe if I'd paid more attentinon and not taken a few years out form tinkering, I'd have a clue what was going on? Canbus? Yes I can but only as a last resort.

 

[Engineer]

Don't shoot the messenger - I have owned and ridden lots of BMW bikes hundreds of thousands of miles. Sorry to say the 1200GS is the worst vehicle I have ever owned. Gives me no pleasure to report this as it was because of the BMW boxer that I got into motorcycling. LOVED every BMW bike I have ever owned other than the 1200GS. My 1150 RT was and is a SUPERB bike and the best motorcycle I have ever owned. Just don't like the direction BMW are going with dumbed down design and poor build quality. If you are happy with it then good for you, it takes all sorts to make a world. I need a bike that will start and run reliably unfortunately the 1200GS won't do this for numerous reasons, the most obvious being hopless poor design of both the tiny battery and the unbelievable water trap over the canbus controller for the fuel pump. Again if you think this is OK then who am I to question your judgement. What I am not going to do though is submit to your insults and rants when making perfectly valid observations about the shorcomings of the 1200GS design.

Some of you lot really do abuse your bikes don't you?

2005 1200GS 26,000 miles - battery never gone flat; not one spot of corrosion, and it has never once 'failed to procede' - some of you obviously haven't got a clue about how to treat a motorcycle - I blame the owners!