My new Super tenere.
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xylo66
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congratulations !!!
Very nice 
Congratulations. I'm starting to think that this may be the most under-rated adventure bike out there!
I bought mine beginning of November '13. As I still had the 1150GS with panniers I used that whilst all the salt was around, it was well protected with ACF50. In January I took the Yam for a run out to the Cowal peninsular and hit a deer. Story is on the forum. After a couple of weeks I had the plastics to get the Yam back to A1. Then I found that I'd bent the forks so another couple of weeks awaiting parts and got the bike back earlier this week. Long and short of it today was the first day in 5½ months that I got to ride on dry roads with temps in the mid teens!! Mode S and ring its neck, fantastic. A trip to Hilltop is going to be scheduled to remove the H&S restrictions on 1;2;3 gears and optimise the fuelling for efficiency rather than some ill conceived EU emmissions standards. Was still showing >60mpg cruising back home on the motorway at an indicated 75mph.
Tyres not quite to the sidewall yet but a Knockhill day will fix that
What a bike! Flexible, smooth and deceptively quick. The clutch and gearbox are great with the usual exception of a clunk into first when stationary.
P.S. Went to the local BM dealer on the way out and had a look at the WC 1200 GSA. I thought it looked horrible in web images and it's no better in the flesh. It is the product of a "design by teams" strategy. It looks like there were about 20 teams responsible for the aesthetics and none of them spoke to any other. A hotch potch of ill matched plasic mouldings. If they had adapted the old frame and cycle parts to accept the new engine it would have been streets better.
Lastly how can you have a water cooled adventure bike with no protection over the cooling radiators. Without aftermarket add-ons I doubt the bike would last 100 miles on gravel roads ridden in a group.
I bought mine beginning of November '13. As I still had the 1150GS with panniers I used that whilst all the salt was around, it was well protected with ACF50. In January I took the Yam for a run out to the Cowal peninsular and hit a deer. Story is on the forum. After a couple of weeks I had the plastics to get the Yam back to A1. Then I found that I'd bent the forks so another couple of weeks awaiting parts and got the bike back earlier this week. Long and short of it today was the first day in 5½ months that I got to ride on dry roads with temps in the mid teens!! Mode S and ring its neck, fantastic. A trip to Hilltop is going to be scheduled to remove the H&S restrictions on 1;2;3 gears and optimise the fuelling for efficiency rather than some ill conceived EU emmissions standards. Was still showing >60mpg cruising back home on the motorway at an indicated 75mph.
Tyres not quite to the sidewall yet but a Knockhill day will fix that
What a bike! Flexible, smooth and deceptively quick. The clutch and gearbox are great with the usual exception of a clunk into first when stationary.P.S. Went to the local BM dealer on the way out and had a look at the WC 1200 GSA. I thought it looked horrible in web images and it's no better in the flesh. It is the product of a "design by teams" strategy. It looks like there were about 20 teams responsible for the aesthetics and none of them spoke to any other. A hotch potch of ill matched plasic mouldings. If they had adapted the old frame and cycle parts to accept the new engine it would have been streets better.
Lastly how can you have a water cooled adventure bike with no protection over the cooling radiators. Without aftermarket add-ons I doubt the bike would last 100 miles on gravel roads ridden in a group.
You may want to check what Hilltop can do with the S10 ECU, when I spoke to him (over a year ago) he was only able to alter fuelling and not remove the restrictions in 1st - 3rd gear.
Race Engineering offer the ECU Unleashed Flash, and can probably do this by return post, the results are very impressive.
Race Engineering offer the ECU Unleashed Flash, and can probably do this by return post, the results are very impressive.
rodders
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To be honest it didn't feel too bad pulling from low revs on the test ride in S mode.
Had the GS done at Hilltop , will wait until it is run in before I do anything.
Once it is run in , if you are interested,could meet up and do side by side run to see how much difference there is between your ecu'd and the '14.
rodders
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Congratulations. I'm starting to think that this may be the most under-rated adventure bike out there!
I bought mine beginning of November '13. As I still had the 1150GS with panniers I used that whilst all the salt was around, it was well protected with ACF50. In January I took the Yam for a run out to the Cowal peninsular and hit a deer. Story is on the forum. After a couple of weeks I had the plastics to get the Yam back to A1. Then I found that I'd bent the forks so another couple of weeks awaiting parts and got the bike back earlier this week. Long and short of it today was the first day in 5½ months that I got to ride on dry roads with temps in the mid teens!! Mode S and ring its neck, fantastic. A trip to Hilltop is going to be scheduled to remove the H&S restrictions on 1;2;3 gears and optimise the fuelling for efficiency rather than some ill conceived EU emmissions standards. Was still showing >60mpg cruising back home on the motorway at an indicated 75mph.
Tyres not quite to the sidewall yet but a Knockhill day will fix that
P.S. Went to the local BM dealer on the way out and had a look at the WC 1200 GSA. I thought it looked horrible in web images and it's no better in the flesh. It is the product of a "design by teams" strategy. It looks like there were about 20 teams responsible for the aesthetics and none of them spoke to any other. A hotch potch of ill matched plasic mouldings. If they had adapted the old frame and cycle parts to accept the new engine it would have been streets better.
Lastly how can you have a water cooled adventure bike with no protection over the cooling radiators. Without aftermarket add-ons I doubt the bike would last 100 miles on gravel roads ridden in a group.
Thanks.
Yes I had read about your incident.
rodders
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Looking forward to getting it, perversely I quite enjoy the running in process.
rodders
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Thanks, I am sure it will
Yellow Peril
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Kinda have to agree the out going model is much more sorted and one with a water cooled engine squeezed in could be an interesting project.
Ban_6
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Wear well Rodders.
That looks like the new SE model ?
Be interested to hear how you get on.
Dont forget the pics !
Wear well.
That looks like the new SE model ?
Be interested to hear how you get on.
Dont forget the pics !
Wear well.
rodders
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ZE model
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