Sea Sickness??

[Explorer]

This could be really stupid, but being new to the bike can anyone help?

I took my recently purchased 1150GS for a 150 mile motorway trip yesterday and felt 'motion sickness' pretty much the whole time. To the point I thought I was going to have to stop and throw up at the side of the m-way. Not much fun.

What I am wondering is if this could be due to needing to adjust the settings on front and back suspension better to change the ride? Is there a trick to this other than what the BMW handbook says?

Other possible causes which I cannot rule out is that I may have bug (not feeling great anyway) or wearing ear plugs which I don't often do.

Grateful for any thoughts on this - please be gentle!! I'm not well.

 

[David Nimrod]

Sounds to me like you have a bug.

Better not ride 'till you're ok again.

Or maybe GS's just make you sick!

 

[Steptoe]

Sea Sickness ??.

Could be too much semen making you feel a bit dicky.

 

[Deleted account W]

My wife finds sitting at the back of the boat and looking at the horizon helps her with sea sickness. Try sitting the other way around when riding the bike and only looking at the bit where the sky meets the land.

Hope this helps

 

[Uinneag]

Best cure for seasickness is to hug a tree

 

[llotse]

I have worked at sea for 28 years and you definitely need to drink more orange juice. It does no feckin good whatsoever but it does taste the same both ways

 

[alimey4u2]

It's the bug you have that's causing it I wager, whatever you do, do not throw up inside a full face helmet....It's a bin job if you do...

 

[stewy]

bin the ear plugs, ,,, and get a remus pipe on so you can hear it ,,

oh i would check out the suspension also

 

[Stewart H]

Ginger biscuits, eyes on the horizon.
Stewart

 

[alimey4u2]

Ginger biscuits, eyes on the horizon.
Stewart

Wouldn't they look ever so small......

 

[Onwalkabout]

Adjust your screen, the buffeting around your head may be upsetting your inner ear. If you have a TourX (or anything else) with a peak, bin the peak at higher speeds.

 

[davegs]

Sickness

Sure your rear shocks not knackard.

 

[sockpuppet]

Wind the preload up on the rear shock to max and see if that helps. Mine developed a "wave" as it was set too low from the previous owner. Turned it up and the developing undulations stopped.

 

[Robbo1200ADV]

Sounds like Labyrinthitis a viral infection of the inner ear.Lay off the bike till you are better ,balance can be badly affected

 

[AndyT]

My wife finds sitting at the back of the boat and looking at the horizon helps her with sea sickness. Try sitting the other way around when riding the bike and only looking at the bit where the sky meets the land.

Hope this helps

I spent days once trying to get a close up photo of the horizon, I was pig sick when I realised


I must admit someone with a list name like you have I would have expected all the answers








































On a serious note I recon it will be a bug coupled with the ear defenders.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Funny

I got the same on a 12GSA..................but never on a 1150GSA

 

[Explorer]

The Patient Replies

Thanks for all the advice and top tips. Tomorrow I am off to Dorchester on the boat (I mean, bike). I will try sitting backwards, eating ginger biscuits and looking at the horizon as I go. Maybe I will end up in Plymouth instead (or more probably wrapped round Oonyack's tree). I will let you know - and what the BMW workshops say about all the rather better bits of advice as the bike is having its MOT and service.

Cheers

 

[Steptoe]

You could be pregnant.

 

[Explorer]

The English Patient

[Steptoe - see last post - this condition is extremely unlikely in a man. Did your Mother not tell you that?]

Just to let all you well-wishers know the journey to and from Dorchester went great. Not a hint of sea-sickness, and the bike walked its MOT too with those nice people at the BMW dealership.

Having given it some serious thought, I did not ride backwards eating ginger bsicuits after all. I did re-adjust the pre-load, but I reckon I must have had a bug and in my misery just lashed out and blamed that poor old motorbike.

Thanks to all the doctors who diagnosed this.

 

[Steptoe]

[Steptoe - see last post - this condition is extremely unlikely in a man. Did your Mother not tell you that?]

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No.

She made me take the pill when i was young and carefree.