The "trick" you mention about road/dynamic suspension selection is very surprising.
I'm pretty sure that on my 1250, when you selected Dynamic or Road on the mode button, it would always put the suspension setting into the matching mode. So if you wanted Road to use Dynamic suspension, you would have to select the mode first, and then reset the suspension to Dynamic, every time.
However, what you mention, and I've also just checked on my 13GSA is that on the 1300s, it actually remembers the last suspension setting (Road/Dynamic) that you used for a particular mode, and will re-select that automatically when the mode is selected in future. My bike was accidentally set to Dynamic suspension in Road mode, and I had no idea, other than I was suprised how firm it felt
I can't find anywhere this is mentioned in the manual. I can see that it's potentially more useful than the 1250 behaviour, but only if you know about it...
While we're at it, I'll just have a moan about the utter shitness of the UI around the Function List/Multi-Rocker button. It's an absolute mess of "which button do I press now; Oh fuck, it's timed out; bollocks I hit the wrong direction etc etc." It would have been nice if you could do it all with the wonder wheel really.
You sort of can actually. You can activate the menu with the hamburger button, then wonderwheel to your item, right push the wheel to select it then go right to the up down button (leaving the menu open). there's no time out, or long press - short press involved here. You will have to re-select your default action when done.
Excellent.Hi folks,
Here's my personal tips and tricks for the mighty GS, highly recommended specially if you're relatively new to GSs.
Hope you'll find some of these useful!
Enjoy!
Thanks Joe, I appreciate that!Excellent.
Really helpful video.
Ha! That's right, that's the beauty of grabbing my old K100... The flying brick has a horn, lights and the go twisty grip, that's it.Makes you hanker after the old days.....press a button on a Super Dream it made a Beep noise
Haha, luckily you can't!
Not everyone wants to drive round lit up like a Christmas tree?
Leave them off then
2 small spotlights is hardly lit up like a Chritmas tree
I was going to say the same. With the factory aux lights, it looks very nice and tidy.
They also serve very well at night as backups for the main low beam (when conditions are not good for high beam). They have a fairly definite cut off and can be adjusted so they don't blind oncoming but make a wide spread, actually rendering any corner light technology irrelevant . On the GS you can actually reach forward and tweak them while riding.
