what am i reading ?

[claw]

thanks guys for your honest replys ,as i bought it from a dealer i did get the parts and labour warrantee.
its a 05 plate with 8000 miles on and is as good as new .
but thanks anyway for your replys ,
i am the kinda person one i have made my mind up about buying a bike i will stick with it through thick and thin ,hopfully this ones going to be fine.
oh and how on earth did you know only a mile away

18k miles with no problems........ so far

May see you around sometime

 

[Sgt Bilco]

thanks guys for your honest replys ,as i bought it from a dealer i did get the parts and labour warrantee.
its a 05 plate with 8000 miles on and is as good as new .
but thanks anyway for your replys ,
i am the kinda person one i have made my mind up about buying a bike i will stick with it through thick and thin ,hopfully this ones going to be fine.
oh and how on earth did you know only a mile away

I'm thinking any issues your bike may have had have been fixed long ago. The GS is as good as anything else and most chug along with no issues. I'm at 69,000 miles with no real problems so I can vouch they are a very reliable bike

Things do go wrong as you have no doubt read but hell, it's metal and plasic so not bomb proof. Ride and enjoy and take the flak from the luddite's who thing the 11** is the best tractor on the planet

 

[slydog]

400

Rasher me old mucker, where the feck are you going to have to pay £400 for fork seals

10 minute job mate and seals are around a tenner a go

yea i thought that . they must be the easiest seals to change on any bike

 

[Sgt Bilco]

yea i thought that . they must be the easiest seals to change on any bike

Not in Rashers world...........he does like a drama

 

[Doon]

Had a few problems, all fixed under guarantee, in the first year or so, and since then 98k trouble free kilometers.

 

[Beemerman59]

Not in Rashers world...........he does like a drama

and a crisis......

 

[Rasher]

I asked at the dealer how much the job would have cost if not done under warranty and was told about £400 all in for parts, labour and VAT, and in my experience when a BMW dealer gives you a quote the real bill will be higher.

I can't see how they are so easy to change, surely you need to remove brake calipers, wheels, mudgaurds, forks - just like any other bike

Sure forums do make for poor reading, but some of the numbers here are just astronomical regardless of the bikes success and how many members this forum has, 400+ FPC's and umpteen FD's is not good, especially as a fair number of owners have had multiple failures of the same part which indicates a real issue as opposed to 1:1000 rarity, or to get two failures would be a 1:10000000 chance - if that were the case we should also have a few multiple lottery jackpot winners kicking about as the odds of two FD failures is similar to that of a lotto jackpot - or perhaps the universe is maintaining balance by knackering some poor sods FD every time some lucky B'stard wins a fortune.

 

[MikeO]

This is a really stupid comment

ONE bike has done 50k apparently so it must now be better than the GS which despite being now 3K more (because Yamaha have dropped the price massively as they can't give em away) outsells the Yamaha 5 to 1. What Bollox

The GS is a great bike.As with anything mechanical you can get problems.I've personally had more probs with Jap bikes but have done more miles on the BM.

Enjoy your new purchase you'll love it!!

 

[Sgt Bilco]

I asked at the dealer how much the job would have cost if not done under warranty and was told about £400 all in for parts, labour and VAT, and in my experience when a BMW dealer gives you a quote the real bill will be higher.

I can't see how they are so easy to change, surely you need to remove brake calipers, wheels, mudgaurds, forks - just like any other bike

They must be talking about something else You do it from the top, undo the nuts underneath the cap on top of the fork leg at the yoke, loosen the fork leg clamps and from the fork tube down. Simple and it really is only a 10 minute job to change the fork seals.

If you have leaking seals so soon after changing them, there must be dust in there somewhere as they very rarely go. I rode my old 1100 for 6000 miles with a leaking seal (couldn't get one and then I forgot) because they don't actually do much apart from keeping the front wheel in place.

 

[Ugly Cow]

Ok, a positive note on the 1150gs.Year 2000 bought new. 164,000 mls all year round riding, almost always 2 up very often fully loaded. Clutch at 105,000 a precaution, going on a 12 month trip, it was 50% worn, rear brg at 110,000. Other than normal consumables, nothing, paint still OK for mlg/year. now thats in print it will probably turn to shit now. IMHO a great bike

 

[Ugly Cow]

Ok, a positive note on the 1150gs.Year 2000 bought new. 164,000 mls all year round riding, almost always 2 up very often fully loaded. Clutch at 105,000 a precaution, going on a 12 month trip, it was 50% worn, rear brg at 110,000. Other than normal consumables, nothing, paint still OK for mlg/year. now thats in print it will probably turn to shit now. IMHO a great bike

Sorry I did not realise this is the 1200 site

 

[STUBBS]

just getout and ride it





















just dont forget your aa card

 

[mark2jag]

only a few weeks ago i bought my gs12,and apart from a few little niggles its been brilliant,but as i read all the threads on this website about reliability i am getting increasingly worried about if i have bought the right bike ,i was led to beleive that the gs was a go anywhere without trouble bike ,and yet all i seam to read about is reliability issues .
now yes i have come from jap bike background ,and to be honest on the whole ,they have served me well ,value and reliability .
but what am i reading all the time about big items failing on the gs,is it just the fact that people like to tell us all about there breakdowns ,and no mention of the many bikes with huge milage and no issues at all.
are all these big breakdowns down to folk thrashing the bits of them off road or do they really breakdown under normal circumstanses.
not to mention anyone reading the threads on here before they buy a gs being put off for good.
thanks

I think you should just ride it. I appreciate people will tend to want to post any negative comments,its very easy to forego the positive comments and give a rather one sided view of things

I have been guilty of this myself and have been quick to point out faults, but in the post I'm talking abgout I did still mention that its still a bloody good bike and i'm still enjoying riding it. Go do some serious miles on it, and if it does break down then use the breakdown cover on it. I assume its new and in warranty. If not get an extended warranty, OR put the same amount the warranty costs to one side every month and that should pay for anything that does break down IF (NOT WHEN) it does go tits up.

so there you go a balanced view (from an unbalanced mind!!!!)

Ok I'll get me coat again.