ELIMINATOR said:
How's your Estonian?
What're the most probable things to brake down on a long journey?
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How's your Estonian?
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Confession to make, I did not notice the location of the member. If indeed you are Estonian I apologise, if your British, as before.
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The engine will be fine, just take a spare gearbox, final drive and wiring loom and you should be fine
Yeah, one of the probs for non-native english speakers. Sorry if there's any misunderstaning 
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ELIMINATOR said:
laughingBob said:The engine will be fine, just take a spare gearbox, final drive and wiring loom and you should be fine
Hmm... As far as i'm concerned that final drive caution goes especially for R1200GS
. A bit for 1150 model too, but not that bad.Gerbox caution go mainly to 1150 models.
But i'm on good old post-'97 (the most improved GS) 1100
Electricity all the same and quite trusty. Well, 1200 has 1-wire system, maybe the best (or the worst?).
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If you are thinking of going on a long journey by motorcycle. Take along a sponsor in a back-up 4x4 vehicle and a set of satellite phones aka; Ewan & Charlie.
Not my style, natively. The only help there is, is me, and that's what i prefer.
That's why i don't have any respect to Charile and Ewan. Sorry about that. They're far from defining them RTW riders or even travellers in terms of challange to be crossed, all alone in remote third world. Superstar promotional puppets, along with not very talanted photo-TV support team that their budget could really afford.
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That's why i don't have any respect to Charile and Ewan. Sorry about that. They're far from defining them RTW riders or even travellers in terms of challange to be crossed, all alone in remote third world. Superstar promotional puppets, along with not very talanted photo-TV support team that their budget could really afford.
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HMR
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Gerbox caution go mainly to 1150 models.
The only show-stopping problem I have had on my R12GS was a broken gearbox. It broke when the shift lever hit a tree root. To prevent this, replace the shift lever with a foldable one!
Remember also that on wet dirtroads you can wear down brand new rear brake pads in less than 1500 km. I have seen this happen on R11GS and it happened to me on my R12GS.
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Same to me - i damaged even my rear disc surface because metal against metal. Bike was muddy-sandy mostly, so it worned the pads off very quickly. I got the sintered pads now, let's hope they'll stay longer.
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HMR said:Remember also that on wet dirtroads you can wear down brand new rear brake pads in less than 1500 km. I have seen this happen on R11GS and it happened to me on my R12GS.
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I think most of us wouldn't. But i'm just critisizing they're hero-star-status on adventure level as like they're real RTW-heros as many ADV rider and other people see them via massive TV and web and book promotion. They simply aren't.
photobiker.com dudes describe them well:
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One guy who didn't have much time to stop and ask questions anywhere along his trip, is Ewan MacGregor, the British actor who plays the young Obi-wan Kenobi in the disastrous Star Wars Episode 1... If Geoff took 3 months to ride from Chicago to Ushuaia, Ewan is also taking 3 months to ride - hang on! - "all the way around-the-world". Leaving in April, returning in July, and releasing a book in September. Wow! Of course, he's not doing it alone - a buddy rides with him, while a photographer follows them on a third motorcycle, and a TV crew meets with them every week for interviews. He's not unprepared either. The producers provided them with a full boot-camp including close-combat sessions, survival training, nutrition classes, and even insisted on them to carry tear-gas to fight the bears, and GPSs to allow the fast-rescue team to locate them on the map and pull them out in case of emergency. At first, Ewan and his buddy wanted to do it on their own but they decided to involve a TV producing company to help them take care of the details because, in a true adventurer's spirit, they "didn't want to spend all that time waiting in line to get the visas". Their route is almost a straight line along the 45th parallel. Their "round-the-world tour", with the exception of a couple days each to cross Western and Eastern Europe, consists in zooming through the entire Russia and the United States. "This route seemed so obvious, we don't understand why more people aren't taking it", wonders the brave Ewan. Well, let me tell you, Ewan: if more people aren't taking this route, it's because THEY DON'T WANT TO! If it is to swallow hundreds of miles a day on truck-laden freeways, you might as well do it in a Hummer 4x4 or on a Lear Jet airplane because this is NOT the idea of motorcycling that all those who are roaming the world on two wheels have in mind. Anyhow, dear Ewan, I wish you the best in your endeavor. Watch out the bears along the freeway (please do not stop to spray them!) and while in Siberia, simply follow the eskimo nutritionist wisdom and... "Don't eat the yellow snow".
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Indeed, i see one bright side on the whole thing too - it's massive promotion - it's puting more non-motorcycle people on motorcycle travelling hopefully and popularizes the whole motorcycle thingy.
Margus
Alternatively, perhaps they were doing their own thing. And did it.
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Mo-Tech said:
Nothing will go wrong, just get on the bike and ride it, and if something does it will not wreck your adventure it will make.
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tsiklonautold said:
They wont stay longer. Sorry.
We where a group of 28 riders riding long distance on wet dirtroads and I noticed that all bikes with rear disks with small holes in them had this pad wear problem. Those with large holes (more hole than disk...) did not. Stopping every now and then to clean the rear disk with water and a tooth-brush seemed to help.
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Mike O said:Alternatively, perhaps they were doing their own thing. And did it.
Mike
I agree to 110%
They did their thing. Great! I have great respekt for people who get their asses off the warm office chair and DO somthing real.
I myself would of-course not do it their way. Loading 150 kg junk onto an already-to-heavy BMW...
Neither could I afford having 3 fully equiped trucks and a staff of 125 people driving up-front clearing the road. Still - Charile and Ewan did it!And so it seems Margus will. His own way. Great!
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Mo,
I'd fit a touratech front mudguard, the orginal fills up with mud too quickly
I'd fit a touratech front mudguard, the orginal fills up with mud too quickly
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If only that Touratech doesn't ask for that redicoulously much money from those pieces...
Seems like stock mudguard isn't much modifyable too, to rise it a bit to make more space between the wheel.
Maybe i can find some TT on second hand. Let's see...
Thanks, Margus
tsiklonautold said:
Being one of those thats watched the TV show and read the book, I know most of the above to be bollox !
The route doesnt follow a straight line, in fact its commented upon that they could have followed a straight route, but wanted to ride through Mongolia and Kazakhstan. The reason for doing it in 3 months was becuase of Charlie and Ewans work commitments.
I get the impression that photbiker.com dudes, comments were made before Charlie and Ewan even set of on there trip.
Always think its best to wait and see before mouthing off.
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Tsiklonaut said:
Good luck Margus,
Ive been after one for ages, but believe me you need it the orginal is usless off road, I thought about cuttimg me orginal up but it still will not give the clearance needed. Good luck with your hunt.
joe
