R1200 GSA LC tip speed

vRSG60 · Jul 31, 2020

I’ve just returned from a trip around Germany Poland Slovakia & Czechia.
I always reset the Nav V trip before I go.
I’ve recorded a top speed of 137mph

On a previous trip I recorded 143mph

Now we all know these bikes won’t go that fast so why these recorded top speeds?
Momentary GPS glitch?

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Schtum · Jul 31, 2020

If I remember correctly, BMW used to quote 137 mph as the v-max for the original R1200 GS on only c. 100 bhp.

I've seen an easy 130 with more to come on my 2013 GS LC on a local A road. With a long enough run on an Autobahn, 143 is probably on the cards.

Had the local Straightliners event on the Leuchars Airfield not been cancelled this year, I was planning on taking my bike along to see just what it, with its
full Akrapovič system and Hilltop software, would hit down the runway.

Nutty · Jul 31, 2020

The most I could get out of an R1250 was 134mph and I was absolutely wringing it’s neck. Over about 115 it seemed to take an age to get to the max speed. The Ferrari I was playing with at the time kept disappearing out of sight!

iandavid · Jul 31, 2020

Did you use the euro tunnel? It will also record that as a speed, time taken from folkestone pos’n to Calais pos’n even with bike switched off.

Winjar · Jul 31, 2020

Nav5 is not always correct, depend on satelites and many other things, the Nutty is more correct with speed of 1250

Fluffmeister · Jul 31, 2020

But compared to the mighty K1600 (Which I wish I'd kept), I laugh in the face of your speed's beginning with "1"

stick · Jul 31, 2020

The Nutty Duke said:
The most I could get out of an R1250 was 134mph and I was absolutely wringing it’s neck. Over about 115 it seemed to take an age to get to the max speed. The Ferrari I was playing with at the time kept disappearing out of sight!

I have seen similar at 140 + , mine never struggles to get there especially when chasing KTM 1290s , easy peasy and Ducks :green gri

.......at altitude it can sap a bit of power especially on the Vielha Sort Road c-28 to be be fair most bikes did.

stick · Jul 31, 2020

Fluffmeister said:
But compared to the mighty K1600 (Which I wish I'd kept), I laugh in the face of your speed's beginning with "1"

Looks like a car dash ...... Rocket man

vRSG60 · Aug 2, 2020

iandavid said:
Did you use the euro tunnel? It will also record that as a speed, time taken from folkestone pos’n to Calais pos’n even with bike switched off.

I did coming back. But I can’t see how it can record that when it’s off.
The train doesn’t even do 137mph

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Tom.gsa · Aug 2, 2020

I once got this (1200gsa) but think a minor glitch with sat nav!

sven · Aug 2, 2020

My 2014 R1200GS LC hit 134mph on the GPS on the autobahn, which I thought was pretty good considering the bike was two-up and fully loaded with expanded panniers, top box and tank bag.

It certainly reached 120+ with ease, whereas my 2009 GS ran out of steam a long way before that.

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