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You can get great bargains on ebay if you're good at ebaying and spend hours on research. People give up biking, sell off barely-used gear and don't get a good price because they won't post it or spell the brand name wrong or whatever. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/ebay-protection/ Why buy new gear when you can get a 70% discount?
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This is heresy, but I bought a second hand Arai a couple of weeks ago. With the help of the manual https://www.araihelmet.eu/en/manuals I dismantled it and checked the wear and tear. Washed everything, put it back together, it looks new now, inside and out. Polished the scratches with Novus https://ebay.us/3ubY2x
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Seems like a terrible way to spend your mornings. |
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| c_dug wrote: | Completely off of the original topic, but I've not cleaned my GS in well over a year, more than 16,000 miles at least. It lives outdoors, uncovered, in all weather. In those 16,000 miles it's commuted on daily through London, come rain, salt, or shine. It's been up to the top of Scotland and back, around the M25 countless times, off-road, on-road, through floods, mud, horse shit, dog shit (yuck), and spends the nights parked under a cherry tree getting the occasional spattering of pigeon shit.
I'm not even the biggest fan of GSes (which probably explains the lack of washing), the only reason I bought it is the price was right (mates rates), but truthfully pretty much the only places at all that you'll find any sign of rust is the top-box rack, which has a tiny bit of surface rust, and the exhaust link pipe, which is cheap aftermarket non-stainless. Corrosion wise, pretty much just the bottoms of the forks, which have lost their paint due to constant stone chips.
I appreciate perhaps the GS was built to a bit of a higher standard than most bikes (though I'd struggle to believe it when it comes to the electronics!). But this:
| linuxyeti wrote: | All you need to do, is coat with acf-50, or some other corrosion blocker, and rinse off after a ride in the salt, dry thoroughly, one of those pet dryers is perfect, then, perhaps give it a decent clean once a month, until the dryer weather arrives, I really don't know why some people find keeping a bike corrosion free so difficult. |
Sounds like a lot of effort compared to pretty much anything I've ever owned. |
I'm not saying you're wrong but that must be the only non dissolving BMW GS in existence. Both BMW's I've had have had utterly, utterly appalling paint quality. It's peeled off worse than any other bike I've owned.
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Best to coat them in mud so you can pretend you've had an adventure. Pretty much every other bike at the London bike show the other day was a GS, with such huge panniers that the bike was nearly as wide as it was long. All geared up to go to Everest base camp, but the panniers have nothing in them except spare gloves. Who'd have thought that panniers could ever become a status symbol? I suppose big panniers = small penis. The GS has become the boring old dobber's bike. They chug along, blocking the road, always with a white helmet in the hope that car drivers will mistake them for plod. They even wear those Polite vests. That's what modern biking has come to.
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| Undinist wrote: | That's what modern biking has come to. |
And airbags. Don't forget airbags.
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That was priceless, he fell on a yacht I think?
Here it is https://youtu.be/b424iGkWe0Q
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Ouch!
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It says in the comments he was a French journalist reviewing the FJR, and dislocated his shoulder.
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| Undinist wrote: | Best to coat them in mud so you can pretend you've had an adventure. Pretty much every other bike at the London bike show the other day was a GS, with such huge panniers that the bike was nearly as wide as it was long. All geared up to go to Everest base camp, but the panniers have nothing in them except spare gloves. Who'd have thought that panniers could ever become a status symbol? I suppose big panniers = small penis. The GS has become the boring old dobber's bike. They chug along, blocking the road, always with a white helmet in the hope that car drivers will mistake them for plod. They even wear those Polite vests. That's what modern biking has come to. |
That's a lot of preconceptions and bigotry rolled into poorly thought out stereotypes.
Yes I have a BMUU GSA, Yes I have luggage, yes they are empty some of the time.
I go the speed I want, I don't wear a white lid, I don't think I'm plod. I have more fun all year round than most others.
The BMUU is so comfy and suites my riding style. I have had big trailies or Adventure bikes as they have now been called since for ever. I remember tuning up at the NEC bike show and out of the few thousand bikes I was the only one with an Africa Twin wearing Alpinestar Tec3 around the show.
People have now cottoned on to the fact that you can't be a Mike Hailwood Barry Sheene or Rossi want to be on the English roads. Sports bikes are a one trick pony to many, not all, but most.
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| Skudd wrote: | | Undinist wrote: | Best to coat them in mud so you can pretend you've had an adventure. Pretty much every other bike at the London bike show the other day was a GS, with such huge panniers that the bike was nearly as wide as it was long. All geared up to go to Everest base camp, but the panniers have nothing in them except spare gloves. Who'd have thought that panniers could ever become a status symbol? I suppose big panniers = small penis. The GS has become the boring old dobber's bike. They chug along, blocking the road, always with a white helmet in the hope that car drivers will mistake them for plod. They even wear those Polite vests. That's what modern biking has come to. |
That's a lot of preconceptions and bigotry rolled into poorly thought out stereotypes.
Yes I have a BMUU GSA, Yes I have luggage, yes they are empty some of the time.
I go the speed I want, I don't wear a white lid, I don't think I'm plod. I have more fun all year round than most others.
The BMUU is so comfy and suites my riding style. I have had big trailies or Adventure bikes as they have now been called since for ever. I remember tuning up at the NEC bike show and out of the few thousand bikes I was the only one with an Africa Twin wearing Alpinestar Tec3 around the show.
People have now cottoned on to the fact that you can't be a Mike Hailwood Barry Sheene or Rossi want to be on the English roads. Sports bikes are a one trick pony to many, not all, but most. |
I know a lot of people with GSs - but I strongly suspect that if KTM hadn't failed to spot the potential for advertising their brand when Ewan and Charlie's producers approached them, all you guys on beemers would've been rding mahoosive pumpkins these last ten years or more.
Also - could you really have ever got on with a cbr600? I imagine you were always a fair old unit. I'm not exactly svelte me sen (but I do get on with my cbr - what I like about it is its weight, its price and it reliability; they feel a decent chunk under 200kg, they're ten a penny, and apart from reg recs they don't want for much (ok ok - a cct here and there).
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Yawn.
https://i.imgur.com/RlKibcP.jpg
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