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el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:25 pm

Great pic's. Who took them?

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:27 pm

el-nicko wrote:Great pic's. Who took them?

He turns up on nice days and takes snaps at corners on the Horseshoe Pass, then sells them on his website Nick

boxerscott · Post by **boxerscott** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 6:06 pm

Yep, they are good pictures.

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Thu May 15, 2014 2:18 pm

gus wrote:Is the rear suspension broken on the GT? Looks to be sagging loads..
The boxer cup looks very tidy..
Gus

D'ya know Gus I wasn't sure, it "may" be that I'm accelerating out of a corner etc, anyway it's under warranty so I thought "hey it's been 20,000 miles since the last shock absorber" .... so I sent the pic to dealers stating I think my shock was broke .... BMW have today authorised a new one. Cool that's an £1800 + part plus fitting.

Chuffed

big rob · Post by **big rob** » Thu May 15, 2014 4:58 pm

slparry wrote:
gus wrote:Is the rear suspension broken on the GT? Looks to be sagging loads..
The boxer cup looks very tidy..
Gus
D'ya know Gus I wasn't sure, it "may" be that I'm accelerating out of a corner etc, anyway it's under warranty so I thought "hey it's been 20,000 miles since the last shock absorber" .... so I sent the pic to dealers stating I think my shock was broke .... BMW have today authorised a new one. Cool that's an £1800 + part plus fitting.

Chuffed

Steve, your GT is getting to be like Triggers brush!

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Thu May 15, 2014 5:47 pm

big rob wrote:
slparry wrote:
gus wrote:Is the rear suspension broken on the GT? Looks to be sagging loads..
The boxer cup looks very tidy..
Gus
D'ya know Gus I wasn't sure, it "may" be that I'm accelerating out of a corner etc, anyway it's under warranty so I thought "hey it's been 20,000 miles since the last shock absorber" .... so I sent the pic to dealers stating I think my shock was broke .... BMW have today authorised a new one. Cool that's an £1800 + part plus fitting.

Chuffed
Steve, your GT is getting to be like Triggers brush!

"Getting" ... heck it passed that a long time ago

I'm sure it would have been cheaper for BMW to have refused to sell it to me

dave the german · Post by **dave the german** » Fri May 16, 2014 3:26 am

Steve, yer gonna get barred out of William's!!

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Fri May 16, 2014 6:52 am

dave the german wrote:Steve, yer gonna get barred out of William's!!

Hey I keep their workshop going with my warranty work, I pray that the F800GS is not going to contribute

A by the way to Popsky has Karens been reliable, given she...um uses it to make progress

popsky · Post by **popsky** » Fri May 16, 2014 9:50 am

slparry wrote:
A by the way to Popsky has Karens been reliable, given she...um uses it to make progress

Lo Steve

Apart from routine maintenance and a coolant hose upgrade no problems.
I think the F8 motor and shared chassis components are sorted by now, the only thing I've heard about was surface rusting on the final drive chain, but that depends on who's chain is fitted, I think that been sorted by now, a m8 who'd bought an ex demo F8r had some real issues with his chain which was not dealt with very well by the BMW dealer.

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Fri May 16, 2014 10:48 am

popsky wrote:
slparry wrote:
A by the way to Popsky has Karens been reliable, given she...um uses it to make progress
Lo Steve

Apart from routine maintenance and a coolant hose upgrade no problems.
I think the F8 motor and shared chassis components are sorted by now, the only thing I've heard about was surface rusting on the final drive chain, but that depends on who's chain is fitted, I think that been sorted by now, a m8 who'd bought an ex demo F8r had some real issues with his chain which was not dealt with very well by the BMW dealer.

Cool, yes I'd read about the early chain issues. CZ is BMW's chain supplier and apparently underspecced the original chains.

BMW sorted it out with a recall etc.

Perhaps I have a chance at this one being hassle free.

Despite it's issues I still love the K12GT to bits tho' as it's an awesome piece of kit!

popsky · Post by **popsky** » Fri May 16, 2014 12:57 pm

slparry wrote:
Cool, yes I'd read about the early chain issues. CZ is BMW's chain supplier and apparently underspecced the original chains.

BMW sorted it out with a recall etc.

Not so sure about that, the ex demo bike was a 12 plate F8r iirc, the dealer was insisting it was operator error, but Kevin is absolutely fastidious about his bikes.