Clutch Spline Shaft

[GunK190]

I know this has probably had a lot of posts some of which I've spent most of my Sunday searching through but I would like to know just how common this problem is. I know it relates to most oil heads, but from what I can make out it seem not to affect models built around a certain year as I've read of R series models from 99 to 04 having this.

What I'd really like to know if any of you guys have never had this issue with your bikes

Only asking as I have owned my R1100s for about a year now with 24,000 mls on the clock, I brought this bike thinking as long as I looked after it, it would just rack up the miles.

Maybe reading about this problem has just made me a little paranoid and would like to think I'm not riding a ticking time bomb,would just like to hear a positive note, love the bike and looking forward to riding around the Picos de Europa next year

Sorry if this is in the wrong topic post maybe I should of posted in the Banter section

[nab 301]

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What I'd really like to know if any of you guys have never had this issue with your bikes

That would be me , bought bike with approx 14 k miles , now with nearly 100k more miles admittedly over approx 10 yrs.

[Henners]

The nearest I've got to understanding the cause on some bikes is if the clutch is often kept dis-engaged e.g. whilst waiting in gear in traffic. How you find out if that happened to your bike I dunno

[tanneman]

22K on the bike. From about 14k it has seen the track quite a few times apart from the trip to Garmish so most of it is track miles after 14k. Checked the splines earlier this year and negligible play on the clutch plate. That is I mean with the clutch lever pulled in and the clutch plate manipulated to check the rotational play.

This is how I checked it.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/bmw-r110 ... video.html

[oyster]

It is in an older post on the topic; there was a batch of bad input shafts that had not been properly hardened, so were prone to being chewed. About 2002/3 if I remember correctly. Earlier and later model were better.

[GunK190]

Cheers for the for the info guys. What started me wondering just how bad the problem was I found a video on YouTube by Chris Harris who has a lot of helpful service videos for BMW's just made me panic a bit because I really like my 1100s

Kinda guessed it maybe just an unfortunate few, enough for everyone to know about but obviously not enough for BMW to do a recall


ride safe

[Henners]

At the end of the day if it happens to me I'll fix it ~ nothing to worry about, the bike's worth it

[GunK190]

At the end of the day if it happens to me I'll fix it ~ nothing to worry about, the bike's worth it

Your right bud