Gunnyrob's Beemer breaks again!!

[Manxman]

And now comes the brighter side...in joke form:

Cross-services joke
So the Navy and the Air Force decide to have a motorbike race from West Auckland to Mt Wellington (about 30km) to prove who has the best rider. The Navy puke shows up on a Nifty 50 and when his mates ask him why the heck he didn't come on a faster bike he replied "That's cool, cos the Air Force are sending Gunnyrob on his Beemer".

Lay into him folks!!!

/Off Topic (Tri-Service joke - that you're prob very familiar with, but worth repeating).
How to secure a building:
Navy consult internally for a week, then send in a dozen pers, with a coupla sturdy ones manning the door.
Air spend a month drawing up a contract for outsourcing.
Army clear the building, lock the doors and blow the fecker up. Job done....'secured'.

/On Topic.

BTW, it sounds like you're fucked , but ups to the guys that helped ya out - real mates right there.

[Ixion]

Your splines are fucked. How long since you lubed them with the Special Secret Pixie Spline Lube? More than 30000k ? If you're real lucky its just stripped the splines out of the clutch centre. Maybe a $2000 job if you get it done by a BMW dealership ($300 if you do it yourself). If you're unlucky, the gearbox input shaft is toast. Sell the house and y' wife and daughters.

60 years BMW have been making bikes with dry plate clutches, and they STILL haven't got the splines sorted. Every car on the road nowdays has a single plate dry clutch with splines (No I don't want to know about your Austin 16/6) . Not one of them EVER needs its splines lubed with Secret Pixie Spline Lube every year. Mr Motu, are you listening?

[merv]

Well my faith in the legendary reliability of BMWs took a massive hit yesterday!!!

Oh OK, I'd never heard of that legend before, not even with their cars.

Hitler was right surely LoL!!

[Swoop]

Have you not paid any attention to the fifty million repost's of Hitler's "the wrong bike"?
"A fucking BMW" "I might as well walk"...
Hitler knew what he was on about, perhaps...



Good on the rescue crew! Top work to all involved.

[MaxB]

The reliability myth of BMWs comes from the airheads. BMW have been quick to trade off that in selling the modern stuff. It may be interesting to note that in the 70s the big Beemers cost nearly double the price of an equivalent Jap bike. Today that gap has closed so that most of the range is in the $20-30k bracket right alongside the equivalent Jappas.

They will still do huge kays but they have to be looked after and if they are left alone like a Jap bike they will break. I know 2 riders overseas who have over 250000 miles on their Beemers (an R65 and a K100RS) and they still look like new. But they are 'hands on' guys and are prepared to fix things as they need to.

Sometimes I wonder what kind of rider BMW have in mind to buy their new bikes.

[gijoe1313]

BMW = Bike might work? Jeez sounds like a trial of the ages, good to hear plan B and C and D all worked out!

I hope the report from the mechanic doesn't go the size of a telephone directory!

Nice writeup, pity about the bike!

[gunnyrob]

[QUOTE=Ixion;1557127]Your splines are fucked. How long since you lubed them with the Special Secret Pixie Spline Lube? More than 30000k ? If you're real lucky its just stripped the splines out of the clutch centre. Maybe a $2000 job if you get it done by a BMW dealership ($300 if you do it yourself). If you're unlucky, the gearbox input shaft is toast. Sell the house and y' wife and daughters. QUOTE]

well I'm fucked then....

Bike has been maintained as per service guide, so wasn't expecting shite like this. At least I wasn't in deepest darkest ouagadougou being chased by hoop snakes.

[Taz]

What mileage has the 1200 done? My 1100GS is up to 114000k's now with no major issues (so far) But now it's run in that might change.....

[Swoop]

BMW = Bike might work?

Close. Rastafarians like to steal them because they believe BMW stands for Bob Marley and the Wailers...

[Forest]

What mileage has the 1200 done? My 1100GS is up to 114000k's now with no major issues (so far) But now it's run in that might change.....

I once hired an 1100GS in Australia for the weekend. It had around 224,000 on the clock.

[oldrider]

Takes a lot of bottle for a BMW owner to write such a frank and readable report like that!

I hope your repair costs are not excessive.

Great reading about all the goodwill in getting you home too.

I was quite taken with those R 1200 GS's when they came out but I was mostly attracted to their huge tank. (not meant as a piss take)

Your story reminds me of why I went for the Tiger, half the price and twice the reliability! (Well, Tiger riders say that anyway!)

Good thread, posts and story. Cheers John.

[Bonez]

Rob may I recommend a unloved 20 year old Honda as a replacement M/C With a chain even.

All makes have those bikes that have duff components. Being able to laugh off little dramas like this one is half the fun of motorcycling ah bro?

[Guided_monkey]

Go the German technology.........

So that's you off the road for a wee while.

[Bonez]

I forgot to mention you meet the nicest folk on the Napier-Taihapi road .

[Krayy]

One thing we forgot to mention was the shear space inside Frosty's van.

All the way down I had visions of us removing mirrors, the windshield and pack racks to get the monster in (the R1200GS is frickin' HUGE), but it went in no dramas at all.

There was a couple of hairy moments getting 300kg of bike up the portable ramp that was bending like a willow in a storm, but aside from that (and the bike falling over in the van just before the Bombays), happy as.

P.S. I wouldn't fancy gettng the 1200GS Adventure in though, or a Goldwing.