added after each point with "RESPONSE"
- RESPONSE hideous disaster on all BMWs, yet on a 1200 Tiger its brilliant. So good I went back and turned on in the menus as it didn't offend meI went form an 06 hexhead to a 16 wethead
The quickshift is interesting
- RESPONSE I never knew there were supposed to be stiff, my air cooled is exactly the same as my brand new LC was. But the lever on the later bikes are a nasty offensive shape when they were perfect on the air cooled bikeThe clutch is light as a feather, compared to the old version
- RESPONSE the air cooled bikes had it right, not used BM TFT but the idea in general is offensiveThe new dash is nice and modern, but designed by a child who worked on the maxim cram in everything
- RESPONSE buy a budget one then fit aftermarket shocks, would be much better, but a bit of a pain if you regularly do one up vs two up tripsSuspension, ESA
- RESPONSE I didn't keep my LC long enough to noticeLights
- RESPONSE steering dampers tend to make in traffic manoeuvring and mini roundabouts a horrible experience. But it was never an issue on my GSA LC, you didn't ever notice it was fitted. Unlike a KTM. It was fitted to the Adventure LC from launch as it runs steeper geometry to cope with mass / off roading, but retrofitted to all std GS' to resolve a dangerous instability issue. Check out the damage on the BIKE magazine launch were they hit a small pothole in South Africa at 70mph and it set off a lock stop to lock stop tank slapper that smashed the bike to bits... he didn't come off but the bike was a write off (severity of damage) and the whole launch event was scrapped for everybody. Not helped by he unusual crash that killed the other UK journalist (which might have also been a high speed wobble that caused the rider in front to fall off)Steering damper? makes it ponderous and slow at low speeds
- RESPONSE never noticed (try the triumph 1200 tiger feels very much like a r1200GS air cooled)Bars? Why put the bars low and forward, all the weight is on your wrists, so you get killed by the vibes
- RESPONSE fully aligned BMW have zero understanding how to do a screen, so noisy, so much turbulence they should be illegal. They must be some of the worst on any bike in history... (although the current k1600 GT gets is right, nearly fell off in shock)Screen, lets put a sports screen on an adventure bike