Been meaning to post this for ages. Was in France this summer with Stolzy. Both of us on 1150 GSAs. Noise emanating from gearbox area but all working fine. Called in at BWW dealer in Besancon who took a listen and reckoned it would get me home OK and wasn't a bearing. It was much more of a rattle than a rumble. Cut a long story short involving breakdown 40 miles form base, strong smell of disintegrating clutch, relay at 1.00am, hire cars and then about 3 weeks to get the bike back to UK (AA relay cocked up!) got it delivered to Steptoe. Whole thing seized up and what we expected was a completely shot gearbox turned out to be the bearing on input end of the intermediate shaft. Fortunately ring on the fly wheel and everything else OK. Steptoe done brilliant job sorting it out and looking forward to meeting the man himself when I pick it up ASAP and ride it back to Herefordshire.
Bike is 4 years old has only done 26k miles, dealer serviced (suspect I may be giving this job to Steptoe from now on). Guess its just bad luck but anyone else had similar?
PS Not a nice feeling when you're riding along, change down to 5th and the whole thing locks up when you let the clutch out!
Bike is 4 years old has only done 26k miles, dealer serviced (suspect I may be giving this job to Steptoe from now on). Guess its just bad luck but anyone else had similar?
PS Not a nice feeling when you're riding along, change down to 5th and the whole thing locks up when you let the clutch out!