The reasons for my upgrade are covered in other posts and I don't want to rehearse well vented issues about the warm start problem on the G650GS. A fix seems to be available so let's move on. Actually that is the question. Would you trade in your G650 and move on to an F800GS? I am assuming here...

i think my tyres are about done. in the forums opinion, what is the best choice in footwear? I never go off road ( unless i run out of it) and do very low miles. any thoughts or pearls of wisdom? :whistle:

The Metzeler Tourance is generally perceived to be the road/offroad tyre of choice for big traillies and is recommended by most. However for sometime now Wilbur has been shouting "Avon Distanzia". I still bought tourance. Well, in this months BIKE magazine there is a test of tyres for large...

Have just bought a 650 Dakar and just about to put some new tyres on. Would like to do about 50/50 on road and off road. I have been told the Conti TKC 80's are good but ware out quick. Has anybody used the Conti Escape tyres? if so are they any good? Thanks :-)

Close to tyre replacement time again, i've had Tourances in the past but for some reason i eat front tyres!! Test rode a new F650GS with whatever tyres they come with, and they felt much better around the corners, always felt the tourance was going to wash out on the front! So at the risk of...

I've had a quote for ?250 for just the labour on an 18k service, so I've been motiviated to have a go myself. It seems I've come a cropper at the first hurdle though as I haven't been able to find an oil that matches the classification in the BMW handbook. The Chain Gang Faqs recommend...

I'm looking for a new set of tyres for both on and off road, i've got the stock items on there at the minute but would like something with better performance off road, any ideas?

I have just purchased a second set of wheels for my 2001GS because I use the bike every day for work but want to get back into off-roading at weekends. I propose to fit some decent off road tyres to the second set of wheels. According to most write ups metzler Karoo's are better than TKC 80's...