I have a lovely 2006 in red f650gs for sale, reasonable condition, few scratches, just over 10000 miles on the clock, taxed till dec 2010, mot until aug 2011, has heated grips, hand guards, new tyres front and back,scorpion exhaust, looking for £2750 ono,

Ok just got the F650 home and I must say I was well impressed with the engine on the trip home. A1M and M25 was a lot easier than I thought, the engine is a real corker :thumb: However I was told it had been lowered by bmw on first purchase, so it may have been but its had the fork seals...

Hi After four years I have decided that I wanted to do some more touring and bought myself another bike and traded in my BMW F650ST. I know that I will miss it but the new bike has other advantages. I will still keep an eye on this site and want to say thank you for putting up with me here...

As I have had bikes all my life I have (as far as time and practicality) done all my own maintenance. On my F650 97 I have stripped and serviced the cooling system, rear bearings, front bearings, exhaust front pipes (oh why do BMW still go for mild steel bolts on stainless fittings), carb strip...

Opening message to moderator: I dont know if this will be permitted, but I have posted it here due to the severity of the IT threat. Ian Hi guys, Most of us get ‘virus warnings’ and can be a bit non-committal about it as its not something that has happened to any one we know ( a basic human...

A bloke at work has made a chain oiler out of a push soap dispenser bottle a length of clear tubing and a y connecter from a car window wash. He has strapped it to the frame with cable ties and presses it once about every 50 miles. the tube has a breather on it utilising the y connecter he has...

Hey guys, As previously mentioned I've now finished making my own large panniers for my 650. Have a look at the pics, it cost me all in all about £100 and about 3 hours work. I cut sheets of ali to size, bent it then riveted the lot together I also riveted handles to the top and draw lock...

Hello and Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and all the Very Best of Luck for 2008. In brief, I'm coming home in February to visit the oldies and will be trying to buy all the things that I canna buy over here. Oil seals, spark plugs, filters, bulbs, probably a chain and sprocket set and some...

Well I spent a glorious weekend in the garage stripping the bike and doing an oil change, new filters, fettled the chain and spruced the bike up after some horrible winter riding over the past month. Lovely. And then I tried to change the spark plug :scratch: How the flip do you get to it...

Just trying to figure something out, and wonder if anyone knows Does the GS have a 'basic' version it can drop into to 'get you home' if something isnt quite right with the bike?

:riding: I've got my Rosie back :-D Got a call from Pidcocks on Monday morning to let me know that she was ready to collect, so yesterday morning I arranged to get into work a bit later and went and collected her. She has had, amongst other things, new headlamp unit and cowling, new left...

Hi All, Well it didn't go as smoothly as I'd hoped but the forums are now on the new server and seem to be running OK. I've got some posts to tidy up and remove some references to the old site which I'll do over the next few days. Sorry the site's been unavailable on and off over the last 24...

Obviously so Pondboy doesn't feel alone, in a totally unselfish act, some kind souled womand decided she should take me off my bike this morning. I had just left the hotel i was staying in, and got no farther than 20 yards down the road, when said good hearted lady decided to turn in across...

Did a silly this morning and dropped my bike on a mid corner manhole cover. A couple of scrapes and three broken ribs. Bike has minor damage on the left side. Bollocks PB :doh: PS from Pondgirl, He's in shed loads of pain and needs much sympathy. Any of you got some??

Excellent read if you get chance ... Adventure on an F650GS Dakar and ii50GS Adventure. http://www.adventure.gs/index.htm

So it`s Friday night, better half is going out and the Granny has the children for a few hours, mmm what to do ? I took a ride out to Kinlochleven, about 18 miles and then up the hill onto the old drovers trail. I have done this run once before without a camera, the scenery was superb. I lost...