What have you done to your BMW today?

[thanatos1224]

Helped a friend change his clutch, slave, clutch hose and clean/adjust his pivot bearings on his 04 R1150GS. Not bad, took 7 hours. His clutch disc was fried, and the pressure plate was definitely overheated at some point.

I'm curious how many miles that clutch had on it?

Something like 50K miles. It was very obviously abused at some point.

Jim

50K? Is that a normal thing for 50K?

[thanatos1224]

Well seeing it was a balming 30 degree yesterday I gave Gertrude a bath. Oh and ordered two tires, the rear is ready to be changed and the front is close too.

[JimVonBaden]

Helped a friend change his clutch, slave, clutch hose and clean/adjust his pivot bearings on his 04 R1150GS. Not bad, took 7 hours. His clutch disc was fried, and the pressure plate was definitely overheated at some point.

I'm curious how many miles that clutch had on it?

Something like 50K miles. It was very obviously abused at some point.

Jim

50K? Is that a normal thing for 50K?

No, it was abused.

[thanatos1224]

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Well seeing it was a balming 30 degree yesterday I gave Gertrude a bath. Oh and ordered two tires, the rear is ready to be changed and the front is close too.

So 3 hours of TLC later and Gertrude is wearing a new pair of tires. Decided to put the Michelin Road 5 Trails since I have had such good luck with the Michelin Pilot 4s. It was funny yesterday as I was coming out of the garage I could hear the squeaking from then-new rubber.

[mlytle]

complete spline lube on k1100rs

[thanatos1224]

complete spline lube on k1100rs

Well that beats me just putting on new tires

[mlytle]

Well that beats me just putting on new tires

my alternate caption was,
"dumped my entire tool box on the floor under a BMW"

[Henri2]

Installed my new carbon beak.

[thanatos1224]

That was an expensive piece of carbon!

[R4R&R]

No, it was abused.

I wasn't exactly "easy" on my R1150R clutch and it was still holding strong at 165k miles! Maybe my abuse wasn't as much, but I didn't baby it...

[bdimon]

I'm curious how many miles that clutch had on it?
Something like 50K miles. It was very obviously abused at some point.

Jim

I had my clutch replaced at 126,000 miles. I think that is long for a dry clutch. I use the friction zone all the time in traffic but I keep the revs low. I also try not to jump off the line from a stop.

[jcabiles]

In the two weeks since I picked up my ride from MOD:
- Transferred my Bead Rider from old to new.
- Installed two RAM Mounts onto the left handle bar for my phone and TomTom GPS
- Routed a charging cable under the Tupperware from the MOD installed pigtail to the RAM Mount
- Connected a male DIN plug to the TomTom charging cable
- Added a couple layers of thin foam sheet to the right grip to increase the diameter by about 1/4 inch. The thinner diameter stock grip was causing some cramping in my right hand. It feels much better now.