Motors Motorcycle Mayhem

Yeah, my colleague was doing that particular shuffle with his Triumph the last couple of weeks. He needed a new tyre too!

 

That's ironic - my colleague who's at the TT went out and bought a Yamaha Fazer to take out there because he couldn't get his Triumph Street Triple running in time .

 

I absolutely love my Pan European. It’s so smooth and powerful, it’s absolutely glued to the road when going round bends, and it just puts a big smile on my face every time I get on it, even when it’s hammering down with rain.

But god damn it's giving me some serious headaches right now...

Took it in for service & MOT today. The brake pads need doing so I gave them to go-ahead. Except they need to take the back wheel off to replace the brake pads, and to get the back wheel off means the exhaust cans have to come off.

I already knew the exhaust was rotten:

I even mentioned it this morning when I dropped the bike off. But I didn't know they'd need to take the cans off to do the brake pads... Soon as they started taking the cans off, the rotten fixtures and fittings gave way.

It could be "bodged" back together, but it would fail the MOT so I wouldn't be able to drive it home anyway - the exhaust needs fixing now. The garage wanted £711 for the pipes alone because they only use Honda OEM parts - that doesn't even include labour to fit the new pipes...

One emergency order of a full Delkevic exhaust system later and my wallet is now £529 lighter...



Their website claims they do next working day shipping for orders placed before 1pm; it should get here by Friday, meaning I should have time to belt back down to the garage to drop it off before the garage closes for the weekend... But I ordered about half an hour ago and I still haven't had an email confirmation, so that's not exactly a promising start...

 

PXL_20240624_095929325 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

Just under 6 hours in the saddle today, that's about my limit I reckon.

 

Did a damn full motorcycle service buying everything from BMW, but can I remove the "Bike needs a service notice from the screen" nope, guessing I'll have to fork out however much it cost for another service to get rid of the damn message.

Like there should be a option, "I've done the service" and reset the timer rather then like it to a specialist.

 

Or just google 'BMW 'insert model here' reset service light' and find a cable or dongle for less than 20 quid that lets you do it yourself.