I'm Adam Smallman, former News Editor of MCN from 2000 years ago. Delighted to join this forum and swop knowledge.
Recently swopped my BMW S1000 XR (Park Lane demonstrator) for a privately owned 2013 S1000 RR as the former was very good but too heavy (back-end wallowing on Sport setting).
I'm glad I did.
The new (ish - 2,500 miles) bike is astonishing (just back from the Oliver's Mount races in Scarborough, all via back roads - can't recommend more highly the B1176 south of Old Somerby, Lincolnshire). Loving it. I've yet to buy a new motorcycle but both these BMWs are as close as I've got.
I sold a much-loved Honda SP-2 (regret it, of course) and Kawasaki ZX-6 track bike to buy the XR. I live by the rule of DAISNAID - do as I say, not as I do - which is lived out by failing to learn that using a chisel to turn the rear preload is certain to end, like political careers, in failure. Evidence of this will shortly be found on the tips and spannering areas of this forum.
I remain the surprisingly proud owner of a mongrel-looking GSX-R1000 K1 track bike - is it true the S1000 RR was originally benchmarked against the big GSX-R? - which, aside from a gearbox lifted from the wreck of an ocean liner, proved itself rather marvellous in Brno recently. The original owner was a spannerman at Bahnstormer in Alton who wisely fitted an S1000 RR shock. It works.
Keen to contribute on these topics and more if there's interest - how PCP has absolutely screwed the premium used bike market; why Arai's new RX7 is a step forward and a step back; the merits of London owners jointly buying a GS-991 diagnostic tool to remove fault codes and my curious experience of grudging, if not downright rude, after-sales service from unnamed BMW dealers.
Oof - that was a long intro.
Recently swopped my BMW S1000 XR (Park Lane demonstrator) for a privately owned 2013 S1000 RR as the former was very good but too heavy (back-end wallowing on Sport setting).
I'm glad I did.
The new (ish - 2,500 miles) bike is astonishing (just back from the Oliver's Mount races in Scarborough, all via back roads - can't recommend more highly the B1176 south of Old Somerby, Lincolnshire). Loving it. I've yet to buy a new motorcycle but both these BMWs are as close as I've got.
I sold a much-loved Honda SP-2 (regret it, of course) and Kawasaki ZX-6 track bike to buy the XR. I live by the rule of DAISNAID - do as I say, not as I do - which is lived out by failing to learn that using a chisel to turn the rear preload is certain to end, like political careers, in failure. Evidence of this will shortly be found on the tips and spannering areas of this forum.
I remain the surprisingly proud owner of a mongrel-looking GSX-R1000 K1 track bike - is it true the S1000 RR was originally benchmarked against the big GSX-R? - which, aside from a gearbox lifted from the wreck of an ocean liner, proved itself rather marvellous in Brno recently. The original owner was a spannerman at Bahnstormer in Alton who wisely fitted an S1000 RR shock. It works.
Keen to contribute on these topics and more if there's interest - how PCP has absolutely screwed the premium used bike market; why Arai's new RX7 is a step forward and a step back; the merits of London owners jointly buying a GS-991 diagnostic tool to remove fault codes and my curious experience of grudging, if not downright rude, after-sales service from unnamed BMW dealers.
Oof - that was a long intro.
