First ride

[Sausages1212]

Had my first ride out yesterday. Took my 17 year old son as pillion .overall, I love the bike. The engine is stunning! Brakes are great. Few early gripes- my small hands struggled to reach the clutch so might look at getting a different lever!
Engine was a bit lumpy up to 3000 revs
I don’t ride hard but know it’s due a service so might see if the balance is slightly out somewhere!.Didn’t realise about the suspension for two up until I noticed a mark on the rear hugger. Think it bottomed out over a bump in a cat park
Apart from that, love it

[wessie]

How's the cat?

[Antares]

Originally Posted by wessie

How's the cat?

 

[runnerhiker]

Welcome, enjoy, great bike.

I had the same experience as you with the clutch lever.  Do not get the BMW HP, too little adjustability, they won't be much closer to the grips.  A $250 lesson for me.  I bought the Synto clutch lever, it works very well but I had to "adjust" it - it uses a little lever as the action to adjust the reach, this little lever touches the bright beam paddle when I pulled the clutch, I used a Dremel tool to cut off this lever.

In the picture I posted in this thread the little lever is still intact
https://www.s1000xr.uk/index.php/topic,4422.msg39422.html#msg39422

[Deano747]

Same gripe re the clutch lever - asked the BMW guys at the 1st service to adjust it and the response was "Don't". Get used to it.

Engine isn't great below 3,000 rpm particularly when cold. Don't know if you ever had hotted up cars as a youth, you know, with shaved heads, cams etc, well they never ran well below about 3,000 rpm either. Treat this bike the same.

Enjoy,

[Antares]

Originally Posted by Deano747

Same gripe re the clutch lever - asked the BMW guys at the 1st service to adjust it and the response was "Don't". Get used to it.

Engine isn't great below 3,000 rpm particularly when cold. Don't know if you ever had hotted up cars as a youth, you know, with shaved heads, cams etc, well they never ran well below about 3,000 rpm either. Treat this bike the same.

Enjoy,

Not sure why you'd ever really wanna be below 3k on a bike like this but I get what you're saying, it is lumpy as hell when in crawling traffic unless you get a tune.

[Warree]

RapidbikeEvo/Racing made a massive improvement on my Gen1. 

[Winger]

Always viewed my X/R as the best starting point i’ve Ever had on a bike, BM just like all other manufacturers have to jump through hoops to get the bike through the TUV, as punters it’s not something we have to suffer, it requires a few bob and getting off ones arse...but there’s certainly another bike to had that is for sure.


Just fired mine up along with others...it’s been stood for some weeks with the crap weather and it ran as sweet as ever.

[Benhur]

So Winger

What are the mods you have on yours?

R

[Winger]

Plenty of info about mine on here already just do a search, bumped up one of many threads on here about the same subject with multiple solutions, most important is understanding the TUV Test who/where (rev wise)they do it and getting around it.