2010 R2010GSA - 600km from full tank every time
I have just booked my bike in for its 120 000km service.
Mense!!! What a ride.
I will have had it for three years on the 12th May.
I bought it at 3 500km.
I am amazed that I am getting 600km every time I fill up since the last 110 000 km servce.
In fact, I target a garage at just before the 600km mark on the odometer.
Then they fill up 34 to 34.5 litres.
If I drove a bit hard, then 35 litres does the job.
When I stick to only sub 110Kph, then its 33 or just under.
I never could get this mileage at 80 000 or even 90 000 kms.
Totally amazing.
Or as the Jokkie at the pump says "Joh Joh Joh Joh Joh. Haibo!"
Wow, 120k km in 3 years is a lot of riding! You must do a lot of trips.
50% is commuting Mon to Fri.
15% is on pro bono volunteer business NSRI, AMS, ASR, BMW (wife argues its closer to 20%)
40% is off tar - day rides, overnight rides, 7 day and 12 day trips.
Every minute is great fun.
My map book is now looking liema kid coloured on all the roads, but there is still thousands of roads unridden beckonning us and many more rugently asking to be re ridden again and again.
I must have marked territory in many thousands of places between Aghulas and Windhoek, Velledrif en Durban.
5 services a year,
3 to 4 set sof tyres a year.
New helmet and gloves every 18 months (±70 000 km on a helmet and gloves)
And a mix of three jackets and pants worn on rotation or according to ride-profile and buying new jacket/pants when they wear out totally.
3 pairs of boots on hand at any one time and replaced when they really fall apart. (1 x step-outs, 1 x water proof day boots, 1 x offroad adventure boots)
I set of ear plugs every ±6 months or so.
New Bluetooth headset every ±4 years.
New feather every 6 weeks or less.
one full tank every 600 kilometres
I have only put in oil (500mm a time) ±4 times on this bike between services!!!
NO ANTI FREEZE,
NO COOLANT WATER,
NO FRONT SPROCKETs,
NO CHAINs,
NO REAR SPROCKETs,
NO CANS OF CHAIN WAX,
NO DIRTY HANDS.
AND THE SAME FREEDOM AND STRESS FREE RIDE FEEL AS I HAVE HAD AFTER MY VASECTOMY 28 YEARS AGO. NO ANXIETIES!!
And in 120 000 kms, I think I'v eonly picked this bike up ten times, give or take one or two.
Never made contact with another road vehicle.
I wear this bike every day, come rain, snow, wind, shine, day or night, fog or clear, I have never yet encountered a reason not to ride the bike, or take the car except when the load volume after retail therapy is too big to secure on the bike. (but thats where my first wife comes in as logistics support)
Those stats are nearly as impressive as your kiss last night!
However, I distinctly remember that you burned out a clutch the other day and replaced it yourself.
First, it was due to a towing episode in the earlier part of 2014:
http://bmwmotorcycleclubcape.co.za/tech-torque-clutch-plat-replacement-open-heart-surgery-home-r1200gsa
Are you saying you didn't get your hands dirty during that little exercise?
Then, on your Baviaans trip at the end of the same year you wore out the clutch again! Makes chain-wax seem not so bad hey?
Don't worry - Neil Terry called me out on the amount of time I spend maintaining Mr. Badger when I was convinced the bike gives far less trouble than newer models. I mean, just the other day I had to have the throttle-body rebuilt...
Awesome stats Andy! My bike is on 60 000 now, without missing a beat. Lots of off road, but not enough! Longest trip was to Tanzania last year. 8700 km in one go - 13 days. Is there a match
Mitas07 and Karoo3 almost 20 000km and still good to go! Funny though my handlebar grips are about to go. Maybe gripping to tight. Reason might be commuting from Strand to Cape Town......
Leon Leon Leon, go to Sportsmans warehouse, buy a set of cricket bat grips.
go home, open a beer, cut the grips to size and slide them over your exisitng grips.
There's a bit of a trick to this, mind you.
These sacrificial hand grips will increase the dims of you grips slighty of course but iwhtin tow bike rides you are accustomed to them.
They can be renewed time n again at under sixcty rond.
In all you all, go out do this. 'specially if you have a new bike, so's you can keep your actual grips virgin and new for when you sell your bike.
all you all on 800's do this as when you do grow up and get the 1200 your grips at least will help make your bike look great for the sucker who buys it from you, who will anyway graduate to the 1200 when their testosterone levels subside.
Charlie,
You ol bugger you!
I never got my hands dirty changing chains n sprockets and checking water.
As for the clutches.
Both were my own stupid fault and nothing to do with the BMW bike or the model.
Out in the cuds, I allowed my good friend and saviour to tow me while in gear with clutch held in and destroyed my clutch this way after about 5 kiolometres.
The recent Baviaans was because I replaced the destroyed clutch on the cheap with a clutch from an 1150 witout realising the diameters were different and it was smaller.
So all the time I only had half a clutch. It just happened to wear down while we were on campaign, but I survived by riding smoothly and lived to tell the tale
I went to a specialist but he told me there are no pills for such stupidity
However, the downtime was just two days both times and I'm getting more range after 120 000 kilometers than I ever did at 50 000 kms.
Amazing stuff.
Stop it!
I like it!
Leon Leon Leon, go to Sportsmans warehouse, buy a set of cricket bat grips.
go home, open a beer, cut the grips to size and slide them over your exisitng grips.
Thx for the tip Andy!! Dont suppose I have to wait for the cricket bat grips before I can open a cold one 
cut the grips to size and slide them over your exisitng grips.
There's a bit of a trick to this, mind you.
Ek het myne onlangs gedoen.
Ek het gehoor jy kan dit doen met saamgepersde lug ---- druk die een punt van die rubber oor die handgreep, blaas lug by die vry ent in en blaas die rubber so bietjie op. Dan skuif die nuwe rubber glo heel maklik oor.
Ek het probeer met geen sukses.
Wat gewerk het: sny die regte lengte nuwe rubber, gooi klomp babapoeier in sy keel af en skuif die nuwe rubber oor. Dan LW! sodra die nuwe rubber mooi in plek is, rol eenkant terug en maak die poeier mooi weg (ek het spirits gebruik). Rol weer plat en doen die ander punt. As jy die poeier nie uithaal nie kan die nuwe rubber maklik skuif op die ou handgreep.
Die rede hoekom ek dit gedoen het : Met die baie muis-werk by die kantoor het ek handpyne begin kry, wat erger was elke keer as ek GK ry. Ek het met diker grepe ge-eksperimenteer en gevind my hand het nie meer seer geraak nie op die Fiets. Afgelope Desember het ek 4000km getoer sonder enige pyn.
Die verskil in dikte is eintlik bitter min --- beswaarlik voelbaar.
I have just booked my bike in for its 120 000km service.
Mense!!! What a ride.
I will have had it for three years on the 12th May.
I bought it at 3 500km.
I am amazed that I am getting 600km every time I fill up since the last 110 000 km servce.
In fact, I target a garage at just before the 600km mark on the odometer.
Then they fill up 34 to 34.5 litres.
If I drove a bit hard, then 35 litres does the job.
When I stick to only sub 110Kph, then its 33 or just under.
I never could get this mileage at 80 000 or even 90 000 kms.
Totally amazing.
Or as the Jokkie at the pump says "Joh Joh Joh Joh Joh. Haibo!"
Since you pass me some mornings while I am driving to the office along the N2 from Somerset West, when is that you stick to the steady 110km?
Hi,
I've replacedy twice already 
... happens when you hang on too tight.
Found easiest way is to either use quick start or petrol to just slide it replacements on... the quickstart or petrol evaporates in no time and you're good to go 
S'true... I've seen him do steady 110... for at least 30 metres once
Leon Leon Leon, go to Sportsmans warehouse, buy a set of cricket bat grips.
go home, open a beer, cut the grips to size and slide them over your exisitng grips.
There is a technique the cricket boys use.
Google it on YT, using a plastic bag, works for most people.
Salim, I dont like the petrol technique...
a. Petrolchemicals on rubber that needs to last long is not advisble
b. I dont think evaporates is the correct word . . . I think most of the trapped petrol soaks into the rubber and stays there for a very long time, chewing away part of the life of the rubber.
c. Once the petrol "evaporates", you cannot move the new grip anymore.
The baby powder and plastic bag methods are safe and effective.
Hi,
I've replacedy twice already ... happens when you hang on too tight.
Found easiest way is to either use quick start or petrol to just slide it replacements on... the quickstart or petrol evaporates in no time and you're good to go
salim, yours is the method ive used for ever - works beeootifully.
kameel, if you are worried about this, then try methylated spirits, it is practically rubber-friendly in this case and works just as well
Okey, meths sounds much better than petrol.
I take note, thanks.
Brillaint tip! and classic comment re: the 800 too. This was exactly my path :)
Danie, ek het 'n klompie jaar gelede 'n spoedbeheer stelseltjie opgesit wat met friksie werk. Ek is seker jy ken dit. Dit het sy beperkinge , maar op toer is dit fantasties want jy kan jou hand van tyd tot tyd (heeltemal) laat rus. Mens kan dit ook so 3/4 vasdraai, dan is die stremming op jou regterhand net soveel minder, al hou jy dit op die versneller... en toe ek die fiets verkoop (2007-model) kon ek dit natuurlik na die nuwe fiets (2012-model) oordra. Vir gewone daaglikse werktoery is dit mos ook nie eintlik nodig om te gebruik nie. Moeite werd!
Hi Andy, the stats are quite incredible and fantastic to hear. How would you say does the cost per km compare to that of a car - that is running and total? Purely interesting, because many other factors come into, play I know...
JaKOBUS,
Mean time I am now on 170 000km.
i work on R2.66 per kilometre. cost to operate a bike of 1200cc
somewhere I have a spreadsheet with the calculations.
This factors in the depreciation, insurance, W&T on gear, helmets, gloves , boots, etc etc.
I'll try find it sometime if I remember
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