She has 49k km (30k miles) showing and cost 3,500€ (£3k give or take) which both seem about right by condition.
The 2004 F650GS I owned in Spain some years ago was affectionately known as the Donkey due to it's ability to just keep plodding along even over bad surfaces. Il-ħmar is Maltese for the same.
It's hit the expensive pages of the Farkles catalogue pretty hard at some point, and comes with all that: Givi topbox rack (Monokey, my existing box is a Monolock of course) and big screen; Hepco&Becker headlight grille; SW motech crash bars, pannier rack, bash plate, and footpegs; TRW alloy handlebar; Shad e-48 side bags; Garmin with charging cradle; factory BMW hot grips (yes, in Malta) and brush guards.
The ride home suggested it was a dog... Turns out there weren't but 10psi's in each tyre, the rear preload was fully unwound, the forks are dropped @20mm in the yokes (I knew about that one), and it has bad neck bearings.
I checked the neck bearings in the seller's garage before buying it and told myself they were ok, but no, they're goosed. They're a frequent failure point on these bikes, likely because they are surrounded by the oil tank which gets pretty hot. I'll get new bearings and give high temperature grease a go, unless anyone knows a reason not to?
First job after getting home was to fit a couple of m8 bolts where the panniers, rack, and frame meet by the number plate as they were missing. They seem to have been for a while as one of the parts has rubbed away the corner of the metal number plate. That's now all secure, but one of the 6 countersunk screws holding the monokey plate on is rounded out. Will have to drill that out to try and fit my monolock plate.
Next up figure out why the left bar end wasn't secure. Both were held in by hex bolts whacked into the aluminium washer where a cap screw should be a close fit, both using metal expanding plugs in the handlebars to hold the assembly. The left one had failed, a bent screw suggests the cause of failure. I've put it back the same but with cap screws, I could use some with full threads or a little shorter as they're bottoming out of threads before the plug is fully expanded.
At some point it's lost a loom clip off the brake pedal switch, which has let the wires come loose and get into the chain. The wires have been repaired, but it ain't pretty and absolutely nothing was done to prevent a repeat performance. Even if it's just adding a zip tie, I need to do something there.
Not sure what else after that. Possibly something to make it fart a little bit louder (might endear the engine to me a bit more), maybe some different fork springs. Probably remove the side rails and sell those and the bags, as I won't use them. We'll see as I put some km's on it!
