Well after selling my bike due to illness last year I thought it was time to get back on a bike.
I decided it was not worth spending a lot of money on a new bike until I know my illness is
fully under control, so when this BMW F800GT came my way I snapped it up.
Its a 2013 model which has been sat in a garage unused since 2015, 1700 miles its like new.
New battery fitted , fresh fuel and a new MOT today .
Dodgy knees wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 10:27 am
Do the belts have a kind of spring tensioner or is slack built in. ??
I can't remember exactly how the F800s do it - but normally there's a tensioner jockey wheel somewhere.
(the only other way around that would be to have the swing-arm pivot exactly in line with the output shaft of the gearbox - but I don't think anyone's yet bothered to do that on belt drive bikes - you see it sometimes on some chain driven bikes).
Dodgy knees wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 10:27 am
Do the belts have a kind of spring tensioner or is slack built in. ??
Seems you just have to set the belt tension to the required amount on the centre stand, the belt will tighten
slightly as the suspension moves so its important to use the correct tensioner tool.
There are no roller type auto tensioners.
kendo57 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:26 pm
Well after selling my bike due to illness last year I thought it was time to get back on a bike.
I decided it was not worth spending a lot of money on a new bike until I know my illness is
fully under control, so when this BMW F800GT came my way I snapped it up.
Its a 2013 model which has been sat in a garage unused since 2015, 1700 miles its like new.
New battery fitted , fresh fuel and a new MOT today .
I'd have expected you to design and build a bike from the ground up,rather than buying one.
Looks in great order,essentially a new bike without the pain of depreciation.
kendo57 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:26 pm
Well after selling my bike due to illness last year I thought it was time to get back on a bike.
I decided it was not worth spending a lot of money on a new bike until I know my illness is
fully under control, so when this BMW F800GT came my way I snapped it up.
Its a 2013 model which has been sat in a garage unused since 2015, 1700 miles its like new.
New battery fitted , fresh fuel and a new MOT today .
I'd have expected you to design and build a bike from the ground up,rather than buying one.
Speaking of building bikes from scratch who was it that was building a frame a couple of years ago?
kendo57 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:26 pm
Well after selling my bike due to illness last year I thought it was time to get back on a bike.
I decided it was not worth spending a lot of money on a new bike until I know my illness is
fully under control, so when this BMW F800GT came my way I snapped it up.
Its a 2013 model which has been sat in a garage unused since 2015, 1700 miles its like new.
New battery fitted , fresh fuel and a new MOT today .
I'd have expected you to design and build a bike from the ground up,rather than buying one.
Speaking of building bikes from scratch who was it that was building a frame a couple of years ago?
Did it ever get finished?
We need to know.
Erizo? Not sure we ever saw the finished job though?
I imagine they've improved it since then.
