Were you happier with the suspension on your GS or did you upgrade them too? Thought the 1190 suspension is better than GS suspension?
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I have actually not given this a thought.....
I had a 2008 GS and a 2011 GSA, both with ESA, not upgraded. I would rate the 1190 suspension better than the GS but not really when compared to the GSA suspension. The same travel but they don't bottom so easily and also I have never thought they required upgrading, on whoops/high speed bumps the 1190 rear already warned me they are not managing to well. But let me not take away from the 1190, I am a noob. ESA has spoiled me, and the characters of these bikes are hugely different. While the GS/A felt solid like a cruising battleship/hippo the 1190 is much more agile and lively.
Then also, my GS I did a lot of heavily loaded and pillion offroading, and until getting the GSA never felt that the suspension required upgrading either. Both these BMWs took not only harder knocks but I would guess 5 times (if not more) more abuse than my 1190 and they were fine. Granted, stanchion on GSA also started leaking oil, some creativity sorted that. (But I am yet to see a bike as hard worked as that bike was.)
Superfoxi will be picking up the 1190 shocks today! His review of them will be interesting as I think the seals on all 3 went on one trip. the rear was also wet with oil when I packaged them.
Packaging I did at Postnet, basically a lot of bubble wrap and a lot of fragile stickers.
I also got my first quote on fixing the undertray and some extra goodies. Tinus mentioned that the undertray is R1400. THey quoted me R660 and is adamant its called the tail en lower piece. SO I have queried it with some photos for confirmation its the right item. Also need to replace the the bend top shock bolt. I hear some upgrade them but I am hoping the suspension upgrade will sort that out.
Other than that I still need to fix one plug on the ECU, and need to upgrade the stearing damper while it is stripped as well. But I am really struggling to put time in. Need to do a lot of cleaning also.
Groot trip beplan vir Augustus, sal my gat moet begin roer, wil nog dag trippies ook voor dan in werk.