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2006 BMW F650GS Asking: R 45,000 Model       : August 2006 mileage    : 36,500 km color         : Iceberg silver Extras       : Heated grips                  : ABS                  : Wide footpegs                  : Acerbis hand protectors                  : High screen                  ...

Hi all, I've got some serious chain problems, and since I'm still new to riding, I don't really know what to do next. In short, it looks like that the chain of my F650GS has gotten too loose somehow. The chain was fine on Friday morning, when I lubricated it before heading to the BMW...

Now I really think I was lucky to buy my bike March this year and have more than six dry months to practice... Now the Gauteng weather is getting serious and almost every time I ride back to Jozi from Pretoria during the last weeks I've been heading towards and eventually under those dark clouds...

Hi again. The process of learning by doing a bit by bit continues with my first bike. This time it is the matter of replacing a back tyre for my F 650 GS, and the forum has been very helpful resource. Initially I concluded that either the Tourance (or Anakee) would be the choice (I'm currently...

More newbie questions... After driving a cage for years I've learnt to more or less hear/feel the best times to shift the gears up/down. When it comes to my F650GS, the goal is to learn what is both economical and engine friendly gear shifting strategy. Found the following Gear Ratio...

After two months of having the bike I've been commuting to/from the office few times a week. Usually I ride very early in the morning and quite often return late in the evening. One of the big safety risk that I've noticed is that when I'm not on the highway, the visor tends to get foggy very...

I bought my first ever riding pants yesterday (BMW City Pants which are synthetic). When I was fitting different sizes, I finally choose the more comfortable M, which I usually wear, instead of the pretty tightly fitting S (which wouldn't allow me to gain much extra weight ;)). I was asking from...

Hi everyone, The list of questions is growing for this newbie, but I thought I'll start with this one first. Unfortunately I don't have a garage and the parking bay only half covers the bike next to my car. First thought was that I'll just go to one of the hardware stores, get some heavy duty...

Hi all, Ratel suggested me to follow carefully this forum, and also send a short into. The forum has already proven itself, since I saw Ratel's ad here and eventually bought the F650GS from him yesterday :) I'm literally very new to riding, this is my first bike ever, and I've literally spent...