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The BMW Club Journal May 2013 £2.50 The BMW Club Journal May 2013 £2.50 2 TheBMWClubJournal•May2013 The Journal CONTENTS May 2013 The Official BMW Club within Regular/Occasional items the UK and Republic of Ireland From The Editor’s Desk .................4 www.thebmwclub.org.uk General Enquiries: 0800 0854045 Club Officers..........................6 FREEPOST: THE BMW CLUB The BMW Club is the Trading name of The B.M.W. Motorcycle Club Ltd; Registered in England; Registration Number 4261129 President’s Platform ....................7 whose Registered Office: c/o Veitch Penny LLP 1, Manor Court Dix’s Field Exeter Devon England EX1 1UP Torque Reaction .......................9 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The 2013 Mileage Trophy...............21 For problems regarding distribution of The Journal, please contact your Section Secretary. Should there still be a problem then contact the National Membership Secretary whose contact The 2013 National Rally ................23 details are listed on page 6. The Editor reserves the right to alter/amend any item or image German Jottings ......................31 submitted to The Journal. Such amendments will usually only be to make an item more readable or easier to understand. Submission of items/images will be taken as acceptance of this condition. Mutual Aid (Club member ads)...........75 We (The BMW Club) are the owner or licensee of all Intellectual Property rights in this publication. You may not copy or distribute its contents without the express written permission of ourselves Small Business Advertisments ...........79 or the original author. The BMW Club - Out and About .53 EDITORIAL TEAM Articles/Features Correspondence on any Journal matter not covered by the officers listed below should be sent Away with the Ferries ..................25 to the Editor who will forward it as appropriate. For general Club administration and membership matters please see the list of Club officers on Page 6. Obituaries ...........................34 Editor: Stewart Lowthian, 29 Wagg Street, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 4BA. A Valuable Contribution ................38 01260 279 126 [email protected] Features/Articles: Peter Wright. New Water-Cooled R1200GS Road Test ...45 [email protected] DISCLAIMER Torque Reaction: Paul Nadin, 49 Berkshire Drive, The BMW Club Journal accepts for publication articles and letters written in good faith; however, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 1SB. 01260 279 443 the views expressed in articles and letters which are published are not necessarily those of the [email protected] Editor of The Journal or those of The BMW Club or its officers or members. The information, including advice and suggested modifications published in the The BMW Mutual Aid: Maurice Weldon, 21 Lawnwood Drive, Club Journal has not been approved, tested or otherwise checked by The BMW Club Journal Goldthorpe, Rotherham, South Yorkshire S63 9GD or The BMW Club. Before acting on information, advice or suggested modifications published 07752 904 334 [email protected] in The BMW Club Journal you should always obtain technical advice, and if appropriate have a professional motorcycle engineer carry out the work for you. Commercial Display Advertisements: Jim Bruce, The BMW Club Journal and The BMW Club cannot accept liability for any loss, damage or The Firs, Bayview Crescent, Broadford, Isle of claims occurring as a result of any modifications or work or other action carried out on the Skye IV49 9DB 01471 820 408 advice or based on the suggestions given in any article or letter published in The BMW Club [email protected] Journal and (save for death or personal injury arising from The BMW Club Journal’s negligence) all such liability is hereby excluded. Small Business Advertisements: Charles Knight, The BMW Club Journal is published for and on behalf of The B.M.W. Motorcycle Club Ltd. 4 Homelands, New Road, Porchfield, Isle of Wight, The BMW Motorcycle Club Ltd, The BMW Club Journal, it’s Editor and Officers accept PO30 4LS ,01983 520 847 no liability in respect of loss or damage occasioned directly or indirectly as a result of the 07521 695 992 [email protected] publication of any advertisement in The BMW Club Journal or Website. Section News: Steve Foreman 01536 722 048 [email protected] This month’s cover photo shows Dave Diary of Events: Bob Barker. Ensor’s rented R1200GS overlooking the [email protected] Southern Ocean in New Zealand with a Around The Compass: Bob Barker (see above). paraglider pilot coming in for a closer Club/Section Display Ads: Piers Kurrein. [email protected] look. TheBMWClubJournal•May2013 3 From The Editor’s Desk This month’s timing is not the cheapest one available but a joy to use, fitting the filter perfectly and removing it Nothing to do with setting up contact breakers, without tears. The oil (I’m using the currently- but when this edition went to the printers. It recommended Castrol 10W50) came from went three days before the www.moto-oil.co.uk who AGM, which means that were recommended by at least some of it is now member Pete Fisher in last out-of-date. I wondered month’s Torque Reaction. whether to jump the gun Gearbox oil is even easier to and update page 6 with the change but the final drive names of candidates who proved more entertaining. were standing unopposed Mine was replaced some and was advised not to. years ago and has a drain The June edition, which plug where I would expect will also contain the to find it so getting the old next Vintage and Classic oil out was easy enough Register Newsletter, will list everyone elected. but taking the rear wheel off then wriggling out the ABS sensor to refill with a syringe (a Tinkering 60ml lamb feeder from the local vet’s practice) was needlessly difficult. I know that they were Following on from mentioning contact initially supposed to be filled for life but if breakers, I’ve been wondering of late what the mine was anything to go by, life didn’t mean benefit of paying a dealer the best part of £80 what we would hope it to mean. per hour to change oils and filters was, and The benefit of doing things myself is that I reached the conclusion that there wasn’t any. crawl all over the motorcycle looking closely at I used to maintain my 60’s Triumph twins things that might otherwise go un-noticed. So myself, and my 90’s Triumph triples once they far nothing untoward, apart from the slightly were out of warranty, so why not the GS?. It rounded bolt head mentioned earlier, has actually requires very little servicing so why come to light. As I do more maintenance work not do it myself?. The sumpguard comes off myself I’m beginning to see why BMW has with two nuts and a bolt (with the head slightly been associated with long-term ownership: rounded: why?) then out with the filler cap, applying the correct tool the right way round then the drain plug. The filter needs a special undoes things. No fuss, no drama: it just tool as it’s partly recessed and an old-fashioned works.Next on the list are the valve clearances chain wrench won’t get near it. I used the with the engine stone-cold, and they couldn’t one sent some time ago as a review sample really be easier to get at. No panels to remove, by Nippy Norman (www.nippynormans. no frame to wriggle a cam cover past, they’re com then search for WUN-5524021) which there in front of me. After that it’s throttle 4 TheBMWClubJournal•May2013 body balancing which requires tools I don’t Club Forum Registration have so, when the time comes, an email to Mike Delacoe (the Club’s Tool Hire secretary) This is a plea for all paid up members to check will be in order. and see if that, when they joined the club they provided their full name and not just an An uncomfortable downside initial and a surname. You would be surprised how many times this happens. In some cases, One of the things I never thought about especially with online membership they just when accepting the invitation to edit The give an initial and a last name, or in some cases Journal was the printing of obituaries. I can’t a first name only. This is an annual problem remember a single one appearing before I which has to be addressed when I change the was appointed. It’s proved to be the most status of lapsed club members on the forum challenging aspect of the job in that even from ‘Club Member’ to ‘Forum Member’. though they commemorated people I didn’t Normally this is not a great problem if I have know, it’s still upsetting to think of their all the information, but if the full name is families and friends at a time of bereavement. not provided when you join both the club This month is not a good one for obituaries. and the forum, if the time comes to change There’s one for someone I didn’t know, one for the status, then the person who doesn’t give a someone whose name I knew and now two for full name cannot be clearly identified, which people I did know, albeit not as well as I’d have means this may result in the wrong person liked to. being ‘demoted’ as it were. Or, in the case When I inherited The Journal from of a doubtful identity, that person will not Martin Ellis I wondered what I’d let myself in be ‘demoted’ so will still be able to access for. I’d never used a desktop publishing system sections of the forum to which he/she is no before.
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