What did you do to / ride to with your Beemer today?
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Yes, the flash stages are bike specific. What I pushed up Stage 2 on, was the XR. Here are the stages for the newest GS/GSA/RT models.
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Not today but Sunday I did a 6000 mile service of oil/filter change, valve check, and check of throttle body synch. Nothing was out of spec.
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Rode with better half on a 320 mile journey. Visited mother in law at assistance living. Went to Lavender farm. Ok. I can hear the ughs. Actually very cool. Just a great day to get the cost per use down 
Grip Puppies, Werks QuietFlow 22inch windshield, Ilium bars and Sportboards. AirFlow seat cover.
2022 R1250RT. Second one in 7 months. First one was destroyed by a Failure To Yield sled driver with less than a thousand miles on it.
2022 R1250RT. Second one in 7 months. First one was destroyed by a Failure To Yield sled driver with less than a thousand miles on it.
Dang, you ok?
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Decided to escape the heat in the swampland and head up to the VA mountains on Friday. Guess we go back Tuesday or....sometime....
Before we did, I decided to try installing a new Zumo XT on the original lockable BMW mount, and throw the Navigator 5 in the creek. The XT is not a direct fit at all into the original lockable BMW mount meant for a nav 5 or 6. A company in Italy 3D prints the adapter / new lock slide for the mount. The XT now locks in with the bike key perfectly.
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Before we did, I decided to try installing a new Zumo XT on the original lockable BMW mount, and throw the Navigator 5 in the creek. The XT is not a direct fit at all into the original lockable BMW mount meant for a nav 5 or 6. A company in Italy 3D prints the adapter / new lock slide for the mount. The XT now locks in with the bike key perfectly.
Link here
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What is so frustrating about the Nav 5?
It is my first motorcycle specific gps so I don’t have anything to compare it to but once I used it for a while I like it. When I first got it I selected some preferences that made it very annoying, the one that is most vivid in my memory is selecting curvy roads which resulted in the Nav guiding me through lots of subdivisions. Once I deselected that option it worked as expected. Mostly happy with it, a brighter screen wouldn’t hurt though.
Nav 4 was too dim in bright light and slow recalculating, Nav 5 was a big improvement. Nav 6 was a further improvement in everything but the touchscreen which degrades over time and sooner or later has "ghost" inputs. Garmin has been great replacing faulty Nav 6's, each time saying they've fixed the screen problem but 10-12 months later the problem reoccurs. Since 2016 I'm on my 4th replacement, the 5 has never had the touchscreen "ghost" input problem, that I've heard of and I would probably carry a 5 as backup.
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Short ride to lunch place with better half. Another short ride to ice cream. There’s always room for ice cream. Home a sitting on my a&& enjoying a beer in our garden. Life is good.
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YMMV:
Screen is God awful in ummm……daylight
Held battery power for only one day, even with a new battery, fully charged, and powered completely off
Touch screen vas very unreliable, specially using gloves. Worked about 50% of the time
Would reboot / freeze randomly for no reason
XT has a lot more features (Garmin Inreach integration is a big one, for me anyway.)
Other than that, it’s been a good GPS. Had it for 6 years.
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Was a nice day to hang around the house today, didn’t want to ride with all the folks heading back to home from the lake so I spent a couple of hours cleaning the bike. For a 140,000 km and it’s 11th season it cleaned up pretty well. Going in for new tires this week and then leaving for Newfoundland on the 13th.
Broken Sacrum. 4 months later I am pretty good and riding another new BMW. Wary.
Good, glad you're better now.
Swapped wheels. I have two sets. One with new or fairly new tires for touring. The other set of wheels has the more worn tires that still have life in them, but not enough to chance having them wear out on a trip.
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