johnnyboxer wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:59 pm

I still have the same bike

Not the target for the marketing people then!

They set off on the Long Way Round!

To stop any silliness like that I only say that the bike is kept off road overnight, so I'm insured even if I put my bike in the garage, or don't.

Lovely afternoon weather in Aberdeenshire

I always thought that with PCP you can hand the bike back and that's your deposit for the next new one? That's assuming the PCP final payment is less than the money the dealer is willing to give for the bike. I had a diesel car where this wasn't the case, I just handed it back and left the manufact...

johnnyboxer wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:55 am

£2000 to do the 24k & 32k service is 25% of the bike's value

Selling the bike and getting a new one starts to sound like it might make economic expense

I liked Edmund King of the AA's comment, "dodgems have speed limiters and they still seem to crash"

Googled F800GS service schedule and found this:

https://www.ascycles.com/pdf/ServiceSch ... GS_600.pdf

So clutch play is checked and adjusted, but the chain is only checked!

Is checking and adjusting the chain as necessary not part of the service on an F800?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/insurance/c ... insurance/

https://www.admiral.com/magazine/news-a ... ns-of-2018