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10-17-2012, 05:23 PM
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Geared up and ready.
Joined: Sep 2009
Location: Toronto, CDN
Oddometer: 512
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Another fall ride...
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Damn I wish all roads were dirt. Current ride : 2011 White F800GS, 9500 km's Past ride : 2006 KLR with 41,000 kms -gone to a good home- Toronto to Maine and back Toronto to Boston -The Long way |
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10-17-2012, 08:12 PM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Aug 2007
Location: SE michigan
Oddometer: 350
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Since fall colors seem to be the theme at the moment I'll add a few of my own.
 Out riding with a buddy on some great dirt roads. 
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10-17-2012, 08:20 PM
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Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Maple Ridge, BC Canada
Oddometer: 1,980
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beautiful..I miss that foliage living in an Evergreen/rain forest!
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10-18-2012, 05:09 PM
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on a mission...
Joined: Mar 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
Oddometer: 837
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Quote:
  From last year. There's a tiny bit of yellow and orange...doesn't really compare does it? Actually this year is more colourful than usual...but still not really comparable... Dave
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10-18-2012, 05:21 PM
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Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Maple Ridge, BC Canada
Oddometer: 1,980
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Dave your skid plate looks great with my new crash bars....
  
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10-18-2012, 10:55 PM
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Beemer Boy
Joined: Oct 2010
Location: Arrowtown, South Island, New Zealand
Oddometer: 113
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F800 GS "Back-in-Black" Carbon/Kevlar Ltd. Edition
My 2009 F8 had taken a few dirt naps and was needing a bit of TLC. For it's 40k birthday I gave it a much needed face lift and made a few new parts while I was at it.
 Even with the protective film, the plastic fairings took a hammering from the sharp Central Otago landscape.   I bit of plastic welding and some body fairing putty and she came up looking pretty good I recon. As the two parts to this fairing are of different plastic molding I decided to use separate Matte and Satin paints to define the difference.  I loved the original color but wanted to do something a bit different from the crowd. I looked a heaps of color schemes and finally went back to my first idea. So using a splash of the the original Sunset Yellow I came up with this.   The clear plastic wind screen was pretty scratched and need attention too. I reproduced it in Carbon Fiber and tried this "chopped" size on for size.  The original Bash plate weighed a tonne and I decided to lighten the load a bit by building a replica in Carbon/Kevlar. It took a few goes but I like the final result.  A friend at a local sign shop reproduced the decals and custom made a couple of new BMW roundels as well. The decal placement decision was very last minute. Next project is to make a couple crank out a couple of new knuckle guards. I've seen some great idea here on the ADV site so I'll add photo's of the finished project. Time to ride. Dave 
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10-18-2012, 11:02 PM
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Beemer Boy
Joined: Oct 2010
Location: Arrowtown, South Island, New Zealand
Oddometer: 113
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Within a week of finishing this project I read online that BMW was going to release a Triple Black version of the F800 GS. I was gutted as I thought I would have the only one. Still, I like the result and hope others do too.
All good, Dave
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10-19-2012, 05:23 AM
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Bike Addict
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Maple Ridge, BC Canada
Oddometer: 1,980
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looks great! You did a really nice thing for your 40,000 old Beemer!
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10-19-2012, 01:48 PM
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Beemer Boy
Joined: Oct 2010
Location: Arrowtown, South Island, New Zealand
Oddometer: 113
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Turned 60,000 on the clocks this past week so I think another splash of TLC is in order. Maybe I'll go all out and drop some coin on a set of new TKC's. That would put a smile on it's dials for sure.
 What do ya recon?
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10-19-2012, 06:55 PM
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Wannabe
Joined: Oct 2009
Location: Hesperus, CO
Oddometer: 982
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That looks awesome Dave!
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10-19-2012, 08:13 PM
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Adventurer
Joined: Jul 2011
Location: Joinville, Brazil
Oddometer: 59
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First year group F800GS BRASIL
      
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10-21-2012, 01:01 PM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Aug 2011
Location: The Netherlands
Oddometer: 105
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I have done some Moto-Gymkhana today:
     
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10-21-2012, 08:46 PM
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2 wheels !!!!
Joined: Aug 2009
Location: dubuque, iowa
Oddometer: 167
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Awesome day! It seems I'm settling into the 800 quickly. It's still a heavy bike coming from my dirt bikes, but damn this bike does it all.
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10-21-2012, 10:01 PM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
Oddometer: 115
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Last day before winter arrived in Calgary.
Rode hard and put away dirty... 
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10-22-2012, 02:35 AM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Aug 2011
Location: The Netherlands
Oddometer: 105
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The bike's wintersleep kicked in during riding?
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