Here is our R1150RT, pictured at Chateau Neuf de Pape, France, famous for it's fine red wine. This was whilst we were on holiday in Sept 2002, we stopped in here to sample and buy some lovely wine.

The picture shows a few mods we have fitted including: Piaa lights, mounted on the excellent EZY-MOUNT, made by Jim Lawson, a real nice guy in Texas. Corbin Heated Leather Saddle, a CNC machined alloy torque arm, BMW cylinder protectors and an Aeroflow headlight guard. We have recently fitted a new Starcom1 Intercom, which gives us clear speech, music and directions from our Garmin 2610 GPS. A HID headlight conversion was fitted in Aug 04, and the results are truly amazing, everyone sees you coming, and when riding at night the road is awash with real white light.

We got our 1150 in May 2001, having traded in our trusty 1100. The new design of the bike coupled with the larger engine, six speed box and servo brakes, made it a natural progression for us. The extra's we had on the 1100, easily swapped onto the 1150, so that saved some trouble, time and money.

A month later we were heading to Scotland for a weeks touring, including the longest day on Burray, one of the small Orkney Isles overlooking the glorious Scapa Flow. The bike more than proved itself, as it was fully loaded, and well throttled to get us up there in a day, in all that week we did 2150 miles and it was fine. Being new it did use a bit of oil, which I had learned with my previous oil head, they do until they are run in, around 10,000 to 15,000 miles. The new switchgear was better, being micro switches, and the hydraulic clutch was very light. On a long run, the sixth gear came into it's own dropping the revs right down at a good cruising speed "85MPH", and fuel consumption was better than the 1100.

The new "EVO Linked brakes" are very powerful, light pressure is all that is needed on the span adjustable front lever, to haul the bike to an impressive halt. I find myself using the front brake so much on this bike as the front end is so stable, and feels well planted, especially with the Bridgestone 020 tyres.   

                                            Here is one we finished with last year>>>>>>

 You may have heard about the "Surge" that some folk feel on their RT1150's, Ron Hankinson  http://www.r1150rts.com writes this:

" The fundamental problem is the Motronik 2.4 engine management system (EMS) for the BMW R1150RT is optimised to provide the lowest possible emissions and noise in the 3,000rpm to 4,000rpm range. This is accomplished by both retarding the ignition and running the engine in the leanest possible state. Not all bikes surge. Not all riders notice the surging. More than one factor can contribute to surging. Even a good running bike will exhibit some surging. In the cruise zone (3,000rpm to 4,000rpm) the EMS will every several seconds make a change in the parameters trying to obtain optimal emissions. This will cause the engine speed to vary by 50 to 100rpm. "

 My bike did surge, and after a while BMW sent out a new Olive coloured coding plug, you replaced the pink one in the fuse box, this made a very slight difference. After I had fitted a Techlusion 1030 unit on my RT this is what I posted on a web site :

"Today I had the best ride on my RT ever. It has always surged badly and doing the throttle body sync, and valves myself carefully, have made it better. Today we went out toward Matlock and out on the Via Gellia road, A5012 to Ashbourne, and on, about 106 miles.
The bike is so much better, no surging/lurching- pulls nice and crisp and out of the corners the motor is so strong.
The road conditions today, wet and windy and leaves all over the gaff, this would have been awful on my bike before, as that is when you are part throttle and trying to lay the power down smoothly to keep on the wet leave-strewn roads. But today it was a sheer joy, I know I sound excited as I am, I have finally got the bike I paid for when the RT1150 launched in Apr 2001.
I have fitted a Techlusion 1030 to my bike, and it is the best £185 I have spent. To fit it was moderately easy, instructions were clear and in good English and so was the setting up. It is an electronic module that alters the values to the injectors giving the bike not such a lean burn during the closed loop cycle, i.e. when you are in the cruising 3000-4500 rpm.
I have also fitted a Remus pipe and removed my Lambda probe, but you can get one that just plugs into your existing loom."
                I have no affiliation with these people, I just think that a good thing should be talked about, and that if it does improve your bike, and so your riding experience, then that is a good thing.

For more information of different modifications, go to the gear and mods page.

London Police R1150RTP.                                                   Our RT alongside Pauls RT, over the Applecross Road 2003

Here are a few pics of a recent clutch job we did at Andy's place.

All together the clutch took us about 7-8 hours to complete. It was the first one we had ever done, and we were not in a rush as we wanted to get it done properly. Whilst we had the gearbox off, we also inspected the dreaded "splines", all OK.