BMW R1250GS (40th anniv) 2021 - The King of Bling
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- The latest big #bmw #R1250GS is packed full of accessories, some are standard fit, some are factory extras and this video explains the price of personalising your #motorbike. We've got a Top 5 add-ons that increase your bike's value, the insurer's view on factory fitted vs. aftermarket plus a mini #review of the 2021 R1250GS 40th Anniversary edition.
📖CONTENTS
▶️ 00:00 Intro and video overview
▶️ 02:27 What's on this bike?
▶️ 05:01 What the insurance company think
▶️ 06:08 Awesome action shots
▶️ 06:21 Review (on-board)
▶️ 12:03 Top 5 accessories that add value
▶️ 16:03 More awesome action shots
▶️ 16:41 Bennetts Rewards advert
▶️ 17:00 Out takes
Film produced and edited by Too Fast Media, using Cardo, Insta 360 and GoPro.
Michal's riding kit:
Helmet: AGV AX9
Jacket: Dainese Antartica Gore-Tex
Trousers: Dainese Antartica Gore-Tex
Boots: Dainese Freeland Gore-Tex
Gloves: Dainese Universe Gore-Tex
Bobble Hat: Dainese
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I scoffed at GS riders for many years: too old, too fat, only ridden to Starbucks, etc. Then I made the mistake of test riding one. Traded in the Ducati Monster 1200S and bought an R1250GS two weeks ago. It does everything well. And yes, I have added the panniers and crash bars. I don't care what people think, I love the bike.
Good job Rick - it's a lot of bikes all rolled into one.
The old 'Swiss Army Knife' cliche needs an outing....I have last year's Exclusive with all the add ons and who cares if it looks like a 'Flying Bedstead' it floats my boat. 1 bike, 2 riders and hundreds of upcoming trips.
The older you get the less you care what anyone thinks. Well done. Good move 👍
The classic gs rider outfit is 0 protective gear , perfect hairstyle , 10/10 girl on the back and riding in the city to show off , one guy exactly like that ended up a vegetable well each to his own.
Silot The classic GS rider wears always the creme a la creme protective gear, does not care if the others die of jealousy because they can not buy this bike and have a girl who also has expensive equipment. Your description matches to a DUCATI rider.
My dream bike. Once one sees the accessories you could never purchase without them. King regards fron Barcelona!
Great review very informative.
My dream bike. Once one sees the accessories you could never purchase without them.
Great review ! Pick my triple black up tomorrow , and have gone back to Bennett’s for my insurance . £600 cheaper than my ‘other’ insurer.
Interesting and entertaining video. Not the slightest bit boring
Nice bike. Nice review.
Great review👍 very informative 👌🏍🙏
Thanks Michael W, glad you thought so.
Cheers, Michael M
Can’t wait to get my new GSA 40th edition next year. The wife has signed off on it, now it’s just a matter of being patient. If you’ve not seen a 40th edition model you can’t appreciate the paintwork and the quality of finish. No video or photo does it justice.
Wow I’ve ordered a custom one close to this very spec for 2021. But I ordered the adventure model. I was very excited to see this thumbnail ! As always Micheal great job mate.
Thanks very much and I hope you get as much riding pleasure out the GSA as I did on this one for a week.
Cheers, Michael
I Love This Bmw Beauty ❤️💚🥰. This is definitely one of the BEST adventure Tourer.
Great review and I can't wait to get my 2021 GS 1250 40th.
Thanks Cigar R, hope you enjoy the ride! Any big trips planned?
Cheers, Michae
yep i bought my 2021 GS rallye with the lot lol , $39,500 AUS dollars best bike ever and i mean EVER has the works, prob could ride it to the moon and back lol
Very good review. I’m just waiting to see if BMW will adopt the new single-screen from the RT to the GS next year.
I just bought a 2020 Honda Africa Twin Adventure sports - Having owned 3 GS's I made the right choice - BMW imho have outpriced themselves. And yes most extras are already included on the ATAS - Also I'd rather have a key which is no longer possible on the GS.
I mean, a simple clutch pack on my XR costs 700$. There is literally fuck all reason for it to be priced that amount. Same with other parts on BMW bikes, although surprisingly not all components.
A clutch pack for a Multistrada 1260 is 400$. Significantly lower for japanese bikes.
I mean....I didn't hop onto the bandwagon thinking it was going to be budget friendly but nor do I really appreciate just throwing money out the window.
Never paid anywhere the retail price for any of my three GSs, given the market at the moment I’d be negotiating even harder. Brilliant bikes but they do have a few issues, just had my left cylinder replaced under warranty, valve wear issues are appearing on the 1250. They are a great bike to customise.
looking at your jacket reminded me ,of kev ash he was a great journalist not forgotten .
Waiting on my 2nd GSA ETA May....my last had Ohlin shocks...rode like no other GSA and biggest improvement once I had the skills...plan going to a Ohlins TTX shock next year....Had a full AKro pipe and Auto tune....you missed those....hear in North America we do a lot of offroading....lots of training available....best investment.
Brilliant review. Sorted the whole package out perfectly. Good to get a package at the outset if you can afford to do that. Any recall issues on these bikes you are aware of?
Love GS's, have had several,
They handle, they brake, they're comfy - great bikes.
But my S1000XR makes me go WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!
No GS ever did.
Not a fan of the GS, definitely.
XR is definitely not perfect and by that I mean it has a lot of small usability issues with me specifically and the way I ride it at least.
Still the best all round bike I've ever owned. IFor me at least, it doesn't do anything perfectly, which is basically every allrounder ever. But comes pretty damn close in some respects.
It would be great to have a look at the headlight pattern at night compared to other adventure bikes.
Good review. Just out of interest what jacket are you wearing
This is my dreeeeeeeeeam 😍😍
Great review. I hesitated between the GS and Tiger 900 GT Pro. The bulk of my riding is in and around Paris and I'm 173cm, so I went for the Triumph, but I can't stop looking at this bike. I think the Triumph wins on filtering in dense traffic and has that wonderful tripple engine, but perhaps the GS is the ultimate all-rounder? Did you find it unwieldy to manoeuver at a standstill and park?
Great review. I have watched many reviews of the BMW R1200/1250 GS on here and my one gripe is that the reviewers always make the bike look like a little 125cc, as Mann does in this case. As someone with a 32" inseam I might just stick to 'dreaming' of having one of these bikes.
Hi my advice is go and try one I’m only 5-7” with a 28” inside leg , I had two 800 gs which were taller , I now ride the 1200 with a low seat and it’s fine
If the range is anything like my xr which is 20 litres, it says 155 on fill up but it don't move for around 40 miles so I get around 200 with normal riding
May be i will go for a standard gs 2021
This motorbike is so perfect to a point where I got bored riding it... reason why I sold mine 😀
LOL, perfect is perfect none the less
Maybe you can't appreciate perfection....
Nice review 👍
200 miles range all day from the 20 litre tank though, especially with a camera looking at you or your speedo! Oh and you need a CRF for off roading!
Yes easily 200 to 220 miles per tank and that’s 2 up👍
Electrically adjustable screen should be standard. Why do they place the manual adjustment knob on the right, the gas side?
I owned a GS....a 2014 model.....and after just 700 on-road only miles found that it was starting to corrode around the edges....so I moved it on.
best bike ever!!!
What are the 16 accessories Bennett’s cover as standard?
A few years.back I booked a gs test ride I was already pretty convinced it was the bike I wanted. On the same day , on the same roads I tested an RT.
I was genuinely surprised how much better the RT was. There is a reason the police ride them.
If you don't plan to go off road try a RT. Imo they are the best road bike in the world
For half or full day rides I couldn't agree more about the RT being a great choice but, when you start talking multi-day trips, I prefer something more like a Yamaha royal star venture(with aftermarket highway pegs).
That being said, I would still recommend an RT if you can only get one motorcycle with one major reservation. It really comes down to the local Dealer support in your area and if you want to buy a new bike that is under warranty. For me personally I have three different KTM dealers within a two-hour drive but only one BMW dealer and I honestly don't know how they stay in business because they are Tiny and never seem to have any parts in stock. So, a KTM 1290 Super Duke GT looks like a great alternative to me if I was buying a new bike.
The Quickshift assist pro needs 10,000 miles to be smooth then it's brilliant.
The problem being that many riders don't keep their bikes that long and when you are paying upwards of £15k, the quick-shifter or shift assist should be right from the moment you ride it away from the dealership.
Dump the factory engine oil and use Motul 7100 5W40 instead. No need to wait 10k miles, the bike just needs better engine oil.
My 2105 ADV TE quickshifter was snatchy as hell I traded it for a new 2018 Rallye ADV TE which is better, only has 5k on it so hopefully as you say it will get better.
Spend a load of money added things which will mean that you have to spend another load of money at the BMW dealer getting all those bits serviced.
This is the bike you want on your world tour, boxer motor and heated grips Yes. mobeleash
Great review and yes, it is indeed a great bike, but at a cost of £21,500 it should be faultless, however that's not exactly what's being said about the new R1250GS many ongoing issues forums!
At least they have a good 3 year warranty.
How many forum users with no issues whatsoever have posted actually that? Not interesting reading really. Far more gratification for folks it seems to trawl the forums looking to bemoan other bikes. As with any product the happy end users far far outnumber the ones who have a problem. 3 yr warranty....sorted
So with Bennetts insurance covering the 17 most popular bike mods free of charge, does that means these top 5 mods described in this video are included in every Bennetts bike policy without needing to declare them or at any extra cost if declared?
Not that I ride a modified bike. Mine is totally standard.
Hi Nick - here's the detail of what is included: www.bennetts.co.uk/customer/help-advice/modifications/standard
Thanks for nice review! what's your height?
Cheers, I'm 6ft (182cm)
Never ridden one so I can't judge that,but man do I hope all the strange shapes have an aerodynamic purpose,this is (in my opinion as a Tiger owner 😅 ) a strange looking bike.
I thought the same, turns out they actually do. Quite so.
Your jacket looks as if it has taken a beating?
Michael Sir can we expect the Review of 2021 Kawasaki Ninja ZX 10 RR ?
I'll ask the question, Vignesh.
Cheers, Michael
Nice bike, but try a Triumph Tiger GT Pro, which has just as high spec at half the price and a lot less weight.
Tiger whistling bugged the shit out of me after 30 mins
@@GadgetMart was that the 800 or 900 bugging you?
@@petewebb6952 it was the 800
The 900 might be better with its new firing order
@@GadgetMart - i felt a bit similar about the XRT i once had. In some ways i prefer twins. I did enjoy the boxer engines. Although i have some doubts even about the new triple the compromise for me is that it’s such a safe and practical vehicle just big enough for light two up touring when i need it. I may go back to twins depending on what’s on the market in three years time. Actually, if it was just for me, at my age approaching seventy, the new Honda CB500X is a decent bike...
@@petewebb6952 I ride an 18 year old GS
New ones are too expensive for my budget
Best gimmick is the bubble hat, ....... handmade ?👍😁
Dainese's finest!
BMW GS 1200 et 1250.....toooooop
You do get mocked by other riders as being pretend adventurers mostly by people that have never ridden a GS I use mine every day in all weathers and ride off-road but still people judge do I care NO it’s a great bike that does it all .
BMW please make a 850cc boxer GS just like this but smaller and 100lbs/45kg lighter...I don’t like nor do I want a parallel twin GS!!
They could make a R850GS but 20kg lighter is the best it could be. 45kg is really dreaming. That's probably more than the whole engine weights.
I bought 31 bikes in the last 7 years. The biggest disappointment was the full spec 2016 BMW R1200 GS triple black. I absolutely hated that bike. Especially the engine and exhaust sound, even with Akrapovic, are appalling. The standard seat was the worst seat I had on any of my bikes. I bought the Rallye seat, which although a bit narrow was an improvement. The seat of my R1150 GS Adventure however was the best seat I ever had; I liked that bike a lot better, but it was very (top) heavy. The ESA suspension is expensive and seems to be quite unreliable. The analogue clocks were unreadable (the old ones on the 1150 so much better), the expensive Navigator VI much less usable than the TomTom Rider 550 of half the price. The engine vibrations gave me a numb right hand. I bought a stabilizer from the USA for the windscreen, as it was moving too much in the wind. I was glad I could trade the GS for a Multistrada 950.
Why do you reviewers insist on calling dirt or non tarmac roads "off road" they are not you are riding on a recognised legal highway.
This bike is$30,385 including tax here in the state of Pennsylvania. Shift cam is useless on this. The boxer engine is ugly and bulky. It's Germany's HARLEY DAVIDSON. No thanks. I'll take the triumph tiger 1200GSA. Fully loaded with everything this BMW scrap has for $19000 grand American. And that sweet inline 3 cylinder. Sounds so sexy. Screams power. I have not one, but two triumph tiger 1200 motorcycle's.
10 out if 10 for content. 0 out of 10 for audio quality. The level control goes down as well as up....
The worst part about this motorcycle is that you will have to purchase guards for pretty much everything .......
Crazy price for a big, 260kg status symbol that in 99% of cases will never see dirt. The majority of gadgets won't be used, but are there for bragging rights.
I'd wait for the 2021 Multistrada.
We'll have the review up (inc. video) of the MTS V4 first thing Monday morning
I think you’ll be surprised by how many actually do go off road...not loads but certainly not that few.
So you'll wait for a more expensive and more optioned bike over the one you thought was over-optioned and too expensive?
That's quite a special way of looking at things really...
Says the bloke who bought a brand new fully fledged BMW RT and never went touring!
@@frankspeakmore7104 And that's exactly why I said it, although a major heart incident stopped me going on the longer rides. Mine wasn't new, a bargain 1 year old low mileage. Apart from that, guilty as charged Frank ;-)
Batman does have a motorcycle though and hate to be the bearer of bad news it looks nothing like that awesome GS just a lot cooler
I own a 2019 GSA 😀
Please look in the lens.
BMW...
Yes....!!!
i'ts... B M W...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who wouldn’t get heated grips on an adventure tourer? Only a yoghurt, that’s who. (Although what scummy manufacturer wouldn’t include them as standard) £21,000 for the whole thing!
Hello Michael
Hello Alfie. Enjoy the show?
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I owned one. No regrets of selling it. People are sheep (it's a good bike, but far from perfect and bloody expensive)
Heathed seats 🤦🏻♂️
how many recalls ?
After 17 months of ownership from new......None
£370 for two fog lights you could buy for fifty of ebay. BMW must be laughing their asses off. This constant price hiking with added shit we don't really need is killing biking . These modern bikes will be scrap in ten years time when all the gizmos fail.
Ducati multistrada v4 way better ,
Hello nice bike so expensive....would u gift me any dirt bike for 2021....love from Nepal...
...and thought Harleys were/are money pits... jezzz!
GS. Owners are like teenage girls, they love showing their bikes & Yeerman Technology. Gee everything in GS is 5000 times more expensive. It is a rich boy’s toys who only buys This cause it is expansive so it give it exclusiveness. If you have ever ridden Strom or Versus & have true dirt bike, you would know the GS is good bike but to call it King is like me calling Tacoma the king of the trucks.
Exclusive - The GS is literally as common as shit.. Now the Honda Africa Twin adventure sports is very exclusive and with the money I saved I'm buying a new CRF300 Rally too!!
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I hate the yellow colors
wtf is with the stupid camera angle towards the rider ?
this bike is trash. i bought mine in 2019 summer. bike engine broke after 12000km - loud clanking noise from left cylinder. bmw refused to repair by warranty claiming that loud clanking noise in left cylinder is normal. while trying to sort this out lost 2020 season. all attempts to complain to bmw headquarters went nowhere. in december 2020 dealer agreed to buy it back from me for 13500 euro. as a result i lost a lot of money and a season just because they refused to repair broken engine by warranty. please note i had bmw warranty and dealer extended 5 years warranty on it which i bought as well. so bmw you suck and your newer bikes are trash. btw this was my 4th bmw bike and 3rd new bought from this dealer. worst customer experience, worst service ever.
What a dreadful thing.
And the Charlie Ewan wannabes will continue to shell out a fortune to ride a bike that is 60% more capable than them, but hey they look the part in their Klim suits! And by the way my 07 GS has taken me all across Europe for over a decade and it's by far more capable than me, with my wrist being the traction control and my wrist providing the suspension adjustment in a moment!
Annoying when the video has the mic input wrong! Basic skills!
Почему ты по встречной полосе едешь? Ты, что самоу 6 ийца?
This is England
@@VivamusLibero
Это была joke. 🥳🥴
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