{"id":7378,"date":"2018-03-23T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2018-03-23T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:01:52","slug":"my-bike-winter-is-over-40-modifications-bike-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/03\/23\/my-bike-winter-is-over-40-modifications-bike-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bike: Winter is Over, 40 Modifications, Bike is done!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My BMW R1200 GS Adventure is ready for riding season\u2026well almost but since tomorrow I am embarking on a week long off-roading adventure around North Carolina with the BMW of Quebec Group and the only modification left being shocks that are setup for my weight and riding style, I feel that it\u2019s appropriate to visually share the bike as it was stock and as it is now. No effort was made to frame these shots identical to each other.<\/p>\n

Delivery, September 2017, a fully stock GS Adventure Triple Black standard suspension with every feature and option available:<\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

Truly a gorgeous bike by default. While I purchased dozens of modifications (farkles) for the bike, I took my time and spent a full 3 months in the off-season carefully crafting everything for the perfect look. Honestly, even I had no clue that this bike would turn into one of the best functional modern GS models on the road. There are a lot of show bikes and fantastically modified oil-cooled models but this bike has it all and it\u2019s mine. Let\u2019s fast-forward to today but first\u2026she\u2019s come a long way!<\/p>\n

\"R1200<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the bike completely naked as every part is off being powder coated for a full month:<\/p>\n

\"Naked<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Naked<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, both wheels are sent off to Woody\u2019s wheel works for Lacing & Truing to strengthen them beyond OEM spec:<\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

More Progress:\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AltRider<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200<\/a><\/p>\n

Crash Bars are back from being powder-coated:<\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

Wheels are back from Woody\u2019s and Continental TKC 80s are on:<\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

The bike w\/o a seat goes to Max BMW for a full checkup:<\/p>\n

\"R1200<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026.then, it\u2019s time to ride!<\/p>\n

I started riding this year on March 18th. The low this week was 4 degrees Fahrenheit and the high was 41. I rode the bike in all of the weather in between and even some snow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

..and now for some fashion shots of the bike with my good camera.<\/p>\n

This is the soft-luggage setup..actually the bike is in a bit of an identity crisis here. The plan is to have Soft Luggage + RotoPax + Machine Art Moto Slipscreen for days and nights off-road. I only have the soft luggage mounted and testing it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"R1200<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the bike w\/ the hard boxes mounted for a passenger and on-road touring w\/ the passenger seat and only a 1 Liter fuel canister attached:<\/p>\n

\"Tourfella<\/a><\/p>\n

I went with Jesse boxes because of the shape, mounting and build is superior to everything on the market. I grabbed some mounting racks for on top of the boxes and a bottle mount.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh and I also added the Clearwater Billie Brake Lights, Erica and Darla with CanOpener 2.1 for 16K additional lumens forward in front of the bike:<\/p>\n

Stock:<\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

Half Brightness:<\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

Full Brightness + High Beam:<\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/a><\/p>\n

and here\u2019s the Slipscreen off-roading up close:<\/p>\n

\"Machine<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Machine<\/a><\/p>\n

and here\u2019s the rotopax setup where 1 gallon of water on bottom and 2 gallons of fuel up top mounted to an AltRider luggage plate except I already sold the Bumot boxes as I wasn\u2019t too happy with the built quality of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"R1200GS<\/a><\/p>\n

——-<\/p>\n

As far as the list of mods, I NEED to document this but it\u2019s massive. Maybe I\u2019ll document ones I can remember now from Memory? No, It\u2019s 8PM and I need to make dinner and finish packing. Thanks so much for reading. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My BMW R1200 GS Adventure is ready for riding season\u2026well almost but since tomorrow I am embarking on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-03-23T00:02:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"0eed246f-3958-4978-86f7-2024f8befe2c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-03-23T00:02:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ADu0kbzlYSXiG9yAk-L7-LA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-my-bike","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1V0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7109,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/motorrad-four-weeks-with-the-2017-r1200-gs-adventure\/","url_meta":{"origin":7378,"position":0},"title":"Motorrad: Four Weeks with the 2017 R1200 GS Adventure","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A month ago, I sold this: \u00a0 and I bought this: The visual cues between these bikes..it\u2019s remarkably uncanny. 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