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Cruz tools-BMW specific kit

Experience, no, but opinion, yes. What I've begun doing is making a list of repair jobs I might need to tackle while on the road. For example, plug a flat tire, patch up a valve cover, jump start or replace a dead battery, replace a bulb, add oil, etc. - in other words not service and not big repairs. With that in mind, the Cruz BMW kit appears fine, but I'd want to augment it with a tire pump, a fuel siphon, the BMW oil fill wrench, batt. jumper leads, and some parts (tire plugs, oil, bulbs, oil sight glass). With all that I think I could manage get to a real repair place in most cases.
 
I'm planning on ordering the M1 kit next week. I will also be adding a few items also. But overall, I think it will be a fine kit for the most part.
 
carrying a siphon is a great idea. I bought one of those primer bulbs that is used for outboards. Would have saved me a lot of time when I ran out on I-10 last summer. A fellow BMW rider on a much newer bike stopped to offer help, neither of us knew how to get gas out of his tank without a siphon.

A serious headwind and an 80 mph speed limit threw off my fuel calculations.
 
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