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How is everyone doing - new 310's?

I posted the previous because I have reason to believe another forum member may have experienced total engine failure.
They have not reported it here yet but I am curious to know what happened.

Regardless, I hope things work out OK for them.
 
I posted the previous because I have reason to believe another forum member may have experienced total engine failure.
They have not reported it here yet but I am curious to know what happened.

Regardless, I hope things work out OK for them.

Are you talking to me???:)


Last October on my way back from Tennessee (escaping a stationary Tennessee monsoon) my 2019 G310GS at 25,195 miles lost what I believe were lower end transmission parts. It was making expensive noises, throwing oil but the top end seemed to rev easily with the clutch in , just having a hard time putting it on the ground. I made it to downtown Tekonsha, MI (population 717) just off US 69. It was under warranty and with road service so I called the system and was evacuated with the bike to BMW Motorcycles of Grand Rapids. They replaced the motor under warranty. I considered buying the extended warranty, as that the 2019 warranty was almost over, and chose to pick up a 2022 310 GS with a new three year warranty with road service included. I de-farkled the 2019 and have been working on farkling up the 2022. We are still getting snow (and salt on the roads) here in Michigan but I hope to get it out soon. The 2019 was well exercised (Key West, deep sand trails, highway flying) and I was a little surprised it didn't happen sooner ergo I chose to give the platform another try.



Wayne Koppa
Grayling, MI
#71,449
 
Threadjack - Thinking about getting one

I am really thinking about getting a g310gs. It would be to replace my 2002 f650cs. My main usage is the normal running around town, going to work, and some 2-lane highway runs, of several hundred miles, to visit family. I dirt-road out of necessity here in the mid-west (US), I don't really off-road.

I don't run the 650 hard, so I am not entirely sure I will notice the power difference. What I would hope to get out of it is a bit of an increased sense of reliability, the improvements to ABS, and a bit of refinement that comes from being twenty years newer. . . . and, of course, the scratch that "new toy" itch.

I post this with the usual . . . any thoughts or suggestions?
 
7,101 Mile Trip: NC to MO to NS to NC

I just finished riding my 2022 G310GS 7,101 miles from NC to the BMW MOA National Rally in Missouri to Nova Scotia and back to NC. I had planned two trips, the Missouri trip and the Nova Scotia trip, so I decided to use the 310GS for Missouri and use that trip to decide if it was a good choice for the NS trip. Not only did I decide it was, but I decided to proceed directly from Missouri to NS instead of going back to North Carolina for what would have amounted to a two day stop over. Because of this decision, I was able to do 60% of the NEBDR along the way.

White Point NS.jpg
 
I just finished riding my 2022 G310GS 7,101 miles from NC to the BMW MOA National Rally in Missouri to Nova Scotia and back to NC. I had planned two trips, the Missouri trip and the Nova Scotia trip, so I decided to use the 310GS for Missouri and use that trip to decide if it was a good choice for the NS trip. Not only did I decide it was, but I decided to proceed directly from Missouri to NS instead of going back to North Carolina for what would have amounted to a two day stop over. Because of this decision, I was able to do 60% of the NEBDR along the way.

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Another great report. :thumb
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