Unexpected Service!

I went out on the F800 GS today as the forecast didn’t seem bad. The sky was threatening the entire time I was out but it didn’t rain! I was glad of me heated clothing as the temperature stayed below 8 degrees for quite a while before struggling up to 10 degrees around 2pm. I hadn’t been sure of where I was heading for but settled in the end on Bahnstormer as a destination. I had a mooch around and bought an Airhawk for the bike. I don’t find the saddle too uncomfortable at all but thinking ahead to my planned trip to Slovenia in June with the ADV rider crowd, I figured it might be a good idea to cushion my bum on the 1000 mile slogs there and back.

Whilst chatting to the sales folk, they asked if I had had the top radiator hose recall done. I knew there was one in progress but I hadn’t had it done as I had had no word from South London Motorrad. Bahnstormer offered to do it there and then and having time on my hands I said “Great, please go ahead”. When they entered the registration in the BMW database, it seemed that there was a bunch of other recall type work to do. This puzzled me as SLM were supposed to have done it already (re-routing the ABS lines for instance) but they also did that for me so apart from some monster firmware update (this would apparently have taken 2 hours and it’s seemingly to address a stalling issue which fortunately, I don’t appear to have) I am OK as far as BMW mandated fixes are concerned. I was pleased that Bahnstormer had shown such initiative and am only sorry that it’s really too far away for regular servicing.

On the ride home, I was very conscious of the AirHawk under my backside. I think there is probably a little too much air in it as I seem to wobble from side to side on it quite a lot. It also seemed to tip me forwards somewhat so at present, I am not a huge fan of it. No doubt I shall get used to it in time but will need a much longer run to determine its worth as an aid to stopping numb bum syndrome.