30+ Ways to Accessorise an R1250/R1200 GS and Adventure 

Most aren't knock-offs, just the pannier toolbox and the Mudsling copy as I would agree these are too close to the main-brand ones to be considered original, the other 33 are self-designed or 'inspired by' which is no different to the various headlight protectors out there from UK companies, or the GIVI rear under rack bag which is uncannily similar to the Wunderlich one.... they're all at it!

That wasn’t my intention but Dave and I debate this continuously…

www.aliexpress.com/item/33045139453.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.2d294c4dWNTkXP

Yes it is (or should be, yet to get the bike wet 😂😂)

Difficult, very subjective and that would involve me letting Dave ride my bike and he has already dropped a standard GSA at least three times on his own drive 😂😂

You should get a good price - low supply at the moment…

Fair point 🥴 but in fairness the title is ‘accessorise’

Would have loved to but it sold out!

@@andybcole I may have a spare ticket if your interested and free?

Things took a turn….

It shouldn’t be an issue as it doesn’t sit above the wheel but to the side of it….I’m not a mechanic though

I’ve checked the Touratech website and it does not feature any warnings saying you can’t use it on a lowered bike.

No I haven’t, but I haven’t ordered anything costing over £38 so it may not apply below a certain threshold

@@andybcole thanks for the reply Andy 👍

Take a look at a couple of the videos in the last few weeks - the bikes feature aplenty :-)

@@andybcole Must have missed those ones

Thought might be the first question! Go to Aliexpress (or download the app) and type R1250GS or GS Adventure and let Pandora's box open :-)

@@andybcole just downloaded/opened the app and did the search... Oh dear... You are a bad man...you've started something now... 😮💷💷

You can in Dave's world 🙂

Given all the flak I'm getting for buying it from China best not! Just go to AliExpress and find it yourself!!

@@andybcole too late for such caution 😂

Nope - so far what I’ve paid is final cost, although nothing yet over £50 ordered.

There is that...

That’s me that is.

But those companies just copy each other and add their 10% of design? What’s the difference? Lone rider are hardly the first company to come up with a headlight guard that folds down and has coloured inserts…Touratech are hardly the first company to invent a pannier…

So Metal Mule are not allowed to make panniers because Touratech make them? Givi can't do an under rack bag because Wunderlich did one first? It's not just the Chinese that take 'inspiration' from other companies....first thing a car company does when it makes a new car is tear down a competitor for good ideas... I have no issue in buying from the those guys I mention and I have many, many times. But when a piece of plastic that hasn't changed in seven years and has recuperated any research costs thousands of times over is still £180 when it costs less than $10 to manufacture market forces will kick in, as it has with me. As I've said in another post, I would consider $50-$60 good value for a Mudsling, $200 isn't. I do understand what you're saying, but there is a tipping point and for me it was reached with a couple of items I got from AliExpress. The other items were more for fun, I didn't really need or want them, just thought I would try them out so I would never have bought them from the UK source anyway at full retail.

@@andybcole You should be ashamed of yourself supporting slave labour and ripping off jobs of people in your own country

Most of it comes out of china anyway - just through resellers….

I humbly apologise.

Buying cheap stuff costs jobs and that’s why wages are shrinking

@@a9503128 The people who make the cheap stuff also have jobs...

@@andybcole nope 👎 you should be ashamed of yourself supporting the slave labour

@@a9503128 I really don’t mind criticism but personal attacks are somewhat less tasteful. I find it particularly ironic given there are an estimated 15,000 in slave labour in Australia currently and your response was most likely typed on a device made or sourced from the Far East. Criticism is fine but please can it be informed criticism which I can learn from. There is no evidence me buying a headlight guard made in China has forced anybody into slave labour. If you have evidence to the contrary that any of the items I have bought have links to slavery then I would absolutely be ashamed and the first to condemn it. This is not a political channel (I thought), just some bike fans trying to have clean fun on their motorbikes and provide entertainment and information for others. I wish you well.

Thought I had video of every single thing we put on? What else did you need (other than Google!)

Meant to say - £220 was my total spend from China on what you saw 😁

It’s not crap - that’s the point. You do realise an iPhone is made in China - that’s not crap either.