They call it an "URBAN ADVENTURE BIKE" So let's prove it's not! 😉👍 Music : Solo Acoustic5 Musician : Jason Shaw URL : audionautix.com Licence : creativecommons.org/licences/...
I'm so glad you're having great fun on the GS and have put not gelling with the Kwaka behind you. You're lucky to have found such good trails, around my way every gravel road seems to be Private 😟 Looking forwards to the next installment 👍😀
I bought a G310GS for my 60th birthday and I love it. It's not my perfect bike but it's the best bike I could find for my needs and wants - riding secondary roads, back roads, gravel and dirt roads, mild off road and solo backwoods motorcycle camping. I've added many upgrades to make the baby GS better for me. I've always ridden small dual sport thumpers. I never wanted a large heavy bike, and now that I'm older it's not really an option. I wanted a small ADV bike since the 1970s and for the last ten years we finally got them although not full featured models. I wish BMW offered a G310GS Adventure version with a 5 gallon fuel tank, tubeless spoke wheels, an aluminum bash plate, engine protection bars, and fully adjustable suspension front and rear. Those upgrades would cost BMW less than $400 and I'd pay $2000 more for that bike. Bike manufacturers, not just BMW, look at their small ADV bikes as beginner bikes. They use them to get new customers on the upgrade path to their mid size and full size ADV bikes. Older riders typically have more discretionary income and are buying smaller bikes because they have trouble handling and lifting larger bikes, but I'd argue that a small ADV bike like the G310GS is better off road for all riders. Unfortunately, the marketing department doesn't want to admit this, so they won't sell full featured lightweight ADV bikes because most people wouldn't buy their more expensive larger bikes. That's why smaller ADV bikes are built to a budget and are stripped of premium features. The companies would rather sell someone their first bike, that leads to their second and third. They aren't interested in selling old riders their last bike, so they miss the opportunity to make an R1300GS Adventure profit margin on a G310GS Adventure.
Brilliant & hope your loving yours as much as I am! 👍😎 Selling folk their last bike, now that's a very different way of looking at things, but your 100% on the mark! 👍
any bike is capable of taking you on an adventure, its how much you want to look for adventure is the difference, that bike is mega capable of any adventure and actually because its lighter than the big GS's its probably easier to take onto the trails. and you even have an adventure iphone to match 😁😁 youre a lot more confident on the loose stuff than me, id have been paddling 2 feet down the whole time. stunning scenery and great video buddy, stay safe.
Cheers Phil, Although I've actually got a Lexmoto phone, AKA a Huawei! 🤣👍 This grass was pretty easy as it was dry & clumpy, so a bit of traction at least, oh but bowling green short & then add a s#it load of rain on a campsite recently, was a little trickier! 😂👍
having a 1250gs rallye and me pulling a few years, just bought a 313gs but fully load Rallyraid gs and looking forward to putting it through its paces and keeping the big lad for the big 2 up trips as well as the daily commute
Oh so your a DIEHARD GS fan clearly! 👍😬 It's definitely worth having a couple of bikes at all times IMO & your different bikes for different jobs is a good plan of attack mate! 👍😎
@@johndiehardmclean23 I'm still using the car a little but it's getting sold (I mean it can be fixed, but probably not really worth it, so gonna advertise it for spares and repairs but could be fixed) but I'm gonna be without a car until I save for something. I may just end up cycling, as I hate the idea of leaving the bike at my house, rather keep it at his place as its secure there... But I'm in for a new place, and he will likely move in once I get one, but I'm gonna be fussy so could take a while if I ever get an offer... I have a 3 bedroom still and it's just me there now, so you'd think they want me out, but typical council are slow as snails 🤣
@@johndiehardmclean23 sadly my place is entirely upstairs, and it's not even a straight up so even if I tried to motocross it, the bike would defo get stuck 🤣
Three years later and I'm still loving my baby GS. I have added most of the farkles that I want but I wish there was some way to get a 5 gallon fuel capacity. I'm about to give up and buy a fuel bladder to carry when I need more range but that's a lousy solution. The fuel should be carried in the fuel tank. Mostly, I need to ride more and do more solo ultralight motorcycle camping.
I've had as much as 250 miles out the 11.5 Ltr tank & I've also had times where I've only had 170 miles, but that's when alot of 1st gear riding has been done, so makes sense I suppose! 👍
@@johndiehardmclean23 - My new G310GS got 200 miles on a tank. Now it's more like 180 miles. The bike isn't becoming less efficient with age. I'm riding more like a hoon with more experience! No doubt it'd get the 71 MPG that is says on the tin, but the way I ride, it's more like 60 MPG. The extra fun is worth 20 miles of range. It's more fun to ride a slow bike fast, although it's even more true to say that it's more fun to ride an adventure bike off road. 😀 That said, any adventure bike should have a 300 mile range or more.
@@johndiehardmclean23 😂😂 hey I loved watching u go off road with the Honda..no adv bike required! but seriously I know you're loving the GS, it'll just give you peace knowing she's built to take gravel etc I used to always feel guilty if I took the fazer on rough tracks.
