BMW K1600 GT 1 year ownership review, love it or hate it? 

Many thanks :) new video went live 4 hours ago :) :)

Yes finally done :) after what seems like years! Lol

Love the busa, I still have an EXUP 1000 here but its more 'garage art' and 1 or 2 shows a year for her. :-)

I found the same after a long motorway run but concluded it was the helmet. ‘As I you can most likely see I now have the C5’ :)

@@50adventures I have to admit I am riding on motorways most of the time and I also have a C5. I like the C5 for many reasons apart from the wind noise 😀

lol as long as I’m not d deaf when I get back, I’m happy days. Did you get the inner padding to fit your head?

@@50adventures I think so. I hope so 😉

Im not going to disagree. lol It's my first video so hopefully things can only get better :-) :-)

@@50adventures hi sorry if I came across as very critical, that wasn’t the intention just an honest comment. Thks

Hi Ian, I use the connected app to create the route. I have never imported a route as it stands. The app is not great for route planning but it works well enough for me.

We are super lucky to live in the UK I think :)

I love mine! And I have no issues with it now I know what I am doing when setting it up. I must admit though a decent car play type set up would be fantastic!! :-)

I'm toying with swapping my africa twin 1100 dct with a k1600, I prefer the pre 2022 models with clocks and a garmin satnav! Some great bargin low mileage ones for about £15k!

@terrystratford1235 the guy who is coming with me has an older k16 which he paid £10k for. One or two niggles but no mega dramas with it :) amazing value for money when second hand

I’m off to Iceland in June :-) :-) I’m sure there will be plenty more local ones to help had though :)

Good stuff Simon. My K16 is possibly the best bike I have owned -proper luxury tourer. That said i’m staking my GS down to Morocco next month. My phone seemed to have GPS interrupts when I placed it in the cubby so on my longer tours I simply put it into a handlebar bag and no issues. Do you plan on doing a vlog kit review and set up ahead of your Iceland trip?

@@22Royston what a good idea 👍 once I’m happy with exactly what’s going to be getting packed I will a video :) love Morocco!! Enjoy! :)

That is a Go Pro remote control button. Quite a snazzy bit of kit when mounting cameras out of reach :-)

I have my seat in the high position, and with a fluffy seat cover. Before that I did get some pain in the bum and shoulders. Adding the height seems to have worked :-) (I will let you know after the 3500 mile Iceland Trip in June) :-) Not sure how much you ride, but also I find it takes me a while to get 'bike fit' after a break.

I’ll try to raise the seat. Let me know after your long trip. Thank you

@@viktortyshkevych1121 Fingers crossed for you. Thanks for reaching out and do let us know how you get on 🙂

That's a good question which deserves an answer! lol I just had a quick look through the app to see if there is a setting for the voice and there is not. Im guessing that it's just the new default? :-)

@@50adventures I think because you’ve got the ultra premium tourer you get the fancier voice. I went through the app and there’s no choice either. “My” latest version is 5.1.1, which is what’s showing on the App Store. It must be in-built into your K1600 rather than the app. I actually noticed something on the app when I was trying to transition my navigator. You have to enable the traffic route compensation. About 3 or 4 months ago they added traffic to it. So I could see all the hold ups on the M1, but the bike never did anything to avoid them. That’s because I hadn’t told it to!

@@albertol1529 Good shout! Im the same, I assumed it would have just done it until I found the little option slider.

@@50adventures The trouble is, it uses the car algorithm, not a bike one. It means that any time shown, doesn’t include filtering. It also nots the hell out of me because when I leave my house, it gives me an ETA. When I get to the M1, all of a sudden, the ETA goes out of the roof due to 16 miles of narrow lanes from MK to past Luton. It’s really annoying!

@@albertol1529 I have never used the ETA on any satnav for anything other than to try and beat it's guestimated time 😂