A couple of days after writing about how to downgrade the BMW Navigator IV to get over the annoying forgotten routes issue, Garmin released v4.50. Only two items were listed as being fixed in it and no mention of a powering down/lost routes issue, but knowing that Garmin never announce all the changes, I was [...]
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I think I mentioned in a previous post that ever since upgrading the Navigator IV to release 4.40 from the Garmin Webupdater, the unit has had a problem in that it wouldn’t remember it was on a route when the bike was switched off. Following some renewed questions and comments on one of the K1600 [...]
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On Saturday we met up with a good friend we haven’t seen for some time and rode down to Wessons for lunch. We met at Sevenoaks Garden Center where we had coffee and then took a route down to Wessons I’d planned in the sat nav. It turned out to be quite a good route, [...]
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We’ve just been in Germany for nearly a week to visit Meike’s parents and to celebrate her mums 70th birthday. Nothing to report on the bike or SL front then as we went in Meike’s car for its luggage and passenger carrying capabilities. Also, a couple of weeks earlier we’d had it fitted with winter [...]
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Earlier in the week we had some horrendous weather. During Tuesday and then again on Wednesday night there was some really strong winds and while I appreciate it was a lot worse in Scotland, even here in the south east the gusts got up to around 60mph. Plenty strong enough to cause some damage although [...]
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Here I am, 7:25am, listening to the howling winds and driving rain outside. Apparently we’re in for gusts up to 60mph before the day is out, whereas yesterday it was wall to wall sunshine. OK, it was a little cold at around 7 or 8 deg. C. but it was dry and sunny – a [...]
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Happy New Year 2012 to everyone. I hope 2012 turns out to be a great year for everyone despite the economic doom and gloom and all the other problems the world has. All it needs is for everyone to care a little more for everyone else and I’m convinced most of the worlds problems would [...]
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I’ve got big hands! Well it seems so anyway because every time I try on gloves I always seem to need the XXXXL size. This means that I find standard motorcycle grips a little on the thin side, and this seems especially true with the K1600. So, just as I fitted to my previous bikes, I [...]
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The BMW Motorrad Navigator IV start up screen is a little boring. The words BMW Motorrad in black on a white background. Not at all in keeping with such a sophisticated bike. So, as it’s basically a Garmin Zumo 660 with BMW’s own software implementation, I decided to make some splash screens for it. For [...]
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OK, so I said I’d write some observations of the K1600 audio system, so here goes… I feel BMW missed a real trick with this. They had the opportunity to deliver the bikes with a state of the art audio/intercom system but instead it seems chose to deliver a sub standard system based around the [...]
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A great day for a ride to put some more miles on the K1600. The roads were a little damp and it was overcast, but no rain and about 12 degrees C. Almost perfect riding weather. Last week, looking around the web for somewhere to go I found out about a traditional VMCC (Vintage motorcycle [...]
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Or more to the point, why do I bother to place any trust in them? You guessed, I’m talking about the weather guessers who once again have failed totally to predict the weather with any accuracy whatsoever. In fact at one point today it seemed they were changing the forecast every five minutes. I don’t [...]
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