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Oxford Heaterz Premium Adventure heated hand grips. New, in opened box, never installed. $50 shipped USPS.

My Xmax is averaging 89 MPG.

I never changed the air filter on my departed 2014 with 27K miles on the clock. The bike consistently got 64+ MPG the whole time I owned it. The new owner was aware of this and not concerned. Edit: I stopped using Fuelly years ago when my son Max started riding with me.

Or instead of a toot-toot warning with the horn as you are about to pass someone with the throttle wide open you drop two gears in the same amount of time it takes to say "toot-toot." My fix was a piece of PVC tubing packed with steel putty jammed over the turn signal switch that stayed on the...

I have only sat on one once at a Honda dealership, the tank was half full, I found the bike at 5'-8" to be very top heavy. A friend of mine has one and loves it. He redid the wiring on his bike and just for giggles he weighed the headlight housing and said it weighed 38 lbs.

I sold mine two days ago.

Welcome back to riding and good luck with your new bike. I highly recommend joining a BMW club if one is available in your area. The BMW Motorcycle Owners of America has a list of clubs here: https://www.bmwmoa.org/page/clubs The official policy of the national club is to accept all brands for...

The first 'Stich I bought I found on Ebay for $275, it was a too big 46 Regular with a huge Bohn back protector included. I sold it for $350 after wearing it for 6 years. Three years ago bought the used two piece pictured below on Ebay for $369, size 44 Short which feels like it was tailored...

IIRC Scooterboi on the ADV Rider forum replaced his final drive chain on one of his two Heinkel Tourist scooters at 125,000 miles. That chain sits in an oil bath.

I was just looking at Dowco covers to replace the cover I discarded and just to complicate matters Dowco now makes a cover that zippers closed over the rear of the bike.

I left out that that behavior occurs when I'm riding in Drive mode not Sport. The 2014 bikes only have Drive, Sport or Manual to choose from.

I had a Dowco Weather-All Plus in size XL that would cover the bike with the Givi top and side cases on most of the way down the bike to about a foot or so short of the ground. That cover lasted 15 years before the softer heat resistant area on the lower20 inches of the cover started to fall...

My 2014 DCT bike will shift into 6th at 38 MPH on a level surface.

Let me twist your ear off about my club. I joined the BMW Motorcycle Owners of Vermont, the main BMW MC club here in VT back when I was still riding my Honda Silver Wing scooter. They're a great bunch of people, I was welcomed with open arms and I was even VP for three years. Our club is a BMW...

That's how I found my first pair of Gore Tex Oxtar (now TCX) Matrix boots. They were $108 on closeout at Motorcycle Gear dot com when the Oxtar brand was bought out and the name changed to TCX. They lasted about 14 years before the zippers broke on both boots within a month of each other. After...