Come PROTEGGERE il MOTORE del BMW GS 1250 ADVENTURE - Tutte LE SOLUZIONI - TWALCOM

Hi guys, how are you? I hope everything is fine. Today, next to this beast, we resume from where we left off last time, going to deal with a very interesting topic, that is, safety. Not ours, but in the bike, which is still important. At BMW, you define this bike GS Adventure. But what does adventure mean? If we look in the vocabulary, the word adventure means a particular event, an extraordinary event. If we teleport on the bike, it could mean a particular trip, an extraordinary trip, such as the Salar Boliviani, the Apuna Argentina, in Alaska, in Kyrgyzstan, in the Gobi Desert, and whoever it is, the more it puts. In any case, special places, extraordinary places. But this bike is ready for adventure. However, having said that, is the mechanical part of this bike ready to face certain paths in certain contexts? For a moment, let's move in Patagonia along the route 288 to the moment of the fall. I know very well that it hurts to see these images, but remembering the past is always constructive, at least I hope. It's a bit like having the saint on the dashboard of the car, while you drive, you look at it and it makes you reflect. Once I read a very interesting phrase, you become really wise when you live in the present, you plan for the future, and you take advantage of the past. So let's try to take advantage of these images. I pass here, every time you make that passage and then you pass in the middle of the carriageway where everything is more loose, it is always a turn to the other side. Beautiful! At this point, as I always say, the question arises spontaneously, but if we had not fallen with the Super Ténéré and we had fallen with this one, how would the fall have come out? Honestly, I think about it often, but first for a moment I try to immerse you in the context. We were alone, we still had to do 120 km with a road in those conditions and another 70 km of asphalt to get to the first checkpoint. For the whole day we met a single car, a Renault 19 Chamade, I don't know if you remember it. The car had all the two tires behind punctured, it was overloaded and traveled with only the rims and the rims made sparks. Opening a fundamental parenthesis, the important thing is that we did not hurt ourselves, close parenthesis, but if the bike had had a problem in that context of reflection it would have also been a small problem for us. If you remember and have seen some videos of that period, on the Super Ténéré I had installed the engine guards, I had hooked two bags to the engine guards. These bags that you see hooked to the engine guard, I put them because in addition to not occupying space in other luggage, inside there is something soft, something compressible. In the specific case here, on the right side, we find two memory cushions for when we sleep in the tent. On the other hand, on the left side, I keep the cloth, it covers the bike. This means that in case of a fall, these cushions are used to reduce the impact. I had put inside the bags compressible objects, nothing solid, nothing rigid that could, in case of a fall, aggravate the situation. I had thought of this solution at home because with such a loaded bike, in certain conditions, obviously the fall is behind the corner. So I had opted for a sort of airbag in case of a fall and I can guarantee you that this solution has saved both sides of the Super Ténéré. Basically, if the bike had not overturned, I would have just marked the side bags and nothing more. Returning to the GS Adventure, which has a transversal boxer engine with very exposed heads, how would it have come out? To answer such questions, we move on to the critical point of the bike, that is the heads. Because as it is true on the one hand that this engine, for its intrinsic characteristics, has made many motorcyclists fall in love, it is also true that this engine, for its conformation, is very exposed in case of a fall. So now let's go and analyze all together if the BMW designers have done an excellent job of protection to be able to give this bike the name of Adventure. What you see is the simulation of the line of the bike's halves, basically to make it simple, where the wheels of the bike slide, the axis of the bike. If we take this bar rectified in impoverished titanium, practically the handle of the broom is also broken, and we support it to the paracylinder tubulars, look what happens. The bar in impoverished titanium exceeds the axis of the bike's halves, but the interesting thing is that as we go towards the rear, we get closer to the axis of the bike's halves. What does this mean? It means that as we go towards the rear, the bar is slightly more bent, practically when the bike touches the ground, it touches this area slightly earlier. The fact that you touch this area slightly earlier is not causal, because these bars have three anchor points, one is this, the other is this and the other is this. Practically this whole area does not have an anchor point, this is the weakest point of the others, it is the point where the bar flexes the most. In detail, this is the anchor point towards the rear, the other two are in the front, low and high. To make you understand what I mean, I'll give you this simulation. The fact that this is the area of ​​the greatest flexion is mechanically evolved, because the designers added this rubber, which is thicker at the point of greatest flexion and follows the profile of the head. If you look at the light of about 5mm, how does this solution translate? It translates into the fact that in the event of a fall, the tubular flexes, consequently the rubber goes down on the head and creates a sort of shock absorber. Congratulations to the designers of BMW because they really did something of design and mechanically speaking, very simple but functional. To close the speech at 360 degrees, look at this further detail, I try to illuminate it, follow the design of the heads. This is the point of greatest flexion, which means that in the event of a fall, this is the point that approaches the ground more than the others, but how much remains so as not to touch the ground? Also for this, congratulations to the designers of BMW because theoretically, in the event of a fall, these heads are preserved by this original paracylinder. After all these congratulations to the designers of BMW, let's see if we can actually define this bike as an Adventure. It's just that it's 9.02 p.m. on Saturday, October 7th, Sara has just written to me that she will eat in 10 minutes, the spritz did not bring it to me as you suggested in the comments, so where to avoid discussions, let's shoot tomorrow. So let's go to see all the possible solutions to give this bike the name of ADVENTURE. First, however, I have to tell you one thing, from Neofit to BMW I am discovering an almost terrifying world of aftermarket accessories. With the Super Tenerè, if I needed to tailor my bike to size, I had to design that accessory and make it. Here, if you think of something, you look for it online and practically someone thought of it before you. This thing, on the one hand, is beautiful, on the other hand, it means having a lot of solutions and when you have too many choices, as I always say, you struggle to make the choice. But let's go step by step, going back to the critical point of the bike, I can guarantee you that I have really dedicated a lot of time to the analysis of all the engine guards present on the market. I've seen Isotta, Wunderlich, SW Motec, Touratech, guys, I've seen them all. And what is my conclusion? My conclusion is that these original engine guards are not to be thrown away, on the contrary, they are among the best on the market. Why do I say this? Because they have an excellent finish, they are made of steel, they are aesthetically beautiful and that concept of smoothing the fall with this rubber, I personally like it a lot. But if we focus on the protection aspect, which, among other things, is the focus of this video, in my opinion there are two better bars than these. The first are the Touratech, because they have the tubes more distant from the heads and they have also added a fourth anchor point on the frame. But it is not a real anchor point because in the end there is a pad, so that discourse of smoothing the fall still remains, but there is a fourth anchor that reinforces them. If we want to transform this bike into a real globetrotter, always from my point of view, the best in absolute terms regarding the protection aspect are the Outback Motortech. So you Francesco will have equipped your bike with the Outback Motortech bars, and instead no? In the sense that if this bike had to take its place I would keep it around the world, I would definitely equip the bike with the complete kit of the bars, because this bike needs protection and those from my point of view are the best bars. Indeed, I would also add the cup holder because the original cup holder is practically a sheet of cardboard. But given the current use, I opted for a palliative solution and even here the choice was complicated. The palliative solution is to find something that covers this hole or covers only the heads, leaving the original bars. Even here, among the infinite protections, I came to a dead end. The first solution was to put the original BMW cup holders in steel, the second solution was to put a plate that was anchored to these tubulars. The important thing, however, is that both solutions did not force me to remove the rubber, because if we go to remove the rubber hooked on tubulars, guys, the whole concept that I told you in the video is going to die. Now, however, you tell us what you have chosen. Let's go to open this package. Clip. Let's start with the package, I would say, perfect. This is the palliative solution. Let's go with the unboxing live. I repeat, I wrap it, guys, perfect. Opening, envelope, closed, double coating, here is the palliative solution. Nice finish, beautiful. This is the inside and this is the outside. 5mm black anodized aluminum. Let's open the other one, let's go faster. And these should be the anchors, also here, perfect packaging. Guys, look at the precision, honestly, it's the first time I've ever seen such precision. Ok, these will be the instructions, even instructions with colored photos. Let's see here too, brand sticker, even a package with protections and instructions separately. The protections are inserted in these four points. They are also shaped, obviously, this will go here, this will go here and this will go here. Let's go with the gluing. First, however, I read all the instructions and then I talk about it in detail. Ok, this is the left side protection, let's go and do the right side protection. Ok, let's position the last one, ok. Before installing them, I am going to pass a product to polish the bars, because I see points with stains like here, surely caused by aggressive detergents, a product like this to polish the chrome, but also to polish the metals. In fact, the stain is gone, look, you don't smell it, I really like it. The pleasant thing about these works is that with dilution and elbow oil, the surfaces seem to return as new. However, the product is very little enough, I put it especially where the anchors go. However, the finish of these engine guard bars is beautiful. If you look at this point where there was the stain, it is practically gone. Come on, before installing it, I'll show you in detail. 5mm thick, inside there is this 2cm thick mousse, which obviously serves to soften the impact. On the four corners, as you have seen, there is a rubber applied to protect the original tubulars. All the small parts are made of stainless steel and also all the supports are identical in size, so we can't go wrong. Always in detail, Torx screws, beveled head in steel, steel plate. Another plate that embraces the tubular, always in steel. Basically, the beveled plate is inserted from behind, the plate goes back again because it is threaded and the beveled head screws are screwed from this side. Last detail, speaking of steel screws and steel plates, the advice is to add copper grease to the threading to avoid gripping. First the beveled plate and then the flat plate. Let's see if we can. The advice is to put the top first, the screws should not be pulled, they must remain slow, because the protection must be able to slide back and forth. Let's try to insert that one at the bottom, second screw, let's go with the third plate. We took confidence, very simple installation. As I always say guys, if I can do it, don't worry, this is a basic level. Now the tightening must be done in progression to find the right position. As a manual we go to tighten the screws with the torque wrench, I use this one that I use on the frame of the carbon bikes because the pull must be very small, 5 Nm. Let's set it to 5 Nm, we're already there, I think we're there, torque wrench 5 Nm, detach. For those who do not know the torque wrench, the concept is very simple, when you get to the tightening, the wrench makes this movement here, to warn you that the selected tightening torque has arrived. As always seen in detail, I try to show you the attachments, I think I have centered it, because if I look at all the corners, they are largely in the same position. The piece is designed very well because despite the folds, all the folds are in the exact point. Front view, let's look at it from above, I try to show you this detail if I can, the internal hub does not touch the head by about 1 cm at the point of maximum protrusion. That is the detail of the internal plate to show you the anchor. So guys, maybe we did it, one of the most complicated videos in the history of the channel, but now without boring you by showing you the assembly of the other plate, what to say. These plates are produced by the company Tualcom, they have a thickness of 5 mm and are made of aluminum, but here you have to be careful, you don't have to make the mistake of thinking that all the objects that are made of aluminum are the same. Talking about the price, they cost € 250 the pair, as far as the aesthetic aspect is concerned, I personally like them a lot, especially with this black finish, but here I repeat, it is a purely subjective speech. Returning instead to the speech that interests us the most, that is the protection, why did I choose it? Because I wanted to keep the original tubulars because I really like that concept of cushioning, I wanted to reproduce in this bike a bit the thought that I had on the Tenerona, in the sense of creating a micro airbag in case of a fall. At the same time, inside they have 2 cm of absorbent material and there is also an additional centimeter of light, the concept that I have in mind when we talk about protection is that the protection must not be rigid. Come on, let's slowly turn it into a real GS Adventure, bye guys! you