We ride Honda's NX400 Falcons with custom racks and soft luggage... in South America, but for our tour from Spain to Turkey and return (including north and south coasts), we purchased 2 new BMW G650-GS with BMW panniers, bash plates, engine bars, heated grips, cubre manos, optional touring windscreen, ABS, BMW tank bags and BMW soft tail bags.

During our 3 month 2011 ride of 14,000 + K I had a head gasket replaced and Elisa had her starter replaced twice, at no cost to us. BMW service was great, even in Istanbul, but BMW has been slow in covering our hotel stays during authorized repairs. Hesitating on paying for the second starter replacement stay.

The G650-GS handles great, period .... Easy on the curves and effortless to ride... enough power for me at 91 Kilos or so and all my gear for extended touring. When the G650-GS is set up correctly, it is hard to beat. The gas milage is over 300 K per less than 15 liter tank. Very, very inexpensive! Purchase price was very reasonable too.

The stock BMW panniers for the G650-GS are a little weak (thin skinned) and indeed Elisa knocked one off on a slow downhill fall, but it seemed to have been designed to pop off instead of break, so we popped it back on and with a little duck tape over the release mount rode on. Elisa was fine.

Apparently, other G650-GS have had starter problems too. Overall, the bike is comfortable and safe. Plenty of go whether off road out running Turkish Kengal sheep dogs or leaving a swerving lorry in the dust.

Hope this helps, we plan to keep our G650s in Europe, not sell. Anyone interested in a report on the Honda NX400 Falcons we keep in Argentina, let me know, we did 34.000 K in South America over 6 countries.

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