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UPDATE: several items sold. Remaining: GIVI tall windscreen with two hand guards. EBC front brake pads (two sets of 2) and EBC parking brake pad. Utopia driver's backrest, three-way adjustable with leather pouch.

FOR SALE (EDITED 9.6.23 SEVERAL ITEMS SOLD) These are items sitting around in my garage from owning five C 650 GT's. Someone else should enjoy them. All in very good to like-new condition. I am selling a Utopia driver backrest ... ... a tall GIVI windscreen with hand guards ... front brake...

Cycle Trader link in the original post seems to be dead. Here is the link today: https://www.cycletrader.com/listing/2019-BMW-C+650+GT-5027488745 I bought the twin of this bike last year in Charleston, South Carolina and rode it home to South Florida. Sold it this summer in advance of a month...

Easy to remove. Ugly as sin. Uncomfortable. And unlike a Burgman 650 or Silver Wing 600, removing it doesn't add leg room. Corbin makes a custom seat for the C 650 GT that offers more legroom. You can increase that by asking them to "push back" one inch from normal specs. The seat costs around...

I love the BMW variator holding tool for belt changes but I didn't buy the special spark plug tools. Photo below of three tools I used, in order, plus a torque wrench. Below are my notes after changing the plugs on a 2013. SPARK PLUGS NGK LMAR8D-J due at 24,000 miles. TORQUE spark plug: 12...

Yikes, that's a lot of tire changes over the course of owning a CE-04. Although a BMW dealer sales lady told me the bike has a life span of five years and becomes kaput when the traction battery dies, because that battery can't be replaced. Question: is it easy to remove the front and rear...

For $99 you can get FOBO valve stem caps. I just ordered a set for an '18 Burgman 400 I bought and have used FOBO before. Great product. Not as handy as having tire pressure on the dashboard like BMW, but better than getting down on the ground to check pressure...

"Does anyone have a idea why it's doing this?" I had a rear TPMS sensor fail on my 2013 C 650 GT and the warning light never came on. The only symptom was the pressure reading disappearing, replaced by two dashes. This happened gradually and progressively. Sometimes the TPMS reading would show...

Fyi the muffler on my '16 ....

"Worked great, there's plenty of how-to info here, much of it from Delray, the King!" Aw shucks, thank you kindly. I'll defer any crown to technically-superior people, like you, Pappy, wspollack, et. al. I'm just a guy who likes to save money, do the work right and pass the info to others.

"Originally he said he needed full price to get the title from the bank." If you believe that, I own a historic bridge in Brooklyn I'd love to sell you. Not being snarky, I just can't envision any scenario where that sentence is legit. "Lost in the mail" sounds equally sketchy. From your...

"A few small breaks from life to focus on the wind and the road is all I really need to sustain a good attitude." Man, this is so true. I feel more alive riding than any other time. The act of riding (safely) demands that you stay in the moment, zeroed in on your balance and the wind and the...

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"the simplest cause of a coolant leak would be to have the drain bolt loosen" I was going to suggest with a new bike, the odds are in your favor that it's a simple issue, very possibly man-made (i.e, loose bolt). Several years ago, I had the coolant changed on a Toyota 4Runner in preparation...

Similar to your C 400 GT, the engine on my C 650 GT was "designed in Germany" but manufactured by Kymco. The bike is assembled in Berlin. I suppose various components could come from God-knows-where. It's a small world, after all. Interesting to see your C 400 GT's specs. My new-to-me '18...

As always, interesting and eloquent -- and with visual aids. Sorry for your woes, especially at the beginning of riding season. Your C 400 GT seems to have been largely trouble-free. I've heard that the bike has its share of issues, attributed to 100% Kymco production. Of course, this may be...

Wait, you would choose that BMW bike ride through the Swiss Alps over a chance to meet me?! Ha, kidding of course. That trip sounds AMAZING. I'm guessing at my dates for summer, not locked in yet. Only date for sure is July 26th for a family reunion in Rochester. Might be riding to and from...

Good chance I’ll be meeting a childhood friend in Amsterdam, mid-July, will definitely let you know, if so.

Bike looks sharp. Is that matte paint? My '19 650 GT is painted matte blue and I love it because it always looks clean. Pretty much the only thing I clean on the bike is the windscreen and rims. New York State is so beautiful. I miss that countryside. Will be heading north in a month or two for...

Ha, "break" lights. Clever. Not laughing at you, but I've read about that and seen pics of the devastation on the CE-04 Facebook page. Terrible design! Good overall insights on the bike, thank you. Another big concern I have: the BMW sales person told me battery life was around five years, and...