Another morning exercise, BMW riding school, lesson 17: riding with a blocked front wheel. The front mudguard on the GSA protects the mud well (compare bodyguard), it takes VERY hard work with a tire lever to clean the narrow gap between the tire and the mudguard. No idea what the engineers were thinking when designing this - that it never rains around here? That people only do wheelies in the mud? That the adventure with the GS Adventure is getting to know nice local people who help push you out of the mud again? (In Hungary last year I ended up drinking beer with the kind guy who pushed and pulled the bike with me for about 4 km.)
Anyway, since I had seen this before, turned around immediately when the mud started accumulating, but going back those 200 m to firmer ground still took a whole hour.
If anybody knows what to do with the mudguard, please comment. Removing it involves removing the front wheel, which is not my idea of fun when already stuck in the mud. Having it always off seems to leave several fragile-looking parts vulnerable. Touratech sells a replacement, but it is not really much different, and even cannot be, because there is simply no room for a more distant mudguard.
Anyway, since I had seen this before, turned around immediately when the mud started accumulating, but going back those 200 m to firmer ground still took a whole hour.
If anybody knows what to do with the mudguard, please comment. Removing it involves removing the front wheel, which is not my idea of fun when already stuck in the mud. Having it always off seems to leave several fragile-looking parts vulnerable. Touratech sells a replacement, but it is not really much different, and even cannot be, because there is simply no room for a more distant mudguard.
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