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Well I got my R1150GS Adventure yesterday at about 5.30pm in Forest Gate. A "lovely" ride back on the North Circular the M4 west to Bracknell. Those bloody panniers do not assist with filtering during rush hour. The owner died a few months back and I was buying it from his widow via the owner of Bermondsey Motorcycles who was at her house to meet me. All went swimmingly as he showed me the way to the A406 then the problems started once I weas on my own. A bit of a misfire at low revs, an intermittent tacho and after two hours of shitty traffic and an oily left boot and pannier once I pulled up at home. I dumped it on the drive and went out for the rest of the evening. The Faceache group said it was likely to be the oil filler cap on the left cylinder head and once started up this morning was correct, phew. I think the oil leak may have got to the left plug and cap causing the misfire, we'll see.
Seller's ebay photo.