Uly adventures

[wally]

Went riding with guys and ladies from local TV show, Look what you're missing . They travel familiar and not so familiar roads, while documenting it. I was the only non-BMW.

Only suffered broken header studs. Few shortcomings in terms of handling on certain surfaces, but overall I survived the 600-odd km round trip.

 

[jl551c]

Uly owner here too. Thanks for representing! That looks like a lot of fun.

 

[njloco]

Check your other exhaust mounts including muffler clamps and such. I read someplace that if anything is lose, it will adversely effect the header mountings.

 

[wally]

It was fun. These leg stretch photos make the terrain seem mild, but there were some serious sections on the trip.

The Uly kept up with the big GSes - we did about 120km/h on better sections, but it has serious limitations on heavy rocky stuff and loose gravel. Turning radius, foot peg and handlebar position really let us down.

Otherwise it was great and I got no flack from the BMW guys - lots of questions though!

njloco, checked everything else and it is fine. No longer run standard exhaust. Have a custom setup, but everything 100%.

 

[jl551c]

I spent a couple weeks in South Africa in 2003. Amazing country.