2022 BMW R nineT Option 719 | 2023 Updates – First 1000 miles of Ownership

Foreign. Welcome back. I'm Chris Stout. I'm going to be talking about my first year and my first 1000 miles of ownership of the BMW 2022 R ninet option 719. I just want to start off here. I had my first. I bought it in August last year, 2022. Now it's July 2023. As I write this, I love the owner's manual. Spend a lot of quality time with that. Put some tabs and some things that I wanted to keep track of. But key thing I wanted to point out too that I thought was kind of interesting. There's the original service and starting things. And then I had in April at 576 miles the basically the first check in break in which was supposed to be around 500 miles. I think they noted somewhere that it was the 600 mile service. This is the invoice for it and I just want to really keep up with this. I'm a little obsessive and nerdy about owner's manuals and keeping all the service records up to date. Things like that. They recommend another service in a year or If I hit 6790 miles. In the owner's manual proper it says that every oil change is 6,000 miles which was really kind of surprising for me. Pleasant surprise. But I'll probably get services done more quickly. The first service on it again they list it as a 600 mile service was $777. This also included picking the bike up and bringing it back. So there's a mileage charge in there too that I'm guessing probably was scooch over 200 additional dollars. They really it's kind of too bad again being kind of a service nerd. They didn't really list out all in here what was done. I'm sure it's just kind of a check through. It's really not too specific in the owner's manual either. So this is kind of where we're going to start. And next up I'll do a options and walk around of the bike currently and my experiences and opinions. Okay, so here is the in the garage aspect of this first year of ownership. Just about first year and first thousand miles on the bike to maybe just reorient you. I'm going to give a quick little summary of the configuration. It's a 2022 R90et of course option 719. I actually even got a little corny Wisconsin plate that does option 719 as well. Basically the configuration was the 719 night black matte and aluminum matte, primarily seen here. And I really like the red pop to the the frame and how it comes back out there on the rear cowling, which also comes off. I also opted for the select package, which includes dynamic traction control, adaptive headlight, dynamic engine, brake control, heated grips, cruise control, and different ride modes. So there's dynamic, I think, regular or road and wet. I've used all three and I find that I just like to leave it other than if it is. I did get caught in the rain a couple times without the rain. I really do like the dynamic mode. Other highlights are I did go for the option of the classic wheels. There's three options. There's one that comes with its standard, which is also wire, but they're laced differently. And there's also spoke wheels, which I felt this kind of didn't really go with the vibe of a retro bike, so I opted for these. I really like them. Headlight Pro and adaptive headlight. It's led and just turn it on here real quick. And I can't show you this, but when it is, when I angle it, there's also. Here's a little easter egg that there's a BMW symbol in there when you angle it. And then it fades out, which is kind of cool. Like in a corner, it will. Other parts of the light will highlight, which is kind of cool. I talked about the different modes. I've never had a bike with cruise control, which is kind of cool. I haven't done a whole lot of riding with it because I need to kind of shift up and down to most of the places that I ride. But that's a couple times I've used it and it's really pretty amazing. For me, it has ABS Pro, and that has been very helpful. And a couple of times we've got quite a few deer out here. And having ABS also is something that I wasn't used to, so that's been very helpful. And also just the whole suspension system, which is great. It's got a reversed front fork, steering damper and monoshock, which all of that just really works very, very well together. The monoshock, as you may recall, is adjustable. I have not adjusted it. And the front fork spring and damp is also adjustable, and I have not messed with any of those. I'm happy with how they came from the factory standard equipment, the variety of different kinds of things, but it's all. Also got automatic stability control, obviously, Brembo cross drill brakes, what they call a comfort turn indicator, which is just Basically that self canceling after. I don't know if it's by distance or by time, but that cancels out which is nice. Let's see just the shock absorbers. I'm just looking at my list here. The modular frame again which is nice. You'll see this with all the various kinds of iterations of this bike that it gives them great flexibility and even in their materials. They note how this is removable for customization which I thought was really kind of neat and foresightful. I hope to be able to get my wife on this a few times. So I'm gonna leave it, leave it on there probably at least for a while. And this is a removable seat. Some have had Ducatis where you take it off and there's a cushion underneath it. This is removable. And then there's another rear seat that you would then add to it. I love the chrome plated headers. I love how they're starting to turn and that's just going to be, you know, just get better and better over time and heat and distance. But after first thousand miles that's what they start to look like. And again I feel it's a sort of a nice even just kind of color combination with an add on that I did in another video of these covers. Titanium alloy covers. Let's see, ride ones we've talked about. Oh, adjustable handbrake and clutch levers. Those have been very handy. Super easy to do. Just dialable on both of them. And that has just within the first, I don't know, 50 miles. I tweaked those and got them to be in a position that I found very, very comfortable. I do like one finger braking oftentimes and that's been super to be able to do that. And again, classic shaft drive. Very happy with that. So next up comes some opinions and thoughts about the bike pros and cons. So that was the spec sheet and various and sundry things. I really didn't talk about any of the much of the add ons that I've done or tweaked with it. But please do look below for the instructional videos. A lot of the aspects and things that I've done are very simple, very few tools really. No experience that you might consider doing yourself. And then also where to source those parts. I guess I'll start off with the negatives. Earlier models just had one gauge so I'm really glad to have the two. I'm glad to have the computers, I'm glad to have all the little information, information and things that they give. But with having said all that, it's really surprising to me that it does not have a fuel gauge. I'm kind of used to that with past bikes, but I just really thought on a bike of, you know, this caliber and development that it would have a fuel gauge. So that's, that's a ding, that's a negative. It'd be nice to have, obviously not a must have. How I've dealt with that is trying to do the math in this first thousand miles of how much gas the tank holds and when the mileage indicator turns on when there is low fuel, you'll get blinking colored light here and then it'll tell you down here, sort of a countdown or not, I don't guess a count up when it's first started to see that it was low and then tells you how many miles that it's been since it's been low. Even if you stop the bike, turn the bike off, et cetera, start it back up, it will remember that last mileage. So you can kind of say, okay, I know that I've got 40 more miles to go until I really need to refuel. My math of it, maybe in a future update I'll change this, but my math of it is basically I can get about 200 miles to a tank and about 40 miles once the warning starts. So that's kind of how I calculated out just with keeping track of my odometer of how close, close or far I am with it. You can't really judge by opening up the gas cap and looking down in there, but we'll see that. I'll keep you post on that. Speaking of gas, where I live in Door County, I have only been able to find one gas station that does not have ethanol. I always run premium fuel in every bike I've ever had. And if you get premium up here, at least, at least, at least at one BP station I've been able to source it that does not have ethanol. Supposedly ethanol does not play well with all the rubber bits and pieces and things that are part of the engine's fuel system and management. Another little, just a quirky thing I had. My first BMW was actually a 1962 R69S. It had the Earl's fork. It was really beautiful. If you go to my website, you'll see some pictures of it. It was a concour winter at Barrington some years ago. Back when I had it, I just finished up pretty much it was well restored. I just finished up a few other little bits and pieces on it. And one of the things about that I bring it up because this is 20 or pardon me 50 years later, 1962 to 2022 and that 1962 and all the others also had this little place for the VIN number and stuff on the front, which I think is again a nice homage being a retro bike in that. So that's definitely a positive. I kind of scared around here on positives and negatives. It had back to positives. It's got a really good warranty. Three years on it, first thousand miles have been knocked on wood very trouble free. I don't drive it in a crazy abusive way. So I'm sure that probably has something to do with it as well. But it's just been, you know, super reliable and very, you know, good pride of ownership. Even with the little tweaks and things that I've done, I haven't messed anything up yet. There are. There seem to be a variety of aftermarket parts when you get the bike. Just even when you order the bike, you can order it with a. It's got a pretty good selection of options and things. They weren't really. The things I did weren't options they had and they have options that, you know, I didn't choose. So you could get bar end mirrors and things from them as well too, but I didn't. Modifications, if you watched any of the other of the series really are pretty easy to do. At least the ones that I've done. I'm sure you can obviously get into more complicated, sophisticated things maybe in season five or something. We'll. We'll do that with it. But otherwise it's been very easy to tweak and modify and actually I think from the factory kind of with that in mind, knowing that owners and miners will probably do some kinds of modifications. Just the other things with it for the negative side was I just really hated the mirrors. So that was. I think one of the first things I did was take those off this. I will tell you again swapped this as this is actually where the original mirrors screwed in. So I took that off, flipped it upside down and now it's down here rather than up here, which had the big just awful elephant ear kind of mirrors. The other thing that I did not like from the factory was what they called the whale tail or the. The diving board. If you look at original pictures of this bike or others that's out there and just. I really did not like that, that. So I got this daedalus tail, tidy LED, integrated lights, turn signals, etc. Light for the license plate as well. If you're interested in that, check out that video. You can see the sourcing for it. Just really happy with that. A minor one. It came with Akrapovic pipes which are very high end pipes which are great but it just really didn't have the sound that I like. So again, check out that video of all my issues and stuff with the original Akrapovics. I then went with Works usa. I've been very happy with this and again this kind of is a nice complement with how it looks. Then again with the titanium. So again just trying to be complementary, adding some splashes of color and different kinds of metals and materials, but not hopefully not going too crazy with it or anything. So those are really kind of my only negatives about it. The positives far outweigh any little cosmetic, easy kinds of changes and stuff. But I've been very happy with the performance the few times when I park it and there are people around get a lot of conversations started with it. So if you're interested I would highly recommend it. I don't think you'll be disappointed. Disappointed. It's just a very forgiving bike, very comfortable bike and first thousand miles down and really no complaints. Very happy with it. Thanks for watching. Check out the other videos if you want to learn about some of the tweaks and how I did them and where I sourced the materials. And of course, as always, ride safe. Sam.