[John Calhoun]

I have a 2009 GSA. I am the third owner and the bike has 63000 miles on it. I have had the bike about a year and have put just shy of 10000 miles on it myself. No clue on how the previous owners were with the clutch. I have had a few instances of "smelling clutch", mostly when it was new to me. I instruct and we use our own bikes for demonstrations, and I drive in Seattle traffic a good amount of time (which is no friend of a dry clutch!). However, my clutch still feels solid.
I consider myself 'above average' mechanical-wise as I have worked on several of my own bikes for the past 25 years. I am planning on keeping this bike for a long time, so I have done some homework on for when the inevitable clutch slippage happens. I have seen a few videos on how to do it, and read a couple shop manuals. It has been decided that I am NOT doing it myself. We have a really good independent shop here in Seattle. They have good reviews and they service all the BMW bikes for the Seattle Police Department. He quotes $2500 for the job assuming nothing else is found during the process. I have literally started a separate savings account to cover this.