[pdejager60]

Hi Guys - have been riding GS,s since 2002 and would you believe it I only came upon this forum for the first time today.......I suppose this tell you already that I am a bit BC..
Anyway, my name is Pieter and currently I have a 2006 1200 GSA in the garage, bought it new and currently she sits at 145k kilos - not the highest I have seen, but nicely run in by now. Trouble free kilos with absolutely no money spent on maintenance apart from services (which I mostly do myself) and of course things like tyres, brake discs and nothing more. What it did cost me extra was a drive shaft pretty early on, but that was due to my own ignorance because I never cleaned and applied grease to the shaft at the FD side....
I added a 2015 GSA LC to the aircooled a few weeks ago, and since then I have been reading up a lot about problems on these models, and that is how I ended up at this site here, on the trial of all the horror stories regarding the drive shaft problems....Am I right if I say that if you have the drain thingy done and regularly clean and grease the splines this is not really an issue? I am worried that I bought myself a headache here....

 

[AntVan_ZA]

Should not be an issue. Follow the service schedule and if you encounter a lot of water crossings, just inspect and lube every 10 months or so. I've have one of those early LCs from 2013 that everyone told me would kill me and would fall apart immediately the warrantee was over. I just hit 78200 this morning, small issues here and there but show me a motorcycle that does not need something done in 10 years. Also a lot of the GS-killers from that era that I saw on the road a lot, I do not se them now anymore. I don't know what happened to those bikes, but it seems they quietly stopped riding for some reason. I see a lot of older GS's on the road, and very few of those older GS-killers. Funny thing

 

[Hogges]

Hi Guys - have been riding GS,s since 2002 and would you believe it I only came upon this forum for the first time today.......I suppose this tell you already that I am a bit BC..
Anyway, my name is Pieter and currently I have a 2006 1200 GSA in the garage, bought it new and currently she sits at 145k kilos - not the highest I have seen, but nicely run in by now. Trouble free kilos with absolutely no money spent on maintenance apart from services (which I mostly do myself) and of course things like tyres, brake discs and nothing more. What it did cost me extra was a drive shaft pretty early on, but that was due to my own ignorance because I never cleaned and applied grease to the shaft at the FD side....
I added a 2015 GSA LC to the aircooled a few weeks ago, and since then I have been reading up a lot about problems on these models, and that is how I ended up at this site here, on the trial of all the horror stories regarding the drive shaft problems....Am I right if I say that if you have the drain thingy done and regularly clean and grease the splines this is not really an issue? I am worried that I bought myself a headache here....

Welcome to the forum!

Happy hexhead owner here (2009 GS), but I don’t see how an LC driveshaft should be any less reliable than the older models, as it’s basically the same thing. Inspect regularly, as I assume you already know how to do from your current bike, and it should last a long time. And the recent drain addition and dealer inspection/possible replacement with a new shaft should further reduce any worries. I think the problems mainly happened to folks who got water into the shaft area for one reason or another and then had it sit there un-inspected for a long time, possibly years.