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I went for a ride on my C 400 GT two days ago, doing this (counter-clockwise) loop from the Albany, NY, area: Here are a couple of short chunks of that ride (30FPS, 4K). NY Rt. 22, Columbia County (NY) Rt. 21, Harlemville Rd. (13 minutes): Columbia County (NY) Routes 28B & 32 (5 minutes):

I went for a ride two days ago, going a little farther south than I usually ride in that direction, and then going in a pretty random manner west and north, trying out some roads I'd never been on (clockwise): In case anyone will be in the region, and so may be interested in some...

@MWicked : 1) I have a '23 C 400 GT (and before that, a '22 C 400 GT), not a CE-04, but I've been reading the forum for three years now and don't recall reading any posts in which much love has been expressed for BMW's app. As you note, the interface leaves much to be desired. Also, the...

For most of this (Sept. 5, 2026) morning, I was unable to access the forum. Attempting to refresh the WHAT'S NEW page (https://www.bmw-scooters.com/whats-new/) on either my desktop Firefox browser or my phone's Safari browser, eventually I get this message: (By the way, I just stay logged on...

For anyone interested, I did a 0-60 test on my '23 C 400 GT recently: This was near the very end of a six-hour (including an hour for lunch) goofing-off day, so the bike was certainly fully warmed up. By the way, I did prior tests on this scooter -- 10.3, 9.0, 9.5, 9.4, respectively (and one...

I know this is a remote possibility, but on the off-chance that anyone else is interested in this stuff, I just finished replacing my suction-cup mounting system for my GoPro with an all-metal system. I have been using this Panavise-based system on my C 400 GTs ('22 and then '23) for four years...

1) I don't do my own maintenance -- I'm pretty old and creaky, and so confine my activities to electrical farkles -- but I just looked at the shop manual, and, as you opined, it states that the big underseat washtub needs to be removed: 2) WARNING: If you've never removed that washtub -- or...

I went for a ride yesterday, going southwest of Albany, NY, on my C 400 GT scooter (counter-clockwise): I had lunch in Delhi (NY) -- that's the partially obscured name, at the westernmost point in the map -- at the Blue Bee Cafe (www.facebook.com/bluebeecafeNY), which is a very nice place, if...

Not that I'm aware of. The guard is attached to other stuff, which in turn are attached to the moving swing arm. That is, the whole mess moves with the tire/swing arm combination, so nothing should change -- over bumps, not over bumps -- in terms of the distance of the mud guard from the top of...

I went for a ride with a friend yesterday. I led the way on my hooligan C 400 GT (as opposed to my Royal Enfield Meteor 350), followed by him on his RE 411 Himilayan. Here's where we went (clockwise), but he had to call it a day early because some family issues arose -- hence the highway stint...

I went for a goofing-off ride on my C 400 GT yesterday (Wednesday), almost entirely back roads, until I was almost home again. Due east into MA, and then a good bit south (into CT a bit), then back west into NY again, and then assorted roads back north: Here are four of my "highlight reels,"...

I can't imagine why this setting would change as a result of dealer service, but in any event @mzflorida gives the TFT steps in his post from about four years ago: https://www.bmw-scooters.com/threads/comfort-turn-signal.2674/#post-23977 (As I noted in that thread, on balance I dislike that...

As a consequence of reading the recent posts here, I went out to the garage and did some tread-depth measurement. I had measured the City Grip 2 max depth, when new, at 6/32 and 7/32 (F/R). Now, they're about 4/32 and 5/32. That's after almost exactly 4,000 miles on them, so it looks as if...

I've mostly been riding my other 350, i.e., my Royal Enfield Meteor 350, thus far this season, checking out some major hardware changes made to it over the winter. But yesterday, in between life's other appointments, I managed to get a nice ride in on the C 400 GT. I went from my home in NY...

If anyone's interested in BMW's C 400 GT competition in Europe and Asia (alas, not in North America), you might want to watch the first seven minutes of Scooteria's latest review: (Scooteria is a vlogger out of Berlin, who also vlogs as Marc Stones in English, and I subscribe to both...