all right guys so today's gonna be very different from my usual videos where i have like cameras on
tripods and i show you how to do stuff this is gonna be more of just a vlog sort of thing of
setting up - there's my pup - these GIVI brackets that i picked up from carpi moto for the bmw
g650 gs. i think this is going to be the best mod that i could do for the bmw because it's such a
versatile bike you can use it in so many ways with so many different functions so i'm really
excited to be able to add some hard bags i also lucked out i found some people who are selling
hard bags nearby me for like half of what they would normally go for because they were used so
score i did buy from carpi moto i'm gonna link to amazon because most of you guys are in the u.s
it took me like probably five minutes to unpack everything they had it super really well like
huge huge bubble wrap sheets which looks like both a combination of
givi's original packaging and then carpi moto's boxing everything really carefully so that was
cool that they put so much into it and yeah i'm gonna just carry this out to the garage put the
bmw on the table lift and we'll get started. all right so one thing i am gonna have to admit is
i'm a little bit intimidated about doing the assembly on this because it seems kind
of very weird. it seems like ikea on crack. usually you know how with ikea you have like
multiple pictures and every step is a different picture well this is just the instructions
that came with it were just one picture like 30 pieces but just one picture. my dog's pooping
yeah you're on video. all right so i'll be honest with you guys the garage is an
absolute disaster i'm sorry about that i'm in the middle of a project on this suzuki,
i have my buddies moto guzzi that i also am doing a series on, basically in the middle of
two different video series so it's a little bit chaotic in here. life's crazy right now and also
it's like a zillion degrees every single day so i try to spend as little time in the garage
as possible and for some reason my lighting is very bad there we go. okay so these are
the instructions like i said there's absolutely no real words or whatever it's just here's a bunch of
pictures good luck! so yeah we're just gonna kind of get into it and see what happens. all right so
gotta start by just laying everything out over the quantities making sure it's all there. i always
make the same mistake of doing this on the floor and then my dog just decides to like run through
and kick everything everywhere. i refuse to learn this lesson so they're gonna stay on the floor.
and there she goes yep you just stay right next to there okay? oh boy this is gonna go bad. yeah
there it is! that didn't last long! get out of here puppy. yep yeah just what i thought okay.
all right so what i'm calling step one because there's no real steps on that paper over there
is actually it's pretty easy just a bolt and a little washer through this kind of
they call it the bridge piece. i'm leaving everything loose because it all has to kind
of fit together so before i tighten everything up i'm just gonna leave it kind of loose make sure it
all fits and then i'll tighten it all up together. and just to make life a little easy for myself...
dog still in the way, yep
alright so my step two because there actually aren't any steps
is uh just to put this through it's the smaller one on each side it's the m6 and i put a little
bit of i think it's dumb because i feel like these parts are gonna be hard to get in,
i don't even know how to take this off and there's weird attachments still to do, and i feel like
you're setting yourself up to scratch your pipes so i use some of their bubble wrap just to protect
the pipe a little bit. i feel like i'm actually gonna have to undo this to make the other two
parts where the brackets hook up actually work but we'll try it their way and yeah we'll see.
i don't even know if if i'm supposed to be reading from left to right or if they're just giving me
you know just a picture and it just happened to work this way so i basically did this part
complete and now we'll be working on this part here. okay i've been around for over 30 years
been riding for almost half of them i was today years old when i learned that this piece comes out
just like that! the bolt underneath here is a torx t40 these are not very easy to come by, by chance
i had one, you really want one for this bike it's the same thing you need to adjust your chain down
low. you can find a video on that on my how to remove the rear tire on the g650gs i'll link to
it up here somewhere but yeah torx t40, if you buy this bike it's g650gs you gotta have one of these.
all right it's like 6,000 degrees i am less than naked. all right nothing seems to be perfectly
lining up things are popping out of place i feel like i'm at risk of threading if i tighten
stuff up too much so i'm just being very slow and careful right now
i'm hoping at the end when it all does kind of line up that'll all fall into place,
got these in on both sides my next step is to try and connect down here. all right i
put clothes back on for this one part, when you're trying to get these things into here,
it's going to want to just spin and spin forever, here's the trick for when you got to do this part
to get in the back of the foot peg mount. you don't just loosely put it in there or
as you're trying to thread with this it's just going to pop it out, you got to actually
take these two and just like squeeze that little bastard in there and then once you've done that
now this is stuck in place, chuck that in there line up that hole,
and then if you are really blessed and someone loves you you will have a 12 mil that ratchets
and that's going to make getting this on super easy.
do we have any hardware left?
it's like a thousand degrees. oh that is a thing of beauty right there! no
hardware left! which means if we just tighten everything up
good job by the way i'm really appreciative of your help. yeah yeah high five good job yeah.
so let's see if we can tighten things up or not or if it's all kind of really [ ___ ] up.
all right guys let me just tell you as a skinny person i tend to run cold not hot but man oh man
it is hot however i do feel like this is well worth it.
both sides looking good, so let's put these bags on and see how it looks. watch out puppy.
oh yeah! oh my god these things are huge oh!
look at the size of that thing! hey did i mention that originally we were going to go with the
33 liters and then i saw the 40 liter for like oh a third of the price.
wow bike just got three times wider! let's put the other one on
yep definitely tripled the size of my bike
however wow!
man this is like, you could really take this places, now now they got like 40 40. that's uh
that's a bmw oem so maybe it's like 33. like you got a lot of cargo capacity holy cow. i think i'm
gonna wrap up this video like this i'm gonna take the bike out for a rip if everything feels great
i'm going to leave it at that and if it doesn't i will come and report back any issues i find.
the only foreseeable problem i see is that this pipe looks like it's actually going to be running
right along the support bracket so i'm not too excited about that i don't know if it's
going to cause more vibration or what the heck's going on over there, but i asked people on the
internet you know with this leo vince exhaust is it actually going to fit clearly and everything?
and people said yeah no problem! but you know those idiots on the internet oh wait that's me