Hey everybody, Billy from Billys Bike
Adventures. Thank you for tuning in today and watching the video.
Now as you can see I am in my garage and I have got the BMW in my garage
at the moment and today I am going to be showing you how to remove the rear
wheel off this bike and I am going to be telling you why I like to do that.
If that is of some interest to you keep watching and let's get into it.
So as I said, going to be taking the rear wheel off the bike today
so let me show you the tools you are going to need to be able to do that.
Now first up I have got a breaker bar. Now you may need this if your nuts on the rear
wheel have been torqued up too tight. They shouldn't be so you may not need a
torx wrench but it is there just, I would recommend that you have one just in case.
You should be able to undo the nuts on the rear wheel with a regular wrench,
they should only be talked to 60 Nm and to be able
to do that you need a wrench and also a T50 Torx head to undo the nuts on the
rear wheel and prior to that you will need a T30 Torx head to remove the mud guard or
the hugger on the rear wheel of the bike. What you will also need as well is a torque
wrench and that is a torque wrench and that is so obviously tighten the nuts
back up to the manufactured specifications. For the BMW, for my bike it is 60 Nm on the
nuts on the rear wheel, so you will need to torque wrench to be able to do that.
So with that in mind let's get into it.
Now for those of you that don't have the regular exhaust that
comes with the bike and you might have an Akrapovic like this one,
you are going to take this off first okay. So I have already removed my exhaust off the
bike and that's because the exhaust is pretty thick and you won't be able to slide the wheel
out from the from the shaft drive and the disc whilst you have got this exhaust on.
So if you've got the regular exhaust on you should be able to do it,
I don't so I have taken this off to be able to slide the wheel out no problems at all.
Right so what we need to do first is take off the rear mudguard or the hugger on the
rear wheel and to do that around it you will need your T30, T30 Torx head to be able to
do that so let's take that off now. Just so you know you have got three torxs nuts one,
two, three here that attached on so quite an easy removal process.
Right, that's the hugger removed. Right now onto the rear wheel.
Don't forget to put the hugger, the mudguard and the the torque nuts in a safe place.
As I said you are going to need a T50
torxs head to remove the nuts on here. You should be able to do it was just a wrench,
it should not be talked up too tight. It's only 60 Nm hopefully, not torqued tighter than that
hopefully, so you should be able to back it out back out all the five nuts, just with the torque
wrench. Another tip just make sure your wheel your bike is in gear and that is so that you have got
some leverage to undo the nuts on the bike. So looking in the in the hub here, the wheel hub,
you can see there are five Torx head nuts in there, so let's back those out now with the T50.
There you go, five nuts out now. The beauty of a shaft, shaft drive bike,
there is no chain to mess about with. That just pops off the off
the the wheel hub there and that's your wheel removed, so there you go.
So I have got my rear wheel off the bike now and there is three main reasons that
I like to be able to take my wheels off the bike. First one and the most important one
for me is if I am ever out somewhere and I get caught short and I need to
take the wheels off for whatever reason it is, gives me confidence that I know
how to do that and that's the most important reason for me, so that's reason number one.
Second reason is that I like to save myself a little bit of cash. So if I want to change
the tyres, or the tyres on my bike, I should at least know how to remove the wheels off the bike
and take those wheels to my tyre supplier. It is going to half your cost of what it's
going to cost you to change the tyres on your bike immediately just by doing that.
And the third reason that saves me even more money is actually changing the tyres
myself. So there is a couple of cards up top. One is to show you how to remove the
wheels off a KTM and this video is obviously about removing this this wheel off the BMW,
there is another card up top as well about how to change tyres on these big adventure bikes,
on these big adventure bikes that a tubeless as well. So those are my three main reasons.
One is the I'm, I know exactly what I'm doing when I am out and about,
if I need to take the wheels off.
The second and the third one is really about saving money and I hope they are
going to be some cash saving tips for you as well.
Putting this wheel back on now should be pretty straight forward. Going to sit the wheel on the
ring the hub ring here, position up the holes with the torx nuts, torx nut holes and then it
should be straight forward just to put the torx nuts back in, so let's get that done.
Right. They are done up finger tight now. What I am going to do now is tighten them up pretty
firmly with the with the regular wrench and I am going to do that diagonally and then I
am going to torque them to 60Nm, which is the recommended torques for this particular bike.
Time for the torque wrench.
I preset this to 60Nm and I am just checking that is still correct, which it is.
So again I am going to torque them diagonally.
That's the wheel torqued back up,
ready for the hugger and the mudguard to go back on, on the other side.
So that is how to remove the rear wheel off the BMW R1200 GS A. Hope
that has been useful and interesting for you today. If it has give me a thumbs up,
also leave me a comment as well. Don't forget to share with other like-minded
riders that has got a BMW and want to learn how to remove the wheel off their bikes.
They should do that in order to become more familiar with the bike so should
there become short somewhere they know, and they need to remove the wheels,
then know how they are going to be able to do that and do that confidently.
So thank you very much for watching today I hope
you find that useful and I will catch you again very very soon.