New Member Introductions » Abu Dhabi

Good afternoon all, new joiner from New Zealand (but living in the United Arab Emirates). Just received my new baby yesterday, she now has 60 kilometres onboard! Currently riding a R9T blue planet and a RE 650 Interceptor as well. OMG the manual for this is 300 pages long and then I have to read the Nav6 manual too?

Oh, I guess I should mention that she is a 2020 R1250RS with Akra end can and luggage.

Recently I heard that people in Dubai don't like The Flintstones, but people from Abu Dhabi do !!

Welcome

Welcome. The user manual is a right of passage. Especially for the TFT, ESA, and Quick shift. Other than that it’s actually quite like a motorcycle.
For the Nav VI - the Internet is your best resource.
Enjoy your new bike.

Thanks for that. I found an absolute gem of a Youtube video where a smart guy explains the tech to lay people like me and spells out the order of the connection hierarchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzPoILCj-aU

Being pretty much completely ignorant of this region of the world, what is the motorcycling like in the Emirates?

I can only speak to the Emirates as far as motorbicycling is concerned (have driven some others and I totally recommend Oman as the jewel in this particular crown) The riding here suffers from the peculiar malady of being in a super rich country. All of the arterials are huge, flat, straight 6 to 8 lane behemoths with some boasting a 160kph speed limit! End result is... boring riding and rear tyres going in the bin with 6mm left on the shoulders but bald and square in the middle :-(
Our riding season is late October to middle of April unless you have cooling vests and a super strong constitution, outside these dates it gets to 53 degrees celsius with tarmac temperatures in the high HOLY FUCK region. I have months of Alpine Envy where I sit and watch Youtube vids of people smashing the Euro Alps or riding New Zealand roads...
Still, we are income tax free and life is good.
Cheers

... and all the sand you could ever want for!

Ha ha yeah, I actually needed to contact the dealer to find out how to open the fuel cap!

I have had 45 degree C days, and I thought they were "High Holy Fuck" region. Add another 10 degrees C and i just would not know how to cope with it. Thoughts of the movie Laurence of Arabia come to mind, with bike riding gear being the flowing white robes (possibly restrained by bundgee cords) like Peter O'Toole.