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I've tried searches both here, Google, and the Haynes website but can't find a service manual for a 2010 R1200R.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Check out Haynes Service & Repair Manual #4598 for BMW R1200 Twins '04 to '09. It covers the R along with the GS, the ST, the S and the RT.

Mike - thanks for the tip, but just to be sure - it'll cover the '10 just fine? It's the same bike so it seems like it would, but the '09 cutoff of the manual makes me hesitate...

The Haynes book (I have it) covers only Hexhead bikes. Doesn't the 2010 R have the Camhead motor? If so, this book wouldn't address the motors' top-end, nor the other changes to instrument design and mounting. I'll guess that Haynes will have an updated edition sometime. Haynes has a US office in Newbury Park CA; ask and see what they say.

Greg, I don't know for sure. But dbrick makes a good point: if your bike is a hexhead, this manual will cover it. If your bike is the new camhead, it won't.

Dave, I missed you this weekend. Let me know next time you are coming down.

Dave/Mike - Thanks for the replies. I've got a Hexhead so I'm going to go with the R1200 '04-'09 Manual.

Thanks again!

I looked and it appears the 2010 R1200 Haynes is not out yet. Chop, are you sure you don't have camhead engine? You may be better off waiting, or seeing if you can find a manual for a bike with an HP engine.

jkhomes wrote:I looked and it appears the 2010 R1200 Haynes is not out yet. Chop, are you sure you don't have camhead engine? You may be better off waiting, or seeing if you can find a manual for a bike with an HP engine.

I agree it's not listed, which is why I posted the original question. I'm pretty sure the '09 and '10 models are just about the same, and the new camhead engine didn't hit the R12R until '11, while it was in the GS and RT a year earlier. The camhead being in the GS and RT for '10 may be the reason why the Haynes manual stops at '09 for the hexheads even though the hexhead engine was still in the R12R in '10...

Were there any changes to the R12R from '09 to '10 that I'm missing?

My 2010 is a Hexhead.

The 2010 R1200R is a hexhead. The camheads didn't make it to the R1200R model until 2011.

Jed wrote:The 2010 R1200R is a hexhead. The camheads didn't make it to the R1200R model until 2011.

And the difference between an '09 and '10 is - the model year. That's it..

deilenberger wrote:And the difference between an '09 and '10 is - the model year. That's it..

Don - Thanks for the confirmation.

deilenberger wrote:

Jed wrote:The 2010 R1200R is a hexhead. The camheads didn't make it to the R1200R model until 2011.

And the difference between an '09 and '10 is - the model year. That's it..

Hi,Don Eilenberger!!

I highly apprishiate your knowlidge of bmw,cars/bikez.I am your fan.I know a lot of bmw bikez,but not nearly as you do.I am sorry abouth my not so good english!I am reading your posts with open eyes,and I am learning from you!In1975/76 I drove R75/5 in Yugoslavia.I got poisoned with bmw.Since that time I was dreaming to have that bike.Unfortunatelly I have had no chances to bye one since I have no money for it..I had to estabelish my family here in Canada.I come to Canada 20 years ago.After beeng withouth bmw for 36 years,at age of 54 Im buying R1200R apple red.It should arrive in february,I am so eager to have it!!!It is very basic modell +on board computyer not
hing else.

Best regards Don, and thank you!!
Steve H.

Steve H. wrote: Best regards Don, and thank you!!
Steve H.

Best regards to you also Steve.. the cars side I don't talk a bunch about here since they're just transportation..