I am so glad that I had the opportunity to do a  number of 'practice runs' over the last couple of months or so. I took the bike out for a spin whenever possible. After one of these I noticed some green liquid dripping down the front of the bike! There was a pin hole in the radiator. At closer inspection of the radiator it turned out that it was pretty bend (see photo) and suffered some irreparable damage.  (Wasn't me!). A small part with a big price tag! Believe it or not, but they cost more than NZ$500 at your friendly BMW dealer! But hey, the good thing is that it happened now here in New Zealand and not somewhere in Patagonia with no BMW dealer for the next 2,500km or so.