Thank you guys for your condolence.

Every mechanic i met so far told me that my XT will easily exceed 100.000km. Now they are quite shocked too, as all my friends and family as well.

We believe that it started off with the cap of the radiator getting leak, which led to water evaporating out of the radiator body. But because the cooling cycle didn't run properly as a result, no water from the reservoir followed, so the true error was undetected for quite a while.

Unfortunately all of this happened in the middle of the pyrenees, after 1800 km of our 6500 km trip last year. First it seemed that only dust and mud covered up the radiator causing the coolant lamp to light up, but we soon found out, that this couldn't be the problem.

The true reason was eventually found out by a mechanic back at home. Needless to say that the bike must have gone through a lot of unnecessary attrition to that point.

update:

In the end I decided to go for another used XT660, as every other option would have been an economical disaster. At least all extras and stuff can be exchanged, so a part of my old R lives on...

Today I found a very nice bike in the near of Vienna and bought it.
Built in 2008, 13000km

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