BMW R1300GS
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Re: BMW R1300GS
It's funny how ubiquitous the look has become. The R1100 and 1150 versions looked really 'rufty-tufty' as there was very little that looked like them and they looked more like the Paris-Dakar bikes. Now they look like the standard 'touring bike'. BMW pretty much started the big ADV market, now they just blend in.
I'd still have one though.
I'd still have one though.
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SUV of the bike world, just like an SUV they are worse at everything compared to a non SUV yet people buy into the marketing thinking a bike or car will make them less dull than they are
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Re: BMW R1300GS
It's like how loads of Beatle's songs now sound really generic innit? If you were the first to do it and blazed the trail....Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:18 am It's funny how ubiquitous the look has become. The R1100 and 1150 versions looked really 'rufty-tufty' as there was very little that looked like them and they looked more like the Paris-Dakar bikes. Now they look like the standard 'touring bike'. BMW pretty much started the big ADV market, now they just blend in.
I'd still have one though.
Don't think I've seen a green GS before BTW, but I hardly have encyclopaedic knowledge on that front.
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Re: BMW R1300GS
Having had or ridden a fair few R config bikes (1150 and 1200 only) I have to say that, of all of them I'd have the R1150GS with the R1150RT in second place. That's probably down to personal usage though. If people never do 2-up touring they don't need either but need has v little to do with what people buy....or they wouldn't buy motorbikes.
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Re: BMW R1300GS
https://www.bmwblog.com/2023/09/21/bmw- ... torcycles/
Seems like BMW may have some issues stateside?
Seems like BMW may have some issues stateside?
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Re: BMW R1300GS
BMW have always been ready to do recalls and stuff if a genuine issue is found - especially in the states where I think they're very scared of the legislative situation around warranties and corporate responsibility.Nordboy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:05 am https://www.bmwblog.com/2023/09/21/bmw- ... torcycles/
Seems like BMW may have some issues stateside?
I know that the press likes to bash BMW because of this, but I'd rather a company did recalls than not.
That "Evap" system is only for the US (I think) were they're so paranoid about emissions that the fuel-tank breather has to have a charcoal cannister to prevent evaporated fuel getting out....
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Re: BMW R1300GS
My 'access all areas' to BMW bikes ended in 2006/7, so I think that was up to the 1150.Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:17 amHaving had or ridden a fair few R config bikes (1150 and 1200 only) I have to say that, of all of them I'd have the R1150GS with the R1150RT in second place. That's probably down to personal usage though. If people never do 2-up touring they don't need either but need has v little to do with what people buy....or they wouldn't buy motorbikes.
Fave for fun was the RS. My own bike at the time was an R850RT (ex-DSA examiner bike).
The GS was just physically too big, the R fitted me better.
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Re: BMW R1300GS
Well it does make sense...Rockburner wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:18 am That "Evap" system is only for the US (I think) were they're so paranoid about emissions that the fuel-tank breather has to have a charcoal cannister to prevent evaporated fuel getting out....
It's pretty funny really, we have regulations and controls on how many unburned hydrocarbons you can let out the exaust but then over in europe we make absolutely no effort to control emissions at the fill up end. You can only have teeny tiny amounts in the exhaust - but visible clouds of vapour at the pumps/nozzle? Yeah that's fine
Rare example of the US doing it better!
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Re: BMW R1300GS
Oh, as for buying what I'm marketed, the nearest they got to marketing the 1150GS to me was putting it in the window at the dealers. Went by, saw it, went 'Oooh!' and bought it*.
(I'd seen an earlier version parked up about a year before and gone 'Oooh! at that as well).
*Knowing nothing at all about them. It got me back on bikes though.
(I'd seen an earlier version parked up about a year before and gone 'Oooh! at that as well).
*Knowing nothing at all about them. It got me back on bikes though.
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Re: BMW R1300GS
That does look better - the colours certainly help. Maybe the angle, too, it hides the new frame.
Re: BMW R1300GS
1200 was 2006 - at least mine was anyway, the guy who bought it dropped it at the first junction from my house & had to come back & ask me to help him pick it upMy 'access all areas' to BMW bikes ended in 2006/7, so I think that was up to the 1150.
Rather tellingly despite the modest miles and mint std condition a dealer I spoke to wasn't interested in pxing any big BMW's because of the problems he'd experienced...
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Re: BMW R1300GS
BMW dealer? Other brand? Independent?Dickyboy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 8:16 pm1200 was 2006 - at least mine was anyway, the guy who bought it dropped it at the first junction from my house & had to come back & ask me to help him pick it upMy 'access all areas' to BMW bikes ended in 2006/7, so I think that was up to the 1150.
Rather tellingly despite the modest miles and mint std condition a dealer I spoke to wasn't interested in pxing any big BMW's because of the problems he'd experienced...
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