Another GSA WC ride report but with a question?
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The engine sound is different in a way that you either like or don't but I love the way that it goes . Mine has a buzzing vibration which starts at 3000 rpm then disappears at 3500 rpm but the gearbox isn't using the final oil yet. So far very very happy. Speedo is truly useless though and digital display is not a great help.
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I also road tested one from the BMW dealership in Dorchester a few weeks ago.
Joy to ride all the way to Bridport...smooth, powerful, luxurious and even in the oncoming rain kept me dry and feeling quite safe and secure.
But when slowed down to go through Bridport, I did hear (and feel) that washing machine semsation. (See below from previous poster)
This was my question, do they all sound the same?. This sounded like it had no oil in it and the engine sounded like a bicycle with a twig stuck in the back wheel, there was a constant clickerty clackerty sound and it sounded like sitting on a washing machine on rinse mode.
Back on the open road, situation back to normal.
Fantastic bike...only small event was riding up a slope and waiting to emerge onto a main road whilst stationary on the slope... she seemed to surge up and experience some problem engaging once clutch slowly released....as if the electronics were holding her back...most odd. My own bike is a GS 1200LC TE and it most certainly does not do that.
Great bike.... not as "pretty" as the GC TE (in my view) and those "town slow speed" noises are irritating, but clearly a super bike. We'll know more once owners have 6 months of riding under their belt, no doubt, and all the hidden gremlins come out to play (if there are any, that is
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Finally.... dealers seem reluctant to give a "cost to change" from a 2013 GS TE to a new GSA1200.... probably because there's no good news for the person enquiring ?
I also road tested one from the BMW dealership in Dorchester a few weeks ago.
Joy to ride all the way to Bridport...smooth, powerful, luxurious and even in the oncoming rain kept me dry and feeling quite safe and secure.
But when slowed down to go through Bridport, I did hear (and feel) that washing machine semsation. (See below from previous poster)
This was my question, do they all sound the same?. This sounded like it had no oil in it and the engine sounded like a bicycle with a twig stuck in the back wheel, there was a constant clickerty clackerty sound and it sounded like sitting on a washing machine on rinse mode.
Back on the open road, situation back to normal.
Fantastic bike...only small event was riding up a slope and waiting to emerge onto a main road whilst stationary on the slope... she seemed to surge up and experience some problem engaging once clutch slowly released....as if the electronics were holding her back...most odd. My own bike is a GS 1200LC TE and it most certainly does not do that.
Great bike.... not as "pretty" as the GC TE (in my view) and those "town slow speed" noises are irritating, but clearly a super bike. We'll know more once owners have 6 months of riding under their belt, no doubt, and all the hidden gremlins come out to play (if there are any, that is
).Finally.... dealers seem reluctant to give a "cost to change" from a 2013 GS TE to a new GSA1200.... probably because there's no good news for the person enquiring ?
It depends on your dealer. A pal of mine got £12,250 for his March 13 with 10k miles from a main dealer, as a cash sale, so if he was trading in probably could have got another few hundred £.
I'm sure they'll give you a cost to change, you just won't like the number unfortunately. There's very little discounting of the GSA going on because the demand is very strong at the moment. So what you'll probably get for your GS is a relatively unvarnished trade valuation. The £12250 that Nutty quotes sounds very exceptional to me - that's more than my dealer sold my px'd 2013 GS LC for...
It depends on your dealer. A pal of mine got £12,250 for his March 13 with 10k miles from a main dealer, as a cash sale, so if he was trading in probably could have got another few hundred £.
Sounds exceptional
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You're not the first to mention the electronics cutting in when trying to pull off on a slope, I wonder what's going on there?
Andres
Have you ever heard the term depreciation
The way we used to work it on trucks for the 1st 3 years was a depreciation of 30% - 20% - 20% in the first 3 years and I would presume bike dealers would work to similar figures. Unfortunately, the newer the bike, the bigger the hit.The dealers need to sell but not at any price.
Have you ever heard the term depreciation
The dealers need to sell but not at any price.
Big difference with trucks is that you're earning money each mile you travel to offset some of that depreciation
The GS rider isn't doing the same - so his loss is just 'dead' money never to be regained
Might as well set fire to £20 notes
Buying an ex demo or nearly new 12 GS WC is a smarter choice as it's 'as new' and has lost some of that initial chunk
Doubt I'd ever buy brand new again, especially when there are so many 'lightly' used examples about
Can't see the point of the gushy 'must have the new bike' thing anymore - unless it's an outgoing model being offered at a huge discount
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It's a hobby for me I'm never gonna get the full value with regards value for money out of my bike but I don't care, I don't smoke so that saves me my depreciation.
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I don't think of my bike as a depreciating asset. Whatever it depreciates in monetary terms is far offset by improvements to my sanity.
if you're worried about it depreciating in money terms , never buy a new bike. Easy.
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if you're worried about it depreciating in money terms , never buy a new bike. Easy.
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You can have exactly the same fun on a 3 month old demo of a new model though
Only for £2k less spendy
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Jb your side of the discussion will always be pretty obvious and probably right but hey ho if you want new each to there own, in a few years when the money is tight for me I will be doing what your suggesting.
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If you've only done 3000 miles in a year, what's the point of changing, for EXACTLY the same model?
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It's called good negotiating, and not taking the first offer.
Sounds like there was two grand in a brown paper bag in the top box. New dont cost THAT much more than that after negotiating.
It's called good negotiating, and not taking the first offer.
Real or fictional pub talk?
A year old bike, with 10000 miles, which cost c.£14000 new, getting £1750 less to p/x or 'buy-in'.....................unless it was some sort of enhanced compo deal, sweetened by BMW
I find that hard to believe
I've got the original 2013 with the shitty gearbox
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