How do I tell the genuine from the fakes?

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I've been looking around for an early R80GS . Some of the ones I've seen have looked pretty ropey to be honest and one was a R80 with PD stickers! What do you look for to know the real McCoy from the lookalikes?
 
WTF would you know about V5 ?? You havent washed your hair in months .... :rob

 
Giles said:
WTF would you know about V5 ?? You havent washed your hair in months .... :rob

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Oh you're back are you:rolleyes:

As it happens there's not a single day go's by that I go without washing my hair deary:dabone

Anyway how did we get from the provenance of a bike to shampoo in a couple of posts?:D
 
chances are the lookalikes will have brakes that work, so if the brakes are crap, chances are they are genuine!

They should have R80G/s stamped on the righthand frame downtube though!
 
peepingtom said:
Why don't you save yourself £2000 and get a better bike from Kenny on here. He has a very nice 1000cc version for sale and will be genuine even though he's a scouser :aidan
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^^ That^^.

The dealer one might be a nice bike but I reckon its absolute top doller pricing.....They do have some nice stuff tho, quite like the look of the rally raid style G/S they have
 
You may well get fake R80G/S PD's, ST based G/S's and fake special edition airheads - Judge's old R100GS Classic springs to mind from many many years ago but I doubt you'll get fake vanilla R80GS's or R100GS's - i.e. fake standard paralever GS airheads. The parts availability is extremely limited and expensive and the cost of any base model airhead is too high to justify such a project IMO. At most your might see a bista but that should be pretty obvious - there was an interesting R100R bitsa on ebay a few months ago.

However as above check VIN numbers to confirm.

6K is a huge amount of money for a bike which is inferior in every way to an R11XXGS IMO - save yourself a good 3/4K and have a better bike:augie
 
The R80G/S has built up a degree of cult status and the ones fitted with the PD tank and options fetch good money these days so there are some fakes around. The later paralever bikes are relatively common in most of the versions made although the 800 sold less well than the 1000. Any bike that could be modded up to R80GS spec. (Paralever with spoked wheels as a starting point) was probably a better bike in its original form anyway.
 
DrAlf said:
which is inferior in every way to an R11XXGS IMO - save yourself a good 3/4K and have a better bike:augie
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You've got some neck coming out with that sort of garbage in the 2V section :rob:D

Not everyone values things the same way.

You obviously have no value on style, simplicity, charm, license friendly speed, far more manageable weight/ size. But it to is only IMHO also :aidan
 
Thunders Kalahari. Rarer than a rare thing though.

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