I love my 1200gs!!

I always ride alone (no one to wait for or keep up with) 400-500 miles a week, 16000 miles in nine months absalutley brilliant,oh and its not been cleaned since last november:eek:
 
GS love

I've only just got my 12 [2 weeks] but i'm out everyday, just trying to get used to not being paid at the end of each journey!:rob GS love it.:kissy2
 
I love this GS luv-in stuff ...........

Other bikes kind of do it - but the GS is the Daddy - You are sooo right, A bad ride on my bike is better than any drive in the car. I don't have any biking mates - my friends do not have a clue what I am talking about when I try to describe the feeling of utter joy and liberation I get from my P&J.

There was a T-shirt slogan that said " If you really have to ask me why I ride a bike - then you probably wouldn't understand my explanation"

:bounce1
 
Agree with everything written so far, just can't ride mine at the moment until I regain the use of my thumb:o
Mark
 
i love my 12adv too.

ride to work yesterday was a pure "Tantra" moment. If Buddha rode a GS12 he'd have found enlightenment far sooner without the pain. as someone once put it "its better than wanking with a handfull of baby lotion":aidan
 
I am tempted to agree with everyone... well I do actually but here is another way of looking at it.

How many times to you agonise over a purchase only to have that slightly dissapointed feeling that you never bought the other model... camera... hifi... car... computer... whatever... or feel that maybe what you thought was going to be a vital feature turns out to be nothing but froth.

So you end up dissapointed because you spent too much or you bought the wrong thing...

Well with the GS I cannot think of any bike I would swap it for given any amount of money
 
couldn't agree more folks
although i've just picked up me new 1200gs,still running it in and a big hole in me bank balance i know i've done the right thing!
Last year i rode my 650 dakar to the biker meeting in Austria, iloved that bike till i had a100 mile test ride through the alps ona 1200gs demonstrator the poor old 650 never felt the same!(a bit like swapping a land rover 90 for a range rover sport)
roll on summer!:
 
bigalmac said:
I am tempted to agree with everyone... well I do actually but here is another way of looking at it.

How many times to you agonise over a purchase only to have that slightly dissapointed feeling that you never bought the other model... camera... hifi... car... computer... whatever... or feel that maybe what you thought was going to be a vital feature turns out to be nothing but froth.

So you end up dissapointed because you spent too much or you bought the wrong thing...

Well with the GS I cannot think of any bike I would swap it for given any amount of money
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Absolutely mate, my whole point, there are better looking bikes? my k12s was sex on wheels, fast? you bet, and I suppose most bikes have a purpose, even Harleys, but the 12GS is by far and away the best all round bike ever built, it is beautiful, fast, comfortable, forgiving, easy to ride well, and most of all it makes me feel that I am alive. Roll on France and better weather, by the way France is the most beautiful country in the world on a GS, just wish it hadn't taken me this long to suss it. :beerjug:
 
I live my gs

after 2 1100 gs I got ( less than 2 months ago) my new 12 , I really love it , I ride it almost every day , since that time the care very seldome go out of the parking lot !!!
I really feel a live ; feel free . feel good
suddenly picking up kids after school become a pleasure ( 20 ml )
hello to all of you
claude
 
I've been having a think about this and I reckon there's primeval stuff going on. Anyone ridden a horse? Well I reckon a 1200 GSA is the nearest you get to a horseriding position on two wheels - high up, upright, good view and you can steer it with your seat. Our genetic programming has 000s of years of leaping on horses and going out hunting, skewering something to eat and dragging it home. Now we have Tescos and laptops we need to replace the primeval urges with something. Enter the GS.

So on every trip we get the thrill of the hunt (every ride is an occasion right?) and it makes us feel all special and testosteroned up :monkeypiz - ever get the urge to spear a car driver when they try and kill you? It's all this pent up hunter/gatherer stuff.

S'true. :beer:
 
charlie bimmerman said:
I've been having a think about this and I reckon there's primeval stuff going on. Anyone ridden a horse? Well I reckon a 1200 GSA is the nearest you get to a horseriding position on two wheels - high up, upright, good view and you can steer it with your seat. Our genetic programming has 000s of years of leaping on horses and going out hunting, skewering something to eat and dragging it home. Now we have Tescos and laptops we need to replace the primeval urges with something. Enter the GS.

So on every trip we get the thrill of the hunt (every ride is an occasion right?) and it makes us feel all special and testosteroned up :monkeypiz - ever get the urge to spear a car driver when they try and kill you? It's all this pent up hunter/gatherer stuff.

S'true. :beer:
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If you were filtering through the traffic in Lyon, as I was yesterday, in a slight drizzle, perhaps a horse would have been preferable! But once I reached the autoroute and was able to keep going at a speed to clear the water over my screen and off the visor it was enjoyable and the horse would have been far behind - although I am sure that riding a horse would take much less concentration. (Two brains better than one!)
 
I agree it's a great bike, no doubt about it, it looks great IMO, handles and rides fantastic, i also agree that reading about the 1200's reliability may have some people thinking there 1200 has the symptoms too. However i have broken down 3 times on a 05 bike - its left a bad vibe with me as its my first BMW, i am thinking selling/part x it for a triumph speed triple 1050.

but then again i love riding it :nenau

descisions descisions :mmmm
 
How much do I love my GS after 3 years ??

Last weekend, myself and a mate with another R1200GS decided to take the cross-country route from Fareham to Silverstone to watch BSB (Cheers Mark, top ride mate:thumb ). Motorways and dual carriageways were definitely off the menu. As has been said, riding in formation smoothly at speed close to someone you can trust is great, there aren't many riders I trust to sit on my shoulder in such fashion but it is rewarding when you can demonstrate the skills and trust.

Fareham>Alton>Basingstoke>Reading>Oxford>Bicester>Silverstone (via Finmere/Stowe) and without any of the boring A34/A43 dual carriageway. We had an absolute blast despite the slight morning chill as we headed further North from the sunny south coast, it reminded me of my summer tour of Ireland the year before. The R1200GS has gotta be one of the finest ways to travel on real world roads. Just being out in the countryside on my bike was 3 hours of pure cornering heaven.

The return ride was even better as we set the satnav to "shortest route" and just trusted it to navigate us cross country in the pleasant warm afternoon sunshine. I never knew the UK had so many great roads, everything from smooth sweeping cross country A and B roads to point and squirt hairpins to single track farm lanes. Visibility was perfect and the tarmac was hot and dry.Rural Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Berkshire is a fantastic playground for the GS.

Roll on Silverstone WSB at the end of May, I just gotta do it all again it's that good a ride!! If any south coast locals fancy a trip to Silverstone for WSB, take my advice, leave an hour earlier than usual and go cross-country instead of the "fast" dual-carriageway roads (which aren't), you won't regret it on a GS. Having satnav on one of the bikes is a major bonus for getting through towns/cities (Oxford centre), otherwise use online mapping to plan your route before you go.


FWIW If I were to sell my GS, it would only be to fund another newer version.
 
Me too!

Love my 1200 too, 18 thou just so smooooooth now :thumb

All my Power Ranger mates like to ride it too :eek: One issue?
Its going! but in 2 weeks take deliv of my new 1200 Adv :roll

stroll on 2 weeks! another chapter begins!

TD
 
6k miles no problems....looking for wood to knock on now

Best general purpose bike I've ever seen.
 
Four weeks and 1400 miles and my face hurts constantly from the stupid grin. It's brill!
 
I love my 12 too, and to prove it i will be bringing it back to the UK from Spain. Ha! i hear you say SO WHAT... It's out of warranty and i don't give a Thingie cos it's the best bike i have ever had in a great many years of riding.
X fingers:augie :D
 
:thumb The GSA is a brilliant bike. I've had lots of bikes over the last thirty years or so and found myself riding less and less for no obvious reason....until I got my bike in February. I've ridden it more in the last few months than I rode my VFR in two years. I am exploring all of the smallest, twistiest, bumpiest roads I can find and loving it! It is the first bike in years that has made me just feel like going out for a spin and keep on going and going...it makes me smile and forget all of the worries for a few hours...best bike I've ever had...
 
It's great...

Two weeks in and I can't keep off it! Fantastic.. I'm taking it to work daily but and always taking an extra 30 mins to get home! The wife reckons we're really busy at work!!
 
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