New to the 1200GS Riders : How long did you keep your 1200GS before selling??

[Lloyd]

2 years and 9000 miles.

Simple fell out of love with it. Felt like a diesel in comparison to my KTM950, stopped using it as I wanted a more sporty ride. The KTM sounds better, brakes better, handles at least as well and feels more alive. Plus I always felt uneasy about all the reliability issues and thought I would sell before there was too many and the prices dropped.

Got a reasonable price for it, and not going to replace it with another BMW. Looking back I had a lot of good times on it , but if I want another tourer I would plump for a 990 KTM adventure.

 

[PAL]

Sold my 1200 GS after 6 months!Previously owned 1100GS and 1150GS,but now riding a 1200RT and loving it
Prehaps its just my age!

 

[MATKAT]

Unlucky

There will always be 'rogue' bikes that give problems. !!! The 1200is a brilliant bike...mine will be fior sale later this year ...and yes, a new one will replace it at 30k miles. A lot of sports bike type riders just change each year, hardly ride 'em and just psoe around (I know I was one of 'em !!! )
Best all round bike on the planet.................my a trip to the moon and back

12 months Breakdowns, charging problems, refusing to start, 5 software revisions to cure, new brain of which they tried to charge me £1100, sold it bought another 1150 Adventure this time the SE model have not looked back may be heavier, slower, blah blah but it starts in the morning and dont have the stupid wiring, O and I could not think of a user name that was as good

 

[JAY]

Cancelled my order for my 1200GS and got an ST instead Oh and a great little 80GS too

 

[Uinneag]

Sold mine at exactly 1 year old miles 7k only because adv came out
hopefully picking up this week left da Fatherland on the 4th
been without a bike for 4mnths aaaaaahhhh

 

[Deleted Member G]

I kept mine for 20 months.
And then I bought another one

So did I

 

[marcus]

Kept my first one for jst over a year before BMW took it away (thankfully)

anticipate keeping this one a lot longer

 

[Shep]

Obviously there's many new 1200GS riders, who bought one and never had a BMW before and think it's the dog's bollox

There are also a lot of "old school" BMW riders that have bought a 1200 and like it lots, you say there are a lot of low milage 1200's for sale, true, but there are also large numbers of 1150/gs/gsa's also for sale with low milages, immaculate, never been off road, adverts for touratech and wunderlich! These were available when i was looking for my first GS, but after trying a number of models the 1200 won my heart

I must admit, I had'nt recently owned a BMW before the 1200 but I wouldn't think that would make me less of a judge of a bikes worth.

To add a bit of ballance to the reliability issues, I've been on a few ride outs with a local bike shop (spc's) the ONLY bikes to be relayed home were 1150gs/gsa's, one with final drive failure, one with electrical failure, other 1150's suffered petrol leaks, missfires and were the only bike's i've seen for a long time where the owners carried extra tools for on the roadside repairs of the 3 or 4 1200gs's no problems were reported all got there owner s home safe and happy

The one thing that does become a bit of a bore after a while, is the continued insecurity of airhead/11** gs and gsa owners, yes, your bikes are good, in your opinion so what!

Shep

 

[NeilG]

because shed loads are 'For Sale' on Ebay

Johnny, ain't going to get much in your shed...................

(one 1200GS for sale out of two pages of BMWs - Monday mid-day)