New here / back here / been here before... I sold my trusty and much loved super sorted monkey piss yellow 1150 GS early last year on a bit of a whim, Cris at Motorworks is a customer of my Laverda business and during a visit he tempted me with a K1300S at a price I could not resist. I ran the K13 around for a while but could never quite work out exactly what it was for, helluva bike, mad mad fast and very surefooted but we were going to get each other into big trouble, that monster power is very corrupting.... So I sold it to a nice chap from Norway who flew over and rode it home. I bought a really nice low mileage R1200S with the proceeds thinking that it might be a bit more me, I wanted to like it I tried really hard to like it but it handled funny, stable as a rock when heeled over but was weirdly reluctant to turn in, damn thing put me right across the road a couple of times on bends I know, shame as it was plenty fast and looked brilliant. I Ebayed that one away and bought an R1200R because I had a sneaking suspicion it might be more what I was looking for, and.. bull’s-eye! It has got to be the best bike I have ever owned, good down home honest old fashioned (but modern) MOTORCYCLE, not a lifestyle accessory, no pretensions of being retro or bad ass or anything else. It is plenty fast, handles sublimely with no vices I have found so far, nice and comfy, excellent brakes and excellent manners whilst on the brakes. Fitted a nice titanium Remus powercone so it even sounds good and fruity...At last I have found a worthy successor to my old GS as the modern bike in the fleet. Just itching for some nicer weather now so I can get out and carve a few of my favourite Scottish roads up. 
Keith
Keith
